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Full Laptop Refresh By Holidays?

timmillwood said:
C2D MBPs could be built week 41, then go on sale on 24th October
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that's just what you hope/speculate. I wouldn't get my hopes up at all. I think we might be waiting for a while longer, hopefully not longer than mwsf.
 
maverick808 said:
I'm certain week 1 is the first week of the calendar year. When the MBP was released on the 11th January, and shipped in February, the people who got them first (me included) had week 8 builds. If week 1 had been in October the very first MBPs would have been week 20-something. So we can be positive week 1 machines are built in the first week in January, and that week 41 was indeed last week.
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Cool. Thanks for the clarification.
 
JackSYi said:
Thanks for the info.
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No problem, I am also eager to get a C2D MBP but I have tried to keep away from the forums and posting since it will only exasperate the waiting and make me frustrated at the wait, like I think it has to alot of people on this forum :D !
 
preludemd said:
Yes, but you missed what I said about the desktop systems. It is possible to select "in store pickup" on desktop systems. Doesn't mean that YOUR local stores have them. And just because they aren't physically in the store doesn't mean that they can't order them. We have been able to order them for customers in the past. When the Mini first came out we did carry it in the store. And BBY DOES sell apple systems in their stores, just maybe not your store. It really depends on the local market if your local store will actually carry them. I just found 17" and 20" iMacs in a store close to the 90001 Area code. Figured the stores in or near LA, CA would carry them.
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Weird... I realize they had online order for the systems, didn't have any idea that any BB stores anywhere actually carried them in stock for in-store sales. And if what your'e saying is true, then that contradicts several what several people on these forums have been saying. BB store locations are also not officially listed as locations to buy Apple systems. Could it be that your local store (and quite possibly a few others) have a lot of people ordering Mac systems, so they're ordering common configurations to keep on-hand, even though BB doesn't officially stock them?
 
saveranger said:
this is from the latest PC Magazine. (reviews of merom laptops)

"Still, we were alternately intrigued and dismayed by the issues we found with heat and battery life in some of the c2d laptops. In one of the high-end gaming laptops, the temperature in the system's base hit 114-degrees (45.5 Celsius). The highest temperature we encountered was a whopping 120 degrees. (48.9 Celsius).

Battery Life in the high-end laptops averaged a dissapointing 2.5 hours. The most meager battery score we saw among all six was 1 hour 52 minutes, while the best was 8 hours 9 minutes - the most impressive we've seen on any laptop (Dell Inspiron E1405)."


I still think MBPs will be released next week (Oct 24), redesigned. (keeping my fingers crossed)


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the dell E1405 - had a 14" display and 1.6 C2D. thats why it had a really long battery life.
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Interesting they didn't mention what they "high-end gaming laptop" was...probably a Dell Alienware laptop, which have always run extrememly hot, and have little to no battery life...I mean, the term gaming laptop really needs to be your warning.

They also don't mention the price tag on that super-machine... ;)
 
AppliedVisual said:
Weird... I realize they had online order for the systems, didn't have any idea that any BB stores anywhere actually carried them in stock for in-store sales. And if what your'e saying is true, then that contradicts several what several people on these forums have been saying. BB store locations are also not officially listed as locations to buy Apple systems. Could it be that your local store (and quite possibly a few others) have a lot of people ordering Mac systems, so they're ordering common configurations to keep on-hand, even though BB doesn't officially stock them?
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Alright doubting Tom, I'll try to avoid being harassed by BB store employee's and security camera personel, and get you a picture of all 3 iMac's in stock on the shelves at BB...sheeeesh! I'll also check for any Apple laptops.

I'm too lazy to do a search, but IIRC, BB brought Apple products back into the stores on a test basis in a few select cities, same thing might have been a happening in a few select CC stores more recently.

Nevermind, I did the search for you:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-06-21-best-buy-apple_x.htm
 
Butthead said:
Alright doubting Tom, I'll try to avoid being harassed by BB store employee's and security camera personel, and get you a picture of all 3 iMac's in stock on the shelves at BB...sheeeesh! I'll also check for any Apple laptops.

I'm too lazy to do a search, but IIRC, BB brought Apple products back into the stores on a test basis in a few select cities, same thing might have been a happening in a few select CC stores more recently.

Nevermind, I did the search for you:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-06-21-best-buy-apple_x.htm
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Not to mention AppleInsider...
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1835

I do remember this being talked about quite a bit, I believe it was after (or maybe shortly before) Circuit City expanded their Apple product lines.
 
Butthead said:
I'm too lazy to do a search, but IIRC, BB brought Apple products back into the stores on a test basis in a few select cities, same thing might have been a happening in a few select CC stores more recently.
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OK, sorry... I was unaware of the limited test market thing that was announced 4 months ago.

