Review: Apple MacBook Pro (Late 2016)

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The new generation of MacBook Pros feel like the very distillation of Apple’s design ideals. Thin, light, and powerful hardware that’s designed to dominate in content creation, but it does so at the expense of some personality.

Apple has always made premium notebooks for professionals. Featuring the latest technologies and necessary I/O ports for connecting to various peripherals and which replicated the capabilities of the desktop Macs. While costing a premium, Apple’s PowerBooks and MacBook Pros were tools that eventually paid for themselves. 

The previous MacBook Pro line has been the standard bearer of professionals and creatives. A step up from trusty MacBook Airs, the Pros didn’t just have great battery life, they had the top processing speed, and all the fine features that made getting work done a pleasure. With sharp Retina Displays, the best keyboard on the market, the best glass trackpads  and an abundance of the right kind of ports .

The new MacBook Pros, well. They’re something else entirely. 

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Nonda's Hub + for new MacBook gains momentum on Kickstarter

Apple's exciting new MacBook is starting to show up and while it features one singular USB Type-C port, it has opened up a lot of opportunities for third-party companies to create solutions for this limitation. Hub+ offers 2 USB-C ports, 1 SDXC card reader, 1 Display port , 3 USB-A \ charging ports plus one built-in lithium ion battery to charge ANY phone which makes it a must-have accessory for any serious MacBook user.

Interested buyers can head over to Kickstarter and pledge US $79.00 (the price of an Apple adaptor) you get all the above ports in your colour of choice. Five of the 10 limited edition 24K Gold Plated unites (selling for US $3999.00 each) are already spoken for.  The three colors will only be available if we meet the stretch goal of $250k so for now its silver or super pricey Gold.

New MacBook is a no show in some stores, proving it is a rare bird

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

While a lot of the attention has been focused on Apple Watch, the new 12-inch MacBook was supposed to be available for order and sale in stores today as well. While waiting to get into the Apple Store this morning for the Watch there were a few people who showed up wanting to buy the new super-sleek and super-innovative MacBook, but none were available in store.

While the MacBook, which is the first Apple portable to be sold in the three iPhone colours of Gold, Silver and Space Grey, is available for purchase online, shipping times reflect a 3-4 week wait period before shipping.

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Apple now offers a 128GB iPad with Retina Display

Apple today released an update to its iPad line with a model that has 128GB of storage costing $799 for the WiFi only version and $929 for the WiFi + 4G version. The ramping up of storage capacity puts the flagship iPad in competition with Microsoft's upcoming Surface Pro tablet which will arrive next month and which has both 64GB and 128GB variants. This opens the window to a 128GB iPhone 5, which will leapfrog current smartphone capacities in the high end right now. Hit jump for the full release.

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