right, I was hoping for a similar deal to the last. not worth it.
Worse specs for $300+
Hard Pass
yeah, the last deal was crazy good, but on the other hand, this one is $800 cheaper than the closest equivalent new from Apple, with the only meaningful difference being a 2gb 555 GPU vs 4gb.
It’s not a bad price compared to what you’re going to find elsewhere for the same product, but nowhere near as good as the deal from a few weeks ago. $300+ for a smaller SSD/worse graphics card.
Yeah, I stayed up hoping for a deal like last time. This is a decent deal but nowhere near the last and not worth it to me.
This is not a good deal at all.
Good deal was the one below at $1300
Good
Does anyone know if this will come with the box and peripherals (charger, usb-c cable). Kind of seems like a crappy deal if it doesn’t even come with the standard 1-year warranty, but apparently AppleCare can be added…
In the box:
- Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (Mid 2017), 15.4" Retina Display, Intel Core i7-7700HQ Quad-Core 2.8GHz, 256GB PCI-E Solid State Drive, 16GB DDR3, 802.11ac, Bluetooth, macOS 10.12.5 High Sierra
- Apple 87W USB-C Power Adapter & Charge Cable
If someone has the time - why a macbook over a windows laptop. What is the compelling argument for paying the premium? I’ve been tempted to pull the trigger on a Macbook, but have been reluctant in doing so since I did not want to be disappointed. Is there some wow factor (superb display or keyboard that makes my life easier)? What is it about these that people spend more to own one?
I think it’s the mystique of Apple products being so well made and all aspects of their production being controlled by Apple. No question there are comparable Windows laptops out there for less, with more performance.
Boy, you really have to be a gullible Apple-sheep to be suckered into these prices. You can get a brand-new Dell (full warranty) with a faster CPU, 512GB SSD, and a freakin’ TOUCHSCREEN for under $1000.
I recently spec’d a Mac for a customer. For the specs they wanted, the price came to almost $2800. I then spec’d a more-powerful Dell laptop with a 4K display (4K is higher-resolution than Apple’s “Retina”)… it came to $1900. And the Dell could be upgraded with more SSD and/or RAM later in life without buying a whole new laptop.
Apple fans are some of the biggest suckers the world has ever seen.
If they were so well-made, they wouldn’t score the record lowest repairability score on iFixit (1 out of 10) and they’d be recycleable: Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks
…and they wouldn’t have 3 class-action lawsuits against them due to faulty keyboard design:
My compelling argument would be because the software/computer just works! Certainly you can get more apps, and slightly better specs with a Windows PC for less money. But look at the Dell XPS 9570-- its got a 4k display that has reports of touchscreen and dead pixel issues, it has the same thermo-throttling issues that these new MacBook Pro’s have, its of a lower build quality (though it is much better than the Dells of old but your still not going to get aluminum, AND on top of it Windows 10 is incredibly buggy. Also, Apple stands by their products, the keyboard issues are now being replaced for free and have extended coverage for 3 years- I had a logic board issue with an old MacBook Retina Display Mid 2012, had the logic board replaced in 2016 (due to an Nvidia GPU issue) out of warranty. $800 dollar repair was free. Try getting Dell/HP/Lenovo to do that…
How can this computer be eligible for AppleCare when it only has a 90-day Woot warranty? That does not make sense. Given how often Apple computers have issues that are expensive to repair, I would never spend over $1,000 for anything from Apple unless I am covered for the full 3 years by the normal warranty plus AppleCare.
Up through the 2015 models, I would say that one would pick a MacBook because they were just better. In the case of the 15 inch model:
- You had a 4.5 lbs laptop that felt like it was carved from a single piece of aluminum (solid, minimal flex). You also had great little touches, such as the counter-weighted hinge that meant you could lift the screen with a feather-touch (this wasn’t included on the 13" model)
- A fantastic keyboard (best in the business)
- 99WHr battery - as large as legally allowed on US commercial aircraft
- One of the most color-accurate (out of the box) IPS displays out there. Sure, not 4k, but but at 2880 x 1800, it really doesn’t matter. Additionally, Mac OS does a much better job than Windows at scaling fonts/icons across the OS for HiDPI situations.
- MagSafe power, meaning the laptop was at much lower risk of being pulled off of a table by someone tripping over the power cord.
Fast forward to the 2016+ models:
- Battery cut by 20%
- Key travel cut down to nothing
- Unreliable keyboard
- More stories of overheating
- No MagSafe
All for a 1/2lbs drop in weight, and the addition of a Touchbar. Sure, USB-C is the future, I’ll grant them that, and the TouchBar is a novel concept that’s worth iterating on, but they didn’t have to make the rest of the laptop WORSE to do those things.
That’s why you never saw MacBook Pros with more than $100-200 off in the past, and it’s why you regularly see 2016-2017 MacBooks still offered for sale at steep discounts. I recently purchased a 2015 model 13" just to wait out this generation of MacBook.
I asked the same question, and was told that you can purchase AppleCare through apple directly.
Called Apple directly and they told me that this was not the case…
WARNING: this laptop has no typical USB ports and no HDMI port. I have the 13 in model and had to spend $400 on adapters just to connect this thing to devices.