I’ve always understood that laptops are a compromise - Everyone wants them to be powerful, fast and full of ports, as well as small, portable and light.
Until now I thought that apple leaned to the second option as other veered into the “portable workstation”.
Now I see something like this MSI GS65:
- the keyboard has some nice travel
- the screen looks to be the same size (lower resolution but 144mhz and low bezels)
- Dimensions are within 2% except for it is 2mm thicker
- Weight is less than 1% different
- Battery is 82w/h vs 72w/h on the Macbook Pro
- Even the power brick is only 14% heavier
- It has a TON more ports, including the impossibly thick LAN port
So I really can’t understand why apple could not pursue something like this…
There is no excuse why the next Macbook Pro couldn’t have a really good GPU (this 1070 Max Q is 4 times faster than 460/560 PRO), CPU (about 50% faster than current), Keyboard (this one has like 3 time the travel) and a decent number of ports (GS65 has 10, apple has 5- including headphone, mic and power ports).
Until now I thought that apple leaned to the second option as other veered into the “portable workstation”.
Now I see something like this MSI GS65:
- the keyboard has some nice travel
- the screen looks to be the same size (lower resolution but 144mhz and low bezels)
- Dimensions are within 2% except for it is 2mm thicker
- Weight is less than 1% different
- Battery is 82w/h vs 72w/h on the Macbook Pro
- Even the power brick is only 14% heavier
- It has a TON more ports, including the impossibly thick LAN port
So I really can’t understand why apple could not pursue something like this…
There is no excuse why the next Macbook Pro couldn’t have a really good GPU (this 1070 Max Q is 4 times faster than 460/560 PRO), CPU (about 50% faster than current), Keyboard (this one has like 3 time the travel) and a decent number of ports (GS65 has 10, apple has 5- including headphone, mic and power ports).