Fully specced model reaches $14,549, drawing price criticism
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Adding every upgrade to the 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes its price above $14,000, prompting comparisons to car prices and social media criticism of Apple's pricing strategy.
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first by The National, 15d ago · also The Verge, Quartz, CNET, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Mashable +6
13 more headlines
- Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro Mastodon · 15d ago
- Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899, with a $400 touch premium Quartz · 15d ago
- The MacBook Pro OLED Isn’t the Touchscreen Mac I Was Looking For CNET · 15d ago
- How Accurate Were Rumors About Apple's OLED Touchscreen MacBook Pro? MacRumors · 15d ago
- Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display Ars Technica · 15d ago
- Apple's new MacBook Pro has one huge advantage over the old one, and it's not the touchscreen Mashable · 15d ago
- Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme TechCrunch · 15d ago
- Here's the secret behind the return of the illuminated Apple logo on the back of the new touchscreen MacBook Pro TechRadar · 15d ago
- My first impressions of Apple's first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro London Evening Standard · 15d ago
- You Can Spend Nearly $15K on Apple’s New Touchscreen MacBook Pro. Why? CNET · 15d ago
- Touchscreen MacBook Pro Hands-On: Apple Finally Lets Us Swipe the Screen CNET · 15d ago
- Apple unveils its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen OLED display Tech Guide · 15d ago
- Steven Levy on the New MacBook Pro, With, Yes, a Touchscreen Daring Fireball · 15d ago
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first by electronics.economictimes.indiatimes.com, 15d ago · also Straits Times, Reuters, CNBC, iTnews, CTV News
4 more headlines
- Apple shows pricey touchscreen laptops, a first for the iPhone maker Straits Times · 15d ago
- Hands-on with Apple's first touchscreen laptop: Touch is totally optional CNBC · 15d ago
- Apple has finally unveiled its first touchscreen laptop. It hasn’t answered the most important question Nine.com.au · 15d ago
- Apple shows off pricey touchscreen laptops iTnews · 15d ago
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Apple is not what it used to be… We see it in the hardware AND the software.It used to be: think differentIt used to be: It just works…Now we got “apple intelligence” and subscriptions all over the place and also the lock-in feels stronger over time. Don’t even get me started that one can’t easily replace the battery oneself. They gradually…
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Oh good, Apple discovered fingers. Decades of acting like touchscreen laptops were beneath them, and now it's a $2,899 MacBook Pro you can poke, glowing logo back too, per @cnbc.com. *buurp* You're paying extra for smudges, Earth. Smudges at a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
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Perspective means knowing when to give up past dogma and embrace today and what's to come. Touch on the Mac isn't a mistake. It's long past due. @ viticci has it exactly right. https://www. macstories.net/stories/macbook -pro-with-touch-a-mac-for-the-ipad-generation/
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Touch-screen Macs is kind of a terrible development for anyone who loves the Mac. It's not just a harmless feature that you can ignore if you don't want it, because it's customer-facing and will now generate complaints and bugs from people who do use it. Those people will complain (rightly) that macOS UI widgets are too small to accurately…
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Fully upgrading the new touchscreen MacBook Pro costs $14,549. Apple prices the base model of this new laptop at $2,899. MacRumors reports the 16-inch version with an M5 Max chip reaches this record pricing tier. #Hardware Source: TechCrunch — techcrunch.com
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My first impressions of the MacBook Pro with touch: It's about time we move on from that Steve Jobs quote. https://www. macstories.net/stories/macbook -pro-with-touch-a-mac-for-the-ipad-generation/
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This is not for me, since I agree with Steve Jobs’s take that it will be painful to use a touchscreen laptop. But I do see it being useful for the touchscreen generation and for artists. The first thing I do on my company provided Windows laptop is to open Device Manager and disable the touchscreen because I don’t want to deal with accidental…
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Long overdue, touch has finally arrived on the Mac. And as a longtime iPad user, @ viticci has thoughts. https://www. macstories.net/stories/macbook -pro-with-touch-a-mac-for-the-ipad-generation/
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Apple has focused on making touch a useful additional input method in certain situations, and avoided redesigning the entire experience around touch. The latter is what iPhones and iPads are all about, and we have learned more over time about how that does not scale well to a laptop.But there is an intermediate point somewhere between “no touch”…
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can't believe they finally dropped a folding ipad Hands-on with Apple’s touchscr...
