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Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup

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thanks for a very good job of reporting.

as for the anticipated computer, consider the illustration of the Intel prototype: no doubt with a multi-touch touchscreen on that outer face, apple could come up with some useful features and applications to convince us that damn, this IS something we didn't know we needed, but do.

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gugy said:
I agree, this lack of announcement of a killer MacPro is just driving me crazy.
I really look forward to the most powerful Mac ever than all this talk about ultra-portable.
Apple needs to address their most faithful users. The creative pro community.

Please bring alongside new displays and a new design for MacPro as well.
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I believe we will see new Mac Pro's at MacWorld or just prior to it. Hopefully in a new enclosure. It feels like it's been 10 years since the last update. How about a nice little holiday announcement for the beleaguered pro community.

I will be very peed if it's not happening.
 
iPoodOverZune said:
Helleluiah! i have PB G4 from 2003 and with leopard (1GB RAM, one RAM slot dead, HDD replaced to 160 GB 5400.3 seagate) and going pretty nice. And I do a lot of MS Office, simulations and editing work on it. Surprisingly, Leopard work pretty nicely on it. Still good to go for another year. Will jump next perhaps at the end of next year, once I get a clue where mobile penryn is headed or what mobile intel "gets inside" in a year.
If you will keep looking at technological advancements, either you will never buy anything or you will always salivate to sell your just last version to buy just the latest version!!
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:) glad I could be of service :D

Yes, its true, one person is a FOLEY editor and does most of his work at home on a G4, DV Toolkit, Translator and has no problems at all. On the flip side, I know I could get at least $1750, especially since a) Its loaded with software and b) I can get a apple product courtesy of a apple friend for 25% off. However, I was also thinking if it were possible to swap out the CPU on this 3 month old CPU, but someone in another forum said they are using a new chipset? Since when? I thought the MBP LED were the newest?

Not sure if it can be done (soldered on I think).
 
I'm a friend of someone that works for a supplier of parts for apple (can't say which!). But he knows for a fact apple will be coming out with an ultra portable early 08. Now whether or not it is a tablet, or incorpates flash or "touch" technology he is not sure. Trust me though, they are coming our with a smaller form factor laptop very soon. Woot! :D
 
archer75 said:
I see absolutely no point in a 12" ultraportable. The macbook is 13" and i'm sure that one inch isn't going to make a difference. Seems like a pointless product.
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with all do respect, that is your opinion, and you see no point in it. But for others like me, it would be simply magnificant, and it is been exactly what i have been waiting for. :rolleyes::apple:
 
paja said:
I believe we will see new Mac Pro's at MacWorld or just prior to it. Hopefully in a new enclosure. It feels like it's been 10 years since the last update. How about a nice little holiday announcement for the beleaguered pro community.

I will be very peed if it's not happening.
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I read somewhere that Apple WILL NOT be attending NAB this year. Perhaps that is a clue. I think it is and interpret it as this: new MPs + Blu-Ray burner BTO + a free FCPS upgrade that adds native Blu-Ray burning support. The only wrinkle might be that the Blu-Ray support also requires a video card with HDCP.

Back to the Ultra Portable...I know I'm dreaming here but I'd love it if it was a convertible table form factor with the iPhones touch capabilities, but also could be used as an e-reader. Apple could sell e-Books on iTMS. Just dreaming, but it would be cool. I love the e-Reader concept, just not the Sony or Amazon readers.
 
archer75 said:
You have all that in a macbook. Is shrinking the screen by 1" really going to make a difference?
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You are also sheddeing 2lbs, and yes, that can make a huge difference if you are a Road Warrior schlepping down the concourse in ATL or ORD a few times a week or month. Or even if you are a college student and need to go cross campus.
 
Apple can't compete with a 1500 dollar sub-notebook Macintosh computer with the attention the Asus EeePC has been getting lately. Apple has too much to contend with already with the Macbook and Macbook Pro models competing and being close in performance and processor specification. A $1500 subnotebook would just be hard to sell next to them. It's better in Apple's interest to put something out there to supplement their sub-desktop Mac Mini and have each product team up in pairs (Mac Mini, Macbook Mini) (iMac, Macbook) (Macbook Pro, Mac Pro). That's the way I see it.
 
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BWhaler said:
At this point, I just want Apple to put out quality products.

Sure, innovation is fun.

But the heat, bugs, fit and finish issues, and don't get me started on the displays, and other general quality problems are just getting brutal.

It is stressful to open a new Mac. You just don't know what you are going to get.

I would love to buy something like this to complement my 17", but the quality problems are just too brutal with Apple of late.
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I'm with you on that one.
 
Yeah, that would be like a reborn Powerbook 12", just like Apple did to the Cube with the Mini.
 
iPoodOverZune said:
Still good to go for another year. Will jump next perhaps at the end of next year, once I get a clue where mobile penryn is headed or what mobile intel "gets inside" in a year.
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Sounds like the Montevina (http://www.dailytech.com/Intels+Montevina+Platform+Detailed+Centrino+for+2008/article5919.htm) due out next summer would be a good target for your next purchase.

