Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac

Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by shurcooL on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:07PM (#12881625)

If they made 32 gb max, you'd want to get it because it's soldered to mobo. That means even higher price. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by toyg on Saturday November 05, 2016 @05:01PM (#12881867)

But at that point you have a best-in-class laptop that can command the higher price. The problem is that the current configuration is expensive and is not really better than the competition in anything but trackpad.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by tomwilson on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:26PM (#12882479)

And screen (p3 colour and macOS still handles hidpi better than anything else), and SSD throughput (3.1gbps), and probably a million other tiny things that you forget about cos they aren't as obvious as a number that says 16 vs 32.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by emp_zealoth on Saturday November 05, 2016 @09:49PM (#12883017)

For 3200$ in a macbook I get a quad core i7, 16GB of ram, crappy AMD GPU, 256GB at 3.1 GB/s, very good screen and battery, no ports and dongle hell, thermal throttling

For 1500$ I get quad core i7, 32GB of high performance ram, nvidia 960M, 256GB at 3.1 GB/s SSD AND a 1TB HDD, SD card reader, ethernet, USBs and HDMI port, fullsize keyboard, worse screen and worse battery life, proper airflow, anodized black alubody

Thats a model from last year btw.

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