Apple Made Many Changes With New Mac Pro Laptop

You can’t make an appointment to buy a Map Pro laptop at the Apple Store in Arden Fair.

While wandering through the house the other day, I noticed a new laptop my husband recently bought, and I picked up his Mac Pro laptop, just to pet, see how it felt in my hands, admire the design. Holy cow, I was blown away by the weight. It was so light. I wondered how old my Mac laptop was because you can’t really go by the date in your “about this Mac” pulldown menu. My existing Mac Pro laptop says it was manufactured mid 2010 and whoa, here it is 2017.

Stuff has changed dramatically at Apple computers, though. For starters, they are doing away with the USB ports in favor of USB-C ports and, of course, Thunderbolt. On top of this, there is no CD or DVD changer in the new Mac Pro laptops. Fortunately, I have a portable CD drive for my Mini Mac desktop and, with a converter, I can still use it. But this also means CDs and DVDs are going away too.

I guess one either downloads it from the Cloud or streams live data. I have finally gotten used to CDs after floppy disks, and now that will be a thing of the past. Some day 25 years from now, if I live that long, I’ll look back and think how am I going to play that DVD that I converted from a VHS, and I’ll go hunting online to find an ancient DVD player that will work with whatever adapter will eventually replace the USB-C.

Going to the Apple Store is very different, too. The last time I bought a Mac, they gave me a special before-hours appointment with a specialist. Just for me, they opened the door at Arden Fair and let me inside before the store opened. I could shop at my leisure, ask all sorts of questions and receive customized service by appointment. Not so anymore.

You can make an appointment at the Genius Bar to ask technical support questions, but you can’t make an appointment to buy a product. I thought I’d fool them by combining my technical questions with my purchase questions, but they would not let the technical guy sell me a computer and, after I was through with him, I would still need to wait to find a sales rep. Spittooey on this. If I didn’t like Mac computers so much, I wouldn’t put up with it.

But Apple knows I will, and that irritates me even more.

However, I did walk out of the store with a new Mac Pro laptop. I may never finish uploading it because the contents of my computer right now are 4 times the amount the laptop storage permits, and I don’t want to upload my existing laptop computer contents. Oh well, I’ve been fighting iCloud and I can’t do that anymore, either. Not if I want to keep my life simple, and you can bet Apple knows I do.

I’m way too busy as a Sacramento Realtor to spend time dinging around on my computer. It needs to work right, whether I am at my home office, on the road or traveling to some exotic country. But check out the new Mac Pro laptops. They have a special bar that lets you access Twitter with one button, and who can complain about a computer that weighs 3 pounds?