Macrumors has these listed as "Don't Buy - Updates Soon".
I want to get one but how soon is soon exactly? WDCC is around June, right?
How much more expensive are the newer models likely to be?
>>51895805
>How much more expensive are the newer models likely to be?
doesn't really matter much as the prices rose beyond the line of reasonability years ago and if you're still buying mac products now i don't think a price hike is going to make you stop because you're a retarded consumerist easily swindled by marketing
>Maccuckors
>Macshit book
>I want to get one
fucking kike.
>>51895805
>I want to get one
F0R WHAT PVRP0SE
>>51895836
>>51895845
>>51895857
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!
>>51895865
>people point out that you want to do something retarded
>You go full retard mode
Macs are always overpriced trash. Deal with it. Buy one if you like, but never visit this website again you hipster wannabe faggot.
>>51895902
I'm willing to pay a premium price for premium hardware and software.
>>51895918
But you wont get either. The actual hardware fucking sucks, they just have "good" homosexual designers.
>>51895918
you're paying a premium for branding and that's all.
>>51895620
>>51895918
Hardware? Yes. Software? Not so much. Mac users are just convinced their *NIX OS is good, but Ubuntu/Windows is just as usable. All major OS are matured.
>>51895989
>>51896014
Fastest flash and best screen out of any laptop. Also great battery life.
>>51896055
>best screen
It's shit though
>Fastest flash
What the fuck are you even trying to say
>>51896063
You're done here kid.
>>51896073
OK, kid. Enjoy your trash.
>>51895805
I don't think much has happened since the Retina screens were installed on the macbook pro.
The new model will probably feature a stunning 2% more performance and even 10 minutes more battery.
>>51895805
>How much more expensive are the newer models likely to be?
0$.
Here's the Apple pricing model:
Macbook costs X when released.
It costs X until the new model is released around a year later, no discounts or anything to get rid of stock.
When the new model is released, it costs X. The old models is withdrawn and stops being available, again no discounts for "prev gen" or anything.
Historically, the price of each generation of Macbooks has stayed the same or slightly fallen with every release. The only time there was a rise, was when the 15 retina was introduced. That's it.
Also, retards like him >>51895865 are too underage v& to remember mac prices in the PPC or early Intel era.
Truth is, Mac nowadays are more have affordable than they have ever been in their history.
It's up to *you* whether they're affordable enough *for you*
>>51896160
Don't Macbooks steadily rise in prices with every release?
>>51896315
You tell me.
(you can find similar charts for any model)
>>51895805
WWDC is the apple developer conference, there most probably won't be any new announcements for devices. Your best bet is probably the iPad Air event (pic related), but there's no proper date yet.
As other's have pointed out, do not buy apple products right before those events, as you can a price drop shortly after and get better the better model for a comparable price.
>>51895805
You should wait until the new models are released for the best shit-eating experience possible.
Wow, the hate is really strong in this thread.
I suppose they will be rolling out new models with Skylakes in the first quarter of 2016. I would probably wait for those if I were you. On the other hand, I'm using my early 2013 15" rMBP and this is still by far the best laptop I have ever used and I haven't even thought about buying a new one any time soon, so if you bought one now, you would be happy with it for years to come.
Base 15" rMBP is not worth it ever since they released it without a dGPU. I own the 2012 model, it breaks all the time (screen thrice, fans 2 times each, logic board, etc) but Apple is good about the warranty and has replaced everything without fuss.
It reaches 104C when compiling anything and sounds like it's trying to take off. The fans are inaudible most of the time though.
It's shit, never buying another. You may like it though.
>>51896073
You are retarded here grandpa.
>>51895918
Premium software? You mean like how the release of Yosemite included a brand new networking daemon that sucked so hard, it would drop wifi connection multiple times an hour even if you were in the same room as your router? And how Apple publicly ignored this problem for almost an entire year, saying that there were no networking issues in Yosemite, until silently replacing the "new and improved" discoveryd with the old mDNSresponder in one of their 10.10.x releases? Oh yeah, that's the action of a company that really cares about delivering premium software.
