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2012 Macbook Pro Redesign

Stetrain said:
They only do big pre-announcements like that for completely new product lines, like the first iPhone. If they did that for the Macs they would kill sales for the current quarter.
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I'm certainly not one to argue against the lessons of history. That's why it's unsettling to me that we haven't seen a lot of the traditional precursors like supply falloffs, leaked pics, or concrete evidence, the night before a major launch.

I guess I'm just a little reluctant to get all giddy because I have a feeling we might be in for a massive disappointment based on the evidence.

I guess we'll all know tomorrow and whether our wildest dreams come true or we're extremely disappointed, in a week or two everyone will move on with their lives and we'll reconvene back here in a few months for the haswell powwow.

I hope for the former scenario as I'm ready to order :)
 
The LED in my 2009 just died, so I'm either gonna replace that, or upgrade to the newest. Depending on cost. Any thoughts?
 
I hope that in 16 hours I will be on the Apple website throwing a ridiculous amount of money at a 15" MBP with Ivy Bridge, retina display, SSD, a decent graphics card and a slim new design. Whether or not it has ethernet/optical drive could not bother me less.

Apple; please take the necessary steps to take all of my money.
 
When does the keynote start again? I'll probably wake up at the healthy time of 11:00 AM PST so do you guys think any announcements would be made by then?
 
joewillmott said:
I hope that in 16 hours I will be on the Apple website throwing a ridiculous amount of money at a 15" MBP with Ivy Bridge, retina display, SSD, a decent graphics card and a slim new design. Whether or not it has ethernet/optical drive could not bother me less.

Apple; please take the necessary steps to take all of my money.
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That would be great! I would take a 13 inch though and SSD isn't priority considering the pricing.
 
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I honestly don't think their product lineups will change. It straight up makes no sense. Apple has a good solid set of products established, and it isn't something repetitive that people are gettingsick of.
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it" really applies here.
I don't think Apple will leave some products in the dark and give others fantabulous new upgrades. It doesn't seem like Apple and could quite easily lead to losing sales. It's looking like too big a risk for Apple to take.
That being said, while everything gets updated, things like the unibody MBP's may stay around and get updated for educational pricings, etc. This makes sense and could be beneficial. Meh, WWDC is finals week for me gotta study. But I want to see if anything happens as well. SO DIFFICULT TO WAIT/ STUDY
Procrastination never came so easily to me
 
joewillmott said:
I hope that in 16 hours I will be on the Apple website throwing a ridiculous amount of money at a 15" MBP with Ivy Bridge, retina display, SSD, a decent graphics card and a slim new design. Whether or not it has ethernet/optical drive could not bother me less.

Apple; please take the necessary steps to take all of my money.
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That made me laugh!:D
 
Man this past week has been pretty crazy with the rumors!!

For the past like 3 months, the general consensus had been the there would be a thinner, redesigned 15" Macbook Pro without the optical drive, and likely without the ethernet port or firewire but with still the quad-core CPU and discrete GPU

Then somehow we got a quieter rumor, partially due to the inventory numbers of MC---, which people pointed out didn't line up with the current Macbook Pro inventory numbering structure and the person from weiphone.com who claims the 15" thinner laptop is actually a 15" Macbook Air.

Then the KGI analyst (Ming-Chi Kuo), coming out of left field lol, put out the wildest rumor of all that there would be now 3! lines of laptops with the 11" and 13" Macbook Air with a spec bump, the 13", 15", and 17" Macbook Pros with a spec bump and the 17" being discontinued too (I don't remember when, if not immediately), and a new line of mac laptops called "the new Macbooks" consisting of 13" and 15" 'Retina' Display laptops, thinner than the MBP but thicker than the MBA, with the internal specs of the Macbook Pro line but no ODD, essentially the thinner 15" MBP rumor but with keeping the current MBP line and re-branding this as the new Macbook.


I still think it's the first option, a redesigned 15" MBP as it seems to fit into Apple's simplified line-ups and marketing strategy of the 'Pro' moniker plus it is backed by the Bloomberg Article. I'm hoping it's not a 15" MBA for the fact that it will have soldered RAM and be really expensive to upgrade the blade-style SSD, plus no discrete GPU. I kinda hope Ming-Chi Kuo is right, however, since it would ease the transition for people dependent on ODD, Ethernet, and Firewire, many of whom frequent this website, while pleasing the majority of Pro uses who want a redesigned 15" MBP, plus it also eases the transition back into "the new Macbook" lineup name, which I feel like Apple wants to do. Also, given Kuo's accurate track record in the past and how out-of-nowhere his prediction seems, I almost think that gives it more merit since he must have seen something in the supply chain or whatever that we haven't that would prompt such a radical claim from a typcially accurate analyst. While this last rumor has grown on me quite a bit, though, at the end of the day...

My FINAL prediction: Redesigned 15" MBP
(If Ming-Chi Kuo is right though, I'm definitely going to listen next time he makes a prediction)

What is everyone else's final prediction??

Not looking for people to argue over why one is more right than the other, just want to see what people on this thread like Stetrain or StuLax18 or pgiguere1 and such, who have been following this thread and been suffering the wait for several months together, have as a final prediction! :)

PS: I can't wait to see how much the "I just ordered / bought / got my new/refurb MBP" thread blows up tomorrow ;)
 
"The Rev. G MacBook Pro was announced at WWDC 2009. Apple also lowered the prices compared to previous versions. The unibody 13" MacBook line was merged with the MacBook Pro line with this revision."

Could this be happening with Air and Pro this year? Or could they be separating them again? I would really like a retina display 13 inch with the specs of a MBP, that is all.
 
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Final Prediction

Final Prediction:

(1) No change to the lineup,
(2) Minor changes to the design,
(3) USB 3.0,
(4) That's it.
 
ivanpk said:
What's everyone's thoughts about the logic board leak on the home page?
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Well, it's pretty good evidence that we're going to at least see something tomorrow, although we were pretty sure of that because of the price leaks.

The NVidia GT650M is good news, and more importantly that's the GPU series that's mentioned in the previous round of rumors from Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, TheVerge, and ABC tech news alongside information about a thinner design.

The more recent information, including the spec sticker for a 15.4" notebook with a high res display (and non existent Ivy Bridge chip) showed an AMD graphics chip.

I think we'll see revamped 11" and 13" Airs, a new, slightly thinner, 15" Macbook Pro with no optical drive, no Ethernet, and possibly a super high res display, and refreshed iMacs. All with Ivy Bridge and USB 3.0.

I think the 17" will either go away or keep its current form factor for all of those who want Ethernet, an optical drive, and expresscard.
 
650m isn't any surprise, but the news of GDDR5 made me happy. It's way faster than the same GPU coupled with DDR3 memory.
 
It's not so much that I want a redesign but I don't want/need the ODD default. However, recall several months ago the rumor of a new Apple product to soon be released, indicators showed it wasn't the alleged tv. Could this third line of MacBooks be it?
 
It makes more sense to me that they release a 15" Air (which has been rumoured for ages) and leave the rest of the MBPs alone. I honestly can't see them having three lines of laptops. It'd just be a big mess and the lines would have WAY too many similarities.

If they only released a slimmer 15" MBP (say an Air) I could see them giving the Airs retina graphics. We'll know soon enough but I'd be shocked if they had 3 lines. :/
 
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