New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year (macrumors.com) 209
New submitter TheFakeTimCook writes: An article on MacRumors has revealed that Apple's latest MacBook Pro has already outsold all competing laptops this year, according to new data shared by research firm Slice Intelligence: "Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States. The new MacBook Pro generated over seven times the revenue that the 12-inch MacBook did over its first five days of availability, according to Slice Intelligence. If accurate, that means it took the new MacBook Pro just five days to accumulate 78% of all the revenue generated by the 12-inch MacBook since its April 2015 launch. The data follows Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller's claim the new MacBook Pro had received more online orders than any previous MacBook Pro as of November 2. Apple has also reportedly told its overseas manufacturers to expect strong MacBook Pro shipments to last until at least the end of 2016. Slice Intelligence extracts detailed information from hundreds of millions of aggregated and anonymized e-receipts."
So maybe... (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
Personally I wouldn't want one. Too many VMs, and I want 32GB in my next laptop, but that's some sales, so whodathunkit, I'm not your typical purchaser; and, probably, neither are those who were complaining...
Re:So maybe... (Score:5, Insightful)
Horseshit. This is textbook manufacturing stats. They literally picked 4 laptops at random as it's "competition", INCLUDING A $350 CHROMEBOOK and said "they sold more than these 4 models who they compete against. They're winning everything!!!1!1!"
I guess Fiat's winning the worldwide vehicle sales because they've sold more Pandas than Lamborghini has sold Murchilagos and Caterpillar has sold GT011 road graders!
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They're not even top selling machines! The Surface Book? It's selling 5% of the volume of the Surface Pro 3 and 4. That Asus Chromebook isn't in the top 5 of Chromebooks.
Plus the sample size of 13000 sales is pathetically small.
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Too many VMs, and I want 32GB in my next laptop,
Look into the Dell M6700. 32 GB, 4 Hard Drives, 17" screen. It's a great mobile workstation.
I outgrew my Apple Laptops years ago.
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Used on eBay they're less than a grand. The top of the line CPU that fits in it is still on the tops of mobile benchmarks on cpubenchmarks.
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Well with a 17" computer you can have a desktop - but in a portable format. ;)
Look for example at the MSI GS73VR - ~2.5kg (~5.4 pounds) with a GTX 1060 and a i7 6700HQ.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaypro [wikipedia.org]
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Re:So maybe... (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
And so do Slashdot headline editors. RTFA, it says MBP outsold something else unrelated under a specific set of arbitrary conditions that bear no connection to reality.
Large laptop purchases are done by corporates directly with their supplier, not through public online channels. These numbers mean nothing.
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Large laptop purchases are done by corporates directly with their supplier, not through public online channels. These numbers mean nothing.
Corporates do indeed make the most laptop purchases, but it is quite disingenuous to count them in as they are not really representative of what private users want from their laptop.
I do agree that the numbers are silly and contrived though.
I think my employers have brought laptops for me at about twice the rate I by personal laptops for myself. I think that's because I make better choices and I option up the RAM, disk, screen and CPU so it lasts longer.
Revenue NOT Sales Volume (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data [slice.com] all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops.
Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices.
Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.
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Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data [slice.com] all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops. Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices. Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data [slice.com] all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops. Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices. Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.
One of the machines compared-with is the new Surface Book, which is DEFINITELY intended as DIRECT competition for the 13" MBP. HOWEVER, When I configured a 13" non-TouchBar MBP (to keep it fair) and the Surface Book with the top i7 CPU (both are Skylake, but the Surface book specs don't specify speed or number of cores), 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD, the MBP was $2599, but the Surface Book was $3199. And the Suface Book has no USB-C, and more importantly, no TB 3 (only MiniDP). IOW, the MBP has 40 Gbps of multif
Re:Revenue NOT Sales Volume (Score:5, Insightful)
Your comparison is far from fair. You exclude the touch bar "to keep it fair" while ignoring the fact that the Surface has a touch screen: how is that even vaguely fair? Then you claim that that the 13" MBP has "faster graphics" when it has Intel Iris vs. the Surface's nVidia 965M which is factually wrong. As for the the other features I have never used the TB port on my existing MBP (other than as a miniDP) nor have I any use for USB-C since everything I have is USB-A and a GPU is really important. So for my uses when I compare a MBP to a Surface I'm looking at the 15" model where the cost rockets up to over $4k with the 1TB SSD and over $5k with the 2TB which is insane for a laptop with an old CPU and GPU. While the Surface is similarly expensive it has features I value far more: long battery life, touch screen, USB-A ports and tablet mode. However really I am waiting for the XPS 15 to get a refresh to Kaby Lake and hopefully a 10-series nVidia GPU and then, while I'll miss OS X, it's goodbye Apple.