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They've reduced size in every dimension, here's the 14 inch size from the specs for example:Oled: Height: 1.50 cm (0.59 inch) Width: 31.08 cm (12.24 inches) Depth: 21.63 cm (8.52 inches) Weight (M5 Pro): 1.38 kg (3.0 pounds) Weight (M5 Max): 1.40 kg (3.1 pounds) Ye Olde: Height: 1.55 cm (0.61 inch) Width: 31.26 cm (12.31 inches) Depth: 22.12 cm…
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I would argue that once the dust settled post-Windows 8 with Windows 10 a full decade ago, the touch screen has been the opposite of what you’ve described for Windows systems. It absolutely is a harmless feature that you can ignore. There’s no reason not to have one.Same goes for Linux. My CachyOS install on my Framework 13 Pro has a touch screen…
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I Hackintoshed a 2-in-1 with a touch screen way back in 2018. Wrote about it in a comically long how-to piece about how to put it together.https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-to-make-a-hackintosh-lap...(And yes, I know the code got mangled. I don’t run the Vice archives.)It was fine then, it will be fine now. This is a non-issue.
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Apple used to delay and deliver their own brand or interpretation of technology with meaningful differencesNowadays it feels like a gilded copy of existing tech that also failed to find PMFMoreover they lost sight of excellent UX, each new OS update adds more bloatware and needless "features" while the calendar app weeps in the corner and slow…
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I think they introduced this feature for the 'Pro' macbook for some reason (and I don't mean the price).But for example, as iOS Developer, this is something I could use to test apps in different simulators.So, it seems Apple is not promoting the touch screen as the main control, but just as something additional to the trackpad and keyboard. Like…
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I was expecting there to be more like a ‘studio mode’ where you can fold it over to make it a screen interface that has some kind of bigger iPad style Ui. Where you could also use a stylus.Basically a product for the people currently carrying around a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro.Just touch on a laptop screen makes no sense. I’ve never felt the…
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100% agree We should assume that new engineering leadership that came - it was too late. Let’s pray that MacBook pro team will leave apple sooner or later to build alternative laptop. This touchscreen seems to be bifurcation point with no return. I hope we also get alternative for M-class cpu, this might be the biggest dealbreaker
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Can I have an M7 at the lower price with the old screen? Well honestly I might buy something else for AI then… is anyone in the PC world going to produce something with enough RAM + bandwidth to do fast inference on a reasonably large model?
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My iPad Pro has a plenty big screen, a touch screen, and a processor that's faster than my M1 Air...by a lot. I would be ecstatic if they would put MacOS on the iPad. Instead, they put the damn screen for the iPad on the MacBook.
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The touch screen mac and iphone duo feel like ideas Apple has rejected for so long because they suck, but consumers keep asking for it. Seems they finally relented and released them, and people can learn it's simply bad.
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Judging by the Apple marketing page, touch is used for (1) scroll; (2) zoom; (3) draw. I hope that’s all the ways touch can be used. It’s a bad idea to expect touch to be used instead of the cursor to click on buttons.
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thank god! at work many people intentionally choose the 14" just because of weight. Once you add the charger in, the 16" is very noticeable in a bag and makes you pack a little differently for flights.
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I don't think it's quite that bad, but I’m already in the habit of swatting the hands of people who point too closely at things on my laptop screen with their greasy fingers. gtfo
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I think this can easily be seen in the introduction of windows into iPad OS. I hate when the wrong motion creates a window from what I was working with. And this is on the 11" pro.
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