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Do you think the MacBook Pro's need a design update?

These people clamoring for the demise of Ethernet must think it's 2030 and wires have gone the way of the Dodo bird. I mean, am I the only one left who prefers to use a cable connection to the internet than wireless? I like the speed :). And the security is nice, as well.


WardC said:
In this day and age, you only need on-board ethernet if you are a server or if you are on a fiber backbone OC connection...
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You sound like that Popular Mechanics writer who wrote the United States would be producing flying cars by 1975? Are you? Are you slowly drifting away from reality?......
 
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Ethernet is a must for me. I live in an apartment and Wifi doesn't reach to my room. If you don't use Ethernet; that doesn't mean others don't.

As for the design, i like it but won't mind a change. Apple always make beautiful product so it doesn't matter to me.
 
Yes. Go back to the pre-unibody macs. Dang those ones were sexy.

Hate the way my current 2010 looks.
 
Just be thankful you all have macs at all. Compared to the ugly PC laptops on the market both mac designs look fantastic.
 
gngan said:
Ethernet is a must for me. I live in an apartment and Wifi doesn't reach to my room. If you don't use Ethernet; that doesn't mean others don't.

As for the design, i like it but won't mind a change. Apple always make beautiful product so it doesn't matter to me.
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You know if Apple did do away with the Ethernet port you could use an ethernet to USB adaptor. It would be a suitable idea, as the masses don't need ethernet, but there would still be an option for those who do?
 
mrsir2009 said:
You know if Apple did do away with the Ethernet port you could use an ethernet to USB adaptor. It would be a suitable idea, as the masses don't need ethernet, but there would still be an option for those who do?
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Last thing I want is another dongle to carry around, lose or forget. It is already pain enough that I have to have a VGA adapter for projectors in meeting rooms when all the PC folks just plug and play.

There is nothing esoteric about ethernet.:(
 
Alright, this is my response to all you people:

1. Ethernet port is a necessity!! And besides that, I LOVE the precise fit of the ethernet connector to the ethernet port and I LOVE that click!! :)

2. Please, no wedge shapes. I hate the wedge shapes of PC laptops.

3. Dear Apple, please put the ethernet port and the AC adapter port on the SAME side of the machine. I don't care which side they're on as long as they're on the SAME side!!
 
Merkava_4 said:
Alright, this is my response to all you people:

1. Ethernet port is a necessity!! And besides that, I LOVE the precise fit of the ethernet connector to the ethernet port and I LOVE that click!! :)

2. Please, no wedge shapes. I hate the wedge shapes of PC laptops.

3. Dear Apple, please put the ethernet port and the AC adapter port on the SAME side of the machine. I don't care which side they're on as long as they're on the SAME side!!
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Umm, all the ports are on the same side...
 
aCondor said:
These people clamoring for the demise of Ethernet must think it's 2030 and wires have gone the way of the Dodo bird. I mean, am I the only one left who prefers to use a cable connection to the internet than wireless? I like the speed :). And the security is nice, as well.




You sound like that Popular Mechanics writer who wrote the United States would be producing flying cars by 1975? Are you? Are you slowly drifting away from reality?......
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For desktops, yes, ethernet is needed and is a better option. But, how can you use your laptop on your lap when its plugged into an ethernet port? Perhaps if you have a really long cable...
 
mrsir2009 said:
For desktops, yes, ethernet is needed and is a better option. But, how can you use your laptop on your lap when its plugged into an ethernet port? Perhaps if you have a really long cable...
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But not every notebook or laptop is being used on the lap of someone, most often it is used on a desk of some kind.
Where I work, there were many Mac notebooks and for 99% of the time they were sitting on the desk in front of the person using it, making it feasible using one of the many Ethernet cables lying around there, though only one person used, the one using the server the most, as even 100 Mbit/s was faster transferring files to the server than the measly 11Mbit/s W-LAN we have.
 
