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Early 2008 MacBook Pro Whispers

penryn & dell!!!

Hi this is my first post to the forums, waiting as is everyone for any new powerbooks, in looking for news have just spotted on engadget.com dell xpsm1330 laptop is now available with Penryn t9500 as BTO, this appears on their US website!!
Hopefully means cannot be long now for powerbook update??:eek:
 
mickeys said:
I understand the staff not being told future plans, but if they can't afford to hire fanboys there then they're missing out half the selling power. (Damn, make me a reasonable offer and I'll work there. I've only been doing Macs since the 512k.) To not even have a clue...
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That's beem more or less my experience at two of the stores here in the Boulder area.

When the "creatives" ask me if I have any questions, I reply with "Yes! When are the new MBPs coming out?" I know they don't know, but it's fun to hear their answer. If you ask two employees, you will get three different answers.

One guy even said "Oh, any day now. MacWorld's coming up pretty soon and I heard they're going to introduce them then." That was two days AFTER MacWorld had ended. Crikey...

And if you have a question about Logic, fahgeddaboudit.
 
steve may said:
Hi this is my first post to the forums, waiting as is everyone for any new powerbooks, in looking for news have just spotted on engadget.com dell xpsm1330 laptop is now available with Penryn t9500 as BTO, this appears on their US website!!
Hopefully means cannot be long now for powerbook update??:eek:
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COME ON!?!?!?!

Powerbook? It's been about 2 years already and i know that powerbook sounds much better than MacBook Pro.... but..... it's called the MacBook Pro now :( So... let's just get comfortable with it.
 
Yep you are so right, mac book pro, blushing or what!! But what about the Dell/Penryn info? or have I managed to kick myself in the butt first time on the forums???:eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
I'm very thankful to have not one but two Apple stores near-by; downtown San Francisco and Stonestown Mall. Both are staffed with genuinely nice people, some of whom even really know their stuff. (Some of the Genius Bar staff and repair folks really know their stuff.) But the vast majority are just salesfolk, who did hard drives at CompUSA two years ago, and encyclopedia sales last year, and whatever Apple tells them to sell this year.

They're nice, and can generally recite the brochures back at you, but that's not really of much help to our niche group.

My Dad, a long-time Mac user but still a generally clueless user, absolutely loves their One-On-One program. I'm thankful for that as well :)

I just wish they'd place the hiring bar just a wee bit higher. But I guess whatever pennies they don't spend on staff goes into that $18 BN kitty the company keeps for rebuffing hostile takeovers, so that's the tradeoff for having Apple get bought by H-P or someone absolutely horrendous.

Summary: thankful, but still hoping for better. Oh, and a quick release for that new MBP.
 
steve may said:
Yep you are so right, mac book pro, blushing or what!! But what about the Dell/Penryn info? or have I managed to kick myself in the butt first time on the forums???:eek::eek::eek::eek:
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Don't worry man, I was just over-reacting. I refuse to say MacBook Air and have sworn by AirBook from now on.

As for the Penryn Dells, which I haven't personally looked for myself, they were expected. Dell and other PC vendors love beating Apple to the punch with announced, buyable, and projected hardware, but never shipped hardware. HP was doing the same thing with the new Xeon Chips from Intel. They allowed users to purchase the machine in December and spec it out however they wanted it, but it wouldn't ship until January 15th, the same day as MacWorld, and around the same time the MacPro was announced.

So the Penryn Dells are great, because Apple will either release their updated and hopefully redesigned MBP soon, or they won't do anything we want them to do and that they should do and we will be waiting for an update for GOD knows how long.
 
mickeys said:
At the main San Francisco Apple Store, yesterday, Wed 6 Feb 2007:



Seriously. It was like that Star Trek TNG episode with the dimwits who keep repeating "We're smart". Sigh. For a moment I thought they were kidding me, then I realized they really didn't have a clue.

This is one of Apple's flagship stores (the others being NYC and London, IIRC). I understand the staff not being told future plans, but if they can't afford to hire fanboys there then they're missing out half the selling power. (Damn, make me a reasonable offer and I'll work there. I've only been doing Macs since the 512k.) To not even have a clue...
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I asked a guy in the mac store in SLC if they had Halo, and he didn't know what Halo was. :eek:
 
Digital Skunk said:
COME ON!?!?!?!

Powerbook? It's been about 2 years already and i know that powerbook sounds much better than MacBook Pro.... but..... it's called the MacBook Pro now :( So... let's just get comfortable with it.
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Aw, go easy on him. ;) Its his first post, and not everyone knows everything.
 
