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Full Laptop Refresh By Holidays?

generik said:
Who wants to guess how many MBPs they will sell in March '07?

For once I really hope Microsoft steals some marketshare in the mp3 arena from the iPod. Others have to work for their cash, perhaps Apple should too.
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Umm...yeah, I mean Apple has just had everything handed to them. They've never gone through hard times...it's M$ who has had all the hardships. I feel so sorry for them, Gates has put so much into the company, and still can't get out of the poor house... :rolleyes:
 
ShadowHunter said:
Aside from a select few, most reports and shipping times I've seen almost leaves Merom in near vapor-ware territory right now.)?
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Are you sure? I remember checking dell's site a week or so ago and they had pretty quick shipping times quoted. Also, aren't C2D notebooks in most retail stores by now too? Correct me if I'm wrong, b/c the wait will be a lot more bearable if I know that Apple isn't too far behind the pack.
 
shecky said:
an April 7th update would be ONE YEAR between updates. There is absolutely NO WAY IN HELL apple will wait for one entire year to update their flagship portable.
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And that was just a modest speed bump. It will have been more than a year since the release of the MBP. April doesn't makes sense.

bryanc said:
I'm as eager as anyone for a merom-upgrade to the notebook line, and given the obvious high level of interest in the market place, I can't imagine that Apple is happy about being the last manufacturer to get such a product onto the market. But one of the things I appreciate about Apple's products is that they are generally well-designed and well-tested, making them generally very reliable. I would much prefer them to do the design and QA work necessary to ensure the the merom MBP is a reliable, high-performance notebook computer, even if this means coming to market a month behind their competitors, than have them slap the new chip into the existing MBP, and hope not too many of them overheat.

Apple has a reputation for selling high-quality, well-designed products. They have had some notable QA issues of late, and I'm sure that they want to preserve their hard-won reputation, so they can't afford more wide-spread 'issues' with their products.
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This just makes the most logical sense to me as any argument posted. If you look at where they are as compared to where they've come from (<OS 9), and how they've gotten there (it wasn't by being stupid), it just seems that there has to be more going on here than a simple CPU swap.
 
Congrats to those of you that said screw it to the waiting game early on. I wish I got a MBP in July now. That way I could have enjoyed it all summer while the workload was relatively light.

Even though i want to, giving in this late in the game isn't worth it for me b/c I'm convinced that the release is in just weeks, and I don't want all that waiting to have been for nothing. :(
 
shecky said:
actually, its 8 minutes until 9AM EST when the store typically goes down - and then another 3 hours until 9AM PST when the store also typically goes down.

so ya never know.
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The UK store, as well as most of Europe has ALWAYS been offline by now. The US is store is often the last to go offline.

When Appleinsider said updates for the "hoidays" Did they mean Christmas?
 
ct-scan said:
Umm...yeah, I mean Apple has just had everything handed to them. They've never gone through hard times...it's M$ who has had all the hardships. I feel so sorry for them :rolleyes:
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Yeah...me too. ;)
 
someone needs to create a webpage with live status of the Apple Store so we'll know when the store goes down... without refreshing it 50000 times in 10 minutes...
 
yoshe200 said:
someone needs to create a webpage with live status of the Apple Store so we'll know when the store goes down... without refreshing it 50000 times in 10 minutes...
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Or a widget. :)
 
yoshe200 said:
someone needs to create a webpage with live status of the Apple Store so we'll know when the store goes down... without refreshing it 50000 times in 10 minutes...
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Actually, I wrote a program and website to track the status of the site - when it goes down, when an update happens, how long it was down for, and what new items were added when it comes back up.

I'm currently testing it, and it seems to be working as it caught the red Nano update fine. However, I need to wait until the store actually does go down so I can verify it tracks that correctly. So, after the store has gone down once more, and I've verified my program works, I'll make the site publicly available.
 
flalaw said:
Congrats to those of you that said screw it to the waiting game early on. I wish I got a MBP in July now. That way I could have enjoyed it all summer while the workload was relatively light. :(
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The 3ghz Mac Pro I bought last month has really helped me through this terrible, terrible time. :( I borrowed a Dell loaner from work to get me by until my C2D MBP arrives.
 
MacSA said:
The UK store, as well as most of Europe has ALWAYS been offline by now. The US is store is often the last to go offline.

When Appleinsider said updates for the "hoidays" Did they mean Christmas?
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They were referring to what the US retailers dub "Black Friday", which is the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. This year Thanksgiving falls on the 23rd of November, with Black Friday being the 24th. That Friday is a big shopping day here, and dubbed as Black Friday because the retailers say that's the day that pushes them from negative profit (in the red) to positive profit (in the black).
 
yoshe200 said:
someone needs to create a webpage with live status of the Apple Store so we'll know when the store goes down... without refreshing it 50000 times in 10 minutes...
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Just use ReloadEvery and free yourself to just staring at the screen.

EDIT: Oh yeah, it's for Firefox btw.
 
generik said:
Who wants to guess how many MBPs they will sell in March '07?

For once I really hope Microsoft steals some marketshare in the mp3 arena from the iPod. Others have to work for their cash, perhaps Apple should too.
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I actually believe that generik is a repressed closet Mac fanboi. Come out generik, hugs and kisses all around. :)

Sopranino
 
Sony c2d machines shipping in 3 weeks in the uk

They will let you preorder there sz3 machines in the uk now on the website. Just thought I would let you know, i am tempted, but think I will wait, also IBM/Lenovo are supposed to be releasing the specs of there c2d machines today.

where are the apple machines :confused:
 
cytefx said:
They will let you preorder there sz3 machines in the uk now on the website. Just thought I would let you know, i am tempted, but think I will wait, also IBM/Lenovo are supposed to be releasing the specs of there c2d machines today.

where are the apple machines :confused:
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Does his just prove that Apple are not really behind?

They've just done the usual Apple thing of not announcing a product months in advance like the PC people do.
 
i do not have the patience to check this out for myself, but i seem to recall many posts in this thread and others that various c2d machines from Leonovo, Sony, HP and Dell are shipping as of weeks ago, and some are not.

if most are yet to ship, that makes me feel better, if most are shipping, that makes me feel less better.

id be interested to see a quick list of these companies and who is/is not shipping as of today. there must be a site somewhere that tracks that sort of thing...?
 
Somewhat off topic...

What is the record number of pages for a thread here? This one is quite sizable, no?

Thanks and now I'm back to refreshing the apple website.

At least during a wootoff, you know it's only for 24 hours or so. Gees... :rolleyes:
 
tarjan said:
Emotion: No, it does not.
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Are there any real shipping C2D laptops from any manufacturer out there?

I mean ones that are shipping?

IBM and Sony are not in that boat yet. They are the two big PC laptop manufacturers I'd consider as close to Apple in terms of design.
 
emotion said:
Are there any real shipping C2D laptops from any manufacturer out there?

I mean ones that are shipping?

IBM and Sony are not in that boat yet. They are the two big PC laptop manufacturers I'd consider as close to Apple in terms of design.
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Actually, if you go to Best Buy, you can buy Sony's with C2D's in them. So yes, they are out there.
 
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