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Great stuff! Max, my favourite camera reviewer, also my favourite Mac reviewer. Thorough, to the point, precise. 👌🏼
There’s no way the base model MacBook Pro should be 128 GB in mid-2017. And especially so at those prices. Ffs, the 13” Touch Bar model here is over €2K.
Tbh there’s too many Apple products across all lineups—it’s a grand mess. I’d cull lots of items and focus heavily on streamlining the product lineups and options to drive prices down a bit. I certainly wouldn’t have iMac Pro taking up a ‘new’ tab on the store Mac toolbar, when it’s shipping in 6 months time!!
MacBook shouldn’t be 12” either. It should be 13” and it should start at 128 GB and $999, or less!! And it should have at least a TB3 port. Coinciding with this move MBA should be killed (if MB can match its battery life). And MBP should start at 256 GB for the $1,299 model.
Furthermore, iPad Pro base prices are too high and the price gap from regular iPad to iPad Pro is too large. The pricing of the leather sleeve is also shameful. And iPad Pro smart keyboards are overpriced for what they are (should be $129 for 10.5” model). Every customer should leave the store with a keyboard and a pencil. The keyboard isn’t worth $159. And no, it’s not worth what people are willing to pay for it. It’s worth what it’s worth and it is certainly not worth $159 for the 10.5” model.
If they have to keep the prices of the 256 GB and 512 GB models of iPad Pro the same then so be it, but for God’s sake lower the 64 GB models by $100. That means iPad is $329, $429 & then $549 for a smaller GB Pro model which is fair. That means a 64 GB iPad Pro with a Pencil and Smart Keyboard would be $777 before tax which sounds spot on price to me.
”Leave the world better than you found it”, applies not only to the environment, but to your customers and a moral sense of dignity, values, value and respect. Yes Apple is a business, but we try to hold them in a higher regard. I only wished they would live up to what we expect of them. Sadly, if it isn’t apparently by now... they likely never will. A great corporation, but a corporation nevertheless. They make it very difficult for me to recommend their products. An iPad Pro would be perfectly suited for my retired uncle, but I just can’t bring myself to recommend them at the price they are.
128GB SSD is an embarrassment and will hurt Apple with so many customers having an inevitable bad experience
Many like to see base $1299 Macbook Pro offered with 8GB/256GB but looks like Intel processor price and Samsung SSD ties Apple's hand to offer more for less. Someday when Apple uses it's 7nm A12 processor with in-house designed GPU for Macbook Pro, we will have better price point. Hope that day come sooner..
Good info about the performance hit on the smaller SSD's. Thanks guys!!