Apple announces MacBook Air refresh, all-new US-made Mac Pro

US made? Isn't that code for "assembled in the US but parts made in china" or "parts made in US but assembled in china" or something like that? (so basically a deceiving label?)
I forget which on it was...

 

It will most likely be "Assembled in the U.S. Parts from China, Designed in California" Other companies are starting to do the same, like Lenovo in North Carolina.

 

That new Mac Pro seems nice. It needed a refresh. iOS7 is amazing though .

 

Yeah, nearly as amazing as the price of the machines.

 

Well, Apple products are overpriced definitely. But OS X renders photos and video in CS6 much faster than Windows, so professionals like that.

 

I doubt that. With equivalent hardware, I'd say they are about the same (provided you don't use an OS biased renderer)

 

I remember reading a benchmark a year back that shows the Retina MBP demolishing a gaming laptop in Photoshop performance, I cannot find it though. When I do, I will post it.

 

Ummm... that showed a $2k Windows machine destroying a $4k Macbook. I don't get your point....
Not only did it destroy it in performance (in respect to power to price ratio), but it has a worse processor and still kept up...

 

That was not the benchmark I wanted to show. It is not a fair battle. A 670M vs a 650M... that is why I removed it. I am still looking for the past benchmark in which apples to apples were compared (650M vs 650M), not apples to oranges (which was done in that link I first provided).

 

The best benchmark would be to take a PC and install Windows and Hackintosh, then you can compare.

 

But the point is that you compare equivalent specs on Windows and on OS X and see which performs better.

 

Quite disappointed about Macbook Air. I was looking forward to seeing a worthy upgrade for my Dec-2011 Macbook Air 13", but it didn't happen.

What I was hoping for was to see the following:

1. Better screen, to get one of these: 1600x1050, 1080P or retina. Instead, the screen was borrowed again from 2 or 3 generations from the past. Even when the last iMac came out half-year ago there were a number of improvements in the screen quality. How come we get nothing again for Macbook Air?

2. Option to get 16GB of RAM. Didn't happen.

3. Full support for Wi-Fi AC. Instead, we got cut-down 3-channel version of it. Why???!!!

So, the SSD has been upgraded, Wi-Fi is better now, better battery life. That's all good, but none of these will offer a noticeable improvement in my day-to-day use to justify an upgrade.

Other ultrabooks are coming out to offer a far better spec, like Sony's new Vaio Pro 13", which I'm now thinking of buying. It has pretty much the best 13'3" 1080P touch-screen display, the kind you just wouldn't want a better one.

 

The problem is that it is apples to "oranges" because of the apple tax. I don't care if OSX runs faster or not, you cannot find a Mac that will beat an equivalent PC for a similar price...

 

LOL so true.

 

They didnt even put in a 1080P webcam.

 

Webcam? What is this blasphemy!! It's an innovative FaceTime camera!!

 

Lol I know that naming garbage is so stupid. But the point was that they didnt even upgrade the webcam like people were saying they would.

 

Heh, I just saw actual pictures for the mac pro. I guess they were going for the trash bin look...
Macbin?

 

I think it is a neat little idea. But seriously, what is so wrong with a tower (old Mac Pro)? That looks professional... The only reason people will buy the new one is because of the updated specs.

 

Just out of curiosity I got in touch with our local Apple retailer who offered me an excellent trade-in on my Dec-2011 Macbook Air of 500 euro. This one is tough to resist, and I probably will do the swap for the latest now...

 

It seriously looks like a trash bin. And it looks inconvenient.
Think about it, most desktops are meant for rectangular PC's (and would look better with one). This would either stick out like a sore thumb, or not fit well at all. But that might just be my opinion

 

The new Mac Pro - take a break!



After all, Apple is for everyone...

 

I was talking about the old Mac Pro being professional. There was nothing wrong with it.

 

You forgot the part where the plant will only create about a half dozen American jobs, all of the work will be done by robots, who curiously don't have to file an income tax return.

In any case, maybe Apple will bribe someone high up in the NSA to declare this turd, "weapons grade", like the G-4 was, and get a whole practically free theme for an ad campaign on the coattails of that declaration.

Other than that, I visited "the beautiful product page", and came to this conclusion. This monstrosity looks like R2-d2's evil twin. Not only that, the picture of it with its insides spread out, looks like R2-D2's evil twin whipping open its raincoat and flashing its junk on a street corner .....