College Students: buying penryn or waiting for montevina?

[Yixian]

If releases of different products are spread out, then Apple prevents any sort of competition between its own products. While this may seem unrealistic, it does exist.

Your point about the five-month delay is a good one. However, the July 14th release is apparently just an initial update. According to this article, we won't see the low-power Montevina version until the fall. If this is true, then Apple may wait for later versions to put in the laptops.

Maybe for the MacBooks, but all the MacBook Pro competitors are being updated to Montevina in the next month or two, many of them being announced on July 14th itself.

Apple is on the forefront in all aspects other than GPU with it's notebooks, it'd be highly unusual to let the competition gain a 3 or 4 month advantage in processor for the first time ever.

 

[Shot22]

Apple is on the forefront in all aspects other than GPU with it's notebooks, it'd be highly unusual to let the competition gain a 3 or 4 month advantage in processor for the first time ever.

That's very true. And I hope you're right. But, still, I don't see how Apple can forego the opportunity to sell the current laptops during the Back to School Promotion.

On a side note, what does Apple do with the laptops that become retired? Do they donate them somewhere or something?

 

[Fenir]

That's very true. And I hope you're right. But, still, I don't see how Apple can forego the opportunity to sell the current laptops during the Back to School Promotion.

On a side note, what does Apple do with the laptops that become retired? Do they donate them somewhere or something?

I was told in another thread they get put on refurbs

 

[Tallest Skil]

On a side note, what does Apple do with the laptops that become retired? Do they donate them somewhere or something?

Refurbished.

 

[Wolf04]

I finished my 1st year of university in May and my 5-year old Toshiba barely made it through. I used this Toshiba all through high school and I think it's time for a new laptop. Since I'm in my break, it's pointless to get a new laptop now but at the same time, I want the free iPod Touch, so I will be waiting until early September, maybe just a few days before school starts and buy whatever is available then, so I can still get my free Touch.

I have this feeling that Apple will update just after the promotion is over (along side the new iPods), so if they don't update the new MBPs during the promotion, I'm thinking to keep the MBP unopened and then return it after to get the new MBP (but of course, keep the Touch at the same time).

 

[rockthecasbah]

I bought Penryn, sold the iPod to make it cost less, and I will have a wonderful machine definitely ready for my term in the fall... I won't utilize the minor performance boost enough to justify waiting and paying for a costlier computer (figure selling the iPod into helping pay for it )

 

[yellowmuffins]

I'm still torn on whether I should wait a little more. I'm using a regular macbook right now that I plan to give my sister once I go pro. My only concern is that they will release the new mbps after the student promotions :-( I'm not concerned about too much about the actual chip, i just really want a redesign on the case and a keyboard just like the mba's.

 

[Stang68]

I'm still torn on whether I should wait a little more. I'm using a regular macbook right now that I plan to give my sister once I go pro. My only concern is that they will release the new mbps after the student promotions :-( I'm not concerned about too much about the actual chip, i just really want a redesign on the case and a keyboard just like the mba's.

Well, I am willing to say that they most likely will not release the new MBP during the B2S promotion. Youre gonna have to wait til its over.

 

[Yixian]

I'd actually be quite surprised if Apple DIDN'T release the new MBPs before the end of the Back to School deal. Regardless of the processor inside, Apple wants to sell it's notebooks to students. It'll have sold probably the bulk of current MBP stock in mere weeks or months, and I'm sure they use BTS as a launch pad for Montevina sales. They've done it before.