Obviously the price difference depends on what you need the device for if USB-C an TB3 are important for you great - go get a new MBP. However no matter how you spin it there is no way you can claim that the MBP fulfills a similar market niche to the Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, a Chromebook or the cheap Lenovo model they were also comparing it against. The data do suggest it outsells the Surface but I suspect the real competitors are the Dell XPS series and the equivalent ranges from the other manufacturers.
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Re:So maybe... (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
There is a large market for people who wanted a faster and better macbook air. The air was overdue for an update and apple hit the mark with it. The macbook pro 2016 is a great successor to the macbook air for people with a bunch of money who wanted a faster macbook pair.
The "problem" is that this left a complete vacuum in the product line for people who actually wanted a macbook pro.
To make a car analogy,... if Ford releases a sexy new F-150... exept it's a car, and it's basically just a nicer faster Mustang.... then it could sell really well to people who own Mustangs and wanted something faster and better. That doesn't make it a bad product, and it'll sell well etc.
But for people who were buying F-150s because they needed a pickup truck, well their left going WTF. Especially, because, to make the anology complete the F150 in this scenario happens to be the ONLY truck ford made. So its not like truck customers could move into the F250 or something. The F150 is now a car. If you needed a truck... well fuck you.
And THAT is the new macbook "pro"... its a fine laptop on its own, its a nice upgrade from the macbook air... but its a useless joke if you are looking for a pro laptop.
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I can't wait to see the A10-powered Mac mini Air!
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I can't wait to see the A10-powered Mac mini Air!
I don't think a GAU-8/A will fit on my lap... But it might fit on your mother's.
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Competing PRO or AIR laptops? (Score:5, Interesting)
So these new MacBook Pro are outselling their competition... Lenovo's Yoga 900, not Lenovo's Thinkpad [T/X/P], etcetera. So the new MacBook Pro are effectively the new Macbook AIR line, only with a misleading name.
Sod off, Apple.
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Out sold? (Score:5, Informative)
"New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year " (TFS and TFA title)
... the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue ...
Perhaps we differ on the meaning of the phrase "out sold". I take it to mean "number of units" not total revenue. By the latter standard, my house has out sold all new MacBook Pro's this year -- okay, maybe not *my* house, but someone's house ...
Re:Out sold? (Score:5, Interesting)
And not to mention this is apples to pineapples and bananas and peaches. They're saying the "competiton" for the new Macbook Pro is:
- Microsoft's white elephant Surface Book which is super spiffy and if I ever won the lottery I'm sure I'd buy one, but not before then
- A $350 Chromebook
- A Dell 2 in 1 that is a "budget enthusiast" class laptop with a $700 price
- The Lenovo Yoga 900 which is probably the closest competition of the 4 to the MacBook Pro but still not quite in the same class.
If they're counting revenue, the only one that costs more than the Macbook is the Surface Book that everyone admires but agrees is way too costly. The others are selling sub $1000 and on razor thin profit margins, especially for the Chromebook.
The whole article is bullshit fanboyism torturing stats to make them say something positive.
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Welcome to capitalism. Any product "should cost" precisely as much as the market will pay, no more and no less. Successful companies sell products at prices their customers are willing to pay, not what pundits and random people "think" the prices should be.
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Unfortunately every products costs the amount it costed t produce it plus the margin the producer wants to make.
And that has nothing to do with what "the market" is willing to pay for it.
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Unfortunately every products costs the amount it costed t produce it plus the margin the producer wants to make. And that has nothing to do with what "the market" is willing to pay for it.
