Personal computing discussed
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Captain Ned wrote:Don't you mean MacBook Pro??
dragontamer5788 wrote:Hopefully Mac Pros.
Not that I'm in the market, but I like big hardware. Just the availability of it makes me smile.
blargh4 wrote:Pretty good timing, since my iPad Pro was stolen last month and I miss that thing. Rumor is they're stuffing an 7nm A12 based SoC in there, unlike their usual strategy of a turbocharged last-years-iPhone chip. Should be a CPU beast.
derFunkenstein wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what I'd do with an iPad Pro. I know people have their uses, they just don't apply to me.
derFunkenstein wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what I'd do with an iPad Pro. I know people have their uses, they just don't apply to me.
DancinJack wrote:I actually don't really like tablets. I just don't think they're that useful for me. I'm glad other people like them. I think they look futuristic and cool at times, but they just don't provide me with any exciting use case that I don't already have taken care of.
blargh4 wrote:For me it's basically an all-purpose reading machine. Did you like to read those glossy magazines back in the heyday of print media? For me, an ipad is basically that for the internet/ebooks/pdfs/whatever.
End User wrote:If all one does is read then ya, an iPad Pro is overkill.
I love my 13” MacBook Pro but I find that it is my iPad Pro that I use more often.
farmpuma wrote:I'm still chugging along with a Nook HD+. It's snail slow but I'm not a big fan of speedy reading. At just under nine inches the 1920 x 1200 ips screen is quite nice and the overall size is just about perfect. I don't need a jumbo tablet or a camera in my tablet.
Pssst ptsant, they are talking about reading on a tablet in case you missed it.
ptsant wrote:Do you mean for work or generally?
ptsant wrote:What applications do you use most often?
derFunkenstein wrote:Getting long on the tooth now, but still hoping for a Mac Mini with the Vega G chips.
DancinJack wrote:Those chips have been out a while, but they're still 8th gen Core, and they're the best GPU you can get in that small of a package still. I'd happily still take one. The worst thing about the 13" rMBPs is they don't have a dedicated GPU. Easily.
derFunkenstein wrote:Not that I really NEED a discreet graphics chip in my notebook, but that's part of why I looked at 15" only (lack of quad-core options at the time was another).
anotherengineer wrote:hope it's an updated SE phone for $50 less than the SE
DancinJack wrote:You can make up a lot of the deficiencies with a decent amount of RAM on macOS (IMO 16GB is minimum for any Mac I buy from here on out, but obviously my use cases are different than most everyone else's) but the GPU makes a big difference in a lot of the things I do and I just can't commit that much of my own money to something that doesn't perform the way I want.