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Apple to Launch an $800 Laptop?

Impressive

That would be neat. Everyone knows Apples are a little over priced and their education discounts are down right pathetic. But people buy them anyway.

I just wonder if an $800 apple laptop will function like an $800 apple laptop. Slow.
 
BornAgainMac said:
The $999 Macbook above the $799 will have some must have feature I bet. And the $3,100 Macbook sounds like it will have Blu-Ray.
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No. First of all we need 10.5.6 for Blu-Ray support and early seeds haven't even begun yet. Don't expect it until early 2009.

Second, Blu-Ray will be a huge update for Apple. They will need to:

1-Offer Blu-Ray Optical Drives in the Mac Pro's
2-Offer a new "DVD" Studio Pro and present it properly.
3-Offer new, HDCP-Compatible Cinema Displays

And more importantly, explain in the proper context how Blu-Ray will work for people who want to rent or buy Blu Ray movies and watch it in their iMacs, how Final Cut Studio users will author Blu-Ray, how Blu Ray will be used for data archival.

Do not expect ANY of that in a laptop update presentation. That will be a whole presentation onto itself, either soon after MacWorld or more appropriately at NAB in April 2009.
 
SirOmega said:
Monday is a holiday? Where?

Anyways, I think you're right on with the iMac updates, close on the specs - the only thing I disagree with is the MB

MB: $799, $999, $1199 (13" WS, nVidia NB/integrated graphics)
$799: 2.26Ghz, 1GB, Combo, 120GB HD
$999-1199: 2.4GHz, 2GB, 120GB/250GB, SSD BTO
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I could have sworn I already posted about the holiday situation... in this thread. Read before post? Nah, that's too much to ask for I guess.
 
Ironduke said:
like apple laptops overheating because steve has them made so slim?
:p
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Ahh, and now your intent is clear. You don't care to discuss or debate you are just here to rile up the crowd.

Why didn't you say that in the first place so I could save myself some typing? :eek:

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The Tall One said:
That would be neat. Everyone knows Apples are a little over priced and their education discounts are down right pathetic. But people buy them anyway.

I just wonder if an $800 apple laptop will function like an $800 apple laptop. Slow.
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In reality, the current Macbook, hardware wise, is comparable to every other $800 laptop out there. Those $800 laptops for some reason even beat the Mac in hardware specs(Ram, HD, GFX, etc.)

I am just talking about hardware comparisons, but overall, if Apple produces a $800 laptop they can't cheap out too much because if they want to be on top in the entry-mid level laptops as well, they'll have to be competitive in hardware with other laptops on that price range.
 
I hope this rumor turns out to be true.

One at that price would be a huge boost to the company in the current economy, and there's no question that components are available that make it possible for Apple to ship a laptop that is much cheaper but still extremely useful for the many people doing basic office/internet/multimedia playback type stuff.

I'm not getting my hopes up, but I hope I'm wrong.
 
I'll only agree with the "economic times" argument because it causes people to look more closely at what they're buying. They say, "Dell's cheapest laptop is $500. Apple's cheapest laptop is $1100. Both will run MS Office and both will check email, and both will surf the net. OS X is nice, but I can survive without it for a few years."

This is precisely the conversation my wife and I had before she bought a laptop for college. That laptop ended up being a $500 Compaq. It still does everything she wants, she just has to wrestle with "Cancel or Allow" boxes every ten minutes. ;)

I suppose I could turn it into a Hacktop...

-Clive
 
Just one request: Keep Firewire support without making me buy a big MBP to get it.
 
MacinJosh said:
Why are people so chuffed up about 16:9? What's the point? It's really not an ideal ratio for laptops. 16:10 is a nice compromise between 4:3 and 16:9.
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Agreed. I don't understand what consumers would gain by a 16:9 ratio on a laptop.
 
aznguyen316 said:
I'm a new mac user, so I ask what do you use firewire for? Specific purposes or just b/c maybe to free up a port that could be used for USB?
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Digital camcorders and hard drives for me. FireWire is much faster than the over-touted USB 2.0.
 
corinhorn said:
Digital camcorders and hard drives for me. FireWire is much faster than the over-touted USB 2.0.
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Exactly. Most digital camcorders will only work with firewire and hard drives are better on firewire because of speed. I've been waiting to get my first mac for some time now, but if Apple does away with firewire, I won't be buying. Even PCs have firewire now.

I know the pictures look like there's a port missing, but doing away with firewire just doesn't make sense. It would completely alienate the video editing people, who are a huge part of Apple's customer base.
 
Eidorian said:
Do I need to bring up the long list of Apple quality (control) issues?

Using a cheaper processor or Santa Rosa while moving the higher end lines to a new platform isn't cheapening the Mac. Take a look at the Mac mini. Why can't their be a budget laptop companion?
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+100

The Mac Mini is hands down the most stable reliable Mac out their at the moment.
 
nick9191 said:
Which it isn't.

233mhz Pentium and 64mb RAM will run XP.
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osx is built to run on specific chipsets, xp was built to run on all x86 chips.
doesnt make osx any less efficient infact I would wager xp was bloated to cater for so much hardware configs
 
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