The margin the producer wants to make is based on the number of sales the producer wants and what "the market" is willing to pay. If sales are too low, the producer typically lowers the price. If sales are too high the producer either increases the price or increases production. Increasing production generally increases the unit cost over the short term so producers try to avoid this. But everything is based on what "the market" is willing to pay. Should production cost exceed what "the market" is will
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Welcome to capitalism. Any product "should cost" precisely as much as the market will pay, no more and no less. Successful companies sell products at prices their customers are willing to pay, not what pundits and random people "think" the prices should be.
Completely true, and it illustrates the love and devotion of Apple fans, that they will let the utter piss be taken out of them. It's amazing brand loyalty. I won't be buying one, because I don't like OSX and I don't like Apple's brand of smug marketing - oh and the price is a "jokes on you" type price.
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It's easy to "out sell" when your product costs triple what it should.
No, that is not AT ALL easy to do. Companies can't just arbitrarily raise prices and expect customers to just accept it. When a company raises prices, revenues usually go down. Apple is only able to charge a premium because they have worked for decades to build up a mystique around their brand.
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Apple is only able to charge a premium because they have worked for decades to build up a mystique around their brand.
Question for you, how did Apple create this "mystique"?
I remember someone telling me he'd never buy a John Deere because he wasn't going to "buy a bunch of green paint" when he could get another tractor cheaper. Having grown up on a farm we learned the value of that "green paint" firsthand. You've heard the phrase "making hay while the sun shines"? Well it is hard to make hay if the baler is broken down. You can't fake "mystique" for decades. There has to be something real behind it because people figu
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Apple makes good equipment, that is why they can charge a premium.
Lots of companies make good equipment. Apple's marketing works better on you than on others.
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And it took them only three decades of "marketing" to get me as a customer. Seems so easy that any idiot can do it.
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Brands are not constructed from "mystique", whatever that is. Brands are a reputation for quality.
Unknown brands have no reputation, so they have to discount to sell volume. Either that or satisfy themselves with small sales.
Brands with a reputation for poor quality may save themselves by discounting, but they're probably on the way out.
Brands that have a reputation for acceptable and predictable quality change market prices.
Brands that are able to charge premium prices only get to that position from many y
What they meant to say... (Score:2)
From the time I was a consultant in BestBuy (Score:3, Interesting)
I know how they pull these digits:
They count in wholesale orders, even ones that are done for fulfillment in 6 months time and more.
Are they lying? No. Are they geniune with digits? No No No.
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Apple Pay Freeze (Score:2)
If Apple is really doing that great why were Apple Employees told during appraisals weare not doing well and given miserable pay revisions and also told to cut budgets and reduce contractor spend by 20% with no employee backfill
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I expect sales to be good (Score:3)
I remember a few years ago a co-worker went to art school, told him he HAD to buy a macbook pro for the class, hearing of this I asked what he was running on it.... photoshop
A current co worker still lugs around his old book pro with a failed battery, I asked why, it does what I want for personal stuff, ok fair enough. Why did you choose it in the first place? It was a requirement for my college.
now how many other schools require their students to buy only mac, with the 30 year old notion that mac's are better at graphics and or music or whatever else, just so they can run software that will easily run any other laptop?
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now how many other schools require their students to buy only mac, with the 30 year old notion that mac's are better at graphics and or music or whatever else, just so they can run software that will easily run any other laptop?
I'd like to turn this around. How many colleges require their students to buy a Windows computer with the 30 year old notion that Apple makes only "toys" and to do "real work" you need to run Windows?
I've recently enrolled in college to update my skills after having graduated many years ago. In my classes so far I don't recall ever being told what kind of computer I should get. In the class notes I will usually see how to run whatever software we are using on Windows and Linux, with the Mac users often l
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then why do you care that the students buy what the instructor recommends for the class?
I believe I know why the instructors require their students to use a particular kind of computer, the answer is because it makes their job easier. If a student is stuck on something and has a question and the student is using a system that the instructor is not familiar with then the instructor cannot help.
I remember when I was in school, and working at the same time, I would not be able to afford a macbook pro, and requiring such an expensive machine seems counterproductive.
Besides the instructor should not be providing basic computer operation support and hand holding when your using specific software.
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I remember when I was in school, and working at the same time, I would not be able to afford a macbook pro, and requiring such an expensive machine seems counterproductive.
