Been checking out the Oz dollar costs of the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar models. Ticking all the upgrade boxes on the 13-in = $5,500.
Doing the same on a 15-in pumps it up to $10,500, with $4,500 of that being the cost of the 4 TB SSD.
@matigo Didn’t see anything about the non-Touch Bar 13-in MacBook Pro. Apple have been suggesting to MacBook Air users that such a model is the logical upgrade path.
I’m thinking that perhaps the dual-core Kaby Lake & non-Touch Bar aspects of the current base-model 13-in Pro will form the basis of a MacBook Air replacement.
@sumudu For one thing, I get regular notification of updates.
// @matigo @hazardwarning @larand @gtwilson
@jws The 12-inchers missed out on some features the 15s & 17s used: 10/100/1000 Ethernet; FireWire 800; CardBus expansion slot; full-sized DVI & S-video outputs & the bigger units had two RAM slots vs one & soldered RAM for the 12-in. This latter is surprising because the last of the 12-inch iBooks, with a 1.33 GHz processor has 512 MB of soldered RAM vs 256 for the PowerBook.
// @streakmachine
@larand I’m using the Mac App Store variant, LibreOffice Vanilla. Currently using 1.52 GB of space.
// @matigo @sumudu @hazardwarning @gtwilson
Well, if I’m to be fasting between midnight & 8 am for specific bloodtests, I’d better grab some dinner, it’s after 10:30 pm.
@jws A friend at the Mac User Group asked me if I could take a 12-in G4 PowerBook off his hands (free!) as the customer he’d acquired it for no longer wanted it. I accepted immediately! It’s specs are: 1.5 GHz G4; 80 GB HDD; 1.25 GHz RAM (256 MB soldered & 1 GB stick in the sole slot) & a SuperDrive to handle DVD/CD burning jobs.
// @streakmachine
@streakmachine It’s processor is too fast to allow it to boot into OS 9 but it will work OK in the Classic environment. You could/should consider going up to Leopard (10.5.8) with it.
// @matigo @tewha
@gtwilson Not only that but it will open ClarisWorks (.cwk) documents.
// @matigo @hazardwarning @larand