Tencent digital hearing (Eskimo) in this week's conference MacBook, Apple is basically only bring three new models of the MacBook Pro series: with Touch Bar of 13/15 inch version, and without this feature 13-inch model.
If you don't care about prices, you can buy them directly. But for price-sensitive consumers, their choices have become difficult.
Although the changes in Apple's notebook series are not obvious, they are significant. The starting price of the new MacBook Pro is $1,499 (domestic selling price is 11,488 yuan), which is still without the Touch Bar model. Phil Schiller, vice president of marketing at Apple, compared it to the MacBook Air, calling it a faster, better and lighter choice.
This may be true, but the price of this model is also more than 4,500 yuan more than the cheapest 13-inch MacBook Air. In other words, the price of buying two entry-level MacBook Pros can almost buy three MacBook Airs. For small businesses, this gap is insignificant.
But if you choose the MacBook Air, you are faced with an old model that was released in March 2015, but Apple has increased its RAM from 4GB to 8GB this spring.
What are the options for less than $1,500? You can buy a 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro that is still on sale for $1299 (with a domestic price of $9288) or you can buy a MacBook at the same price, but to be honest, you basically can't use the latter to do any professional jobs.
All in all, Apple's professional-grade notebooks are more expensive than ever.
For consumers who want to buy a professional-grade Apple laptop, Apple has set a threshold of 50% higher: from 1,000 US dollars to 1,500 US dollars. Any product below this price is the old model one or two years ago. Older Air or Pro may also be able to do your job, but for price-sensitive professionals or small businesses, buying Dell, HP or Lenovo products is a more cost-effective choice, after all, these brands of the latest 13-inch notebook It's only about $1,000.
It is worth noting that the processor used by the new MacBook Pro is not new at all, but it is also the previous generation Skylake architecture.
If you think about it, Apple could have upgraded the old MacBook Air or Pro directly to the Skylake processor, but they didn't do it because it would make those old machines too attractive. These models still have a MagSafe interface, an SD card reader, and a full-size USB interface - everything that people really use. If you upgrade the processor, consumers who do not care about the Touch Bar will see it as a more attractive option, which is obviously Apple would not like to see.
As a result, the cheapest MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro you can buy are still using Intel Broadwell processor, which is 2 generations behind the latest Kaby Lake. The 2.2GHz quad-core Haswell processor used on the older 15-inch MacBook Pro is an antique.
For the average user, these different processor architectures may not be important, but professionals will obviously be very concerned about this.
Apple may indeed upgrade MacBook Air in the future, but no one can tell. For those consumers who are still indecisive, should they bet on it or spend a lot of money on buying old machines?
Source: Mashable
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