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Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Notebook

Awesome, I'm in the market for a new notebook. I was hoping to get it next month, but I can wait if necessary.

If this machine has:
-17" MATTE display (1920x1200 or higher)
-quad core
-8GB RAM option (16GB would be better, but not going to happen)
-same/longer battery than current MBPs
-SSD standard
-FireWire 800 (though even this isn't strictly necessary)

I'm in.
 
hcho3 said:
Apple can cut the price of super drive from 79 dollars to like 29-39 dollars or something. Make it more affordable for people who want it.
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LOL! When they can charge $29-$49 for a cable, they aren't cutting the price.
 
If they pawn this off as a "Pro" model, it simply tells me that I'll be riding my current Pro until its proverbial wheels fall off. I rarely use the optical, BUT I don't care for the notion of carrying around an optical drive as an attachment. Rather have it all in one machine.
 
If it isn't less than 4 lbs, then what's the point. I am thinking of getting my wife a 13" MBA to replace her 9 pound Dell. I'll hold off to see what these are like, weight and price wise if they indeed come out.
 
Krevnik said:
Bootcamp 4.0 on the new Air now includes the ability to take a Win7 ISO and make a USB stick bootable directly. No need for a Win7 PC to do it now (but you still need to make the ISO from a machine with a drive).

I have a dual-partition USB stick with OS X / Win7 on it, and I'm giving the Bootcamp method a try to see how well it works.
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So, Apple does care about supporting Windows legacy issues. How nice of them. :)
 
Good!

It's time to get rid of the optical. The only reason it's around is because it got grandfathered in. If the dvd drive was just invented, we'd all laugh at the thing since it takes up a fifth of the space in the laptop, for a few Gigs . For the folks that need the drive for whatever reason, they can buy the old MacBooks that will flood the market.
 
I loved the Macbook Air but a 11" or 13" is too small for me. It seems likely they are going to do the same design for the Macbook Pro with SSD and no CD drive. Big plus!

And as early as christmas! So long Macbook Pro 13" and hello to a thin 17" Macbook Pro (with Macbook Air qualities)
:)
 
dashiel said:
iCloud and Thunderbolt is the writing on the wall. HDD are the new floppy for Apple; they won’t be a singe Mac with a HDD by 2015. The 17" and MacPro line will be the last to go, but go they will.

Tim Cook said last year the MacBook Air was effectively the future of computing for Apple.
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If Apple were serious about had drive issues, they would have done away with the 5400rpm disk drive. Seriously, Dells come standard with 7200rpm drives these days.
 
revelated said:
If they pawn this off as a "Pro" model, it simply tells me that I'll be riding my current Pro until its proverbial wheels fall off. I rarely use the optical, BUT I don't care for the notion of carrying around an optical drive as an attachment. Rather have it all in one machine.
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I'd say get rid of CD/DVD if Apple never plans to support BD.
Apple optical drive is really like half a drive anyway. If you are into video editing, you will need to take along a BD drive on the road anyway (optical drive in or not).

MBP already runs too hot. Fan whirls up to 5500 rpm on anything other than surfing the internet. Hopefully the MBA form factor does not make it worse.
 
I just want a "Retina" display. Then im in.

I dont care if they reduce the thickness, as the current MBP is quite thin already.

But if they do make it thinner, off the optical drive (which needs to go since I havent used mine in like a year) and put a good GPU in its place.

For all of you who "need" a optical drive... im sure apple will be happy to sell you an external super drive at $99 :D
 
wikus said:
You realize that its a LAPTOP and work is done from more than one location, right? I take my computer almost everywhere. Think about that for a moment.
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I realise I have a laptop and that I don't work from everywhere on my terabytes of data. I work on certain datasets that fit very fine on the 128 GB with a lot extra to spare.

Take what is required with you. Leave the rest at home, ideally on a RAID-1 array or if you're too cheap, at least go RAID-6.
 
Hmm I think it's gonna be a Macbook, replacing their white Macbook. Making it quite an elite MacBooks line. Maybe priced between MBP 13" and 15".

Macbook Air going to be an entry level. That's my prediction.
 
Put a lock slot on it then well talk. Until then my company will never allow us to buy the air as a work computer. This would sell so well to executives if it just had that little slot.
 
I am all for portability and hope this is 15" laptop is an addition to the existing Air line up. But I also sincerely hope that Apple won't sacrifice their existing Pro laptops.

Personally I would love to see a 15" and 17" MBP with a 256GB SSD and a 750GB HDD, good GPU and 8GB of RAM, Thunderbolt. If the future of Apple is to only thin laptops with tiny internal storage and integrated graphics, then I am sure more pro users would flock back to Windows :(. If they haven't switched already after the FCPX launch....
 
Plus, an optical disc can last 20 years plus, while a hard drives usually last 3-6 years.
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At the end of the day, how often have you had to go back to something that is even 5 years old in terms of projects etc? Unless its some sort of financial data or something really really really important (which you should have 2 copies of anyway), the need to back up stuff really in the end just ends up being wasted. Just today, I was going through graphic project backups from 2000-2008 and basically just wiped them all after a bit of going through them. There is really no need to back up most things honestly.

Dude this is never gonna happen...because then you would not have a thin light laptop. Plus there are not many laptops out there where you can upgrade the graphics cards...
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Don't be so sure. Anything is possible. They were saying the same things 5 years ago about smart phones and tablets and laptops and look what we have now.

The issue is the 'need' isn't there because the pro market and gamer market is such a small minority that there isn't a pressing need to upgrade graphic cards in these machines. Wish there was.
 
!¡ V ¡! said:
SDHC
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SDXC has replaced SDHC as the standard, and Apple are already using SDXC.


KnightWRX said:
Leave the rest at home, ideally on a RAID-1 array or if you're too cheap, at least go RAID-6.
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You trust spinning hard drives as much as I do - I trust that they will fail. (Some of the stories about SSD failures are scary as well.)

By the way, RAID-6 is provably more reliable that RAID-1. RAID-6 will survive the failure of two drives, RAID-1 may not.
 
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bigp9998 said:
Chances are there will be a Thunderbolt-->FW 800 adapter by the time this comes out.
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If there were Thunderbolt -> FW800 and Thunderbolt -> USB3 adapters then you'd see all the Apple haters die a quick and painless death within hours of these adapters release. I wish Apple would release them because it would really show that the Thunderbolt port is more than just some technology only used for expensive devices.
 
....

If apple releases a new MBP this year i am gonna be super pissed........ that would would be only 10 months between updates, kinda ridiculous.
 
Anyone have an idea on the pricing?

I'm planning on buying the $1,299 13" MBA but this seems promising, and worthwhile to wait on, but if the price will be too steep it's not worth my time.
 
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