Butthead said:
Nevermind, I did the search for you:
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You'e my hero.
 
saveranger said:
this is from the latest PC Magazine. (reviews of merom laptops)

"Still, we were alternately intrigued and dismayed by the issues we found with heat and battery life in some of the c2d laptops. In one of the high-end gaming laptops, the temperature in the system's base hit 114-degrees (45.5 Celsius). The highest temperature we encountered was a whopping 120 degrees. (48.9 Celsius).

Battery Life in the high-end laptops averaged a dissapointing 2.5 hours. The most meager battery score we saw among all six was 1 hour 52 minutes, while the best was 8 hours 9 minutes - the most impressive we've seen on any laptop (Dell Inspiron E1405)."


I still think MBPs will be released next week (Oct 24), redesigned. (keeping my fingers crossed)


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the dell E1405 - had a 14" display and 1.6 C2D. thats why it had a really long battery life.
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I second your thoughts
 
New Laptops

In new product and development and product launch a couple of months
is a nano second. Don't expect anything until MWSF. It is perfect timing.
 
shadowlander said:
When Apple chooses to release a C2D MBP...I haven't the first clue. Whether or not they're even in production yet, I can't say..though I feel certain it has to be the case.

But to think that they are continuing to produce the CD MBP seems an incredibly ludicrous leap to me (even for Apple)...
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so apple is definitely still producing the CD MBPs, not just selling of existing stock?
 
flalaw said:
so apple is definitely still producing the CD MBPs, not just selling of existing stock?
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Well it looks that way. But I've only seen one person claim they had a week 41 MBP, they could have been lying, although I doubt it. If we could get more people who just bought a MBP to tell us what week they are we could get a better idea.
 
maverick808 said:
Well it looks that way. But I've only seen one person claim they had a week 41 MBP, they could have been lying, although I doubt it. If we could get more people who just bought a MBP to tell us what week they are we could get a better idea.
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if this is true i believe we won't see a merom macbook pro before the holidays.
 
sjphoto said:
In new product and development and product launch a couple of months is a nano second.
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What are you talking about? In the tech world, a couple of months could mean yesterdays premium systems become obsolete. Is apple just going to sit there and let a YEAR pass by without updating its top of the line notebooks while other computer manufacturers have updated their lines 2, 3 times? Not to mention the lack of pricing standardization. To be honest, its absolutely ridiculous to let their products lag behind more then a month and yet still claim them as being premium. Being up to date is part of the whole nature of manufacturing technology products, ESPECIALLY for those pro users who are in need of it.
 
The guy who swore he wouldn't cut his hair til they released new MBPs
 

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Week 41 individual

Couldn't the person who said they had one from week 41 have ordered a "build-to-order" rather then a stock model?

That might explain it and still give the rest of us hope :D
 
CDW is showing an 8 - 10 day ship time on Macbook Pro's and an 11 - 13 day ship time on blackbooks... These are the stock 2.16 MBPs and the stock black books. All other models show in stock or "call" which most of the time means they don't stock the item to begin with. I would love to see the release on the 24th because that would put actual shipping to CDW and then out to customer by the 31st.
 
apple quarter earnings thing

i tried to listen to the conference they had but fell asleep a minute into it... while its great to hear apple is doing so well and is looking to do better.. im guessing nothing important was discussed ( at least important to us in this thread)... but i was thinking how great would it have been if they sly'ly slipped it in there... "we made $546 million in profit with revenue of 'we are releasing the new macbooks next week' $4.8 billion":D

next tuesday come sooner....
 
mautal said:
i tried to listen to the conference they had but fell asleep a minute into it... while its great to hear apple is doing so well and is looking to do better.. im guessing nothing important was discussed ( at least important to us in this thread)... but i was thinking how great would it have been if they sly'ly slipped it in there... "we made $546 million in profit with revenue of 'we are releasing the new macbooks next week' $4.8 billion":D

next tuesday come sooner....
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I listened to the whole thing, closely....and nothing about a new MB/P. They were confident about Q1/07 Mac sales, but based that more off the 1.6M units sold this past quarter.

Oh well...here's to Tuesday.
 
Butthead said:
Alright doubting Tom, I'll try to avoid being harassed by BB store employee's and security camera personel, and get you a picture of all 3 iMac's in stock on the shelves at BB...sheeeesh! I'll also check for any Apple laptops.
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Just saw this one... Apple and BB are expanding this limited test rollout from 8 stores in the whole country to a whopping 50 stores. Out of over 3000 stores in North America, that's "huge". ...I guess that means I'll be able to just run out to Best Buy and buy my new MBP when they arrive. :rolleyes:

I'd post a link, but you're good at finding them and this one's easy... I stumbled across it 3 places today.
 
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