nope, but a few glass-half-full types say they have a collectors item.
I like your attitude.
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Apple Updates 13" Aluminum MacBook, Rebranded as "MacBook Pro"
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I like your attitude.
Why?
Plus a better quality screen (probably) and a longer-lasting battery.
But I agree, I'm staying with my unibody MB until we see the next generation laptops.
I think it seems simple... you want blu-ray on your mac, buy an external drive that does it, and use it. problem solved.
Unless the people who said it's possible on a mac are wrong.
I'd like to have it built in too, but admit it, a good deal of stuff is built in that you have to pay for elsewhere. Wi-fi*, bluetooth, DVD+-RW*, gigabit ethernet, and so forth. I think everyone will be sorely disappointed when they start looking for any product by any company with no negatives, downsides, or drawbacks whatsoever. (Apple included!)
*Maybe this stuff is standard across the board now too... not sure. I know lotsa manufacturers charge for a wireless card built in to desktops.
The only advantage you'd have doing that would be gaining FireWire. And while FW is good, you'd be taking a slight hit in CPU speed.
Keep the one you have and upgrade to 4GB of RAM. You'll be fine.
Youre right, Ill go to Ebay and get a SD card adapter!! Its OFFICIAL Im now in the "Original" Aluminum Macbook Collector's Item Club! O.A.M.C
Yeah for as much as I spent on my Aluminum 2.4 it might as well be a MBP. Apple owes me a SD slot, Fire Wire and the word "Pro" on my MB.
That's the point, the OS doesn't support the stuff it has to in order to be able to playback Blu-ray movies. You have to install Windows in order to playback Blu-ray movies on an Apple computer. If I'm wrong on that I'd love to know.
Look on the bright side though. Now you (and I) have a collector's item, limited edition aluminum unibody Macbook.
Hey, I didn't think about that.
Can't wait to put an SSD in it. It'll kick some nice ass when I start studying. It will be great to see all that power come to use when I... use word processing and programming... Wait, what?
But you paid that much for it anyway when you knew it was lacking those features. You cant blame Apple because you paid their stupidly high prices.
I have no worries about what OS X will or won't support since I plan on using VMWare Fusion with Windows and various linuces and stuff just to play with them. Yeah, you can use boot camp too, but I'd rather not shut down and boot up. Besides, any of the current mac models with 4GB of RAM or more should be just fine for virtualization!
Plus, it will come in handy for those websites designed by un-enlightened organizations and people that only let you use IE, and the user-agent swich won't work. (you know, the ones which you have to use or are generally important, like some stuff for work. A few just don't look right when using other browsers)
If you're a student it's doubly important that you have Windows since you will take that one class that requires that one random piece of software that uses Windows. (and you really don't wanna trek down to the computer lab to just use it)
I ordered my new Macbook and am anxiously awaiting its arrival. I upgraded to 4GB Memory, but I didn't upgrade the HD. I figured I could always do that later if I wanted to, but after reading the posts, I'm realizing that it might be more of a headache later after I have stuff on it. I have an iomega external that is 500 GB. So, my question is do I need a bigger HD than the 160 GB that it comes with? Is it easy to do myself if I order it from Newegg?
I upgraded to 4GB Memory, but I didn't upgrade the HD. I figured I could always do that later if I wanted to, but after reading the posts, I'm realizing that it might be more of a headache later after I have stuff on it. I have an iomega external that is 500 GB. So, my question is do I need a bigger HD than the 160 GB that it comes with? Is it easy to do myself if I order it from Newegg?new 13" mbpro
YES! i just did that on friday (had my mb 3 weeks). they'll charge you a re-stocking fee of 10%, but i got money back AND they did the data transfor for FREE!
YES! i just did that on friday (had my mb 3 weeks). they'll charge you a re-stocking fee of 10%, but i got money back AND they did the data transfor for FREE!
I ordered my new Macbook and am anxiously awaiting its arrival.
macbook (white) or macbook pro?
upgrading the HD is easy, if you follow the instructions and aren't afraid to work inside your computer, or have worked inside computers before. (important caveat)
Your 500gig should serve you well for time machine, and time machine makes it super easy to back up and restore stuff from your HD whe you put in a new one. Just takes time. But some people get impatient cuz they'd rather play with their mac than wait for time machine. So, start it when you goto bed and wake up to it in the morning.
Sounds like you lot are in the same boat as the folks in Australia. Friend of mine lives there and we were discussing how it can be cheaper to fly to the U.S. to buy something than to just go down the street to the local computer store, and that's *after* the currency conversion.
Give you an example... She bought a Sony VAIO TT notebook, paid AUS$3999, and that same model here in the U.S. sells for $2049.99 which is what, like $2000 cheaper? I mean, what the heck gives?
Frankly, that's just sad. I mean, the MacBook you're talking about is like $999 here. Nothing against you or your fine country, but geez you guys are getting ripped off there.
macbook (white) or macbook pro?
upgrading the HD is easy, if you follow the instructions and aren't afraid to work inside your computer, or have worked inside computers before. (important caveat)
Your 500gig should serve you well for time machine, and time machine makes it super easy to back up and restore stuff from your HD whe you put in a new one. Just takes time. But some people get impatient cuz they'd rather play with their mac than wait for time machine. So, start it when you goto bed and wake up to it in the morning.
It's the 13" Macbook pro.
Thanks for the info. So, are you saying just wait on the HD until later if/when I need the space? How fast will that amount of HD space fill up? I have an older iMac, and I have no idea how much space I have left, but it seems fine. Does the machine run slower when the HD is getting full?
I have never worked inside a computer before, but I did replace the battery in my iPod (well, actually my husband did.)
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ! $2,000 difference!?!?!?!!?
On a possibly related note, here in Oklahoma there seem to be more and more Europeans and Australians, something you'd have never seen in this area a few years ago. Just the other day at work I helped a family pick out a computer, who had just moved here from Melbourne. Perhaps something to do with prices going nuts? Who knows...
It's about time we had some variety around here...