{"id":4631,"date":"2015-04-17T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2015-04-17T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:02:45","slug":"linked-the-2015-macbook-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/linked-the-2015-macbook-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: The 2015 MacBook Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/9136\/the-2015-macbook-review\/12\">via Anandtech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>Compared to the tablets on the other hand the MacBook is still well ahead of any of the tablets \u2013 as it should be with Core M\u2019s greater power consumption and the larger chassis \u2013 but there\u2019s no denying that by scaling down the MacBook so far, the performance gap between tablet and laptop has shrunk significantly. The MacBook is less than 2x faster than the iPad Air 2 in both benchmarks, which means that within a couple of generations it\u2019s likely that the iPad will exceed the current MacBook\u2019s scores.\u00a0<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019m completely full of it but I don\u2019t see GeekBench score of 4500 as impressive for people who actually do real work. As most people know, <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/333313\/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet\/\">the Internet to some people is Facebook<\/a>. For those people who use Gmail, Facebook and maybe iMessage, well an iPad or ChromeBook is all they need. No, the new Macbook isn\u2019t for me but it is for a lot of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think that comparing the slowest available computer that Apple makes with the fastest tablet that they make is Apples to Oranges. When the iPad can truly multi-task, allow typing speeds as fast as a full-size keyboard and allow me to work within multiple-windows, applications and get things done, then the speed will matter. My Macbook Pro scores 14,000 on GeekBench or 3.5 faster than the brand new MacBook and 4 times faster than the iPad and when I\u2019m editing RAW images and 4K movies, it struggles to keep up. I\u2019m still wanting a faster computer. I was manipulating data in a 25 megabyte Excel document last night. Why would I use a slower computer (tablet, phone) to do that?<\/p>\n<p>I simply don\u2019t think there will be a time in the next 20 years where iPhones will take SLR quality images or tablets will be able to do everything a MacBook Pro w\/ an external 4K monitor can do. It\u2019s physically not possible with the farthest out technology pipelines and this is coming from a guy who has every single piece of hardware that Apple makes. My iPad is for YouTube, reviewing my calendar, taking 2-3 lines of notes in a meeting and reading books. The iPhone is for navigating, reviewing emails, checking into beers on Untappd and controlling my AppleTV. I even use an iPod Classic for music playback because of iTunes Match eating through 12 gigabytes of data in a month due to user error. I\u2019m not going to make that mistake again. That\u2019s as far as they go for me not because I can\u2019t edit photos, movies or write a blog on today\u2019s iOS devices but because the 15\u201d MacBook Pro and iMac do a much better job and are much faster and easier to use and switching over to Safari to copy text and paste it back into MarsEdit (which is what I use for blogging) is much easier on OS X.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing, Apple doesn\u2019t care that I don\u2019t use the iPad for getting work done. They just want to move units and they are\u2026..by the millions. They\u2019re not framing the iPad and MacBook as similarly specified (putting GeekBench scores in their narrative). The bloggers are doing this and I hope people out there aren\u2019t buying iPads expecting to do everything a MacBook Pro can do as fast, efficient or as easy. iPhoto for iPad is really nice but if I had to choose, I\u2019d grab my MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Just wait for Apple Watch 3 when bloggers are saying its GeekBench scores are as fast as the 2012 MacBook Air. How stupid will it sound when people say you can do everything you did on your \u201912 MBA? Pretty dumb and that\u2019s how I feel about the people trying to sell normal users iPads in that way. The new MacBook is awesome for the Facebook crowd and I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll sell tons of these things. It\u2019s one of the first times a new notebook from Apple comes out that I\u2019m not buying. They are really beautiful though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Anandtech: Compared to the tablets on the other hand the MacBook is still well ahead of any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:31:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"43951153-a4e2-4ce1-8b12-14c5edbbcc76","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:31:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQ5URU6TiTOGLEhTF7bvMdg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1cH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6940,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/linked-the-ipad-mystery\/","url_meta":{"origin":4631,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The iPad Mystery&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via MondayNote: (A Medium Blog) \u00a0A beefier iPad Pro won\u2019t enjoy a sizable cost advantage. 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