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OMG!!! So much new info!!! LOL.

I really need to go do something else, and then go to bed. Even though I have no intention of getting one of these, I am so hyped! I'm hoping this refresh will give a bit of an insight into where Apple sees the MBP going, and will show what my Sandy Bridge MBP will be like.

Still hoping for an AMD HD 5830 GPU HAHA!
 
Core i7, 256GB SSD, Blu-Ray, and a 5830 GPU in a 13".

Sony can do it, so I know Apple can, too. I would GLADLY drop $2000 on such a configuration.
 
Yes, usually, but if you purchased between early Nov 09 and Christmas, you had until January 10 to return; plus, you get an additional 2-3 weeks after Apple generates a return label to ship back.

All in all, I've had my macbook for 3 months (purchased Nov), will return this week, and buy a newly updated MBP.

I bet it doesn't work. Good luck.
 
I would also prefer to have those things, but I feel that Apple would first aim at slimming down even more... which I don't really care about. I would love to see a RAID'ed SSD MBP though... sweeeeeeeeeeeeet

LOL, I 99% agree with you but you really have to ask yourself how much we need the Superdrive. At one point I didn't like the MBA because it didn't have one until I actually watched how I used my Mac. I've used it maybe 5 times in the past two years and the 1% was for other peoples' needs.

I could see Apple making it thinner, like you, but it would be really close to competing with the MBA.

Core i7, 256GB SSD, Blu-Ray, and a 5830 GPU in a 13".

Sony can do it, so I know Apple can, too. I would GLADLY drop $2000 on such a configuration.

Keep dreaming about Blu-Ray, you'll never see it. Apple wants to promote iTunes and they see downloadable content as the future which is true…eventually. I hope the 13" has some good specs but don't expect the customizations that you get with Windows products.
 
Keep dreaming about Blu-Ray, you'll never see it. Apple wants to promote iTunes and they see downloadable content as the future which is true…eventually. I hope the 13" has some good specs but don't expect the customizations that you get with Windows products.

Yeah I'll be SHOCKED if they release Blu-Ray given that they want HD content to be purchased through iTunes

Also, Sony get's to put a Blu-Ray disc in everything cheap because... well... they basically own Blu-Ray :p
 
Ok so the UK refurbished store has nearly all versions/specs of the existing range in stock. I have been checking for months and never seen that
 
I too am going to speak for the "BLU-RAY won't happen" camp. There's just no way it's going to happen, especially not with this refresh. I also would like to see them get rid of the Superdrive, which isn't something I thought to be a good idea until I really thought about my usage of it. An SD OS installation would be great but then the notebooks would most likely be modified to have SD slots on all new versions, and the OS would still be sold on a disc until Apple decides to discontinue that as it did OS upgrades for PPC.

I'm hoping for tomorrow to be the day, like most everyone else, and I'm pretty confident in speculating Optimus will be on board. Even a $100 drop across models would be great but I think it doubtful. It would certainly make it easier to justify the extra couple hundred for the mid-range 15-inch instead over the base.
 
Before people get carried away when they see ATI 5XXX chips, remember, if it's not a 5830 at least then Apple has once again pulled a fast one on you. That card is small enough and cool enough to fit in a MBP, the only possibly reason Apple could have to give us anything less is...


Duh duh duuh!... Profit margins.

As if they weren't high enough already.



Someone mentioned an HD 5630 before? That's like, a couple % faster than the current 9600M. Would be an utter disappointment.



^ Everything above is in relation to the 15" and 17" MBPs
 
I would love to buy a new MBP, but i can't do it until they have a model with Blu-Ray.

sorry apple, i love your products, but need BD in it.

will wait until its offered.
 
i'm not normally like this but ..

OMG PLEAZE UPDATE TEH 13" MBP !!!

yuck. that felt weird.

anyway, my 12" PB 1.33 GHz is nearly 6 years old. It's been a trusty workhorse but battery #2 is shot, it's running on 10.4, and I'm ready to buy the next 13" MBP. Mmm, delicious unibody.

although, there's nothing really wrong with the 12" PB. it still works fine. I'd like to see a 6 year old Dell say the same.

My brother has a Dell from 2002, works great! (in your face)
:D
 
I would love to buy a new MBP, but i can't do it until they have a model with Blu-Ray.

sorry apple, i love your products, but need BD in it.

will wait until its offered.

THen you might as well wait forever.
If you're that desperate, do what I did - buy a slim external bluray drive. And then for playback, you have NO other option but to bootcamp into Windows. And that is why bluray is a bag of hurt.
 
This is going to haunt me until they are released....I really want my first ever mac to be a 13" Core i5/7 MBP with hopefully 4GB RAM as the base model...
 
THen you might as well wait forever.
If you're that desperate, do what I did - buy a slim external bluray drive. And then for playback, you have NO other option but to bootcamp into Windows. And that is why bluray is a bag of hurt.

It's a bag of hurt because Apple has sat on their butts. Steve Jobs makes it hard to be an Apple fan sometimes.
 
It's a bag of hurt because Apple has sat on their butts. Steve Jobs makes it hard to be an Apple fan sometimes.

Totally. I have held out for 3 years waiting for a quad core laptop with bluray, but my iMac has died and now I have to buy one even though I'm more certain now that this MBP revision will have neither quad-core nor bluray than I have been for about 4 revisions.

Never in all the time I have been following Apple have they held out on including a feature as long as bluray. Being a year or two behind your rivals damages the perceived value of a machine far more than denying half your "pro" line a dedicated gfx card so you can cut the prices a little could ever possibly compensate for.

Hopefully, in a couple of revisions, MBPs will have quad-core, bluray, light peak, usb3, fw3200 etc., across the board and then they won't seem such poor value, but not this year.
 
Hi everyone, New to the Mac scene so i have a couple of questions if people have the time.

I'm going to America for holidays in May, and so wanting to buy a macbook and save a bit of money on the exchange rate from here in the UK. Would the new specs of macbooks be in the stores at this point and furthermore, what would people recommend? I was thinking of the 13" macbook pro but maybe tempted to go for the 15" if people recommend it.

Thanks.
 
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