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17" MacBook Pro to be Updated "In a Few Months"?

Can someone please answer this?

How can you transfer digital video from a camcorder to the new MB if there is no firewire? We capture events live to a laptop and (were) about to order a new one.

This is a serious question. I asked in an earlier thread and can't find it with so many posts.

How will consumers, and more importantly k-12 students, be able to edit video inexpensively? I talked to my Broadcasting classes today about this and they were more upset than I was..and they are 15-18 years old!

Are there new cameras coming out that transfer with USB?
 
MATTE, MATTE, MATTE, i won't buy a glossy screened notebook, and i don't care who wants to tell why i should use a glossy or that as a professional i should have a secondary monitor anyway. The whole point of having a notebook is so it is portable and you can do work on the road effectively. I can't take my 30" cinema display with me on the road, and the road is where most of the ambient light in this world is located, glossy notebooks dont make sense in general. And whether i know what i am talking about or not, im part of a significant portion of people that feel the same way and that should matter to Apple, whether they are smarter than me or not or know whats better for me than i do, they are losing customers that wouldve bought their product. That's money and isnt that what business is all about, especially in these dark times.

"Ooooh that laptop is so shiny, it must be awesome"
 
bj3949 said:
Good! I was waiting for some news on this bull honky.
I agree that Apple will announce this as an Apple Store update probably in December of this year. I will be first online to customize and buy mine. I also hope they have enough demand by then to include a matte version.
Can't wait!

Is anyone wondering what they could possibly be announcing at Macworld 2009 this time? I mean iPhone 3G is still new, the MacBooks are brand spanking new, the cinema display is brand spanking new besides other size screens, and the iMac is not ready for a new look yet. Steve said that touch screen laptops and displays "don't make sense right now", so what could it be? Good 'ol Mac Pro update? Boring.............
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I think Snow Leopard, mac-mini update/replacement, Apple TV and perhaps a competive ebook reader device, oh and A smaller iPhone. Maybe not but just a stab at what could be announced. I think there's plenty that "could" be introduced! But, from what I have seen the last few years IM not holding my breath except for snow leopard and 1 or 2 pieces of hardware. :confused:
 
stepheneleven said:
MATTE, MATTE, MATTE, i won't buy a glossy screened notebook, and i don't care who wants to tell why i should use a glossy or that as a professional i should have a secondary monitor anyway. The whole point of having a notebook is so it is portable and you can do work on the road effectively. I can't take my 30" cinema display with me on the road, and the road is where most of the ambient light in this world is located, glossy notebooks dont make sense in general. And whether i know what i am talking about or not, im part of a significant portion of people that feel the same way and that should matter to Apple, whether they are smarter than me or not or know whats better for me than i do, they are losing customers that wouldve bought their product. That's money and isnt that what business is all about, especially in these dark times.

"Ooooh that laptop is so shiny, it must be awesome"
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amen brother, amen. :D

Shiny hides the fact of low quality, seems apply is taking a page from Microsoft's book. Remember XP eye-candy built on top of legacy code. Apple is a hypocrite.
 
!¡ V ¡! said:
Just what we need, and just like apple. Buy another add-on to compensate for they foolishness. The did the same thing back in the day with the standalone 15" ACD (bondi-blue and white).

Apple can stick they glossy screens where the sun can reflect off them. :rolleyes:
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I'm pretty sure Apple does know Starbucks closed almost all shops in Australia. There is really no need for matte screens anymore.
 
ageha said:
I'm pretty sure Apple does know Starbucks closed almost all shops in Australia. There is really no need for matte screens anymore.
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LOL, guess that means there is no need for Apple notebooks in general now that we can't show them off at starbucks.
 
element1108 said:
Using a laptop in the glaring sun even with a matte screen is impossible so I don't know what the big deal is.
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Well, thanks for telling me what I do is impossible, but my 17" HiRes is perfectly viewable even with the sun directly behind me. It looks a little bit dim, but I rarely notice.

How I know? From 2pm every sunny day I have the sun directly on my display at my current work place. Not an issue with my current notebook, but a show stopper with my previous glossy one.
 
i'm so tired of waiting for this!

i'm not sure why everyone thinks it's going to be so different .. matte... blu-ray...ect

it will be just like the 15 inch macbook pro with maybe an extra USB port and higher resolution.
 
nowonder24 said:
Well, thanks for telling me what I do is impossible, but my 17" HiRes is perfectly viewable even with the sun directly behind me. It looks a little bit dim, but I rarely notice.

