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Apple Invites Media to 'Notebook' Event October 14th

Willis said:
I know some people have answered this with a 'whitty' response, but the simple answer is yes. It's how I paid for my Macbook
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If you get any kind of purchase insurance (usually covers accidental damage for 3 months) through your credit card, you should put 100% of the purchase on your credit card, or the insurance won't kick in - this saved my arse in 2006 when we flipped our volvo down a 12 foot embankment off a logging road, and smashed the screen on the iBook (along with every window in the car). The car? Total write-off. The iBook? Repaired by Visa. They were a pain in the butt, but they eventually sent me $900 for the repair.

This modern parable brought to you by someone who'll never make an electronics purchase on anything but a card with insurance ever again.
 
- 1680x1050 15,4" for me
- Quadro graphics card for me
- 2,8 Ghz for me
- eSata for me
- 5 hours battery life for me
- 8 GB Ram option for me
- magnetic latch for me

PLEEAASE :D
 
Mac Heretic said:
The fact, that new MacBooks, non-pro and pro, would have some, even a relatively close resemblance to the Air, makes a lot of sense.

The Air can be thought as a huge field test for visual appeal and some of technical solutions before taking them to larger use. This is important, since big things like notebooks can not be taken into a proper field test with the top secresy the company traditionally applies in its launches.

Eventually, some of Air's features are applied, some are not. It also makes audience more ready for some of the solutions, like less Firewire, more roundness etc. It is unlikely that they would drop the optical drive this fast though, especially when MobileMe hasn't been a success that would have turned users' behavioural patterns enough, but who knows. It is pretty sure, that they have considered the drop seriously at least for the Macbook.

So, what we will have, a plenty of Air's features will be included, there will be completely new and improved technical features (like graphics, hopefully), and some will be included into the Air to keep it in line with the other stuff. There is no point to leave Air behind. I would not be surprised if Air gets a facelift too, especially if the manufacturing line allows more detailed construction.

All looks very, very promising though. If even 50% of the expectations are fulfilled, that will make many happy, me included. What I especially like, is that the traditional essence of Apple - the computer - is apparently still an important and a carrying leg in their "stool".
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Great post, but I just had to fix the one, glaring error.
 
Has anyone speculated whether we might be seeing a macbook sitting on top of a black macbook pro in the invite. Notice the rounded black corners at the upper edges of the invite.
 
so apart from the aluminium what are we looking at in the new macbooks?

2.26 - 2.53mhz cpu's?
1066mhz ram
standard 2GB, 4GB option, maybe 8GB ram?
160,250 & 320 Hardrives
Nvidia chipset (gfx)
multi touch trackpad?
(has everyone forgot the glass trackpad rumour)
LED screens?

I would say that covers the changes?
 
wow.. a whole 8MB ram? :D

Ironduke said:
so apart from the aluminium what are we looking at in the new macbooks?

2.26 - 2.53mhz cpu's?
1066mhz ram
standard 2MB, 4MB option, maybe 8MB ram?
160,250 & 320 Hardrives
Nvidia chipset (gfx)
multi touch trackpad?
(has everyone forgot the glass trackpad rumour)
LED screens?

I would say that covers the changes?
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Has anyone noticed that there's an abundance of MBP's in the refurb store, but no to Macbooks?

Edit: nevermind, I was looking at the Australian store - there's heaps on the US store.
 
SilentEvoker said:
Obviously this will be my first Mac purchase...

Anyway - what are the chances of this being available next week based on your experience?
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This is just speculation on my part, but why schedule an event for an arbitrary date and announce they'll be available two weeks later? Why not wait two weeks, have the event, and announce immediate availability? We know how much Steve likes to say "available immediately."

Immediate availability was true for the iPod event (with the exception of the 16GB nano, which some think was a last-minute addition) and I'm guessing it will be true here as well.

I know the MacBook Air was announced and didn't go on sale for two weeks, but that's a different situation. Since the date for Macworld couldn't change (it's a date and time that was set well in advance), Apple had to announce a later availability.

Just speculation on my part, but if they're planning on releasing them in late October, why not just schedule the event for then? Especially since it looks like it's JUST going to be notebooks. I'm guessing immediate (read: sometime between Tuesday and Friday of next week) release.

My question is that once they are released, how quickly will they be available in Apple Retail Stores? I've seen some people post about this, but nothing concrete.
 
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