Or how about hardware, where they botched the thermal management for early 2011 Macbook Pros so badly that their GPUs started flaking out almost immediately, and then refusing to fix the GPU if you did something like, oh, I don't know, upgrading your RAM?
Tell me, would a company that cares about premium hardware and software act like this? No, it wouldn't.
Yes, I once fell for the Apple faggotry. Never fucking again. I have to agree with >>51895902
only I would say come back when you've realized what a shitty decision you made and you've switched away from Mac forever
>>51897107
"Spending a grand on mac" "Ever"
>>51897132
Yes I regret my past decision intensely
Thanks guys. After reading about the possible Skylake improvements I'm going to wait.
To everyone else, I hope you can sleep tonight knowing I'm definitely going to buy one.
>>51897107
>willingly void your warranty
>expect ANY company to replace the product
Seek help.
>>51897212
upgrading RAM isnt against apple's warranty
>>51897308
it is on models with built in ram ;)
>>51897212
https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1568/en_US/macbook_pro_17inch_early2011.pdf
RTFM. If you damage the product while upgrading the memory or hard drive yourself, the damage is not covered by your warranty. However, upgrading the memory or the hard drive does not void your warranty.
OF COURSE THUNDERBOLT 3 WILL COME AS TYPE-C AND E-GPUS WILL FINALLY BECOME AN OFFICIAL THING
CANT WAIT TO ATTACH GTX970 ON QUADCORE SKYLAKE MBP, NO MORE DESKTOP BUILDS FOR GAYMEN.
>>51897325
Right, but I had an Early 2011 17" Macbook Pro. No soldered in RAM there
>>51897361
What is thunderbolt even used for?
>>51897383
faggotry
>>51897383
ACTS AS HIGH BANDWIDTH OF PCI-E INTERFACE OR DISPLAYPORT. YOU CAN ATTACH 5K@60FPS THROUGH ONE SLOT OF TB3.0 OR ATTACH AN E-GPU AT FULL PCI-E 2.0 SPEED.
>>51897107
Stuff like that happens. Yes, Yosemite was an exceptionally bad update, but there's usually much bigger amount of issues with devices and software of other manufacturers, issues with apple products just get much more publicity cause its Apple and there is heaps of autists that don't have anything better to do than point it out. I personally haven't witnessed the disconnection issue for more than one or two times in the whole year I've been using Yosemite, desu.
I've been using Macbooks for over 6 years and I will probably buy one again since there's simply not a single other manufacturer that sells laptop that are not shit-tier. Laptop manufacturers just don't get it right, they include shitty trackpads, shitty screens, move keys into weird places, ship with bloatware or broken drivers. You have to be really lucky to get a windows laptop without tons of issues like that.
With Apple you pay maybe 100 or 200€ extra (its not much more than that, go ahead and check it), but at least you know that they usually deliver good devices where issues like that are rather the exception and if there really is an issue you can be sure to know it soon enough beforehand cause everyone will be talking about it.
Microsoft keeps fucking up the software too, every Major release changes the whole UI for no fucking reason, moves settings around, forces you to use touch interfaces or other new shit for no fucking reason.
le gay laptop xD
le
>>51897408
Good stuff
Thanks champ
>>51897441
SO IT'S BASICALLY A CONTAINER OF MANY INTERFACES LIKE USB 3.1, PCI-E, SATA, DISPLAY, ETHERNET, DOCKING, CHARGING ETC.
YET /g/ DENIES THE PREMIUM QUALITY WITH "le gay laptop hahaha XDXD" MEMES THEY'VE SEEN FROM REDDIT.
>>51897483
So next year I might be able to hook up a GPU to my rMBP?
>>51897419
so anyone who points out problems with Apple products is an autist?