I've taken classes where the textbook costs a lot of money, sometimes an order of magnitude more than textbooks for other classes. Are you going to tell the instructor to require a cheaper textbook because it is "counterproductive"?
It sucks when an instructor requires expensive supplies for a course. If you don't like it then find a different instructor, a different course, or a different school. If you believe the instructor is an idiot for requiring a Mac to take the course then feel free to tell the i
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If this particular class is one in which literally any OS can be used, you'd expect in and around 3% of users to be on OSX. I think it might be a tad unreasonable to expect the instructor to know the ins and outs of getting a particular product running on OSX if less than one in 25 students is likely to be using it.
I was taking this [netmarketshare.com] as a rough guide.
heh (Score:2)
Well, of course the MacBoook Pro "outsold" all other laptops this year... it's the only line of laptops with MacOS that was updated after an extremely long time, versus a huge number of options that are constantly being updated with Windows 7,8,10 or any flavor of Linux. It'll obviously outsell any other single brand as long as it keeps it's ecosystem enclosed into a walled garden giving anything from a single option to a handful for desperate users needing an upgrade.
Wanna get a new Windows 10 laptop? Well
From the Slice Intelligence Article ... (Score:2)
The MacRumors article is based on another article from Slice Intelligence. Gotta like this finding:
"Those who ordered the new MacBook Pro look strikingly similar to the early adopters who bought the Apple Watch on release."
So how is the Apple Watch fairing these days?
Faring well, why do you ask? (Score:2)
Apple Watch sales have been steady and Apple just introduced an update. Apple has already said sales were ahead of expectations....
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12979 laptops sold this year? (Score:2)
That's all?
What kind of stupid article is this and why is it here. In the whole of 2016?
Demand till the end of 2016? (Score:2)
So the demand will be big for 2 more months?
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Next quarter we'll have to return all the laptops due to some recall.
One model versus one platform (Score:2)
There have been many more PC laptops shipped then all Apple laptops combined. It's a bit of an Apples to oranges comparison (heh) because Apple's platform only carries a few device models, while the PC platform carries hundreds of models from dozens of vendors.
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I would point at least some of the blame at Win10 (Score:2)
Honestly, I'm not sure how non-tech people deal with it. Actually, I do, they buy Macs.
crap article,stupid statistics,idiotic conclusions (Score:2)
Stockholm syndrome (Score:2)
illness with most victims in 2016.
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Girlfriend mentioned... (Score:2)
...that the reason she would consider buying a new MacBook (even though she won't due to $$) is because of the latest OS release not being supported on her current MacBook hardware. Like many other things in technology, persuasion through defiance of desire combined with uncertainty of safety (updates generally help with that.....generally) wins some sales. I haven't seen the actual numbers, but I would assume that number is greater than the number of users it convinced to switch platforms. Sort of a "du
Let me correct that for you, Slice Intelligence... (Score:2)
Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.
If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.
I'm [slice.com] SURE [slice.com] they [slice.com] don't [slice.com] have [slice.com] any relationship whatsoever [slice.com].
I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:
PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402
MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
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the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue from online orders
So the most expensicve laptop on the market generated more revenue than cheaper models. And this is news how exactly?
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the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue from online orders
So the most expensicve laptop on the market generated more revenue than cheaper models. And this is news how exactly?
Most expensive laptop, eh?
One of the machines compared-with is the new Surface Book, which is DEFINITELY intended as DIRECT competition for the 13" MBP., uses the same Skylake-series CPU, has similar RAM and mass-storage options, and was introduced one day before the new MBP.
HOWEVER, When I configured a 13" non-TouchBar MBP (to keep it fair) and the Surface Book with the top i7 CPU (both are Skylake, but the Surface book specs don't specify speed or number of cores), 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD, the MBP wa
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You're comparing an Apple and an Orange though, unless you somehow configured the MacBook Pro with a touch screen.
That's right. Touch screens add negative value to a laptop, so a laptop with a touchscreen should indeed be cheaper.
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On top of that the screen has 50% more resolution packed in... 6 MP vs 4 MP, so again you are really comparing an Apple to an Orange.
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Re: Really.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes. An article presenting a completely false headline with content based on highly selective methodology so as to reach the conclusion they want.
What a surprise. The desperation of the apple supporters to rationalise their religion known no bounds.
