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Apple Updates MacBooks to Santa Rosa, GMA X3100

moracity said:
In the end, it's best to just not worry about what people are paying for goods in other countries because there is nothing you can do about it anyway.
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Im getting education prices when I goto the US (im a UK resident), on the 2.2Ghz MacBook with a Mini-DVI Adapter for about $1,280 inc tax aka £640. It'd be £793.13 in the UK on an education deal.

£150 difference.

My flight is only £280.

Now technically, I believe customs rules dictate you have to declare your purchases etc.. Which may well involve added taxes.

Either way, its a decent amount of cash if you're actually in the country, if you were trying to ship it in - i'd say don't bother with the hassle.
 
aliquis- said:
To fool people into buying/paying even more of course? Same thing as with 128MB vram. Apple suck.
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Yeah, it is so ridiculous. Have to pick the middle model just to get a dvd burner on macbook, or more than 128 MB vram on macbook pro, but then you also have to pay much more... More people should react on this. Again, it is ridiculous.
 
aliquis- said:
To fool people into buying/paying even more of course? .
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Unfortuantely, I know of a few cases where it's fooled people into buying something other than a Mac.

They see £349 laptops that have dvd writers....I'm there saying 'look at my Macbook, it's great' - and they're interested. 'How much?'. The basic one is twice the price of the PC Laptop you were looking at - but you'll have to pay nearly two and a half times the price if you want to be able to burn DVD's as well. It makes a hard sell just about impossible. If Apple are doing it to save money ( probably about £5 less profit margin on a machine with a very very healthy margin already ) then they're screwing themselves over more than their customers.


Doug
 
Mackan said:
Yeah, it is so ridiculous. Have to pick the middle model just to get a dvd burner on macbook, or more than 128 MB vram on macbook pro, but then you also have to pay much more... More people should react on this. Again, it is ridiculous.
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Congratulations, you are a finalist for the "whiniest comment ever" award. Here's hoping you get it!

Apple allows you to upgrade your computer for what they deem to be an acceptable price. They also offer a way to make the computers cheaper if you don't need 256mb vram, or a superdrive.
 
samh004 said:
Prices have remained the same, seeing as you haven't even opened the new computer, haven't even picked it up, I'm sure you'll be able to upgrade at no additional cost.

There's normally a restocking fee for opened computers, but seeing as you've yet to even receive it, I can't imagine you'll have any issues. If there are, just return it and buy again.
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It's good to know the prices haven't changed. Hopefully they won't change here in Spain either and I will be able to get the updated MacBook.
I couldn't wait any longer to buy my laptop because I need it for work, and I was a bit mad with all these rumors about upgrades because I feared I was going to buy the MB and I was going to miss the upgrade.
But it looks like I'll be able to make it! :)

Saludos.
 
moracity said:
Exchange rates have little or nothing to do with retail pricing. Otherwise, retail prices would be in a constant state of flux. Import tariffs and other import costs have a much greater impact.

Exchange rates also have little to do with the buying power of given currencies in a local economy. The only time the exchange matters is if you are making a purchase in a foreign country.

...

Regardless, exchange rate conversion is not the proper way to compare those prices because the exchange rate has nothing to do with an Irish citizen making a purchase in his local economy.
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That's a fair point, in some respects I'd admit to being hoist by my own petard (as Stewie Griffin might say). There's not a huge financial loss involved in moving Mac's to the EU though, the import tax is high for a reason, and that I can accept. It's the idea that there's a price hike without just cause that really... grinds my gears.
 
The new MacBook's now get 144MB of shared RAM with the X3100-nice.

And I'm happy to see the MacBook's finally get the Santa Rosa chipset.

Although-still waiting to see if the mini will also get another silent update with SR and X3100.
 
BornAgainMac said:
[Edit:] Check out the specs. They finally included a real graphics card for the mid and high end Macbook just for you gamers.
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no they didn't. it's still integrated. gamers should stay away from the macbook. it's not really meant for that sort of thing.

web, email, word processing...that's pretty much all the macbook is designed to handle.
 
DanB91 said:
is the x3100 comparable to a dedicated graphics card?
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No. It's better than the previous integrated graphics in the MacBook, but it won't make any modern games playable unless they were bearable on the MacBook already (with reduced settings, etc). I think there are some reviews online. It will also depend on Apple's drivers for Mac OS X and if they use all the hardware (it took Intel a year to get their drivers to be fully featured, and hopefully Apple's drivers are based off of these final drivers).
 
Just asked Apple UK:

When will the new MacBook available in UK?

They said:

Sometime definitely in the next couple of days.


wooo hooooo..........:)
 
Hey everyone.

I must say its pretty neat to come home from work to a Macbook update....but....

I currently have a 2.16 Macbook on order here in australia, it is not yet shipped, reckon I will be able to change it for the new one?

Sam
 
eeesh

Seems like some of the negative comments are from folks expecting the MacBook to morph into something more comparable to a MacBook Pro. Come on folks, that's not going to happen unless there's an update to the MacBook Pro itself. I'd love to have seen a bit more in the upgrade than the bump that did occur, but we've got to be realistic.

I don't want to jump all the way to the flipside and be out and out snarky and condescending to people who's hope seem to have been dashed, but it seems like some people heaping on negatives aren't necessarily the target market for the lower end MacBooks. There are many people out there who are in the market for the MacBook who don't care about an aluminum enclosure, who don't have a need for non-integrated graphic processing, and who still in this day don't miss not having a DVD burner who will still be over the moon with their MacBook purchase. (though SuperDrives across the board would be great, especially if these entry level folks decide in a year or two that they want one)

Wish this update were more spectacular, but gotta keep one foot on the ground while reaching for the stars. (Okay, you may now stone me for paraphrasing Casey Kasem. :)
 
this whole update seems to me like someone pushed the button a bit too early... I mean why is only the US Store up2date and still a little ..cked up? Couldn't it be that the specs that are currently shown aren't complete? I mean maybe the macbook has LED now but they just didn't manage to fully update the page yet?! smells funny
 
blisters said:
web, email, word processing...that's pretty much all the macbook is designed to handle.
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I do photoshop on mine. It's fine...

Using Exposé with the ACD can be a bit juddery, but apart from that, I can use photoshop, Aperture, surf the net, use data analysis tools and watch porn. It does a lot more than you give it credit to do...
 
koobcamuk said:
I do photoshop on mine. It's fine...

Using Exposé with the ACD can be a bit juddery, but apart from that, I can use photoshop, Aperture, surf the net, use data analysis tools and watch porn. It does a lot more than you give it credit to do...
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big deal. i can do photoshop on a 5 year old pc/apple laptop.
 
Apple has created a buzz over a speed bump.Thats exactly what they want.Either you buy it or you dont.It is still an upgrade.I vistied the apple site 35 times this past hour.Yep they got me.
 
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