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Current MacBook Pro Models Deleted From Best Buy's Inventory System? Updates Imminent?
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Wow, this thread seems to have petered out in the last couple of days. Have folks given up on the new MBPs? I just don't want to give up and settle for an old processor. The cheapest 17" is $1599 open box at MacMall, and it is a 2008 model! Great price, per se, but what if the new ones are priced more in line with current offerings from the windoze world, with up to date cpus? The agony of it all ;(
Perhaps this is only another 'sign' that an update is imminent!?
But yeah... I'm also waiting for fresh n good news!!!
Be prepared to be disappointed. This whole business of an update this week has been going on for months now.
Let the masses get their iPads and associated *****, and then Apple will release the new MB and MBP range.
As much as I want a new MBP, the new lineup isn't likely to be announced this week.
In other words: WWDC.just spoke to an applecare employee and he told me they will be released "sometime in april or may"
No... in your words WWDC.
"Sometime" could mean any Tuesday in April or May. I rather doubt there's some preconceived master plan behind this extended delay. More likely it's due to an unanticipated ECO.
Caution: Rant
im totally hating apple right now... im so sick of waiting...this is ridiculous
there are no other 13.3 laptops out there worth looking at...arg im going crazy
i need to upgrade so bad, but i dont want to just buy an old one and blow it.
cmon apple! OUT WITH IT
AHHGGGGGGGGGGGG *explodes*
im totally hating apple right now... im so sick of waiting...this is ridiculous
there are no other 13.3 laptops out there worth looking at...arg im going crazy
i need to upgrade so bad, but i dont want to just buy an old one and blow it.
cmon apple! OUT WITH IT
AHHGGGGGGGGGGGG
*explodes*
Sure, if they're ready to ship on May 4th then Steve will just lock them up in a Chinese warehouse for another 4 weeks. Forget that the world has been chomping at the bit since mid-February. Forget that WWDC is about *software* development, and that the new iPhone/iPad OS 4.0 will be the focus. Let the markets wait for yet another month for something that's already late. Sure.
just spoke to an applecare employee and he told me they will be released "sometime in april or may"
I'd say take that with a grain of salt.
In my years, i've never known an applecare employee to "give away" any type of insights on product releases. Yes yes... I know its dumb that Apple does not give a heads up about things like this, I can't control that. But just about every (and when I say "just about" I mean all) AC person I speak too, give me the same answer - "We know when it gets announced".
Waiting sucks, but I bet you'll he happy when you have it in your mitts.
yes it is... We we can just sit back and watch the crappy iPad release...iPad has ruined my life...
I think the people on this forum that said apple doesn't want to steal any thunder from the iPad are right. It's so close to the iPad launch. It's gotta be after it.
Which would push it to April.
Which would push it to April.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/837993/
It's interesting that this "corporate event" has disappeared from Moscone's public calendar http://www.moscone.com/site/do/event/list?nav.type=0&nav.filter=1006&nav.base=0912. I suspect Apple asked to have it removed
.Turbo Boos and bios problems!?
As I really don't think that the MBP-update-delay is caused by the iPad launch, I just wanted to throw another update-theory in the ring:
What about the not-yet-fixed turbo boost problem?
A higly renowned german it-mag writes about some problems with bios and the turbo boost of the i5 and i7... They report that Acer - for example - can not provide the full range of turbo boost and Dell even disabled the power-saving function (and with that also the turbo boost). To-date there seems to be NO bios fix for that!!!
So what if apple is having the same problems and for that reason holding back the update (because they want to fix problems before selling, and don't want the customers to be the guinea pigs)!?
Here the link to the article: http://www.heise.de/ct/editorial/ (sorry that it's only available in german)
As I really don't think that the MBP-update-delay is caused by the iPad launch, I just wanted to throw another update-theory in the ring:
What about the not-yet-fixed turbo boost problem?
A higly renowned german it-mag writes about some problems with bios and the turbo boost of the i5 and i7... They report that Acer - for example - can not provide the full range of turbo boost and Dell even disabled the power-saving function (and with that also the turbo boost). To-date there seems to be NO bios fix for that!!!
So what if apple is having the same problems and for that reason holding back the update (because they want to fix problems before selling, and don't want the customers to be the guinea pigs)!?
Here the link to the article: http://www.heise.de/ct/editorial/ (sorry that it's only available in german)