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Apple Releases Updated MacBook Pros With Core i5 and i7 Processors
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Ugliest laptop ever? I didn't even identify it as an laptop... thought it was kind of...space ship
True, but for someone like me in school for animation, rendering out animation scenes in Maya, this update is horrible news. (looking at the 13'')
Only children who use their Macs for nothing but games and movie-watching are all worked up about Blu-ray. Blu-ray... on a 15" screen??? Gimme a break. Don't you spoiled brats have some homework to do? Instead of hanging out here whining all day, maybe you could get an engineering degree and beat Apple/Jobs in the computer industry.
Are you dumber than Steve Jobs or just pretending? Do you have any idea how much marketing Apple has been doing from day one to video and audio for video content creators and providers? Do you have any idea how much of an investment those content creators and providers have invested in Apple over the years and are now going elsewhere by the hundreds of thousands, WITH their hundreds of thousands? I have a $15,000/YEAR computer budget that has sat for three years while Jobs does his Willie Wonka trip with iCrap I don't need, don't want, and will never ever buy.
Major motion pictures and a lot of TV HAD been edited on Mac Pros in the past, on some iMacs, and on Macbook Pros, but no longer. Those people needed Blu-ray delivery three years ago, and an OS that could handle it and REALLY be cutting edge. Not just fake it.
Try thinking outside of your uncreative little box. And get up off your knees, the Jobs shrine thing is getting old.
Anyone got any idea as to whether QuickTime X and OpenCL are supported by the new NVIDIA chips? The Snow Leopard page still says that QuickTime X H.264 acceleration requires a 9400M, for example.
My company is getting ready to purchase laptops for employees. We have been told we can select whichever brand we want up at a cost up to $2,000. I have been waiting for the new MBP since Jan in hopes that they would match up more closely with Dell & Lenovo laptops in terms of features & price.
We will be operating in an Windows environment at work, but I was hoping to use OS at home. But, once I put this comparison together (see attached PDF), I do not know how in good conscious I can say I want a MBP.
Also, the MBP would have to be able to connect to two Dell 24" monitors and work. Am I missing something?
We will be operating in an Windows environment at work, but I was hoping to use OS at home. But, once I put this comparison together (see attached PDF), I do not know how in good conscious I can say I want a MBP.
Also, the MBP would have to be able to connect to two Dell 24" monitors and work. Am I missing something?
because they missed one important test:
Core i7 2.66GHz vs. Core2Duo 3.06 GHz
they only tested Core i7 2.66GHz vs. Core2Duo 2.8 GHz
Are you dumber than Steve Jobs or just pretending? Do you have any idea how much marketing Apple has been doing from day one to video and audio for video content creators and providers? Do you have any idea how much of an investment those content creators and providers have invested in Apple over the years and are now going elsewhere by the hundreds of thousands, WITH their hundreds of thousands? I have a $15,000/YEAR computer budget that has sat for three years while Jobs does his Willie Wonka trip with iCrap I don't need, don't want, and will never ever buy.
Major motion pictures and a lot of TV HAD been edited on Mac Pros in the past, on some iMacs, and on Macbook Pros, but no longer. Those people needed Blu-ray delivery three years ago, and an OS that could handle it and REALLY be cutting edge. Not just fake it.
Try thinking outside of your uncreative little box. And get up off your knees, the Jobs shrine thing is getting old.
From someone who works at Black Box studios, you do realise that blu-ray is just a form of content delivery right? If you have terabytes of content are you really going to sit there and wait until it all gets written to a blu-ray? That would take a week, stop fooling yourself and be honest with people here. We use external SSD's, and thats it. Optical=dead
Lovely and expensive
Just ordered the cheapest 15' mac. For those in Canada and elswhere bitchin about price, I paid 14,990 norwegian crowns for the vanilla edition. That is 2,549.62 dollars. Now be happy.
BTW: More people have pressed the "negative" button on the news item. WTF?
Just ordered the cheapest 15' mac. For those in Canada and elswhere bitchin about price, I paid 14,990 norwegian crowns for the vanilla edition. That is 2,549.62 dollars. Now be happy.
BTW: More people have pressed the "negative" button on the news item. WTF?
To be brutally honest, running Maya with Mac OSX or on a 13" MacBook Pro is just stupid. The only good quality 3D "Pro Level" animation program on Mac OSX is Cinema 4D. Autodesk seem to be too busy complaining about OpenGL than actually coding Maya. Their excuses are pathetic as Apple's implementation of OpenGL is consistent.
Facebook group: No crap2duo on the 13 inch Macbook Pro!
For all those disagreeing with Steve. Let's face it: pretty much all of us.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114132048604514
Cheers,
Marc
For all those disagreeing with Steve. Let's face it: pretty much all of us.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114132048604514
Cheers,
Marc
Still £58.75 on the UK Higher Edu store.
You don't need it anyway as 3 year basic AppleCare is included free.
Question! Anyone can get to the Developer Connection page where there are much better discounts. However, even after logging in and not being a member it still lets me go to check out and enter all of my information. If I placed an order through that without being a member do you think they'd end up charging me more or would they even notice?
I like that conclusion of yours, "fish face"!
The reason why more people have rated this article "negative" can be read throughout the thread:
- MBP 13" comes with C2D processor (still!) as opposed to 15" and 17", and matte screen is still not available for the 13".
- MBP 15" comes with glossy screen as default, but in order to go with a matte (425 kr extra) one first has to upgrade to high-resolution (850 kr extra!).
If I were to buy a MBP in near future, I would certainly be disappointed in this so-called "update".
I don't know about the ADC pages and discounts, but every other discount Apple has isn't tracked, or isn't a big deal to them. They don't check if you order from the EDU store, nor do they enforce the 1 CPU 1 Laptop agreement.
I say order away!
anyone check the pricing on the HP Envy lately? except for the graphics card, the new MBP beats the Envy on price when you add all the upgrades like optical drive, battery, etc.
and with HP's award winning support, who would you feel safer giving $2000 to?
and with HP's award winning support, who would you feel safer giving $2000 to?
I think I'll try it when I do order! It's a couple hundred dollars off. Totally worth it if they don't even notice that I'm not a member of that thing!
So I read the first 30 pages but don't have time for the others, sorry if it has already been answered.
What about switch of graphic cards in Windows using Parallels? I installed XP just for games, will it always use the nVidia, the Intel, switch between both?
Any idea?
What about switch of graphic cards in Windows using Parallels? I installed XP just for games, will it always use the nVidia, the Intel, switch between both?
Any idea?
I like that conclusion of yours, "fish face"!
The reason why more people have rated this article "negative" can be read throughout the thread:
- MBP 13" comes with C2D processor (still!) as opposed to 15" and 17", and matte screen is still not available for the 13".
- MBP 15" comes with glossy screen as default, but in order to go with a matte (425 kr extra) one first has to upgrade to high-resolution (850 kr extra!).
If I were to buy a MBP in near future, I would certainly be disappointed in this so-called "update".
Haha. A fellow norwegian. Hei dude
I guess having followed macrumors for a few months, waiting for the new models, I thought people would be a bit more excited
Anyways. Look at the battery time! It's ridiculus, and will be a major upgrade for me. But maybe not for everyone..
Anyways. I went for glare (which I guess is what my old macbook has) because it doesn't bother me and to keep cost down. Really don't want more resolution anyway. Bring on the glare!
He conveniently left his dell on hsi roof did he?
It wasn't "convenient". He got a refurb of the same model, and the disk didn't survive so he had to rebuild his environment.