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Apple Launches MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt, Quad Core CPUs, AMD GPUs
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More people would buy Macs if they were reasonably priced (and had better configurations).
I am not saying make Macs dirt cheap - but Macs try to act like the Ferrari's of computers when all Macs are is Made in China crap, stuff you'd see at Wal-Mart and not Saks Fifth Avenue, but Apple charges at those prices.
I mean the MacBook is so horrifically overpriced, as well as the Mac Mini.
K. Let's see....*opens Snow Leopard box*
We've got some stickers, a fold out card talking about how cool SL is, and a card that talks about support. Oh and of course the DVD.
Hmm....I don't see a EULA. How is a customer to find it without installing it? If what you say is true everyone who buys this is violating some ambiguous rule.
I see you provided a link to a PDF. Fourth line....
"PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("LICENSE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE."
Hmm. I see nothing about not being able to use this independently.
Lion...
Does anyone have a guess at what the price of OS X Lion will be? I feel it makes sense for someone to buy a mac developer account if Lion were to retail above $99. Anyone agree?
Does anyone have a guess at what the price of OS X Lion will be? I feel it makes sense for someone to buy a mac developer account if Lion were to retail above $99. Anyone agree?
Everyone who buys SL and installs it on their Mac are ok.
But people don't buy SL and argue that their $130 entitles them to install it on their PC.
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Look, it's the apple apologist! Why am I not surprised he's defending apple?
If one cannot even admit that PCs are better value than macs, that person definitely has apple stickers covering his/her eyes.
The new pros are great (ordered a 13 to replace my early 08 15pro).
iphone3gs16gb said:
Dude.
Just stop.
If you can't afford it, by all means step aside and move on.
This is a GREAT update which I am considering
Look, it's the apple apologist! Why am I not surprised he's defending apple?
If one cannot even admit that PCs are better value than macs, that person definitely has apple stickers covering his/her eyes.
The new pros are great (ordered a 13 to replace my early 08 15pro).
I'm excited about the updates too! I am going to be replacing my '09 MBP 15"...
Then start praying that sjobs dies soon?
It's not happening as long as he breathes.
Where did that last poster indicate he wanted to install it on a PC? They simply said that Snow Leopard is $130 - which for them is likely a factual statement. You then gave some off-the-rocker number that you say is the real price of Snow Leopard. I'm asking you where it indicates this price if the user is not "upgrading" from a previous OS? Any Mac sold is going to have Mac OS, so it seems rather illogical to think that someone would buy SL to install it on a PC - the hackintosh community would rather just download it, given it requires no serial.
Isn't that logical?
I'm typing here on my trusty
2004 2.0 GHz D.P. G5 PPC Tower
Geekbench scores for this solid old machine are in the 1700's
I can't complain, it's run pretty much 24/7 since the day I
first plugged it in.
I live in Broad Band Siberia here on the mountain @24KB dial-up.
It takes me an hour to load a 5 minute youtube video.
I was determined to go for a super portable 13.5, but there was no way
I could pass on the 2.0GHz Quad 15"
I needed broadband access bad and this does it just fine
and then some.
I can learn Logic Pro in the Apple Store with One To One
5 minutes from my office.
Looking at my 3 daughters 12" MacBook and 2 13.5 White MacBooks,
I'm quite thrilled to have a 500GB 7200 RPM in this machine.
My girls are maxed out with 60 and 80 GB drives, so I'm feeling
quite spoiled here.
Geekbench tested the 2.0 GHz Quads in the 8800's
I'm pretty Stoked!
This is my 6th Apple Computer.
Starting with a Beige G3 Tower
Apple has treated me and my family very well,
fixing stuff that should not have failed.
Major stuff too, on the house even when some klutz
factor may have been involved.
In every case, I've gotten my money's worth back
with every one of these machines.
They all still work too.
2004 2.0 GHz D.P. G5 PPC Tower
Geekbench scores for this solid old machine are in the 1700's
I can't complain, it's run pretty much 24/7 since the day I
first plugged it in.
I live in Broad Band Siberia here on the mountain @24KB dial-up.
It takes me an hour to load a 5 minute youtube video.
