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Apple Releases New MacBook Pros with Santa Rosa

jellomizer said:
What do you really want on a redesign? There are only two things I would really like to see and only one of them will benefit more people then just myself.
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I was thinking about an iPod Mini/Nano like design to the MBP; one-piece aluminum with those white plastic sides for the ports on each side (getting rid of the thin gray wrap-around plastic strips...)

If anything, that's all I could've imagined to improve the already fantastic design. I don't know, maybe something a bit different. But I'm still probably going to order it.
 
guzhogi said:
I'd go w/ the 160 GB 7200 RPM drive. That way, it's fast enough for videos. If you need more space, just get an external drive. Or if you or one of your friends feel comfortable opening your case up, you can always replace the internal one.

I remember hearing that LED backlit displays consume less power than the ones MBP used to have. ANyone have a comparison on battery life?
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Yeah, I'm going to go with the 7200rpm. I'd be comfortable opening the thing, I totaly dis-assembled a powerbook and painted it lol, it was a project. But I'd rather just have it all ready for me. I think that reason why my current macbook feels sluggish is cuz of the hard drive in it. And I can handle waiting the 3-4 weeks since school doesn't start for a good 2 months. I have CS3 Design Suite sitting here waiting to be installed on the new MacBook Pro lol, I can't wait to get it!!
 
diamond.g said:
Ah, but what software package allows you to create BR movies? (FCP only does HD-DVD)


Actually for 1920x1200 (at 8 bits a pixel) you would need approx 18432000 bytes of ram (ie more than 16MB). And that would assume that Core Image (or Core OpenGL) does deferred rendering of what is displayed on screen other wise each windows would need it's own buffer (depended on window size).
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Width x height x depth x screens = bytes.

32-bit (True Color) = 4 bytes.

1920 x 1200 x 4 x 1 = 9,216,000 bytes
 
I am not sure if anybody cares - but I want to order my 17" today.

Now - there is one option more that makes the decision quite difficult:

Which display should I order ? I will get a matte one - thats for sure. But is the high resolution a good idea? I really don't know !

Thanks for any advice. Really appreciate it.

LaForge
 
Trepex said:
I wonder when the LED back-lights will be out. Time to pull the trigger now or wait...???
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These have the LED backlights dont they?

Apple said:
The new 15-inch MacBook Pro is better for the environment, thanks to its new mercury-free display. Backlit by light emitting diodes (LEDs), the display weighs less and is more power efficient than the cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) which most notebooks employ, and provides full brightness immediately after the system is turned on.
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CmdrLaForge said:
I am not sure if anybody cares - but I want to order my 17" today.

Now - there is one option more that makes the decision quite difficult:

Which display should I order ? I will get a matte one - thats for sure. But is the high resolution a good idea? I really don't know !

Thanks for any advice. Really appreciate it.

LaForge
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Go Hi-Res!
 
Lyra said:
THANK YOU!!!!


:p

See this is the kind of kindness people appreciate. I wasn't super sharp to see where it was and someone kind enough pointed it out for me. And I am glad he did. That's what we are here for... pointing out stuff... :)
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I'm glad that you pointed that out! :D
 
Eidorian said:
So you have to get a desktop and Apple's Pro laptops won't cut it?

Alright!
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For that price, yup. I dont know of anyone who sells these kinda options on a laptop for this price. Sure you can get a 256MB vid card, but what about the processor, screen, and RAM? You can't complain constantly about their not being a legitimate option for something very few people really need even though on your tight budget you solely need and thus are sourly complaining about not having a $2200 laptop with 256MB of RAM. Asking too much. Simple. I dont need it, base is fine for me. I'm going for it. If you can't pay for it, then don't go for it. Simple.
 
Digital Skunk said:
We aren't talking about processor power, we are talking about components, speed of HDD, upgradability, grapics cards, screen size, and the price for all of those components. We are getting tired of college students cutting on a laptop then running out of HDD and getting dropped frames, when they should have just bought the desktop like we said.
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Can you elaborate?

I have 320 GB of external storage and I'm not even close to filling it up. I don't count on a laptop hard drive to hold ALL of my data.

What do you mean by "dropping frames"?

I don't plan on spending $500 more for just 128 MB of video RAM. The additional drive space and 200 MHz aren't worth it either.

Chef Medeski said:
For that price, yup. I dont know of anyone who sells these kinda options on a laptop for this price. Sure you can get a 256MB vid card, but what about the processor, screen, and RAM? You can't complain constantly about their not being a legitimate option for something very few people really need even though on your tight budget you solely need and thus are sourly complaining about not having a $2200 laptop with 256MB of RAM. Asking too much. Simple. I dont need it, base is fine for me. I'm going for it. If you can't pay for it, then don't go for it. Simple.
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7900GS in the Inspirion E1710 and it's much less then a MacBook Pro. In before lack of EX10 support...

Do I expect Apple to compete with it in price? No. The stock configuration is nice with an insanely fast processor and lots of RAM.
 
OK so I'm ordering MBP 2.4, 2GB of RAM and unfortunatly 160 GB 5400:eek: cos Im not willing to wait over a month...Now the question. Will apple store exchange the drive for me if I buy one and put crucial 2x2GB RAM?
I dont feel comfortable with taking MBP apart....:cool:
 
Would there be any more hardware upgrades to the MBP when Leopard comes out or will it be installed on these machines when the time comes?
 
ageis said:
Just to double check... the 1920x1200 17" screen isnt LCD...
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Of course it's LCD. People are mixing up the terms. All the screens are TFT LCD's -- thin film transistor liquid crystal displays. It's the *backlight* they changed; because LCD's don't emit light themselves, they need a backlight behind the sandwich-of-glass that contains the display itself [in laymans terms, the part that handles the 'real' pixels & color].

LED, on the other hand, is "light emitting diode". Old backlights were CCFL's [think fluroscent lights, essentially], which weren't perfectly even, consumed more power and used mercury atoms to emit light [ie. toxic when disposed of]. LED's are like that little light in your caps lock key; now just imagine a panel of smaller, higher intensity & brighter ones.

The 15" has the LED-backlit LCD. The 17" still has the CCFL-backlit LCD.
 
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