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Apple to Launch an $800 Laptop?
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There are some good predictions there, but I see no reason to fit a dedicated gfx card on the Air, and the price is way to high for it since SSD are becoming cheaper and cheaper.(http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/super-talent-caters-to-eee-pc-with-new-16-32-64gb-ssds/)
And I don't believe in the Pros with integrated gfx. Too confusing for the consumer.
Just my thoughts.
ok now we're talking...not for me personally. but for the many people I know who want an Apple laptop they can afford....mind you that these are just regular users...they do not need or want high-end/high priced ones.
Me? I just wait for the new Macbookpro's...at any price!
Me? I just wait for the new Macbookpro's...at any price!
Here we go...
After lurking around for years this news made me sign up and comment.
This is the best news ever from a fanboy perspective (obviously), BUT it's even good news from a competitive perspective because this will spread OS X around on an "affordable" machine, and give developers a "cheap" mac for app development. I can see a lot of people (including me) getting on board.
After lurking around for years this news made me sign up and comment.
This is the best news ever from a fanboy perspective (obviously), BUT it's even good news from a competitive perspective because this will spread OS X around on an "affordable" machine, and give developers a "cheap" mac for app development. I can see a lot of people (including me) getting on board.
Mine prediction looks like this:
And with the transition to 16:9 screen ratio, we get different screen sizes:
MBA (2 models) (screen size...?)
14" MacBook (3 models)
14" MBP (2 models)
16" MBP (2 models)
18" MBP (2 models)
+ 1 model I can't think of.
No idea on specs or prices, but I guess they have either an extra BluRay or SSD option for 1 or 2 of the MBP models.
Without 3 different sized MBPs, or maybe 2 different MacBook models, it would be hard to have 12 different price points.
MBA (2 models)
12" MacBook (2 models)
14" MacBook (2 models)
14" MBP (2 models)
16" MBP (2 models)
18" MBP (2 models)
CAN'T and WON'T are two very different things, surely they CAN as others have, but at the time the mac mini was released the economy was not what it is now, so lowering the price of a macbook to $800 is a good tactic to keep selling something to the average price checking consumer
Apple make a mint on Mac Mini sales considering the components and the vast amount of time a single design lasts. Apple could knock $100 of the price and still make off like bandits. That's what I hope they do soon, with a new nvidia chipset based Mac Mini.
If Apple still try to rip people off over a ****** combo drive, when a proper DVD drive is going to cost them <$20, I will be shocked. SURELY now, with a new case, they can get rid of this scam?
Combo doesn't burn DVD's, which apparently a lot of people have a problem with, but I've never burned a DVD in my life and don't really find myself ever needing to
Apple *SPANG!* are *SPANG!* not *SPANG!* stupid *SPANG!* enough *SPANG!* to *SPANG!* drop *SPANG!* the *SPANG!* Mac *SPANG!* Mini!
Where "spang" is the sound of a frying pan hitting the head of the next person to spread that ancient and unfounded rumour!
It's their only entry-level Mac desktop, and very popular amongst Mac-curious PC users and those who already have an iMac or Pro and want a simple secondary OS X machine. A computer that is, not an aTV media centre thing. It'd be utterly retarded if they were dropping it, unless they had something else equally small, cheap (and not a laptop) to replace it. Apple have their WTF Moments, but they're not that daft.
/rant off
I always figured that if Apple were going to jump on the netbook bandwagon they'd do it their own (more expensive) way. That turned out to be the Macbook Air. If they're finally doing their own proper netbook with actual netbook pricing, cool. I just wonder where the MBA will fit in at that point (that said, I never did see the point in it. It's for either Status or Thinness obsessives IMO.)
Also wonder how this would work out in GBP... probably about £800
Personal theory is that the $800 one, if it exists, is a radical drop in price of the lowest end Macbook. As for the really expensive one.... hrm personally I think they'd put BluRay into desktops first, but you never know. Either that or they hiked the price of the top end model to subsidise the bottom end (How very Robin Hood!) or some new feature we don't know about yet...
Where "spang" is the sound of a frying pan hitting the head of the next person to spread that ancient and unfounded rumour!
It's their only entry-level Mac desktop, and very popular amongst Mac-curious PC users and those who already have an iMac or Pro and want a simple secondary OS X machine. A computer that is, not an aTV media centre thing. It'd be utterly retarded if they were dropping it, unless they had something else equally small, cheap (and not a laptop) to replace it. Apple have their WTF Moments, but they're not that daft.
