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Core 2 Duo MacBooks, MacBook Pros In November?
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I do doubt it would happen but hey I wouldn't mind. as I spec'd it out online while I was talking to the edu sales rep he said that his computer said 3 weeks. They are not ever told anything about new releases so he was confused why his showed taking so long as mine was 1-3 days. and still is today
noservice2001 said:
It's like asking "isn't it already past midnight"? It's always already past midnight somewhere in the world.
It is already intel core 2 duo, but it is not an Apple notebook.
dillacom said:
The Apple Store for Educational Institutions (not for individuals with an educational discount) shows much longer shipping times for the macbooks and macbook pros. The store for individuals using student/faculty discounts for personal use is inline with the regular stores with regards to shipping times. Some have suggested that this was seen with the imac in the weeks leading up to the core 2 duo update. You can try this out for yourself by selecting apple store for education from the right hand side of the Apple store and then selecting the "college or university proposal" option on the right hand set of options. You can then choose a school (try zip code 01003 and choose the university of massachusetts for an example). It then puts you into the store for institutional purchases and you will see longer ship times. It may be that they are clearing out inventory through individual sales channels rather than areas that will see bulk orders.
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Ship dates
On the point of 3rd Nov ship dates, over the last month or so people have reported being shipped products long before the estimated ship date. Though your right the dates do align with what the stars are telling us
i hope they come soon....
On the point of 3rd Nov ship dates, over the last month or so people have reported being shipped products long before the estimated ship date. Though your right the dates do align with what the stars are telling us
i hope they come soon....
So my "educated guesses" are probably like most other people's:
I say sooner rather than later -- next week (October 26 or 27), if not the week after. I can't see how they would do this on purpose. I mean they probably had the C2Ds at the same time (if not earlier) than Dell, HP, etc., so why are they later in releasing notebooks?
My guess now is they fell behind schedule in the update (because they have a new enclosure, otherwise I my understanding is that it would be an easy update)
But I can't see it being any time after Thanksgiving (November 24), since that's when Christmas shopping starts.
Of course they have MWSF in January, and they've announced new products at that regularly, but the delay there would be pretty bad: Dell ships in September, Apple ships in January?
I'm not sure how informed this all is, but this is my guessing. (I've guessed "this week, it has to be this week" in my head since at least the start of October.)
- New enclosure of some sort for MBP
- Some time before Thanksgiving
I say sooner rather than later -- next week (October 26 or 27), if not the week after. I can't see how they would do this on purpose. I mean they probably had the C2Ds at the same time (if not earlier) than Dell, HP, etc., so why are they later in releasing notebooks?
My guess now is they fell behind schedule in the update (because they have a new enclosure, otherwise I my understanding is that it would be an easy update)
But I can't see it being any time after Thanksgiving (November 24), since that's when Christmas shopping starts.
Of course they have MWSF in January, and they've announced new products at that regularly, but the delay there would be pretty bad: Dell ships in September, Apple ships in January?
I'm not sure how informed this all is, but this is my guessing. (I've guessed "this week, it has to be this week" in my head since at least the start of October.)
I really don't think they're coming until 2007...we've been saying next Tuesday since WWDC, its plain and simple...it won't happen, they updated their entire line except for notebooks in a short few months, I doubt they will update anything else this year.
aly said:On the point of 3rd Nov ship dates, over the last month or so people have reported being shipped products long before the estimated ship date. Though your right the dates do align with what the stars are telling us
For months now people have had ship dates that were on or near a Tuesday and for months now people have concluded that that must mean new MBPs on that date.
No luck so far.
Just to add fuel to the fire:
13th Oct: Ordered a fully loaded 17" MBP (plus other items that were immediately available) from the Apple Store France. Ordered online with an anticipated dispatch time of 5 days.
15th Oct: Order confirmed, with dispatch date of 19th Oct for delivery on 27th October.
Yesterday mid morning (19th Oct): Spoke to a charming lady at the Apple Store France, who confirmed that, as far as the system was showing, my order was scheduled for departure later that day.
Yesterday evening (9:14 pm) Apple sent me an email informing me that, due to actual demand exceeding stock, the anticipated dispatch date for my MBP was now the 9th Nov, for delivery on the 17th.......
