Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
by 72deluxe on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:27PM
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True. I have never said "what this laptop needs is to be thinner" whilst working on it. I have never ever said that, and I was happy with thick laptops a million years ago. We want features, not just slimness.
Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
by 4ad on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:33AM
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> We want features, not just slimness.
You want. Please don't generalise. Personally, I have always wanted my laptop to be thinner. And I am a "professional" who hates dongles by any possible definition.
Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
by 72deluxe on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:12AM
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I stand corrected. I was meaning to express that slimness and features need not be mutually exclusive, yet we are seeing features cast aside to make way for slimness, as if slimness were the only thing that all should strive for.
- great input/output hardware
- solid build
- little design touches like the magsafe connector, sleep light, and battery indicator
- Unixy, well-designed OS with some really great 3D party software
Besides the solid build, all of these are now either gone or in decline. The touchpad is still OK, but the quality of the keyboard has been crippled. The OSX App Store still doesn't support demos or upgrade pricing. Magsafe is gone - for no apparent reason.
All of this is mostly in service of gimmicks - the biggest of which being "thinness" which I really don't care about. I'd be buying 17" MBPs if they were still available.