Apple 15.4" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar i7/16GB/256GB/15.4" Retina $1899

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1293726-REG/apple_mlh32ll_a_15_4_macbook_pro_with.html

Apple offering refurbished versions of last notes now

https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/macbook_pro/13

New Apple Wireless Hair Dryers for your Ears!

Airpod Stereo Wireless Ear Buds. When you run along the sidewalk and one drops into the sewer, you'll have mono!

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-vs-earpods-wireless-headphones-2016-12/#what-happens-if-you-lose-it-6

Or old stuff

Apple Macbook Pro 13.3" 2.5 GHz Core i5, 500GB HDD, 4GB DDR3L RAM, $549

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Macbook-Pro-13-3-2-5-GHz-Core-i5-500GB-HDD-4GB-DDR3L-RAM-MD101LL-A-/152252667419

I thought this video about "The Apple Book" was some kind of parody. It's real and the author of the video was my first insight into the market these new laptops are aimed at: the fanboys. As someone who is older than the author of the video, who remembers a first experience with apple being Macs in boring beige boxes that sat on a desk (not a shiny iPod a classmate had in their pocket), as a company that came back from the brink of bankruptcy, who uses them as a tool and not a fashion statement, it has driven it home, I don't think they're going to be making products suitable for complicated video editing work in the future.

I love the idea, Apple has put together all of it's beautiful designs in a book, as any manufacturer might do, but, the price tag and more importantly the comments of this purchaser in the video that are very revealing (to me) about who are the people in the market for these type of Apple products, the design of this laptop included. It seems to me the tablet/phone/watch revenue has killed the apple laptop as a flexible, video editor's tool.

All Intel progress in one chart

In an era where everyone wants something versatile and as collaborative as possible to makes things smooth and easy, Apple seems to go on the opposite direction. I never understood the distinction between what people call a "Mac" and a "PC" in first place since there are no Computer on earth more "Personal" than a Mac. For videos it has become a nightmarish dream. I still haven't digest the "fcpxml" over the "xml" that used to be just fine for cross NLE / color grading / VFX softwares. I'm having more and more issues with their new codec and the unsupported Quicktime that just got discontinued for Windows OS. I don't know if it's a sad thing to feel that way, I've never been pro windows or pro mac (despite never owning a mac myself), I just wished everything could be compatible without a thousands headache but we came to that point where you can drag today a Adobe Photoshop file in a Linux 3d modeling app that isn't adobe related or compositing one without troubles and on the other side MAC that barricaded themselves from sharing just a tiny tiny tiny bit of fraction locking all the doors. I really hope all my clients will leave mac and get some Linux or Windows. It would save us so much time which was at the beginning what Mac was for, easy to use, quick and efficient.

I was thinking of getting a macbook myself just to escapes the codec / software / file format cross platform headache but I'm convinced I should keep my money and just wait patiently that the arrow strikes the heart of the dragon. It's sad, I always believed in multiplicity and the possibility to have choice creating variety and pushing different creativity but it seems to go on the opposite direction if every company lock themselves in an impenetrable fortress.

Razer tweet on point :-) They deleted it later as big boss returned.

@inqb8tr

It is regressive ruling class as whole that make such things.

Education is another example. Improvements in education, modularity and open simple standards in computers are the things that will kill current ruling class.

@inqb8tr

It is all natural. As you see at margins on phones and tablets and after this try to apply them to desktop market - thing do not work. As desktop market is far more progressive, and on phones and tablet markets ruling class being regressive want to move backwards.

Open any big media - all of them tell you that you do not need any powerful desktop PC - your cheap phone will do all you need, and usually this needs must be restricted to messengers, games, facebook, youtube and few other sites.

Another MacBook Pro replacement, just with better screen for $1299

Not so portable, but..

• Display: 13.3 inch QHD (2560 x 1440) OLED 300-nits Display with Touch
• CPU: Intel Core 6th Generation i7-6500U Processor (Dual Core, 2.5GHz with up to 3.10 GHz turbo boost, 4MB Cache, 15W)
• Storage: 256GB PCIe NVME SSD Drive
• Memory: 16GB DDR3L 1600mhz RAM (2x8GB)
• Operating System: Windows 10 Home
• Graphics: 4GB NVIDIA GTX 965M Dedicated Graphics Card

Ports:

• Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet IPV6
• 2x SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Ports
• Thunderbolt™ 3 Port (USB Type-C™ with support for SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps, 40Gbps Thunderbolt, and DisplayPort)
• Alienware Graphics Amplifier Port
• HDMI 2.0 Output
• Audio Out 1/8" Ports (Compatible with inline mic headset)
• Headphone 1/8" Port (retaskable for Microphone/Line-In analog audio input)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALIENWARE-13-R2-OLED-2560x1440-TOUCH-i7-6500U-256GB-SSD-16GB-4GB-NVIDIA-GTX-965M-/201696831481?hash=item2ef61167f9:g:IwUAAOSwe-FU8G8Z

According to some leaks SD slots had been axed due to fast increase of SD card sizes and speed, so Apple did not like ability to get cheaper option and use SD as extension.