“Whether you’re purchasing a $1,500 gaming laptop or a $200 Chromebook, the brand matters,” LAPTOP Magazine writes. “That’s why we rate the top 10 laptop brands each year, based on their support, design, innovation, value/selection and, most of all, product quality.” “For 2018, Lenovo retained its place for a second year as the best laptop vendor, but it just barely edged out second-place HP and third-place Dell,” LAPTOP Magazine writes. “Apple, which used to dominate this contest, fell all the way to seventh place, down from fifth last year.” “Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Apple just doesn’t seem as focused on its laptop business as it used to be,” LAPTOP Magazine writes. “The company did nothing to innovate or even tweak its designs in the past year, and only one of the company’s laptops earned an Editors’ Choice award. However, Tim Cook’s company still has the best tech support you can get.” Read more in the full article. MacDailyNews Take: When you’re unfocused, mismanaged, and confused, it eventually shows in your products.
That said, LAPTOP Magazine ignores a major part of a laptop computer, the operating system, which — even given Apple’s current lack of focus, mismanagement, and confusion — makes any Apple laptop #1 by a wide margin. Some publications and pundits equate smearing fingers around on laptop displays with “innovation” and award bad ideas like that many points in their rankings. They are even more confused than the three interns that Tim Cook has left in charge of Apple’s Mac division. SEE ALSO: – April 20, 2018. Somewhere in Cali, six feet under, Steve must be rolling in his grave.
I spend 20 times the amount of hours on my Macs than with my X. I’ve been wanting to upgrade my Macs for years, but there is nothing there that makes me want to pull the trigger. What the hell are these people doing? Is this fat and happy phase the norm now; lounging around the reflecting pool at Apple Park? They should tear the damned building down, buy a big ass warehouse, and dump themselves in there until they can produce something again. I never thought I would be writing this but I have finally come around to say that perhaps it is time for Tim Cook to go.
Apple is going downhill both in vision and in quality. My wife;s new MBP is a joke. The keyboard sucks with its feel and the keys jam. Taking to the Genius bar they say that it is a problem for them because of the top of the keys being flat with the laptop. Dust now gets in and prevents the keys from recoiling back so they jam a lot. It is depressing since I have always defended Apple.
A true Fanboy. I am starting to HATE iTunes. I downloaded an album and it only synced 3 of 11 tunes to my iPod.
The iPhone is getting more and more expensive so no wonder they are not selling more. The stock is tanking these past few days. It took awhile for many of us to come around to this way of thinking really attributing Job’s virtues to Apple in terms taking care of us and really staying on top of things. And importantly knowing what we want and the innovations are ones that were worthy, not just an Infinite Loop circle jerk, and desirable. As time has worn on it’s obvious there are huge problems of vision, product line awareness and attentiveness in Cupertinoville.
Remember Tim Cook has no real vested history with Macs. Before Apple he was a PC user so I don’t think Macs resonate as much with him, nor does he truly understand how they have resonated historically with loyal Mac fans. Despite the lip service otherwise. If you don’t make Macs special and desirable there’s no reason for people to buy them and they simply go elsewhere.
All good observations. Sorry you took the brunt of criticism. But who wanted to believe the Apple core was rotting? For me it was the day after the 2013 Mac Pro was introduced and reality set in and then all the unbelievable follow up to that and them all but admitting they were paying no attention to much of the Mac line and especially the Mac Pro. It’s funny (or not) when you realize how little it would take to do things right by us and unfortunately no one is in charge to direct the Apple troops in the correct direction. It seems like the floundering of a bunch of many petty kingdoms without a clear king among them. Amen, Buster.
I have been an Apple owner since my Lisa and I no longer feel the same sense of magical anticipation, bug free products that just work. As a Mac power user I feel discriminated against the last five years sitting in back of the bus. The yearly updates of iOS and MacOS is not necessary.
That said, if the yearly and semi yearly updates arrived BUG FREE, only then would I support this hyper scheduling. Yes and unfortunately, Apple management is fat and happy, yet seriously adrift and simply cannot deliver the basic standards. Tim Cook MUST GO! The sooner, the better. I’m still running a late-2013 MacBook Pro Retina. I would like a new machine, but I have absolutely ZERO interest in blowing nearly three grand on a machine running the same processor as my old machine with the same memory and storage option minus a mag safe power port, standard USB, HDMI, and SD Cards slots I use regularly to replace them with 4 USB-C ports I have no use for (Johnny Ive is high if he thinks dongles are good design). If Apple had just replaced a Thunderbolt port (or two) with a USB-C port(s) and increased the max memory MacBook Pros can accept then they’d’ve sold a new machine.
But new machines with less functionality deservedly drop in the rankings. There is no EU law that bans magsafe.
