Andrew Richards
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[Chris Harlan] “I stand by my earlier statement quoted above.”
Every time we buy a locked down product containing a non-replaceable battery with a finite cycle count, we’re voicing our opinion on how long our things should last. But is it an informed decision? When you buy something, how often do you really step back and ask how long it should last? If we want long-lasting products that retain their value, we have to support products that do so.
Today, we choose. If we choose the Retina display over the existing MacBook Pro, the next generation of Mac laptops will likely be less repairable still. When that happens, we won’t be able to blame Apple. We’ll have to blame ourselves.
The part in bold supports my point, the part not in bold supports yours. I guess we’re both right.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “The thing is, you’re essentially asking us to see it from Apple’s perspective. Craig (and others) often make the same argument here.”
If you say so.
[Franz Bieberkopf] “What people come to the forums for is the perspective of editors and those in post – how changes in technology impact on us and the people we deal with.”
Allow me to make it more relevant then. Does anyone here service their own broadcast monitor? Mixer? Vectorscope? Camera? Lenses? VTR?
Or do you pay a qualified tech a few hundred bucks to fix them if they break?
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[Chris Harlan] “My point was in the rest of what I said.”
This, right?
[Chris Harlan] “Everybody should know what they’re getting in to. And, that’s all he’s really saying.”
Look at the last four paragraphs of the article. He is directly imploring the MacBook buying public to not reward Apple (and by association the Ultrabook PC makers) for making sealed devices. He’s playing soothsayer for the market. Most people don’t care to service their own laptop, so his appeal is sort of quixotic.
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[Chris Harlan] “I’m not sure about that. Certainly not among our crowd. Or among the people who are aware of his site.”
Yeah, and those crowds aren’t most people. You know, “normal” people. Not us. He’s appealing to the hand of the market, and the market is overwhelmingly populated by people who have no interest in servicing their own laptop. Even if everyone on the COW and everyone who frequents iFixit boycotted sealed laptops (assuming they were ever part of the MBA buying public), it wouldn’t make a dent in Apple’s sales and thus it wouldn’t convince the other guys to stop chasing that “Ultrabook” ideal that necessarily means a rather unserviceable device.
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I think Mr. Wiens is vastly overestimating most people’s interest in servicing their own electronics.
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[Steve Connor] “Thanks, if they also have new NVidia graphics then I think I might try one for a year or so!”
That’s just my guess, mind you. I figure they will do something with the Mac mini and iMac around the time they release Mountain Lion. I’d expect them to have much the same GPU options as the MacBooks just released- GeForce 650M for the iMac, perhaps with an option for more VRAM or a 670M. Intel HD4000 integrated GPU for the mini.
Just my educated guesses.
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[Steve Connor] “Wait, iMacs may get Ivy Bridge soon.”
“Wait, iMacs will get Ivy Bridge in July.”
Fixed that for you.
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[Joseph Owens] “What do you think that other visionary, Enzo, would make of that?”
Are you implying that Steve Jobs would not be steering Apple the way it has gone the past 18-24 months?
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[Walter Soyka] “I don’t disagree that Apple should be planning for Ivy Bridge — but I can’t understand why they would have planned to skip Sandy Bridge.”
It makes no sense, so it must not be the reason. Ivy Bridge in the Xeon class is just a die shrink. No new anything else, it isn’t like the Core line where the controllers were the big story. Ivy Bridge Xeons will use the same C600 series controllers as today’s Sandy Bridge Xeons. There is no faster RAM to be had in more channels, no USB 3, no integrated GPU. It is just a die shrink and the attendant incremental decrease in power consumption and slight increase in clock speeds. That’s it. Nothing to wait for. The E5 Xeons are the big leap forward, and they are already here.
[Walter Soyka] “They’ve apparently deliberately chosen to neglect their professional users for a year (or more, depending on how you count). Apple says they care about pros with their words, but what do they say with their actions?”
At this point I’m convinced whatever it is they are taking their good sweet time on is going to be a huge letdown for anyone expecting a proper workstation.
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“Oh, so sorry for spitting in your eye yesterday…”
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Andy