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nvidia card

A nvidia card in the new MBP would be crazy-nice! I'm gonna run linux on the baby too, so nvidia is so much better. Also, most laptops have usually used ati cards or intel cards in them, so nvidia is hard to get. perhaps nvidia lowers will buy more apple :)

Lets just hope they release soon, my laptop broke down last sunday, and it's in for repairs. I'm gonna sell it as soon as it returns. I'm also ordering MBP the second it's released!
 
i would be love to see a 10" widescreen MMBP.
:rolleyes:
i had a 17" powerbook and its too large really to carry around.looks like i will have to go with the 15"mbp though.
 
Multimedia said:
Yeah I was unaware of this shortage until I read this tonight. No telling when it will be aliviated, particularly if Apple wants to offer top of the line MBPs with the 2.33GHz Merom as I believe they will. So while I will continue to hope for the release in the next 6 weeks, I have no clue if it will really happen. This shortage could spell a delay into next year. But of course we really don't know how severe the shortage is. :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek: :(
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This just makes it all the more annoying that they would update the iMac before the supposed Pro model laptops :mad:
 
timmillwood said:
has the iMac got a desktop or notebook core 2 duo chip in it?
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The imac uses the merom -- notebook C2D. A few pages back someone wondered why Dell and the rest haven't been sending out merom desktops -- there's no reason for them to do so, because they can use the conroe (desktop variety C2D).
 
Am3822 said:
The imac uses the merom -- notebook C2D. A few pages back someone wondered why Dell and the rest haven't been sending out merom desktops -- there's no reason for them to do so, because they can use the conroe (desktop variety C2D).
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so if the MBP was delayed because they didnt have enough meroms then shouldnt the iMac be delayed?

cant they share their allocation of meroms across the imacs and MBPs
 
Well, you've got me there. Being new to the world of Apple, I have no idea what and when to expect from them. I really hope that they will give some sort of an update soon -- maybe a design update which could be then re-used once the new mobile platform is ready.
 
famusc said:
The page name now is: .../intel.html . It's simply an update problem: even the Macbook and the iMac page have this problem.
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Still it might be a hint, why suddenly change coreduo.html to intel.html? It makes no sense unless you are going to stop using Core Duo any more ;)

timmillwood said:
whats so interesting?

the link at the bottom of*http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/wireless.html still doesnt work
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Well, it is just a sign of the state of wireless in the MBP despite the redesign that puts the antenna in the hinge.
 
dkoralek said:
It is 24 hours if you go through the main US apple store or the apple store for education (at least for me when i specify unc). However, if you choose to look at the institutional purchase (not individual) store (in my case, unc). I get different shipping dates. Try (http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/routingpage.html) and clicking on one of the right hand choices (such as "college/university proposal."

cheers.
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Yup, 2-3 weeks.
 
MB and MBP wait soo long on BTO

Under Educational Institute online the MB is 5 to 7 day and for a MBP it is 2 to 3 weeks. :eek:
 
timmillwood said:
so if the MBP was delayed because they didnt have enough meroms then shouldnt the iMac be delayed?

cant they share their allocation of meroms across the imacs and MBPs
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Because, in general, they sell an awful lot more MBPs than they do iMacs. The limitted supply they have might be enough for the iMac, but not enough for the MBP let alone enough to be shared between them both.
 
bazzalisk said:
Because, in general, they sell an awful lot more MBPs than they do iMacs. The limitted supply they have might be enough for the iMac, but not enough for the MBP let alone enough to be shared between them both.
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The profit margins on the MBP are an awful lot higher as well... you'd expect that's where the family jewels are going :rolleyes:
 
**nods** The iPod student offer is coming to an end here in the UK on Saturday the 7th. People have started to point to 10/10 and like most things on this topic (especially the Photokina link) it seems to coincide with a potential release date of a Core 2 Duo product. Lets face it, if Apple released the updated MB(P), they would suddenly be forking out a s**t load of rebates for the iPods.

