Despite the fact that I’m now working on Apple hardware at the new gig, I haven’t been a huge fan for a while. I have one of the 13″ MBPs as my company machine and I’ve been pretty disappointed with the overall OS instability, frustration with the sheer number of dongles and hubs that I need to use non-fruity accessories, and shitty thermal management of this machine. If I had paid for it myself I would return it. I’m fully aware that the 16″ MBP is a better machine for all of the above but that doesn’t mean that the other pricey machine should be trash because a better model is available.
It should be no surprise then that I’m not all that excited about the new models announced today. I’m skeptical of the exaggerated battery life since that assumes that the software you’re using isn’t running atop an emulation layer or something. I’m also more than a little underwhelmed at the maximum 16G of RAM on both the new Air and MBP. Oh, and two ports seems a bit optimistic as well. Maybe I’m reading this completely wrong and there is some mystical layer of magic as an intermediary? This is also the first generation which means the usual guarantee of a few terrible iterations. I just shrugged for the most part and then moved on. Oh, no external GPUs either. I guess that’s innovative?