Digital Skunk said:
I KNOW BROTHER TELL ME ABOUT IT! :mad:

Starting to have hardware withdrawls over here.
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"hardware withdrawals" that was so funny:D:D:D...

me, i;m suffering from depression, anxiety, & drooling...Steve-i'll send you my favorite dish, i'll grease up really good, i'll wash your car for a week...just give us what we want!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
nVIDIA 9500M GPU

Probalby another reason they were waiting before getting the MBP out: http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/08/nvidia_posts_specs_of_geforce_9m_series/

They already seem to be sent out to OEMs since Asus just came out with 2 laptops sporting that chip!

Exact Same thing as the 8600... just a new name!!!!!!!! That sucks!
Hope they go for a faster model instead then!

9500M and 8600M Specs
NVIDIA® Unified Architecture

* Unified shader architecture
* GigaThread™ technology
* Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
o Geometry shaders
o Geometry instancing
o Streamed output
o Shader Model 4.0
* Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline

NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine

* 16x full screen anti-aliasing
* Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
* 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
* 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
o 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
* Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
* Support for normal map compression
* Z-cull
* Early-Z

NVIDIA SLI® Technology1

* Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today's top titles.

NVIDIA PureVideo® HD Technology 2

* Dedicated on-chip video processor
* High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
* Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
* HDCP capable 3
* Noise Reduction
* Edge Enhancement
* Bad Edit Correction
* Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
* High-quality scaling
* Video color correction
* Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support


Advanced Display Functionality

* Dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600
* Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
* Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i/1080p resolution
* NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability
* 10-bit display processing

Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™

* Full DirectX 10 support (see above similar comment)
* Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface
* VMR-based video architecture

High Speed Interfaces

* Designed for PCI Express® x16
* Designed for high-speed GDDR3 & cost-competitive DDR2 memory

Operating Systems

* Built for Microsoft Windows Vista
* Windows XP/Windows XP 64
* Linux

API Support

* Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0
* Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.1
 
I do wish macrumors would update their news post to something to the extent of "Oops, we were wrong. Could be some other Tuesday." Instead of "We believe this information to be accurate, the MBPs are already out lol."
 
Mr. Funsocks said:
I do wish macrumors would update their news post to something to the extent of "Oops, we were wrong. Could be some other Tuesday." Instead of "We believe this information to be accurate, the MBPs are already out lol."
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Yes, you are right. We won't see the new MacBook Pros until December 2009. :eek:
Macrumors, change your rumors on the MacBook Pros. :D
 
I don't think they'll release a new MacBook Pro before June 2008.

Currently, there's not much that could be updated: Slightly faster CPUs (but remember, there has recently been an update for 2.6 GHz) and a MultiTouch touchpad (if that requires more than a software update). Big deal.

However, in June, there'll be new chipsets (Montevina), new nVidia GPUs (9500M), affordable BluRay drives, and - available as an option - larger SSD drives.
 
angevil said:
Apple should really UPDATE their Macbook Pro! I mean, look at this?

http://www.pclaunches.com/notebooks...nd_tp2series_with_intel_penryn_and_bluray.php

I don`t want to buy an expensive MBP to get less then this!
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AR60's a Sony system, of course it has Blu Ray. Apple may support it but they're not going to jump on the format until it truly "takes" - the onus is on Sony to push the format first, it's a risky undertaking.


3247 said:
I don't think they'll release a new MacBook Pro before June 2008.

Currently, there's not much that could be updated: Slightly faster CPUs (but remember, there has recently been an update for 2.6 GHz) and a MultiTouch touchpad (if that requires more than a software update). Big deal.
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I'm inclined to agree - it's feeling more and more like those extra "tweaks" offered in November were to pacify a long wait.
 
dmb3886 said:
it comes standard with 512 VRAM..thats kinda nice..
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I second that. Very nice specs for current technology. Let's hope that Apple actually tries to catch up with the competition before June.

I remember when Santa Rosa was in the works. Everyone told us to wait for Penryn. Now Penryn is coming out and everyone is telling us to wait for Monteniva.... go figure.

This is still the sexiest ultra portable laptop on the market. AND it gives you far more options and an internal optical drive.
 

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Digital Skunk said:
I second that. Very nice specs for current technology. Let's hope that Apple actually tries to catch up with the competition before June.

I remember when Santa Rosa was in the works. Everyone told us to wait for Penryn. Now Penryn is coming out and everyone is telling us to wait for Monteniva.... go figure.

This is still the sexiest ultra portable laptop on the market. AND it gives you far more options and an internal optical drive.
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Sexy is not a word I would use to describe that. It looks like a giant door hinge. It's apaulling.
 
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