Montevina is an update to the Santa Rosa. It will use the Penryn mobile processors...



iPoodOverZune said:
If you will keep looking at technological advancements, either you will never buy anything or you will always salivate to sell your just last version to buy just the latest version!!
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Good reason to get Montevina in the summer. If you wait until fall, you'll be looking at Nehalem coming in a few months....
 
jedivulcan said:
Apple can't compete with a 1500 dollar sub-notebook Macintosh computer with the attention the Asus EeePC has been getting lately. Apple has too much to contend with already with the Macbook and Macbook Pro models competing and being close in performance and processor specification. A $1500 subnotebook would just be hard to sell next to them. It's better in Apple's interest to put something out there to supplement their sub-desktop Mac Mini and have each product team up in pairs (Mac Mini, Macbook Mini) (iMac, Macbook) (Macbook Pro, Mac Pro). That's the way I see it.
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Yeah, just like Apple couldn't compete with MP3 players and cell phones. If you don't think Apple can't out cool Asus you're in the wrong forum. C'mon, Asus?! And last I checked the Asus doesn't run OS X, but an Apple sub would run Windows.

And why would Apple do better trying to supplement a low profit sub-desktop when the sales and money is in laptops?
 
Toshiba Enters Solid-State with 128GB Drive

This could be just what it takes to make flash drives appealing to computer manufacturers. A fast, big, flash drive that doesn't sacrifice the advantages of a conventional hard drive or the advantages of a flash drive. At 128GB, it's larger than what I've currently got installed in my computer, and more than most of Apple's current lineup has by default (in laptops, that is).

I can see Apple offering a subportable with one of those available in it.

jW
 
apple is just catching up

i love my macbook.... and it is about time apple brought out an ultra portible... i mean compare it to the dell XPS M1330.

it has basically everything the apple ultra portable should have...of course it doesnt come with leopard...
the dell can get flash memory....
better video cards
hdmi out
dvd slot loader burner.
and is less than an inch...
oh and has the new LED screens

rockos
 
Personally I am hoping it's more or less a big iPod Touch, you know what I mean? Like an iBook/MacBook meets a Newton meets an iPod Touch.
 
kontheur said:
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Me likes very much. And for the whiners you could have a very sleekly designed wireless rechargeable keyboard (that you can attach and/or seperate) to go along with it. :):D
 
olternaut said:
Me likes very much. And for the whiners you could have a very sleekly designed wireless rechargeable keyboard (that you can attach and/or seperate) to go along with it. :):D
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I dunno the way a touch setup would work on a current "monitor" stand would really fatigue your arms in a few hours..

I think if Apple were to come out with a touch computer, the screen itself would probably be angled in a way that it sits on a table... or I dunno that's a really tough obstacle to overcome really. :/
 
yes, but when?

I'm a mac newbie (purchased 24" imac in October) and I really need a new laptop for a job in January. Based on experience, is it likely that (assuming it exists) this rumoured 'ultraportable' will be announced in January, a la iphone, or it will be released in January. Thanks for your help.
 
winterspan said:
Are you kidding me?? You are SERIOUSLY comparing a high-end subnotebook to an EEPC? I think you are totally missing the point.

I'm already sick of people comparing this to the stupid EEPC and saying "Apple is a ripoff, I can get an EEPC/Fooleo/[insert cheap POS here] for $300..."
Thats like a "my first laptop" childrens toy compared to what Apple will bring out.
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No, I wasn't comparing them at all. I know the EEEPC is nothing like a real UMPC. I meant that I would like Apple to bring something out that would be more like the EEEPC. That would be much more useful to me than the high-end ultramobile that is currently rumored.

There is a reason these 'cheap POS's keep popping up all over the place, and there definitely is a market for them. I wouldn't mind having one with an apple logo on it (and a bit less cheap, of course).

Besides a high-end ultramobile MBP it would be great to have a cheaper ultramobile MB for the really mundane tasks of mobile email checking, browsing, simple email typing. An iPhone is simply too awkward for that (small screen, no keyboard, software too basic), and the EEEPC fits that role very nicely. It would just be great having something similar (at a higher price of course, Apple is simply not a budget brand).
 
TurboSC said:
I dunno the way a touch setup would work on a current "monitor" stand would really fatigue your arms in a few hours..

I think if Apple were to come out with a touch computer, the screen itself would probably be angled in a way that it sits on a table... or I dunno that's a really tough obstacle to overcome really. :/
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Actually, I'm a fan of the smaller handheld mockups of mactouches that have been making the rounds on the net. But of this particular model I would assume that if you chose to hook this up to its little monitor stand you would then interface with it by using a wireless keyboard that has some built in multitouch for mousing.
But really, for a mactouch I would hope it would be a touch smaller with no stand.
 
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