There are other laptops that aren't shit tier. The fact that you even believe this shows how brainwashed you are.
>>51897419
>issues with apple products just get much more publicity cause its Apple and there is heaps of autists that don't have anything better to do than point it out.
It gets pointed out because these are overpriced machines being billed as the be-all end-all of laptops, the absolute pinnacle of software and hardware design, that breeds a cult of insufferable retards who eagerly defend a company that wouldn't defend them back or even acknowledge issues with their product when they occur. You are a giant tool trying to justify your weird consumerist cult.
>>51897523
EVEN TB 2.0 TAKES EGPU WITH DIY COMPONENTS AND THE BOTTLENECK IS ACTUALLY CPU, NOT THE BANDWIDTH.
>>51895805
Basically if its been out for over 1-6 months there's a good chance of a new "upgraded" model coming out soon. Such is the way of the Apple, young grasshopper.
>>51897523
yes with thunderbolt 3 you can do that
https://youtu.be/BFkp0GHz5v8?t=97
>>51895845
>>51895836
>>51895857
Samefag
>>51895805
applecuck
>>51898299
what's up you meme loving fuck
>>51895805
OP serious question is there anything you can't do on a chromebook?
Just consider that for a second.
>>51898350
rekt
>>51897640
>absolute pinnacle of software and hardware design
Macbooks always have been among the best laptops available. The value you get for the price tends to be varying, but you can always be sure that you get a great device.
>>51897569
You people aren't just pointing out issues, you are throwing temper tantrums, resort to name calling and blow issues out of proportion in every fucking thread. This makes you autistic, yes.
>There are other laptops that aren't shit tier.
Which one would that be? Don't try to point out the XPS, scaling doesn't work properly and the track pad is crappy.
>>51898500
>Macbooks always have been among the best laptops available.
You misspelled worst.
Fuck off shill.
>>51898500
I have called no one any names here.
Dude in this post>>51897419 literally calls people who point out problems with Apple products autists. You can't be okay with that and decry other people for name calling
>>51895805
About fucking time they released something with Skylake
God, why is /g/ so fucking shit?
As an industry level designer and engineer (but above all, a businessman), the idea that Macs are "overpriced garbage" and "shit" is so ridiculous to me that I can't even take it seriously.
If you want to develop iOS apps, you need a Mac. Or a Hackintosh, but they're unreliable and can break after every other update. It also is the only UNIX-based OS in the world that companies actively support consumers on.
"muh Linux" fuck off, lol. Linux as a desktop is terrible for any reasonable consumer with more to do in a high-level industry (not working at fucking Waitrose) than dwell in his bedroom and wank into a sock 6 times a day.
"b-but you bought into consumerism"
Welcome to the real world. The world is consumerist. That means applications, games, and business (if you have any real ambition in life rather than being Richard Stallman 2.0 which I'd hardly call ambition) relies on OSes such as Windows and OS X (especially OS X if you don't want to be riddled with viruses 5 times a second), especially like I said mobile application companies.
tl;dr have the moral high ground and "muh bleeding edge" or "APPLE IS OVERPRIIICED" all you like, but you're still going to die alone.
>>51899854
Congrats on being a capitalist pig! You'll be the first against the wall!
>>51899883
excellent.
>>51899854
Fuck off, no one cares about your fart apps.
>>51899929
And nobody cares about spotty nerds on a forum getting mad at companies for knowing how to make a profit.
>>51899854
>y-you're going to die alone
Lol how pathetic~
>>51896015
Somebody drank the Windows 10 koolaid.
>>51899854
>As an industry level designer and engineer (but above all, a businessman)
lel
AND I'M A GODDAMN COMPUTER SCIENTIST YOU FUCKING RETARD.
The early Apple store employees were pretty smart. But I went in a week before Christmas to buy my folks a Macbook Air as a gift. I wanted to ask the Apple Store dude about using the Air in clamshell mode.