How I know? From 2pm every sunny day I have the sun directly on my display at my current work place. Not an issue with my current notebook, but a show stopper with my previous glossy one.
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Possible, just buy a Dell with an outdoor viewable touchscreen LED display like the ATG E6400.
 
I just made a little trip over to Falcon-Northwest and configured a laptop.
Can someone explain to me why I can configure it with a Core 2 Quad 3.0 GHz processor but the supposed industry leader cannot?

I won't begin on the glossy displays. Nor the Blu-Ray, nor the lack of FireWire.

All I will say is choice. It's all about choice. A one-size-fits-all business model does not work. Let the people choose, especially the supposed pros. At this point with the lack of choices, the MBPs are really just upper-lever consumer models.
 
Is nobody concerned that the Pro line is now dependent on an Nvidia chipset?

- Nvidia who write the flakiest drivers in the industry.
- Nvidia who never quite get round to fixing the alarmingly long list of 'known issues' with every 'WHQL certified' PC driver release.
- Nvidia who skew their drivers to give falsely inflated benchmark results at the cost of stability.
- Nvidia who lie about faulty hardware, are currently facing a class action over defective chips and whose share price is 80% down from 12 months ago.

I could probably go on, but you get the message. The stuff they're doing with CUDA/Open CL is cool, but on a Pro machine, stability is my absolute top priority and I don't have a lot of confidence in Nvidia to deliver that.
 
iChase said:
I just made a little trip over to Falcon-Northwest and configured a laptop.
Can someone explain to me why I can configure it with a Core 2 Quad 3.0 GHz processor but the supposed industry leader cannot?

I won't begin on the glossy displays. Nor the Blu-Ray, nor the lack of FireWire.

All I will say is choice. It's all about choice. A one-size-fits-all business model does not work. Let the people choose, especially the supposed pros. At this point with the lack of choices, the MBPs are really just upper-lever consumer models.
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Actually I think Apple's business model is far superior. People pay a premium for the brand name alone and it turns out very well for Apple. The hardware they sell is as good as any other device produced by Apple's Chinese and Taiwanese subcontractors.
 
Virtuoso said:
Is nobody concerned that the Pro line is now dependent on an Nvidia chipset?

- Nvidia who write the flakiest drivers in the industry.
- Nvidia who never quite get round to fixing the alarmingly long list of 'known issues' with every 'WHQL certified' PC driver release.
- Nvidia who skew their drivers to give falsely inflated benchmark results at the cost of stability.
- Nvidia who lie about faulty hardware, are currently facing a class action over defective chips and whose share price is 80% down from 12 months ago.

I could probably go on, but you get the message. The stuff they're doing with CUDA/Open CL is cool, but on a Pro machine, stability is my absolute top priority and I don't have a lot of confidence in Nvidia to deliver that.
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I'm concerned but just about using a nVidia chipset because I think nVidia chipsets are quite buggy compared to the ones from Intel.
I don't mind a nVidia GPU. nVidia has much better OpenGL drivers than ATi. I haven't seen FireGL cards in animation studios for years because they are too buggy.
 
MacRumors said:
The next opportunity for Apple to release new machines falls in January 2009 at Macworld San Francisco.
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Yuup. I think they will update the iMac at MacWorld. I think it will look just like the Cinema display, with or without a chin. I predict... 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB high-rpm HDD (up to high-rpm 1TB, or 128GB SSD), new graphics card, newest intel processor, LCD LED.... i hope.

Anyways, why was the 17" MBP not updated? That' doesn't quite make sense to me.
 
Quillz said:
What makes it a joke? Do you not remember less than a decade ago when Apple's entry-level consumer notebook pricing started at $1,599? Do you not remember when the top-of-the-line 17'' PowerBook used to start at $3,299? Apple has never been one for "budget pricing," and $1,299 would actually be one of their lower entry level prices.
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In a vacuum that's a perfectly good arguement. But in the real world, where laptop prices have come down about 40% over the last two years, it just doesn't make sense. $1,299 for an entry level computer is absurd, especially in an economy that will be in a severe recession for the next couple of years.
 
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