Look on the bright side...
At least MacBook Pro's now show shipping in 24 hours, now that I believe all Intel Macs are shipping within 24 hours its time to roll out another. MacBooks sound mighty fine, even if they had a little wait til they started shipping. I mean, it's just not natural to not have one mac (especially a Intel one) with shipping estimate of more then 24 hours, now is it? But then again, the refurb. MBP's are 1699 and I think the MacBooks will hit that sweet 1000-1300 dollar price range perfect for struggling students and budget buyers. The big question is if Apple can pull off a dual-core MacBook for under 1300, or better yet - a MacBook core-something for under a grand. One other thing that I'll be watching is to see if they can retain those 6 hour battery times on these new machines that they had on the old iBooks or if it'll be like the MacBook Pro's. The last gen powerbooks apparently got 5+ hours and I only get about 3+ myself. I don't think potential-iBook owners/buyers will look kindly on seeing there baby go from 6 hours to 4 or less hours, regardless of some improvement boosts. Although they will be noticible boosts since most people who will run "pro apps" that arn't universal yet (Adobe moreso, microsoft isn't demanding and runs just fine under rosetta so says nearly every review I've read). That being the case, at least they shouldn't get that whole "it doesn't run creastive suite 2 fast enough" whine that we saw on the MacBook Pro's because it's a "pro" computer unable to run "pro apps" natively. Although now we got Final Cut Studio, although if that's all that comes this first week of April, I'll be mightily dissapointed... I would like to see a higher capacity nano though, that way we might see a 4-gig nano for 199. One more thing (ha, get it?), why haven't we seen refurbished 5th-Gen iPod's or iPod Nanos in the refurb. store yet although we're already seeing refurb. intel iMacs and MacBook Pros (and I'm sure it's not much longer until we see the new minis in there as well)? Does anyone know?? 😕
