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Apple MacBook in May?
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Listen for the love of God it's going to be called MACBOOK. Why else would they add "pro" to MacBook PRO?! It would be dumb for them to keep the name iBook (as cool as iBook sounds).
Who cares about the name of it ? As some people already mentioned before, it can be named even BigMac. If the configuration and price is okay for me, I will buy it, that's all. But still rumors and rumors...
You're kidding right???weitzner said:
You are telling me that you "don't even have TV's for the most part" yet you all have LAPTOPS to watch movies on?
I was at WalMart this weekend and could have walked out of there with a 15" LCD TV for $248. The cheapest Mac Laptop, with EDU discount, is $949.
When I went to college, over a decade ago, only the kids with rich parents had computers in their apartments/dorm rooms, but for God's sake there was a 24" TV in my apartment which I still have in my home office now. And that damn TV was a HAND ME DOWN.
If a college kid can afford a tablet Mac with a "dock" then I think you can go buy a 32" Tube TV at Target/WalMart for $100.
But anyways... MacBook, June 13th... no sooner. Just in time for Graduations.
June 13th?! Things aren't the same as they were 10 years ago....well at least around here. Graduation for me is May 23! cant waitKindredMAC said:
But I wont be getting my graduation gift til like July when apple is supposedly having their "cram and jam" sale.
bill4588 said:
Next Tuesday is my brother's birthday - that must mean something... new MacBooks!
So This Is The New "Anticipation" String?
So This Is The New "Anticipation" String? This is getting to be a shell game.
You guys and gals have been over here for 7 hours and I didn't know it!! I was hanging out at last wek's "Anticipation" string all day today wondering why it was slow.
OK So my pitch of the day is wouldn't it be nice if Apple went after the sub-$1k market with a $799 model?
So This Is The New "Anticipation" String? This is getting to be a shell game.
You guys and gals have been over here for 7 hours and I didn't know it!! I was hanging out at last wek's "Anticipation" string all day today wondering why it was slow.
OK So my pitch of the day is wouldn't it be nice if Apple went after the sub-$1k market with a $799 model?
June 13th? May 23rd? I graduated on 2nd July a few years ago now, (two I think), and a friend is graduating this year on about the 18th July. How does the US college year compare to the European/British one? Seems shorter to me.bill4588 said:June 13th?! Things aren't the same as they were 10 years ago....well at least around here. Graduation for me is May 23! cant wait
Not the sharpest crayon in the box
Well, to start off, I am a student who would like to switch to macs for their graphics and the ability to BOTH play games AND use mac programs like I have at school. A macbook would be perfect for me, however taking away a dedicated graphics card will loose many buyers like myself, who need a graphics card for games and other graphics-intensive programs.
With that aside, i too have the 499 compaq laptop everyone is talking about, and it is stable... but extremely slow. It works for IM and word processing, but that is it. Second, you don't deserve to be here if you bought a Dell recently that has a P4 chip inside. That's just stupid, hence the title
gkarris said:
Well, to start off, I am a student who would like to switch to macs for their graphics and the ability to BOTH play games AND use mac programs like I have at school. A macbook would be perfect for me, however taking away a dedicated graphics card will loose many buyers like myself, who need a graphics card for games and other graphics-intensive programs.
With that aside, i too have the 499 compaq laptop everyone is talking about, and it is stable... but extremely slow. It works for IM and word processing, but that is it. Second, you don't deserve to be here if you bought a Dell recently that has a P4 chip inside. That's just stupid, hence the title
bill4588 said:
Amen.
Im ashamed to see fellow MR people debating over something so stupid...it kinda reminds me of the "THERE CAN BE NO OS X 10.4.10!!!!!11!1!!!1!! NUMBERS DO NOT GO PAST 10 GAHJALEFHULHFJKLDHSAJFD;AS" debate...@!#$%
Maybe this is normal and I've just never noticed, but when I logged on to my school's apple store today, they were "recommending" iBooks and offering an additional $200 off the price plus the typical educational discount. Hopefully this means they are trying to clear out stock quickly!
really? what school? mine is normal....Sammie2u said:Maybe this is normal and I've just never noticed, but when I logged on to my school's apple store today, they were "recommending" iBooks and offering an additional $200 off the price plus the typical educational discount. Hopefully this means they are trying to clear out stock quickly!
Yeah, mine is not showing what you claim either.Sammie2u said:Maybe this is normal and I've just never noticed, but when I logged on to my school's apple store today, they were "recommending" iBooks and offering an additional $200 off the price plus the typical educational discount. Hopefully this means they are trying to clear out stock quickly!
Southern Illinois Carbondale...
Normal Prices: $999.00 (12 inch) & $1299.00 (14 inch)
School School Prices: $949.00 (12) & $1199.00 (14)
on the side it says recommended systems and I clicked on it, iBook prices with a "promo savings" $799.00 (12) & $999.00 (14)
Again, maybe this is normal, but I hadn't seen it before... or maybe it is just a promo, but the timing seems interesting doesn't it? The other computers are at their normal educational discounted prices.
Normal Prices: $999.00 (12 inch) & $1299.00 (14 inch)
School School Prices: $949.00 (12) & $1199.00 (14)
on the side it says recommended systems and I clicked on it, iBook prices with a "promo savings" $799.00 (12) & $999.00 (14)
Again, maybe this is normal, but I hadn't seen it before... or maybe it is just a promo, but the timing seems interesting doesn't it? The other computers are at their normal educational discounted prices.
steveh said:
This assertion is nonsense, how is a PPC chip less proprietary than say an Intel chip? Let's see.. hmm, so Freescale and IBM stops development on this platform, and Apple can turn to other alternatives... NOT.
On the other hand for Intel, if they do slack and have their chip line stagnate, wait! There's AMD! And if AMD slacks off too, wait still, there is Cyrix! And suppose Cyrix (VIA) slackens too as well, don't worry, there's Transmeta! And if Transmeta also snoozes around like the rest, then Apple need not worry, because the WHOLE PC INDUSTRY is stuffed anyway, so it is not like Apple will look bad with their x86 offerings.
I think those may the be refurbished prices....cuz a 12" iBook refurb is usually $799....but I can only guess because I cant find what you're talking about on the site.Sammie2u said:
Stridder44 said:
easy up on the red bull mate!! this thread is getting quite interestingly off topic. pretty much every current issue about OS names, Apple's new 'books' names, graduations and last but not least the famous Tuesday phantom releases are in here. keep it up people!!
aussie_geek
KindredMAC said:
it's not that we're "poor college students," it's that it's just that no one has a tv. i'm not making this up. of course for the most part, the movies we watch are downloaded and not on dvds
but at any rate, we really do use our computers for everything, at this point you NEED a computer and having a tv is usually seen as an uneccessary hassle.