Read more.And a new MacBook Air intros a Retina display, Touch ID, and the latest Intel processors.
Read more.And a new MacBook Air intros a Retina display, Touch ID, and the latest Intel processors.
I'd say the biggest punch in the new Mac Mini comes from the price. But hey, it's Apple...
While I've never been a fan of apple pricing, especially of late, I think I can see what's going on at the moment.
There have been plenty of rumours of Apple wanting to ditch intel cpu's etc in their laptop/desktops so they can use their own arm based designs, if you look at the pricing of their line up now, it's pushing you towards getting an iPad at the 'consumer price range' which uses their own cpu.
Combine this with a push (likely at Apple's request, no matter what adobe say) for 'professional' grade hardware graphic software (a market which Apple is known for) and I'd say the 'idea' from Apple is to try and price people out of intel so they can do another change of processors in the 'near' future.
As to the hardware releases, the air is seriously overpriced for what it is, the mac mini is overpriced for what it is and really needed a dedicated gpu (ie the intel/amd combo chip) rather than just using the intel one and the iPad Pro, all I could see during the presentation was basically 'fluff' because it's basically the same thing as last time with a cpu spec bump, a 'marketing name' display and a new case....it also only comes with 4GB of ram in most cases (6GB on 1TB version) which is anything but professional imo.
Then we get all the usual 'American' tech blogs saying 'apple is god' as usual rather than being subjective about the things....now don't get me wrong Apple make some nice hardware, it's overpriced in most cases, but they're not the only ones who make nice hardware and deserve the same level of 'adoration' by tech blogs...
So the minimum cost of entry to OSX is £799, for iOS it's £319 and for an iPhone it's £449.
That's a hell of a barrier to entry for those not already invested.
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Eitherway though, regarding the price, which is extortionate for a limited upgradable PC, even if it is an Apple "PC", it just makes Hackintosh look even more appealing.
My biggest disappointment though is that there were no announcements regarding iMacs and I hate to think whet the new price for them will be when they eventually get updated.
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As I say to all my friends who adore Apple products... If Apple stuff were really even half the God some people proclaim them as, why are so many users whining that something isn't 'Mac Compatible'?
If their stuff were any good, the people making those somethings would surely make compatible versions, no?
Meanwhile, I just despise the aesthetics of the things.
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