Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

"In other words, the System76 machine with much better specs is less expensive than Apple's." Business as usual, nothing to see here. What REALLY would have been cool (and would have made Apple stand out) is if they made the screen an OLED. It would instantly humiliate all those PCs with TN panels, on the store shelves and even in advertisements. If Apple is going to charge so much, they should provide the super-fancy hardware to justify it.

> Most of the gamut of people who will be buying those new macs will be. The article doesn't even mention Photoshop at all, as I suspect the Photoshop users being a tiny minority to begin with. Nope, the *Photoshop excuse* is the same old tired anti-Linux cliché I've been hearing about for years now, even from people I suspect who don't even use Photoshop to begin with. >Windows on the other hand.. Sure, if they trust Windows 10. Even many traditional Windows users don't even trust Windows 10. >2017 will be the Year of Linux, no doubt. Probably not, but I'll settle for 10 to 15% and I think that's realistic. But keep up with the old excuses. They are quite nostalgic.

> You're missing his point badly. On the contrary, I think you are. I was addressing to him the same old tired excuses I've heard for years used by the proprietary usage fanboys. Maybe he should have used a more rational argument like yours instead of resorting to that tired old nonsense. >The kinds of people who buy $3000 MBP notebooks are the type of people who use Photoshop, or Pro Tools, or Premiere, or some other software that doesn't have a good Linux counterpart. The article doesn't mention any of that. For people into doing those sorts of things, they would stick with an Apple machine anyway, and I doubt any of those people will jump into buying a System76 machine without checking out what it's capabilities are, beforehand. I assume they're smart enough to do so. Hmm? No, the article seems to focus more on users that would be one step below that, those in the $2,000 - $2,400 price range and below. And if you bothered to read it, it also said: >*"Obviously we aren't comparing apples to apples (pun intended). If you absolutely need macOS for certain software or licenses, an Ubuntu machine will not meet your needs. Also, the System76 machine does not have Apple's revolutionary Touch Bar."* ~ >Also, widespread Linux is already here. It's on a majority of smart phones. And this article has nothing to do with phones so once again, it is **you** who've absolutely missed the point badly. Come back when you've read the article.

I like Apple myself. I stick to iPhones and have a MacBook Air as my personal device. Granted, I have the $1,000 model, and I went Mac because after long days of fucking with computers, I don't want to come home and fuck with a computer (sorry, Linux). But I find their price tags really hard to swallow sometimes.

17 machines? - lol... Ok, so in relation to overall PC sales (64 million this quarter), it's quite small, now isn't it? -/s My point being, it wouldn't make a dent in the PC marketplace, meaning what's right for your industry isn't necessarily right for everybody else. And vice-versa.