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Apple to Release Thinner MacBook Pro at WWDC
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i had rather the thickness remain the same so that they could squeeze in more battery power. that what i really need. to be able to go outside without magsafe for more than half a day yet my mbp is still up and running.
Historically, for the Apple laptop line, the pro designation has meant moderately (sometimes borderline moderately) better specs (CPU/drive/screen/RAM) & more flexibility (more/better ports/slots) going back at least to the Powerbook/ibook lines. Better specs have always come at a premium price.
See now. The problem with this is the fact that Apple isn't removing all those ports so this is irrelevant .
For that matter we don't even know for sure what Apple is doing.
I'm a professional speculator and I don't need an Ethernet port on my laptop.
There's a difference between being portable and only being used on the run.
Sez who? Lots of laptops are used often as desktop replacements. My wife worked somewhere that you've heard of, where everyone had [only] a laptop, whether they moved it around or not. Providing adequate coverage and throughput for hundreds of wifi clients in a corporate environment would suck hard.
Which TB display is that? You're going to buy me one? Kewl. Will you have one set up for me everywhere I travel, so I'm not constrained by crappy semi-functional, overloaded WAP's.
The Mac Mini ships with a HDMI --> DVI Adaptor. No reason the MBP couldn't ship with an Ethernet dongle in the box
Not too sure about other places but here in Ontario, Canada I know there are some universities (McMaster for example) that don't offer wifi to students in dorms and they have to use Ethernet. It'd he annoying if you had to get an adapter for your computer just so your laptop was a little thinner.
And to everyone saying just buy an adapter it's only $25-$30, it's not necessarily about the money but the principle. The fact that Apple is charging extra for features that are standard elsewhere.
Nice red-herring. The magsafe is larger than the usb 3 port which is larger than the tb port, which is larger than the SD card.... So no, removing all those other ports wouldn't make the laptop any thinner, so there is no reason not to include them. Now, perhaps they should remove the magsafe, then they could make it even thinner!!
So a thinner body and stories have stated Ivy Bridge has been possibly running hot. These two combined do not sound very good for a line of laptops known to have poor cooling.
In terms of apple computers:
Mac Pros
Apple Cinema Displays
Macbook Pros
NOT
- ipads
- emacs
- macbooks
- 11 macbook airs
ect
Apple once made macbooks they were white, they weren't tools that you could run industry standard software efficiently or at all as they had entry level specs. Lots of people working in certain industries use these pro / professional computers because they are of a high quality and carry all that is necessary to work on any professional design / film / engineering / architecture / visualization / emulation / music / science / research or other projects that require high quality computation, hardware and software. Apples Pro line of computers often catered to this market, this usually meant FIREWIRE, high quality displays, high end graphics, powerful if not cutting edge processing power, and an array of peripheral inputs that worked very well, everything was designed to function very well and ultimately a one stop machine that can do anything and almost everything for that professional environment, or at least more so than other computer manufacture.
Today, we see the lines blurred between PRO and everyday consumer users as depicted by apples business model. And that's why people who have been using high end (premium priced) apple computers get angry when they see apple shifting their strategy from professional tools to a consumer market ie more focus on macbooks airs / ipads / iphones now i'm guessing slightly cheaper more affordable less "professional" macbook pros.
Overclocked ivys run hot. Not normally speced ones. Just don't tweak it and it'll be cooler than Sandy Bridge.
YES. I've been waiting so long for this. FCP7 and Photoshop do not enjoy running on my 2007 white MacBook.
Fact is that they've been quicker to reach higher overclock temperatures than their sandy bridge counterparts.
Which is all well and good until you decide to do anything in 3D. Otherwise have fun with a HD 4000 or yet another HD 67xxM.
"PC it is then" when it hasn't been officially announced yet? Most of the rumors that came out today (9to5Mac, TheVerge, etc.) point to an NVidia GT 650M on board.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/14/3020483/new-macbook-pros-confirmed-to-have-nvidia-graphics
I'm going to consider getting a pc as well if what apple offers is not as refined and is not well resolved in terms of its design. I may get a mac mini instead.
They stuck the 6790M in the last Macbook Pro.
It got a crapton of praise.
There is no way they are going to skimp on it, especially considering how loudly the professional and gaming communities have been clamoring for more powerful GPUs.
Im going into graduate school next year and am curious why you stick to Macs if you have all these concerns (similar to my concerns).
Molten laps and fans to 6200 RPM? They made it thinner too. Maybe nVidia can source enough wafers for GK107 but that performance is hot. nVidia appears to have many more shipment commitments on GK107 compared to the weak push getting GK104 out the door. Then again GK107 is for notebook vendors instead of retail video card AIBs and boutique gaming machines.