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17" MacBook Pro to be Updated "In a Few Months"?
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17" No More!
they want to help kill the 17" market. After all smaller is better. The 15" is the Pro model this year, the 13" model will be next year. The iPhone will be taking over the following year. Then the mini iPhone the next year & finally the micro iPhone the following. By that time if you haven't figured out that Apple wants to rid itself of the Pro portable market, then you can purchase the micro-micro iPhone professional.
The 19" laptop is the only laptop that uses the 16+ million colors, but we'll never see that as many have said that the 17" is the luggable model.
Smaller is always better.
they want to help kill the 17" market. After all smaller is better. The 15" is the Pro model this year, the 13" model will be next year. The iPhone will be taking over the following year. Then the mini iPhone the next year & finally the micro iPhone the following. By that time if you haven't figured out that Apple wants to rid itself of the Pro portable market, then you can purchase the micro-micro iPhone professional.
The 19" laptop is the only laptop that uses the 16+ million colors, but we'll never see that as many have said that the 17" is the luggable model.
Smaller is always better.
True. That's why "a lot" of people will offset the need and cost for 48GB of much needed RAM to run 10,000 apps at the same time.
Doubt it. Apple tends to depend mostly on form rather than function these days. I cannot believe that Steve & the boy & girls in Cupertino would opt for the Core i7 in only 1 of it's Notebooks (the 17") and leave the rest of the MBs & MBPs alone.
Cost would be a factor too. Why develop the NEW 17" MBP with new processors, graphics cards, memory etc. for just the one machine? Keeping their price point at the $2799 mark would make that a tough reason to do so as well.
Apple has not really been a LEADER in using the latest & greatest when it comes to chipsets, by any means. Apple plays it safe. The Dells, the HPs, the Gateways, the IBMs, and the Sonys of the world get their hands on the newest graphics cards and all the other goodies that go into making PCs, put them in the newest machines, and then Apple comes to the party late with people expecting something spectacular, and they show up with the GeForce 9600M GT... yeah PCs have been using those for months now... (it's the OS that makes their products great). Just my 2 cents.
Can someone who knows anyone in the laptop division at 
take them out, get them blind drunk, and try to get them to spill the beans on what's happening with the 17" MBP?
I wanted a Apple for about 1.5 years now but haven't had the money. I changed from desktop WinXP PC to a Hackintosh about 5 months ago. It works fine apart from a few occasional odd things, but occasionally I brick the thing. But have been waiting for the 17" MBP to get a real mac. I've ended up turning rumour sites into an unhealthy obsession. I've got the cash now and I'm also going to start using the computer live on stage with a FW audio interface in my band. I waited (im)patiently til 14th Oct. Then what do Apple do? update everything except the one I want! Doh!
I'm now gonna be using my desktop hackintosh live on stage, both a pain in the ass due to it being a desktop and me already having enough stuff to set up, and also dangerous, in case I brick it accidentally just before a gig! I don't want the 15" MBP as the MBP will pretty much replace my Hackintosh and I want the bigger higher res screen. Then the Hack desktop will just be used for it's 1.25TB storage. (Or I might dual boot, put V***a on it and use it for games!!!)
Where is the new 17" MBP you b******s!?! I want it now! I'm finally ready for my real mac!
(I apologise: This post was encouraged by a 30 second look at the shiny new 15" MBP on my way past the store last night, 2 minutes before it closed and 30 seconds before my g/f said "you're not gonna buy this model are you, so lets go" shortly after saying I've gone iWrong about Apple and how it's "only a f**king computer"!)
take them out, get them blind drunk, and try to get them to spill the beans on what's happening with the 17" MBP?I wanted a Apple for about 1.5 years now but haven't had the money. I changed from desktop WinXP PC to a Hackintosh about 5 months ago. It works fine apart from a few occasional odd things, but occasionally I brick the thing. But have been waiting for the 17" MBP to get a real mac. I've ended up turning rumour sites into an unhealthy obsession. I've got the cash now and I'm also going to start using the computer live on stage with a FW audio interface in my band. I waited (im)patiently til 14th Oct. Then what do Apple do? update everything except the one I want! Doh!
I'm now gonna be using my desktop hackintosh live on stage, both a pain in the ass due to it being a desktop and me already having enough stuff to set up, and also dangerous, in case I brick it accidentally just before a gig! I don't want the 15" MBP as the MBP will pretty much replace my Hackintosh and I want the bigger higher res screen. Then the Hack desktop will just be used for it's 1.25TB storage. (Or I might dual boot, put V***a on it and use it for games!!!
)Where is the new 17" MBP you b******s!?! I want it now! I'm finally ready for my real mac!
(I apologise: This post was encouraged by a 30 second look at the shiny new 15" MBP on my way past the
store last night, 2 minutes before it closed and 30 seconds before my g/f said "you're not gonna buy this model are you, so lets go" shortly after saying I've gone iWrong about Apple and how it's "only a f**king computer"!)
Only for you and others that don't do much with their machines.
Besides the 17" being faster, running cooler, having fully clocked components, and having a much better screen than the 15", it's not that much heavier than the 15"
So, it does more, faster, and better and is only a pound heavier.... I think it will be around for a very long time for those that actually make the best use of it. Hopefully, Apple will just kill the idea that thin, tiny pre-school laptops are what professional want, and give us a true performer of a 17" MBP.
There will ALWAYS be 17" laptops, and apple will continue to make them. It is for the professionals, who need a PORTABLE desktop machine...in other words, they have the size and power of a desktop computer, but can people can take it with them.
As for the new updated, please PLEASE apple do not make the new 17" MBP with those stupid chicklet keys on the keyboard! I said it once and Ill say it again, the MBP is supposed to be pro...I demand higher quality than cheap looking and feeling chicklet keys. The old keyboard on MBP had great flow and feel, and felt pro.
As for the new updated, please PLEASE apple do not make the new 17" MBP with those stupid chicklet keys on the keyboard! I said it once and Ill say it again, the MBP is supposed to be pro...I demand higher quality than cheap looking and feeling chicklet keys. The old keyboard on MBP had great flow and feel, and felt pro.
id totally snatch up one of the 15" MBP with its nice specs CPU wise and graphics card wise. however i get stuck up on the display.
i like the 17" High-res LED display,but the graphics card isnt as on par as the current MBP's...
hopefully by the next major launch theyre throw in in there, i dont mind either keyboards (thought i prefer the alu keys...) but as long as it has good specs (good High-res led, good graphics cards) and ill snatch it up
i like the 17" High-res LED display,but the graphics card isnt as on par as the current MBP's...
hopefully by the next major launch theyre throw in in there, i dont mind either keyboards (thought i prefer the alu keys...) but as long as it has good specs (good High-res led, good graphics cards) and ill snatch it up
I agree, the line up is weird at the moment. The Al Macbooks cost way more than the ones they replaced, Jobs said that the macbooks are cheaper than they were because he compared the new ones with MBPs, and how you now get a better graphics card for a lower price. In reality, its not true, because the new entry Al MB is the same price as the previously high end black MB. So the macbook is more expensive than what it replaced, by a long way.
The white macbook dosnt even fit in with the rest of the mac line up in terms of looks, There should be an Al one at that price.