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Apple Releases the MacBook Pro

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Well I've ordered mine,

MacBook Pro 1.83Ghz with the upgraded 7200rpm hard drive.

Came to £1699 via a discount through work. Expensive but it'll be a damn sight better than my Mac mini is for my photography work 🙂

Due to ship on or before the 7th Feb.
 
battery life question

I follow battery management rules pretty strictly regarding cycling and draining, etc. and I NEVER got more than 2:15 on my titanium pb 1GHZ even out of the box....Is 3 hours for the new notebook that bad? Do you guys get much better results on later versions of the pb? Just wondering because, despite all of the fantastic specs I see on notebook manufacturers websites, the only notebook that really blew me away in terms of battery life was a friends ibm x41t that i witnessed at more than 6 hours. Everything else seems to be in the 3 hour range anyway.
 
SiliconAddict said:
Buying one? Heck I was monitoring the freaking store through the entire keynote and purchased one when it came up. 🙂

1.83Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 100GB HD. Still had some money left over. That's what happens when you wait 3 years. 🙄 😀
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Great news man, I should have known. 😉 Let us know when you get it and how you like it - I'm sure you won't be disappointed. 😎
 
cheekyspanky said:
Well I've ordered mine,

MacBook Pro 1.83Ghz with the upgraded 7200rpm hard drive.

Came to £1699 via a discount through work. Expensive but it'll be a damn sight better than my Mac mini is for my photography work 🙂

Due to ship on or before the 7th Feb.
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Oh you lucky man (?) Oh it would make my day if you posted pictures/ gave a review! It sure should scream😎
 
max_altitude said:
Well in a way, yes. While it may be practical and functional for some people, others have no use for it. I myself have no use for an iSight, if I did I would buy one separately. I have also read that others find the inability to point the camera in a separate direction to the actual computer a problem also. I suppose it just comes down to personal preference. If you use an iSight then you're in luck, because its integration will be very useful.

No need to get rolleyed 😉
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Fair enough - and I didn't mean for you to take my 🙄 personally, it was just more of a bastardly emphasis to my sarcasm. 😱 😉 😎
 
macidiot said:
Well, not according to Steve Jobs. When he announced the switch to intel, he specifically stated that you could install and run windows on an intel mac. But you would not be able to run osx on a non-Apple product.

So what are you referring to? Is there something people don't know about?
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All we need now is some good software drivers for OS X and Windows that will allow you to view HFS+ and NTFS partitions on each others respective platforms. Should be fun, and make switching a piece of cake. Finally. 😀
 
Interesting snippet I read elsewhere about the X1600 chipset:

"As of right now, HD quality H.264 decompression takes up too much processing power to run smoothly on a PC, but with the MRX1600, ATI is promising HD video decoding in graphics hardware. This is good news, but unfortunately, neither ATI nor NVIDIA have released a driver that supports it. We feel that it's a little premature to list something as a "feature" before it's actually supported, but hopefully, we'll see these drivers sooner rather than later."

Incidentally, the fact that Apple now has a much closer hardware platform to other PC manufacturers now could be a very good thing - since Apple seems intent on still charging a relative premium for it's products, it will need to come up with ways to differentiate its own Intel-based products. I think we could be seeing a lot more features like backlit keyboards, iSights, MagSafe cords etc.
 
Good job Apple. Finally, a PowerBook I can recommend. I know a lot of you guys have been waiting for this for quite some time. Enjoy!
 
Randall said:
Gateway sucks ass
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However, more affordable. If it does everything you need it to do then its probably more suited for you, than spending $100s more.

Looking at the spec for the gateway you can see how the savings are made -
40gig hard disc
256x2 memory modules
integrated graphics
windows xp home
no dvd writer - Modular 24x/10x/24x CD-RW / 8x DVD combo

Soo.. thinking about it, your probably better off spending the $400 getting the Apple, IF you can afford it. 🙂
 
Alex Cutter said:
When Photoshop comes out for it next year ?
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Most of the work I need is organising and minor edits for the time being, so I can cope with using Photoshop through Rosetta.

Ultimately I need a notebook as I'm travelling a lot more and the Mac mini (while being a little too slow for me with 15,000+ photos) can't be used on a train!
 
DTphonehome said:
Where, pray tell, do you get an ExpressCard/34 FireWire 800 adaptor? I've only seen it in the wider 54 format. Loss of the PC Card slot is major... all the wireless broadband adaptors are PC Card!
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If you build it they will come.
 
