{"id":498,"date":"2010-04-13T20:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:09:30","slug":"you-suck-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/you-suck-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"You Suck Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/new-macbook-pro-wishlist\/\">wishlist<\/a> was worthless. Actually, it was more than worthless. I had assumed it was a given that the refresh would have Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 chips and the 13&#8243; MacBook Pro had no such upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>So, my tally: no higher resolution display, no RGB backlighting, no blu-ray, no USB 3 and the same weight.<\/p>\n<p>What did Apple do?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sped up the CPU from 2.26 GHz to 2.4 GHz and left it a Core 2 Duo, one whole speed bin!<\/li>\n<li>Doubled the RAM from 2 GB to 4 GB<\/li>\n<li>Increased the hard drive size (160 GB to 250 GB)<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded the video processor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every upgrade on that list is useless to me. It&#8217;s barely faster. You can buy more RAM for a lot less from anyone but Apple. I was going to get a smaller hard drive (SSD, faster and silent). Not sure what impact the upgraded video would have (I didn&#8217;t plan to play games on it and the UI seemed plenty snappy when I played with one at Best Buy).<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be shocked by this. Maybe they&#8217;d rather I buy an iPad? That will never happen. If I get a Windows 7 laptop, it&#8217;ll be years before I consider a Mac again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wishlist was worthless. Actually, it was more than worthless. I had assumed it was a given that the refresh would have Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 chips and the 13&#8243; MacBook Pro had no such upgrade. So, my tally: no higher resolution display, no RGB backlighting, no blu-ray, no USB 3 and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[50,181,173],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-sucks","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}