Does this mean the public unveiling of the much evolved C2D MBP on the 7th Nov?
C2D, 4mb L2cache, 4Gb RAM, 250GB HD @ 7200rpm (perhaps a little ambitious..), Apple version of SR chipset/front side bus running at 1Ghz, please ............. oh, and a graphics card worthy of the above!
13th Oct: Ordered a fully loaded 17" MBP (plus other items that were immediately available) from the Apple Store France. Ordered online with an anticipated dispatch time of 5 days.
15th Oct: Order confirmed, with dispatch date of 19th Oct for delivery on 27th October.
Yesterday mid morning (19th Oct): Spoke to a charming lady at the Apple Store France, who confirmed that, as far as the system was showing, my order was scheduled for departure later that day.
Yesterday evening (9:14 pm) Apple sent me an email informing me that, due to actual demand exceeding stock, the anticipated dispatch date for my MBP was now the 9th Nov, for delivery on the 17th.......
Does this mean the public unveiling of the much evolved C2D MBP on the 7th Nov?
C2D, 4mb L2cache, 4Gb RAM, 250GB HD @ 7200rpm (perhaps a little ambitious..), Apple version of SR chipset/front side bus running at 1Ghz, please ............. oh, and a graphics card worthy of the above!
Izaro said:
1. Based on experience with the iMac, Apple's policy seems to be not to sell systems with more RAM than will be available to applications. Until Santa Rosa arrives, the maximum RAM available to applications looks to be 3.2GB. Since I don't think that Apple will develop its own chipset (due to the high cost of developing, producing, and supporting an independent chipset), I predict that no Macbook Pro will be offered with more than 3GB until Santa Rosa arrives next year.
2. 250GB notebook (2.5") HDs don't exist (and certainly not 7200RPM 250 GB notebook HDs). At present the biggest notebook HDs available are 160GB in size and run at 5400RPM.
3. Since I think it is very unlikely that Apple will develop its own chipset (as mentioned above) and even Santa Rose will introduce only a 800MHz FSB, I think you can also forget the 1000MHz FSB chipset.
ariechel said:
Actualyl, Fujitsu just announced a 200GB 2.5" SATA drive (model #MHV2200BT). It is only 4200 RPM and slow as hell. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/10/12/fujitsus_mhv2200bt/
I don't understand, with the advent of perpendicular recording, why we don't have 200+GB 7200RPM drives! I have a 100GB 7200RPM HD that has been out since I bought my laptop (circa May 2005). 1-1/2 years later, it is STILL the largest capacity 7200RPM 2.5" HD out there. WTF???
Macbooks out of stock
I've been trying to get a macbook from Micro Anvika in London (has business ac with them) for the last few weeks. Today when I asked when they will have more in stock I was told they are waiting for the new macbooks???
I've been trying to get a macbook from Micro Anvika in London (has business ac with them) for the last few weeks. Today when I asked when they will have more in stock I was told they are waiting for the new macbooks???
They just don't want to get stuck with stock. They're no more informed then us.honeyshape said:
I'm curious... for those of you (us) that think there will be a new enclosure for the MBP: what do you think we're looking at here? I guess all the stuff from the MacBook: swappable hard drive, magnetic latch, magnetic power cord, maybe a new keyboard.
Anything else?
I can't think of how they could improve, but that's often the case. (Plus I don't own one yet, so I don't know all the little annoyances.)
Anything else?
I can't think of how they could improve, but that's often the case. (Plus I don't own one yet, so I don't know all the little annoyances.)
ariechel said:
Yes, realistically I agree with you: The end of my post was intended more as a tongue-in-cheek 'wish list' than a rational assessment of the next apple MBP model.
But, no harm in dreaming.....
good question, i wonder this myself. maybe lighter? thinner? black? a little faster processor?BillyShears said:
ShnikeJSB said:
I've actually got one of those drives in a Toshiba P105, and although it isn't a speed demon, I wouldn't really describe it as "slow as hell". It still seems to handle things pretty well, especially for a 4200rpm drive at that capacity.
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