mrsir2009 said:
For desktops, yes, ethernet is needed and is a better option. But, how can you use your laptop on your lap when its plugged into an ethernet port? Perhaps if you have a really long cable...
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I don't think I am an exception, but I rarely use my MacBook Pro on my laptop. It is:

70% - on my desk or at home plugged into ethernet, an external monitor and keyboard

25% - in a meeting on a table plugged into ethernet

5% - on my "laptop" in the living room, airport, etc. -- this the only time I use wireless
 
simsaladimbamba said:
But not every notebook or laptop is being used on the lap of someone, most often it is used on a desk of some kind.
Where I work, there were many Mac notebooks and for 99% of the time they were sitting on the desk in front of the person using it, making it feasible using one of the many Ethernet cables lying around there, though only one person used, the one using the server the most, as even 100 Mbit/s was faster transferring files to the server than the measly 11Mbit/s W-LAN we have.
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Is the reason you guys have laptops then so you can take it to work and such, but not actually to use it on your lap as the name implies?
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Maybe mrsir2009 thought you were talking about the Unibody, as it seems to be the threads main topic, and the Unibody design, except for the MBAs has its ports on the left side.
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Yes sir ... how dare I throw my filthy old 2007 MBP into this squeaky clean Unibody thread. Please find a way to forgive me. :eek:
 
mrsir2009 said:
Is the reason you guys have laptops then so you can take it to work and such, but not actually to use it on your lap as the name implies?
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Actually, a laptop is very versatile and can be used in a variety of positions and places, the lap only being one of them.
I have had several laptops since 2001, around six or so, and I only used them maybe for ten percent of my time using them on my lap, the most being at a friends house playing some MOH sitting on a couch.

As I don't know if you are sarcastic or not, laptops can also be called notebooks, and notebooks in paper form can also be used on a desk or any other hard surface, therefore one could assume, that a laptop might have that functionality too, and I was surprised it had it, otherwise editing dozens of hours of footage and writing hundreds of pages of papers and surfing thousands of porn sites while the laptop being used in my lap, especially when surfing porn, would have been a pain in the neck.


Merkava_4 said:
Yes sir ... how dare I throw my filthy old 2007 MBP into this squeaky clean Unibody thread. Please find a way to forgive me. :eek:
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NO. I actually hope Apple uses all four sides for ports again, the front for audio and one or two USB ports, the left side for USB and Firewire, the right side for all memory cards, except SDHX of course, and the back for Ethernet and power and maybe one or two USB ports.

And if your MBP is that filthy, be glad if it does talk dirty.
 
I'd kill for a Macbook Air -like design. Get rid of SuperDrive, get rid of ethernet, make it thin. Throw in Sandy Bridge, a discrete GPU, SSD and up to 8GB of RAM and I'd line up day one for the 15" inch.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Maybe mrsir2009 thought you were talking about the Unibody, as it seems to be the threads main topic, and the Unibody design, except for the MBAs has its ports on the left side.
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No, I thought he was asking Apple to put the ethernet port and the AC adaptor on the same side, when they are on the same side in the current MBPs, so why he's asking, I don't know :p
 
Honestly? No. Other then the softening of the ridge for some less emo wrist cutting, I'm quite happy where the design is at the moment.
 
NintendoFan said:
I'd kill for a Macbook Air -like design. Get rid of SuperDrive, get rid of ethernet, make it thin. Throw in Sandy Bridge, a discrete GPU, SSD and up to 8GB of RAM and I'd line up day one for the 15" inch.
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You can't make it thin and put a discrete GPU in it. There's this thing called cooling that's kind of necessary.
 
There is very little chance of Apple changing the design of the unibody MBP in the next refresh IMO they have too much money tied up in the tooling/production of the current design.

It may well go the way of the air in the future but I can`t see Apple basically producing an "Airbook Pro" right now.

And, as someone said earlier, you can have my ethernet port when you prize it from my cold, dead fingers. No ethernet would be a dealbreaker for me and anyone else who has to work in a professional environment.
 
Specs, specs and more specs please! :) Design is nice... but redesign only to fit the tech specs!
 
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