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Slimmer 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros Reportedly in Production
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I think I've used my optical drive maybe twice in the last 2 years. I'd be fine with having it removed.
Laptops are for adults. That's why I want it to come with inferior hardware so I can use it as a facebook machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3yltq8XDM
There you have it. Ivy Bridge can satisfy your gaming needs very well.
Children, try to realize already that it is impossible to put 200+ watts of real gaming power on to those tiny little laptops. How hard it can be to realize that?
Try to put 200w light bulb between your legs and keep it there for 2hrs and then come back telling how nice it feels and how high the FPS is
Every post of you is trolling at it's best. First of all, iOS is not a gaming platform. Second, a dedicated graphics card is not only needed for games, but also for a bunch of other applications. Saying you don't need a graphics card is like saying you don't need a brain.
I really hope Apple puts SSD in the new MBP or at least some HDD+SDD combo. If they remove the ODD, that would mean a lot of space for a bigger battery, maybe powering a hi-res display?
Ivy Bridge graphics will still be worse than whatever discrete solutions are available. No one is talking about putting a desktop card in the machine, ffs.
I don't get this attitude. The term 'Retina Display' has a perfectly clear and verifiable meaning: a display that has a high enough PPI that, when viewed from a normal distance by someone with normal eyesight, individual pixels are not visible.
There's nothing marketing BS about this - it's merely a simple term that is easy to say which means something perfectly clear and, above all, testable with good solid mathematics.
The 300 PPI referred to the iPhone and compared it to a printed book. It was used as a way to clarify the meaning without complex mathematics. It has since been very neatly clarified on many occasions.
Why do you have such an issue with it?
Both of those have lower ppi then the 11" MacBook Air... None of them are Retina at normal viewing distance with their sub 135 ppi...
I hope that for gamers there will be external ThunderBolt GPU's no need for super GPU inside those laptops...
These are premium products and Apple is trying to get piece of the Enterprise Business market too and you just dont care what gaming teenagers would wish.
DPI and PPI would both equal to 300 each where the human eye cant see past, even up close. The human eye has trouble seeing individual dots/pixels past 240dpi/ppi, but everyone is different so not everyone has the trouble.
Regardless, its a marketing term that should be a tech spec that deserves the term retina display which unfortunately it doesnt because its too loose of a term.
+1!!
Kind of in the same boat. If the new MBPs have no spinning drive for storage, I'll stick with my early 2011 15" MBP, put in a SDD+HDD solution, and keep it for the next 2-3 years. By then, perhaps 500+ GB SSDs will be affordable.
They could certainly keep it in and still get thinner. Current MBPs take 12.5 mm drives, so they could shave off 3 mm just by getting rid of that clearance.
Also, getting rid of the optical drive is more than just removing a component that has a fixed height. It also frees up a lot of *volume* which gives the designers more flexibility in cooling, PCB layout, battery size, and tapering.
No Retina display. It would use too much battery to run.
I say abs limber form factor and maybe a Hybrid HDD would be great. As far as the GPU goes, I would expect a high performance card, as the Intel 4000 integrated chip is pretty good by most accounts.
This would make it a good desktop replacement. Battery friendly display and GPU on battery, but can really get up and going when powered and connected to an external display (rememberthesechips can switch between the integrated and discreet GPU as required)
I say abs limber form factor and maybe a Hybrid HDD would be great. As far as the GPU goes, I would expect a high performance card, as the Intel 4000 integrated chip is pretty good by most accounts.
This would make it a good desktop replacement. Battery friendly display and GPU on battery, but can really get up and going when powered and connected to an external display (rememberthesechips can switch between the integrated and discreet GPU as required)
Stop calling people who want a dedicated graphics card children. You don't know what you talking about. First of all people do a lot of graphics work on laptops, using it as a desktop replacement rather than placing it on their legs. That doesn't work so well with the 17" for example.
Besides if an adult wants to play a PC game or two they are allowed to do so without your patronising tone.
Who are they making these for?
No optical drive?
I'm a videographer whose clients almost always request a DVD of a video.
I also have a large collection of CDs I'd like to import into iTunes.
No optical drive will make both these points a problem.
Apple gets too far ahead of itself for the sake of a slim design.
No optical drive?
I'm a videographer whose clients almost always request a DVD of a video.
I also have a large collection of CDs I'd like to import into iTunes.
No optical drive will make both these points a problem.
Apple gets too far ahead of itself for the sake of a slim design.
Why is it too loose? We know very clearly what the eye is capable of and we can be fairly clear on the normal distance at which a display is viewed. Sure, you could try to game it by pretending a display is used further away than it really is but that's pretty hard to do for portable devices - we hold them in our hands after all.
If we were rigid about the 300ppi then any devices other than smartphones would have to have massive amounts of redundant pixels in order to use the term Retina Display. Seems a bit pointless to me to be able to not see pixels when my TV is two inches from my face!
I think most reasonable people are comfortable with the term retina display because it means something perfectly clear and testable.
Its BS because if what I've bolded in your comment is true than every LCD and CRT I've ever had in the last 15 years has been 'Retina Display' because I can't see a single pixel past the 40+ cm I sit behind my monitors.
But now you have people asking for a 'Retina Display' in LCD screens when by your logic it would mean that the pixels are large enough to see on monitors.
Thats exactly whats wrong with the term, its loose marketing horsecrap from Apple thats only generated ignorance from consumers. Until theres a real need for a 'Retina Display' LCD screen, its not coming to OS X even if support for it is available. The cons *today* outweigh the pros. This is bound to change eventually, but for now its not going to happen.
I want a 13 inch MBP, 1680-by-1050 Res, designated graphic card, SSD+HDD and USB 3.0.
That's the one for me, but add the anti-glare screen and I'm good to go