The 2013 Mac Pro was first nicknamed “trashcan” because of the similarity it had to a New York subway receptacle… And that nickname stuck mostly because it was grudgingly that a lot of pro users were “forced” to migrate to it. If nothing else, it has available external bandwidth via thunderbolt ports that are about 5/8ths that of a single PCIe slot in the Silver tower, which has three such slots available (with its fourth utilized by default for a GPU/Video Card). The Mac Pro 2013 refresh doesn’t seem to be at all what the majority wanted, and for many it offers less real world capability versus the 2009 to 2012 Mac Pro tower models it replaced. The Mac Pro is now three years without an update, and all most users wanted from the last update was a Silver Tower with Thunderbolt connectivity. And the MacBook 12” is nice, but with the flash storage soldered in, there’s no chance for a storage upgrade. It’s the same story with the MacBook Air. Didn’t get that 16GB of memory when you bought it? Well, you’re totally out of luck there – it’s soldered in. They tell you that if you need more storage, you gotta buy a new one – just like with your iPhone. Yes, OWC covers the SSD, but that’s still not what Apple advertises. Sure, the Retina MacBook Pros are nice, but neither the memory nor the SSD are intended to be upgradeable. The 4-year-old MBP is the best a user can get if they need more than 1TB of internal capacity while on the road and/or – need that “old fashioned” optical drive at convenience. Nor is it going to be updated because they have really only kept it around because people still are buying it. I say over time as they still sell a non-Retina MacBook Pro 13” that hasn’t seen an update in four years. There hasn’t been a major Mac hardware update in a bit, and anticipation of Thunderbolt 3 is a cluster upon itself but is there a larger trend at play here?Īs a company, Apple has long been ignoring its Pro users and disappointing a lot of more traditional users with closed systems, planned obsolescence, and just a general lack of true value over time. Sure, larger economic factors may have contributed. Apple laptop sales also took a tumble, dropping its market share to 7.1%, which places it sixth in the pecking order. Declining iPhone and iPad sales were no doubt the major factor in this rare occurrence, but it was not just Apple’s mobile devices that saw a decline in sales. In late April, Apple reported the company’s first negative-growth quarter since 2003.
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