>Me: "So will using it closed like that cause any heat damage."
>Apple store dude: "You can't use it closed, it'll go to sleep"
>Me: "Huh, really? Then why do you sell these stands right here for holding your mac while it's in clamshell mode."
>Apple store dude: "I don't know"
>>51899854
I've used Linux to launch research rockets. To analyze data from those rockets. To develop predictive models from that data.
How about that for a high level industry? Literally rocket science.
Stop being a fucking stupid troll
Poorfag story thread??
>In class the other day with my Macbook
>some neckbeard sits beside me
>his smell is overwhelming, but I try my best to ignore it
>he starts saying something quietly
>I say "excuse me?"
>"I SAID YOU PAYED TOO MUCH FOR YOUR LAPTOP"
>I ask him why it matters, I am just trying to take some notes
>he boasts that he only paid $400 for his 11" notebook of suspicious manufacture
>I tell him I bought a Mac because with my student discount it came to the same price as an equally specced ASUS I was looking at
>he starts to sweat profusely, adding to his odor
>he gets up, calls me a "fucking macfag" and waddles away (to go cry and eat his lunch alone, I presume)
What's wrong with people?
>>51897195
I absolutly can knowing that people like you support the poor working conditions of Foxconn and companies dodging taxes by putting money offshore.
>>51900160
That guy is an idiot. You're also an idiot for automatically disdaining his laptop.
In short, fuck him and fuck you
>>51900184
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?<insert guerilla welfare.txt here>
>>51900208
gorilla warfare
>>51900182
>companies dodging taxes by putting money offshore.
So, pretty much every US company in the Fortune 500? I'm not sure why every other company would be allowed to except Apple. Doesn't make sense brah.
>>51900238
gorilla welfare
>>51900267
of course you went there
Just wait until June. The next rMBPs will probably have USB-C.
>>51900319
>buying a 10lb piece of shit with 1 hour battery life
>>51900319
So what?
>>51900340
So you're planning to only use it for a year?
>>51900348
I don't plan on buying any apple product.
>>51900358
Then why did you even reply? Are you retarded?
>>51900048
So am I? What's your point?
Why do you think all your lecturers at University used Macs? (If they didn't, it was probably a shit Uni)
>>51900568
>replying to copypasta
>>51900136
K, course you have.
>>51900330
Erm, they're actually really good when it comes to battery life.
Aaaaand award for biggest "I don't know anything" retard goes to...
>>51900591
Well, he could have. You know, there are rockets which don't go into outer space
>>51900578
I wouldn't know that because I have a life. Googled it and it seems like some Epic Meme. Cool.
>>51896063
>What the fuck are you even trying to say
Apple's PCI-E SSDs are considerably faster than your average SSD.
>>51900591
I did. Sounding rockets, for a couple of years.
Have you used Linux for any serious purposes, anon?
>>51900707
Check out m.2 m8
>>51900805
Non-friendly reminder that m.2 is a form factor and not a bus standard.
>>51900707
Any PCIe SSD would be faster than the "average" SSD.
>>51900837
Are you seriously believing that applel is not just using PCIe SSDs?
>>51900606
>only shitbook with a real processor gets 4hrs max doing any real work
>only shitbook even close to 12hrs is shitbook air with ULV shit and 1366x768 TN
>macshit
>battery life
>>51900900
>ULV
>bad
nicely meme'd
>>51900933
>1366x768
>good
>>51900949
>implying I ever said that
>>51895805
>huge bezel
>no discrete mouse buttons despite plenty of space for them
Lol so much hate about macbooks in this thread.
They are good quality laptops, excellent build quality and great for developing on.
Will be getting a nice new one from work when they come out, so I don't really care about the price
>>51903073
It's easy to be smug about something that's provided as a work benefit
>>51903073
>shitbooks
>good quality
How much of a delusional retard do you have to be to actually believe that?
