If it is aluminum it will not be cheaper! Especially if it has the LED screen of the MacBook Air as well.
There is absolutely nothing stopping them from making it cheaper. There is absolutely no proof that it will be.
If it is aluminum it will not be cheaper! Especially if it has the LED screen of the MacBook Air as well.
Turn on your sarcasm detector
Give me full size, non-proprietary ports or you can forget it.
Or just something smaller like DisplayPort or HDMI.
But keep the FireWire.
Clayne, the easiest thing to do is just never sign out...
Seems like this makes the line more one dimensional, which is the opposite of more choices at different price points.
and if they remove the firewire 400 then they better provide a firewire 800 to 400 adapter or else I and a lot of other people will really be pissed off. And they will have to add another 800 port - many people need 2.
.. If aluminum casing makes the masses celebrate then anything will.
It is in the nature of a line to be one-dimensional.
But if you only have one foot, doesn't that mean you'll end up going in circles?
WHAT?!?!
they can't remove dual-link DVI or else the macbook pros won't work with the 30 inch Cinema Displays.
and if they remove the firewire 400 then they better provide a firewire 800 to 400 adapter or else I and a lot of other people will really be pissed off. And they will have to add another 800 port - many people need 2.
Plus isn't a firewire 800 port the same height as a 400? plus an ethernet port is taller than both so how can they reduce the footprint?
No it's just going to hop. Thus the accelerometer.
AppleInsider provides some reassurances that MacBook and MacBook Pro updates must be imminent with the new models having reportedly been spotted by sources.
The new 13" MacBooks, 15" MacBook Pros and 17" MacBook Pros are said to share similar Aluminum-based look "as if they were members of the same product family". The current MacBooks and MacBook Pro are very distinct from one another with the MacBook housed in a white or black plastic enclosure. In an effort to further reduce the notebook footprint, the new laptops are said to be eliminating the Firewire 400 port and the 28-pin DVI-I (Dual Link) port. Instead, the cases will contain the smaller (but still backward compatible) Firewire 800 port and "what appears to be" a mini-DVI port.
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Aluminum is not just for style. It works well as a heat sink. A good way to reduce fan noise is to use the case itself as a sink. So aluminum means less noise. It also does not need paint nor a conductive coating on the inside to shield EMI. So it can men less manufacturing steps and low cost.
Will they finally externalize the optical drive so people only have to carry it around if they need to? That would shave off half a pound and a ton of space right there.
I wonder if this sighting makes a September 30th release more plausible.