- #New mac release date 2012 update#
- #New mac release date 2012 upgrade#
- #New mac release date 2012 pro#
Professionals really do care about performance, so the nearly three-year wait for a new Mac Pro is exasperating to many - not least Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who says he’d like to support the Mac " when Apple makes a good computer" with modern GPUs. The issue pervades almost the entire Mac line. (Yes, Apple charitably dropped the price by one hundred whole dollars two years ago.) The 2012 MacBook Pro still runs okay today, but not that okay. But there’s no excuse for selling four-year-old hardware for $1,099.
#New mac release date 2012 upgrade#
If Apple needs to keep the non-Retina MacBook Pro around for certain users who really need a DVD drive, fine I happen to like the chunky old design, and it’s good to have a Mac laptop in the lineup where you can still upgrade the RAM and storage. There’s a certain point at which it just starts to look like absentmindedness But there’s a certain point at which it just starts to look like absentmindedness, and many Mac computers are well past that point now. Apple is bound by the whims of its suppliers to a certain extent, and it may not always make sense for the company to upgrade its products with every single new chip or GPU that comes out.
#New mac release date 2012 update#
Is the company really saving that much money by using 2012 processors and 4GB of RAM as standard? Even an update to Intel’s Haswell chips from 2013 would have brought huge battery life improvements. Simple Intel processor upgrades are less important to laptops these days, however, and I’m finding this 2012 MacBook Pro fine to work from right now - faster than my 2015 MacBook, at least, which is enough for my needs.īut that doesn’t mean it isn’t unconscionable for Apple to continue to sell outdated products to people who may not know any better. The company does amazing work to keep its iPhones and iPads ahead of competitors, performance-wise. Did he mean that this was the precise model Apple expects professional users to use literally forever?Īpple iterates quickly and consistently in mobile because the rate of technological progress is so much more dramatic in that arena. "This is without a doubt the future of the pro desktop," Phil Schiller said when announcing the Mac Pro on stage that year. And the Mac Pro, released in December 2013 following much " Can’t innovate any more, my ass"-fueled fanfare? It hasn’t received a single update since then. The Mac mini has gone 657 days since its last update, which was controversial in itself since Apple removed quad-core options and made the product harder to upgrade after purchase. The Retina MacBook Pro is 442 days into its current cycle, despite refreshes coming every 268 days on average in the past. Apart from the 12-inch MacBook, which was refreshed in April, every single Mac line from the mini to the Pro is designated as "Don’t Buy" because of how long it’s been since Apple updated them.
MacRumors lists almost every Mac as "Don't Buy"īut right now, the Mac section of the guide makes for depressing reading.
It’s a hugely useful resource that I’ve often pointed people to when asked for recommendations on laptop purchases. The publication catalogs the release dates of each major Apple product line and contrasts them against the company’s usually predictable timeframe for updates, ultimately delivering a verdict on whether it’s better to buy now or wait. For longtime Mac users, MacRumors’ Buyer’s Guide is an online institution.