<story><title>Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/mac-sales-declined-nearly-10-last-year-as-lenovo-dell-and-others-gained-ground/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jclardy</author><text>Makes sense with Apple&amp;#x27;s current terrible product line setup. Both the retina MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro are much more niche than their last generation. Also much more confusing as the MacBook Air successor is $500 more than the 13&amp;quot; Air was (The non-touchbar MacBook Pro is the spiritual successor to the air.) The true 13&amp;quot; Pro for 2016 is also $500 more than the last gen.&lt;p&gt;The 12&amp;quot; MacBook is there...but it is a super niche product compared to the old Air or even the old Pro. It&amp;#x27;s performance is probably enough for most people, but at that point you could just buy a cheaper windows ultrabook and get similar or better performance for a much lower price.&lt;p&gt;A huge market for Apple used to be college students. Now in 2017 what Apple laptop do they buy? an underpowered MacBook, or an overpriced pro? The best solution for most is buying an older model, but part of the appeal of buying a Mac is having the &amp;quot;latest&amp;quot; thing.&lt;p&gt;Then you get to desktops...and there isn&amp;#x27;t much to say there. Apple just doesn&amp;#x27;t do them anymore.&lt;p&gt;This is coming from someone that has used a Mac for the past 10 years and is typing on a 2016 pro. It is nice, but connectivity wise it is too far ahead of its time. In 1-2 years it will be fine, but right now it is just in early adopter territory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianolson</author><text>The world still isn&amp;#x27;t ready for a machine with only USB-C&amp;#x2F;thunderbolt-3. The aren&amp;#x27;t docks good enough with the right features or port combinations. The myriad of USB-C adaptors is only barely in place, some positions in that market have only one or two options without the depth of a mature market. USB-C&amp;#x2F;thunderbolt-3 _could be_ great, it could be the greatest docking connector yet, but until the right dock exists I shouldn&amp;#x27;t get a new MBP because I have a dozen legacy devices on my desk to connect.
And everyone should hold off on the 12&amp;quot; Macbook until the next revision when it gets thunderbolt-3.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/mac-sales-declined-nearly-10-last-year-as-lenovo-dell-and-others-gained-ground/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jclardy</author><text>Makes sense with Apple&amp;#x27;s current terrible product line setup. Both the retina MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro are much more niche than their last generation. Also much more confusing as the MacBook Air successor is $500 more than the 13&amp;quot; Air was (The non-touchbar MacBook Pro is the spiritual successor to the air.) The true 13&amp;quot; Pro for 2016 is also $500 more than the last gen.&lt;p&gt;The 12&amp;quot; MacBook is there...but it is a super niche product compared to the old Air or even the old Pro. It&amp;#x27;s performance is probably enough for most people, but at that point you could just buy a cheaper windows ultrabook and get similar or better performance for a much lower price.&lt;p&gt;A huge market for Apple used to be college students. Now in 2017 what Apple laptop do they buy? an underpowered MacBook, or an overpriced pro? The best solution for most is buying an older model, but part of the appeal of buying a Mac is having the &amp;quot;latest&amp;quot; thing.&lt;p&gt;Then you get to desktops...and there isn&amp;#x27;t much to say there. Apple just doesn&amp;#x27;t do them anymore.&lt;p&gt;This is coming from someone that has used a Mac for the past 10 years and is typing on a 2016 pro. It is nice, but connectivity wise it is too far ahead of its time. In 1-2 years it will be fine, but right now it is just in early adopter territory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feross</author><text>&amp;quot;If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer&amp;quot; - Dominic Tarr&lt;p&gt;The 12&amp;quot; Macbook is the best computer I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned. Switched to it from a 2014 Macbook Pro, and found it very easy to adjust. The only time it struggles a little bit is when I run Windows in VMware, on occasion.&lt;p&gt;The biggest benefit of the Macbook 12&amp;quot; is that if software runs well on your computer, you &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; it&amp;#x27;s guaranteed to run extra buttery-smooth on other computers, which all have beefier CPUs and GPUs.</text></comment>