But great click bait no doubt. That is all that actually matters.. Right?
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Extremely overpriced. You can get a computer with much more storage, more processing power, more memory, better graphics etc. for 1/2 the price of the Apple device. Yes it will be heavier but IMHO ~200grams isn't much to complain about. Those ~200grams means you can upgrade the storage and memory in the future and that the computer have a cooling system making it possible to actually use the graphics card...
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My BT headphones work perfectly well with my iPhone and MacBook. Wouldn't want to fart around with wires after having these. Sure, I've got some nice wired over ear headphones at home but when I'm out and about the wireless ones are great and support AAC so don't sound all wooshy like some more basic ones do. No dongles for me.
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So instead you prefer to fart around charging yet another device or looking for that dongle you need need, sorry two dongles you need to listen and charge.
I can also tell you don't really care about sound quality, because apparently double compressed Bluetooth audio doesn't bother you.
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No, the Macbook has only USB-C and an analog audio jack. The iPhone 7 has Lightning and no analog audio jack. That way you can ensure that you cannot use any common set of headphones without at least one adapter/dongle in the mix.
Also you can't connect your apple phone to your apple computer without another separate dongle. So you can charge your laptop with one dongled port, connect your phone with the other and listen to something through the computer. Then what? You're already out of connection on your "pro" computer. Time to go get your iHub for your iDongles so you can do something else with your extremely expensive iTunes/facebook browser.
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Trump will make sure future MacBook Pros will be Made in America. We can all get jobs assembling MacBook Pros and America will be great again!
If he could do this, I might take back everything bad I've said about him. But this would require some actual plan and skill.
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mac pro is made in the usa to bad apple is not kee (Score:3)
mac pro is made in the usa to bad apple is not keeping it up to date.
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There's a reason he won the rust belt and it has nothing to do with being white. Not saying he'll do anything about it in real life but still. Take a drive through Detroit or old steel mill towns in PA. Racism has nothing to do with why he won. I have a hard time believing 50% of the country are baby-boomer xenophobic racist misogynist homophobes that all support a mythological "white male patriarchy" and love a fictional "rape culture".
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Racists at heart are bullies. Bullies only act out when they feel noone will call them out. Whether Trump himself is a racist or not he has allowed people to think he is so that he can get the racist vote - unemployed middle aged white men who see that they do not have the same positions of power they saw their father had (because their fathers could always get the plum jobs in prefernce to minorities or women) They feel they have been left behind rather than that they have lost a fair competition. This rac
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A competition with people who live in a third world shithole with 1/100th the financial overhead of a US worker willing to take 1/5th the pay with less safety regulations involved.....
Yeah.... that's totally a fair competition. Go visit the cities I spoke of before you speak retard.
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Most places in Eastern Chinese cities are more expensive to live in than in suburban midwest. Its not that Chinese workers have a lower cost of living. Its that they are willing to do the same work and live in a small apartment shared with Grandparents and have 1 child per couple as compared to Midwesterners who want to live in ranch style homes with 2 pickup trucks and have 6 children while still producing the same amount of value as a Chinese factory worker. Why should consumers subsidize your lifestyle w
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It's already happening. The KKK was putting fliers on car windows in my downtown neighborhood yesterday. The facebooks is already full of the rest. I hope he reins in the loons quick or it's going to be a long 3 years...
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4, because proof reading it hard.
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And will cost $10k
You forgot to mention there will still be brainless iMorons lining up to buy it.
With their apple finance.
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So it's a case of "Bitches don't know 'bout MAH DEVELOPMINT ENVAHRONMENT"?
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I'm due for an upgrade - but the new form factor (specifically the connectors) don't suit me. Limiting me to 16G is also a non-starter. The good news is that my 4 year old MBP 13" is still pretty awesome. I'll wait till next year - maybe by then the port situation will get a bit less frustrating.. Or not.
Or you could, you know, consider something other than an apple. Shocking, I know but there are other options. You don't have to wait a few more years hoping they might deem it worthy to let you get however much ram you want or choose from a number of different connectors in different configs. Anyway, they next mbp will probably be a completely wireless affair.
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You are obviously not a true american.
Fight for the rights of... eeeeeevery maaan...
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