Alex Cutter said:
I don't know... how about anyone who's ever hooked up external speakers to their PBook to listen to iTunes? And didn't want to have to get up to change songs?
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The point remains. Even if you want to not have to get up to change songs, it's not a selling point. Or are you gonna pay $2,000 to not have to get up to change songs? They can pack something up with small features that may be relatively cool, but in the end the whole package is just not worth the upgrade.
 
Overall, I think this is a good computer. Overpriced, but good.

I'd really like one but not until the end of '06 when Apple will hopefully have a portable that tops 2.0Ghz. I've ordered iLife and iWork so at least I'll have those to play with and not feel left out.

I don't understand why so many are whining. This is the first Intel Mac portable. It can only get better from here and what a place to start! 7 Months from announcing the transition to actually coming up with the goods. (And so it continues ...)

Nice one Apple 🙂
 
poe diddley said:
i wasn't really impressed.
everyone hyped up this macworld with all these crazy rumours.
i mean seriously. now i actually WANT apple to make the plasma screen thingie. it sounds a lot cooler than a new imac, and poorly named Powerbook.
sorry. i'm sure they're great computers and all, but i was on the edge of my seat when he said "one more thing". yawn. where's that next revolution, steve? that plasma screen with a built in mac isn't sounding too bad.....😱
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That's not their business - I thought that rumor was a bunch of B.S. from that O'Grady tool to begin with - I REALLY don't like that guy (he was also the one with that stupid odds list that didn't make any sense anyway)

Expect some new for of Mac mini replacement in the coming months, then you can hook it up to ANY TV you want...or buy a 37-42 inch cinema display that will probably come out when the technology is available (BIG BUCKS)

My newest prediction is a $500-$800 dollar mini laptop/big iPod type device with no DVD drive maybe no keyboard and maybe a 4-7" screen...possibly OS X or iPod like interface that would act as a portable multimedia device. Steve even kinda joked about it at the keynote. subliminal? possibly...I actually thought about this yesterday and Steve reiterated my idea. Apple will build what the consumer wants if it is possible...you heard it hear first 😉

[Edit] I know that device isn't totally original, but I believe it will happen soon.
 
I'm so getting one of these, After someone answers this question:


Is the 1.83 model worth the price upgrade? would it be noticeably faster than a 1.6 model.

I wonder if the have benchmarks of the new iMac vs a dual core g5 PM
 
Randall said:
Thank you. I don't think they'll use BIOS. Then again, they won't need it. People don't seem to believe around here just how versitile XP is at booting hardware. x86 people know all about it. It will boot Windows, I am sure of it.
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XP may be versatile in booting hardware, but I doubt the hardware would be so accomodating. I would think that the BIOS would be written so that it specifically loads MacOS X rather than load some sort of boot-loader as with other PCs - remember while other BIOSs are written so that it could support any number of different operating system, Apple's approach is completely opposite. They will be writing it so that there is no way of bypassing the loading of MacOS X.

I suppose it all depends on how much security they built in. If it was just in the BIOS, it should not be that hard for someone to somehow hack the BIOS, or just 'pretend' to run MacOS X but run a windows loader instead. However, if, in the likely event, that they built in some security onto the hardware itself, then it could become much harder.

In other words, I don't know, but I wouldnt bet on it either way.
 
Alex Cutter said:
When Photoshop comes out for it next year ?
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I would have to think that the Powerbook will be faster than the Mac mini in photoshop,

Why you ask?
MacBook Pro- Mac mini
1 Core Duo @1.8- 1.42 or 1.25 G4
7200 RPM HD- 4200 or 5400 HD
TI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128MB GDDR3 memory- ATI Radeon 9200 32MB DDR video memory
667 Mhz FST- 167MHz FSB

Even with rosetta I think you get the point. And when its native to x86 the thing will scream
 
runninmac said:
Oh you lucky man (?) Oh it would make my day if you posted pictures/ gave a review! It sure should scream😎
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Well I'll try to, all depends if it turns up at my parents house when I have an opportunity to go there and collect it. Otherwise it'll be sitting in its box until I have a spare weekend..! I'll be sure to keep checking the order tracking and organise my diary accordingly though.. 🙂
 
thes said:
i think you will need to change a little more than just the harddrive to make your Mac run windows...
exactly why you would want to run windows, I really have no idea 😕
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Don't think so!

Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won’t sell or support Windows itself, but also hasn’t done anything to preclude people from loading Windows onto the machines themselves.

“That’s fine with us. We don’t mind,” Schiller said. “If there are people who love our hardware but are forced to put up with a Windows world, then that’s OK.”
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10789855/page/2/
 
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