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You can buy the 3rd party Magsafe-like breakaway cables in Europe. Apple obviously is prioritizing device thinness and going cheap by using the less robust USB-C for everything. Plus think of how many new overpriced white adapters Apple will be able to force you to buy. What used to be much more durable machines are now glued thin boxes that don’t allow for any port repair.
USB ports are soldered directly to the motherboard, so when you trip over your USB-C cable, good luck. I am beginning to really do believe that Timmy was indeed firmly convinced that he was such a visionary, predicting the conversion of iOS and Mac platforms. Now he concedes that’s not what the market wanted.
Did he just realize it after all these years? No wonder he is no Steve Jobs. He has been methodically destructing traditional Apple mojo, taking years. But I am seeing Apple laptop everywhere on TV. Still a glimmer of hope.
People who know are using them. Apple once spent a lot of time and money, for clever advertising and promoting Mac vs. PC and they actually won, which was the amazing feat. Then, they are losing it, together with a totally abandoned educational market, which is also amazing. Remember Blackberry?
Now, pls bring in a competent CEO before it becomes really too late. I have a different take. After Steve’s death, Tim was left in charge but didn’t have the control or ability to motivate other top brass at Apple like Jobs did. They all fell into a routine with a vague roadmap that kept changing directions and never had a clear destination. Cohesiveness of products is nothing like it used to be in the Apple world. Cook really is great at a number of things, but I can never see him walking into a meeting after a disaster like the MobileMe rollout and firing someone to put the fear of God into everyone else.
Of course, with the way things have been going the Mothership would be half empty by now!! It reminds me a lot of the disciples of Christ or even Muhammed, many saw a different light after their passings also (no, this is NOT a direct correlation, just an analogy). Same could be said of Wal-Mart after Sam Walton died and many other businesses started by a man with a fiery imagination and attention to detail.
I’m still running a late-2013 MacBook Pro Retina. I would like a new machine, but I have absolutely ZERO interest in blowing nearly three grand on a machine running the same processor as my old machine with the same memory and storage option minus a mag safe power port, standard USB, HDMI, and SD Cards slots I use regularly to replace them with 4 USB-C ports I have no use for (Johnny Ive is high if he thinks dongles are good design).
If Apple had just replaced a Thunderbolt port (or two) with a USB-C port(s) and increased the max memory MacBook Pros can accept then they’d’ve sold a new machine. But new machines with less functionality deservedly drop in the rankings.
. Wired Powerful six-core Intel chips and slightly better GPUs.
A hefty 32 GB RAM option is available, as are fast and huge SSDs up to 4 terabytes. Touch ID makes logins zippy.
High-quality build as always. Great trackpad, excellent speakers.
Tired Unbelievably expensive. Touch Bar and True Tone features are of dubious value to pro users. Dongles galore required for the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports. The machine is completely non-upgradeable. Apple's rejiggered butterfly keyboard is still an inferior typing experience.
Retina screen isn't true 4K. Wired Powerful six-core Intel chips and slightly better GPUs. A hefty 32 GB RAM option is available, as are fast and huge SSDs up to 4 terabytes. Touch ID makes logins zippy.
High-quality build as always. Great trackpad, excellent speakers. Tired Unbelievably expensive. Touch Bar and True Tone features are of dubious value to pro users.
Dongles galore required for the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports. The machine is completely non-upgradeable. Apple's rejiggered butterfly keyboard is still an inferior typing experience. Retina screen isn't true 4K.
I have used more laptops in my life than I can even recall. I owned a second-hand, sticker-encrusted Titanium PowerBook G4 that was stolen during a road trip. I installed Linux on an excruciatingly slow PowerBook G3 for IMDB and Google searches while watching TV.
I've upgraded, repaired, purchased, gifted, traded, and tinkered with iBooks and MacBooks galore, both for work and for fun. However, the more recent MacBooks I've used have been a mixed bag. Not only are Apple's last couple MacBook iterations, but I find that the computing experience has been compromised in some key areas.
Apple's laptops used to be so competitive that I'd recommend them just for use with Windows. But then PC manufacturers started upping their game, and since late 2016, it's been extremely hard to recommend the Pros. How did we get to this place? The new attempt to atone for some of the line's recent performance missteps by throwing powerful new processors, tweaked graphics cards, a massaged keyboard, more RAM, and bigger SSDs into a product meant for the professionals who consistently rely on these machines.
But over the past week that I’ve been using the new, 15-inch MacBook Pro running on a top-of-the-line Intel processor, I’ve found that what Apple's offering has a surprising number of caveats—its eye-watering price tag among them—you’ll have to consider. Cores Aplenty Apple gets complaints from the Mac faithful. Mac fans are a passionate minority who like to kvetch about everything from file systems to UI consistency.
The top complaint might be that the Cupertino company just isn't as consistent at updating its products as other PC makers. For instance, the continues to feature Intel chips from 2014.
And desktop users still wait with bated breath for the triumphant return of the Mac Pro, which was last released in 2013 andnever got better internals.
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