/rant off
I always figured that if Apple were going to jump on the netbook bandwagon they'd do it their own (more expensive) way. That turned out to be the Macbook Air. If they're finally doing their own proper netbook with actual netbook pricing, cool. I just wonder where the MBA will fit in at that point (that said, I never did see the point in it. It's for either Status or Thinness obsessives IMO.)
Also wonder how this would work out in GBP... probably about £800
Personal theory is that the $800 one, if it exists, is a radical drop in price of the lowest end Macbook. As for the really expensive one.... hrm personally I think they'd put BluRay into desktops first, but you never know. Either that or they hiked the price of the top end model to subsidise the bottom end (How very Robin Hood!) or some new feature we don't know about yet...
I do run Vista with 1GB Ram everyday at work and it performs nice, at least enough to work. However, it will depend on what apps you'll be running. I work as a developer and sometimes I have to have several apps (IDE's, different web browsers, etc) running and it becomes slower mainly on context changes (when you switch between windows or restore minimized windows of heavier apps). And of course, i notice some performance improvements with the 2GB I have on my Windows PC at home. It's better to have 2GB than 1GB, for sure, everybody knows that.
This is it:
Next Apple moves will be Books and Games
http://spidouz.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/next-apple-moves-will-be-books-and-games
Amazing!
Next Apple moves will be Books and Games
http://spidouz.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/next-apple-moves-will-be-books-and-games
Amazing!
Nobody mentioned it yet, so I willl
take into account 4 days being 4 business days:
today - 1
Oct 10 - 2
Monday Oct 13 -3
Tuesday Oct 14 -4
Could still be on track for the rumored Oct 14 release..... Eitherway we may still have a shot. and Christmas is going to need a real boost this year, I have people saying - "well, looks like I have to drop so and so from my list this year, just can't afford to buy them anything". Or "don't expect muct from me this year.."
Hogwash - I say distant relatives and aquaintenaces you can get buy with going to the dollar store or some discount store. There are still some nice things for under $15.
back on subject:
this would be good if true. $3100 sounds to me like a beefy tablet - most tablet PC's I have seen run about $2000 and up. I still think a tablet would be a macworld thing though....
They better cut the prices big. Dell still sends me their flyers and that studio hybrid (the one that rivals the mini) has about a $50 price cut making it around $449 for the baseline model.
And why would anyone be crying about a netbook. there were alot of people whining they wanted one. Ok, for $800 it better be a beefed up netbook (small as a netbook but as powerful as a baseline macbook).
take into account 4 days being 4 business days:
today - 1
Oct 10 - 2
Monday Oct 13 -3
Tuesday Oct 14 -4
Could still be on track for the rumored Oct 14 release..... Eitherway we may still have a shot. and Christmas is going to need a real boost this year, I have people saying - "well, looks like I have to drop so and so from my list this year, just can't afford to buy them anything". Or "don't expect muct from me this year.."
Hogwash - I say distant relatives and aquaintenaces you can get buy with going to the dollar store or some discount store. There are still some nice things for under $15.
back on subject:
this would be good if true. $3100 sounds to me like a beefy tablet - most tablet PC's I have seen run about $2000 and up. I still think a tablet would be a macworld thing though....
They better cut the prices big. Dell still sends me their flyers and that studio hybrid (the one that rivals the mini) has about a $50 price cut making it around $449 for the baseline model.
And why would anyone be crying about a netbook. there were alot of people whining they wanted one. Ok, for $800 it better be a beefed up netbook (small as a netbook but as powerful as a baseline macbook).
Cheers for the info. I have to admit, if a combo drive was included now it would be a bit crummy. I don't burn many DVDs but it does occur fro time to time. But at the end of the day how many current entrylevel laptops don't have a DVD writer?
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I was going to but an atv but will hold out till I find out what's going to come out of this.
Your right who wants to burn DVDs these days I'd rather stream from my mac to my tv. For £199 the atv is an expensive bit of kit for what it does. Stick leopard in it keep the price and ill be there!!!
MasterNile said:
I was going to but an atv but will hold out till I find out what's going to come out of this.
Your right who wants to burn DVDs these days I'd rather stream from my mac to my tv. For £199 the atv is an expensive bit of kit for what it does. Stick leopard in it keep the price and ill be there!!!
Yeah, I'd love a cheaper mac mini or more powerful Apple TV, sure Apple TV is great, but I can't watch Hulu on it