Many of MacBook Pro fans have been disappointed by the fact that Apple's latest flagship MacBook Pro 2016 laptops are not really designed for professional use.
MacBook Pro 2016 Disappoints
According to Recode, the backlash against Apple's newly released MacBook Pro 2016 is stronger than for any MacBook announcement ever. And what is worse is the fact that all this is mostly coming from the power users: those who develop for Apple platforms and those who use heavy-duty apps such as Photoshop.
Professional users are smart with their money and their tools. According to The Verge, they are complaining that Apple's 2016 generation of MacBook Pros are less compatible and more expensive than ever before. They are supposed to be Apple's premium laptops, but the 2016 variants are not really tailored for the pros.
MacBook Pro 2016 Downsides
A blog post published by well-known tech expert Michael Tsai gathers together the broad negative consensus from among MacBook Pro's most disappointed users. Even on the 15-inch model, the Mac community finds the specs underwhelming. They are disappointed of the fact that the Apple uses the power-hungry AMD Radeon graphics instead of the Pascal chips from Nvidia.
The updated MacBook Pros 2016 from Apple come indeed with newer chips, but the problem is that those chips are not that much newer. Instead of using this year's Kaby Lake processors, the high-tech company is using last year's Intel Skylake CPUs. Another issue is that the new MacBook Pros are limited at maximum 16 GB of RAM. As web developer Baldur Bjarnason points out, for professional video or image editing or for a developer's work machine, this amount of RAM is the "uncomfortable minimum requirement."
Apple made the mistake of not recognizing just how committed and passionate is its professional audience. When it came of MacBook model names, "Pro" used to mean something. Video producers, photographers and developers used to rely on MacBook Pros as the right laptop for their professional applications. But by acting against their interests and whishes, Apple might lose its creative professionals customer base.
