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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple this week it's all my reactions to Apple's new MacBook Pro keynote but like we normally do let's start off with these smaller announcements and build our way up to the big stuff because I promise I'll be gentle now Apple TV finally got some love in the form of a new app called TV because that won't be confusing at all the app is going to be useful to find shows you want and be able to pick up where you left off easily if you're on an Apple TV or an iOS device now not every service or channel with an app is going to be a part of it like Netflix or Amazon which is a big deal but look deeper this app's discovery is nice but it's also the result of apple's failed attempt to get their own TV streaming service you still need to pay for your own cable or pay for HBO now and hulu separately to take advantage of this now the TV app could have been a new revenue stream a new business but they couldn't do it over the course of years because they wanted too much from the studios and networks and now Apple doesn't have a streaming TV service well other rivals do and they're actually good so you know what that's a bad apple all right on to what we were all waiting for the new MacBook Pros these guys are powerhouses and if you're in the market to upgrade you should be more than happy with the performance big gains about 50% in processor performance roughly twice as fast graphics and 100% increase in flash performance a better performing screen at the same retina resolution but Apple made a point not to mention the resolution at all and let's not forget that design if anything is going to stand out it's how sleek this is compared to any previous MacBook Pros and yes there are plenty of other sleeker non Apple laptops out there now it's going to be a great laptop but the flagship feature the touch bar this isn't the first changing bar we've seen the lenovo x1 carbon had it two years ago but Apple just decided to go all-out with that idea now I'm going to hold my judgment until I actually use it for an extended period of time but how much are you actually going to use it like I don't think anyone knows right now sure it's some really nice eye candy and it's super responsive I could see myself using it for some of them basic apps but how much easier will it actually make doing things now when they demoed Final Cut Pro to use a single finger to scroll through the project while starting directly at the touch bar no like no one edits video like that and they won't and you know what that was a bad apple too and let's just stack up what makes more sense from a creative standpoint right now apples touch bar or that insane surface dial that works on that insane surface studio for Microsoft that blew away anything Apple announced that's just real talk now only time will tell if the touch bar ends up being good great or just matte and what about that price point MacBook Pros basically went up $200 at every price point from the previous generation let's see how the audience feels about that one yeah that's a sad Apple and lastly remember this is loaded with four USB C thunderbolt ports you know what that means we go in done go we go in dumb go look if you want back all the ports and connectivity you lost I did the math for you a USB adapter cost 19 bucks a thunderbolt 2 adapter for hard drives cost 49 bucks USB Sita lightning to connect your iPhone or iPad costs 25 bucks and a USB C 2 Ethernet adapter cost 35 bucks and if you want the MagSafe connector that they took away from you Griffen technology has that covered for you with their break safe for another 40 bucks so let's add on roughly another 170 dollars worth of dongles on top of that hold up hold up I just wanted to check in with our audience again yeah Phil you on that so what should Apple's new campaign for the new MacBook Pros be how about this just dongle it or how do you like them dongles or there's a dongle for that and the crowd favorite on my Twitter think dongle all right all jokes aside it's a nice upgrade it's going to cost you and I'm not in the market to get a new laptop right now but there have been times in the past where Apple really maybe want to get a MacBook Pro when I didn't need one but you know what this wasn't one of those times now there's also a really expensive 5k display in a partnership with LG that you can buy if you have lots of money to and let's not forget the letdown of no new iMacs no new Mac Mini updates after two years and no new Mac Pros remember it was fill killer who once claimed can't innovate anymore my ass and that Mac Pro hasn't seen an update for over three years now all right that's gonna do it for this week's show we'd love to hear what you thought you can email us at the Apple byte at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong and will include your thoughts in next week's show thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next 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