I was determined to go for a super portable 13.5, but there was no way
I could pass on the 2.0GHz Quad 15"
I needed broadband access bad and this does it just fine
and then some.
I can learn Logic Pro in the Apple Store with One To One
5 minutes from my office.
Looking at my 3 daughters 12" MacBook and 2 13.5 White MacBooks,
I'm quite thrilled to have a 500GB 7200 RPM in this machine.
My girls are maxed out with 60 and 80 GB drives, so I'm feeling
quite spoiled here.
Geekbench tested the 2.0 GHz Quads in the 8800's
I'm pretty Stoked!
This is my 6th Apple Computer.
Starting with a Beige G3 Tower
Apple has treated me and my family very well,
fixing stuff that should not have failed.
Major stuff too, on the house even when some klutz
factor may have been involved.
In every case, I've gotten my money's worth back
with every one of these machines.
They all still work too.
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So, if you do like I did and buy the Pro with the 7200 rpm drive and then buy the 256 gig Crucial ssd from Amazon for $474 (instead of $500 from Apple), you can swap them out and put the 7200 rpm drive in an external enclosure for a free backup drive
$1000? Thats means the white macbook itself without OS is worthless along with the 11" MBA, the mac mini, apple loses money on, and the base macbook pro is only worth $200?
Obviously its not worth 1k based on this.
$300 or maybe $400 at most
Are you serious?
A serious match up between MBP15 and Dell is
MBP15
2.2GHz quad-core
4GB 1333MHz
500GB 7200-rpm
AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1GB GDDR5
Built-in battery (7 hours)
1680x1050 res
$2,349
M15x
2.13GHz quad-core
4GB 1333MHz
500GB 7200-rpm
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 with 1GB GDDR5
Nine-cell battery
1600x900
$2,624
Yes Virginia the MBP15 just outmatched the M15x for $275 less
If Macs were made in the US we'd all be paying a higher price for Apple hardware.
... I'm doing OpenCL development and CUDA development on two different machines, my home computer and my lab computer. Both are equally stable despite different drivers... the only serious issue has been a problem with the X server recently in Ubuntu 10.10 that was caused by a NULL pointer reference caused by a regression from a badly formed commit which screwed up both computers for a little while. But like I said, the catalyst drivers have been equally stable to the NVIDIA ones while doing GPGPU calculations and heavily taxing the GPU. I think on Linux you just failed to get a good install which admittedly can be a little awkward sometimes if you are trying to use a different fglrx version than what's in the repositories. But nvidia's install isn't any simpler on linux.
hey y'all,
if i get the new low-end 13" MBP with 320GB, is it possible to just install a 500GB 5200rpm internal harddrive form OWC i've got at home?
does anyone think there's a huge amount of difference between the i5 and i7 in the 13'? i would be using it for programs such as aperture and logic studio.
if i get the new low-end 13" MBP with 320GB, is it possible to just install a 500GB 5200rpm internal harddrive form OWC i've got at home?
does anyone think there's a huge amount of difference between the i5 and i7 in the 13'? i would be using it for programs such as aperture and logic studio.
Are you joking? You're comparing a dual core i5 machine (the Dell) with a Quad Core i7 machine (the Mac). The two machines are completely incomparable.
Personally I am buying the 2.2Ghz with a 750GB 5400 RPM, to be replaced with a 7200 RPM WD Scorpio Black (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ils?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1298602020&sr=8-5&seller=)
The 5400 will make a nice backup hard drive.
Being a heavy Pro Tools user I have been debating on getting the 2.3Ghz over the 2.2, but I'm just not sure it's worth 250 dollars extra.
psych
The 5400 will make a nice backup hard drive.
Being a heavy Pro Tools user I have been debating on getting the 2.3Ghz over the 2.2, but I'm just not sure it's worth 250 dollars extra.
psych
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Um, no. Apple build quality is generally outstanding.
The reason it only costs $130 is Apple knows it runs on hardware it sells, and it gets its profits from the hardware.
I hear ya thebuggalo. I hear ya. The thing for me now is, I have the money for the lower end 15" MBP as soon as some of my dough transfers over from my other account. But it's not enough for the high end 15".
It is going to take a straight jacket for me not to buy the low end 15" off Amazon as soon as my money goes into my account.