#24

I mean if you’re after build quality I’d stretch that amount to £700 - £800 doe tbf

#25

I have a 6 year old MacBook Pro that is still flying - I’ve never met anyone or personally used another brand of laptop that has lasted that long, whilst still being nippy. Like the integration with iPhone too (iMessage etc)

#26

sure. I plucked a figure out of nowhere, to be honest.

#27

hi everyone #AppleEvent #NoWorriesSean

#29

I have no idea what any of this means, man.

#31

There is that ol’ saying round these parts. People only buy mac’s after they have bad experiences with budget laptops. It’s like going from Beats Professional headphones from I-buds. SURE THEY’RE THE BEST THING EVER in comparison, but you can get way more for your money if you shopped around without jumping to the default ‘pro-brand’

I am willing to bet good money that very few people you’ve met have spent more than £600 on a windows based machine and have quite happily spent close to a grand for their MacBook. There ain’t nowt wrong with that though, it’s good that there is an easy option on the market for people who can’t be doing with fafffing around looking at spec sheets and buying an unknown entity.

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#32

oh right. fair do’s

posted from my completely reliable and perfectly sufficient ÂŁ410 acer

#35

My acer is shit. Doesn’t even work without the power cable, defeating the point of a laptop. Someone tell me what to get which isn’t a mac. I want to be able to record music and maybe edit some video on it.

#37

Just off to murder the old faithful piggy bank out back then

#38

Get a computer with an Intel Core I5 (good processor for video editing, but you might want to consider an i7 if you plan to do some heavy load video editing) and at least 8GB Ram. And SSD hardrive for snappy boot times (doesn’t need to be too big, just big enough to store an OS so 256GB should be fine) generally speaking Lenovo’s are pretty well built and decked out for their price.

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#39

Very helpful answer thanks duck

#40

I have all of this in my pissy little acer. other than a few tracking issues, which was a software issue apparently, it’s been nothing other than superb.

oh, thinking about it, it sometimes sounds like it’s gonna take off when I’m playing a video or whatever. must be the fan?

#42

Clean your fan out. Check to see if the vents are clogged with dust, some compressed air should do the trick
 or q tip if you want to open that sucker up.

#43

cheers mun

#44

Yeah this is probably accurate tbf, I guess Apple is a “known quantity”, as opposed to buying a high end laptop that maybe people don’t know as well - and a willing to pay a little extra for a mac.

#45

Hey guys, I also got a iPhone 7 recently after having a 5S for three years and it is fucking beauts.

#46

Alright, now that the dust has settled, I’ve had a think, and this is what I rate todays #AppleEvent:

3/10

Pros:

  • Bigger Trackpad.

Cons:

  • Ridiculous price jump
  • Touch bar is too small to do anything meaningful with. For graphic designers, looking down onto a tiny strip and changing things like “brush size” is pointless when you can do it far quicker using a keyboard shortcut.
  • The specs for the 2016 MacBook Pro aren’t even as good as last years model - despite the price increase.
  • 256GB SSD standard

  • HDMI, USB, Camera memory card port - GONE. DONGLES, DONGLES, DONGLES. Can’t even charge your fucking iPhone 7 using it.
  • Don’t give a shit about the thinness of it if it means sacrificing these ports, it was thin enough. It’s a MacBook Pro, not a Fisher Price toy.
  • The old models have stayed the same price!

Fire Tim Cook I reckon.

#47

This happened on my old machine. It used to get well hot doing simple things, to the point it wouldn’t boot. Turns out it had a small Afghan rug where the fan should be. Needed a new HD, but was otherwise fine (got my data off the old one, all good).

#48

You’re not joking.

Base price for a Macbook Pro before the event: ÂŁ899
Base price for a Macbook Pro after the event, effectively the exact same model: ÂŁ1,249

JFC.

The Mac Pro received no spec update at all after three years but the price still went up by ÂŁ500.

#50

This new bar on the MacBook Pro - couldn’t they have just made your iPhone sync better with the laptop to do ApplePay and touchscreen stuff? Like, how the iWatch is just a bit of the phone screen on souped-up iPod Nano on your wrist. Or how various remote mouse apps work.

Could even make it so your phone docks into the trackpad, so that it stays charged etc. Or just had an iphone screen instead of a mouse