I can see two sides to the argument of which will come first, the MB or the MBP for Merom release. Obviously we are all biased to what we are specifically waiting for. For me, I hope its the Pro first (sorry MB peeps! ;) ). The ONLY thing holding me back is the lack of hurried essay deadlines so far but I don't think I will be able to go much longer. I am an extremely patient person but all this speculation is driving me nuts...I think I will never come back here once my shiney silver toy is sitting in front of me. :cool:

Take it easy people :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
Multimedia said:
HD to mp4 compression. Files starting at 5-7GB resulting in files 351MB currently takes several hours for each 40 minute "hour". An 8 core Mac will do it faster - still not as fast as I dream of - but nevertheless faster. The UB version of Toast 7.1 can use 3-4 cores for stage one of compression and Handbrake, still being optimized for Intel, currently uses 2-3 cores. I want to be able to run at least two of each all the time so the 8-core Mac will be easily hosed once I start the third one.
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Whats your HD source? Ive calculated based on the size of 720p quicktime trailers at apples site that a 2 hour movie would end up around 6GB. When such movies are available for download/ purchase, I would like to compress them to fit a single layer DVD and carry a few around with me in the macbooks HDD.

I want to have a digital HD video library connected to my projector which I would control via FrontRow, possibly using a 500GB external HDD for storage. That sure beats the hell out of piling DVDs

Eventually ill also buy my HD camera and have fun editing videos as a hobby. Im a switcher and im getting a MB next week (merom or not merom), not a MBP. Is it insufficient for my needs (can it playback 720p h.264 movies seamlessly)?
 
I think there is no chance whatsoever that the MB would get updated to merrom before the MBP - and only a very small chance of it happening at the same time.

You can't have your consumer laptop running a better processor than your professional one - that'd be a very silly move.
 
bazzalisk said:
I think there is no chance whatsoever that the MB would get updated to merrom before the MBP - and only a very small chance of it happening at the same time.

You can't have your consumer laptop running a better processor than your professional one - that'd be a very silly move.
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Totally agree! The standard consumer probably:
a) doesn't know what merom is
b) doesn't care
c) will be 100% satisified with the current MB

I can't wait to top out my MBP!!! (and make my company foot the bill!)
 
In Relation To iPod EDU Offer...

The only relation to this offer that I can see, would be that they wouldn't want some irritated consumers purchasing the new release and then not being eligible for the iPod.

My opinion mainly comes from the people that earlier confirmed my suspicions about it specifying a specific model (core duo) of the product line.

So it wouldn't be a rush of new MBP's (or MB's maybe) trying to get the iPod with one. It would be the "irritated" people that either buy the "deal" and get a current version MBP, or the ones that buy the new release and get ticked because there isn't an iPod with it.
 
DHagan4755 said:
It's the Education Institutional purchase, NOT the Education Individual.

Apple goes out of their way not to anger their education customers who place orders for items, only to have something new come out the next week. So they specifically start here with the clearing of the channel.

I have had this happen to me twice already...with the Xserve and the iMac. I waited and waited for Xserve G5s, and they just were delayed and delayed. Turned out when I talked to my Apple rep that the company knew they were coming and didn't want to anger customers who ordered them only to have the faster, better Xeon models essentially obsolete the G5 models overnight and have to pay for the return shipping expenses in swapping out G5 Xserves for Xeons. Same explanation was given to me with respect to the iMacs just before they moved over to the Core2 Duo.
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Thanks DH, for sharing your experience.

Exactly how long was the "just before" for the iMac?

At least from what I have seen with Apple, which is just my observation, the main Apple Store online is the last spot in clearing the channel path and the last to have something "in stock".

Also I've noticed that they sometimes over exaggerate their delay in shipping a bit, and use a more "worse case" scenaio with the estimations.

While there are exceptions, as some noted last month it took 3 weeks a few times to get their order, this seems to be the overall big picture I see happening. They scale down supply to the resellers and other outlets, then Apple Stores, then specialty online Apple Stores, etc.

As has been pointed out several times, the actual Apple Store online had a 24hr ship time estimation the day before they intoduced the new iMac's.
 
ThunderLounge said:
The only relation to this offer that I can see, would be that they wouldn't want some irritated consumers purchasing the new release and then not being eligible for the iPod.

My opinion mainly comes from the people that earlier confirmed my suspicions about it specifying a specific model (core duo) of the product line.

So it wouldn't be a rush of new MBP's (or MB's maybe) trying to get the iPod with one. It would be the "irritated" people that either buy the "deal" and get a current version MBP, or the ones that buy the new release and get ticked because there isn't an iPod with it.
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Yes,
the CoreDuo is specified for the iPod Deal. So, it could be irritating to order a C2D without getting the iPod. This offer ends 7th October i think in whole Europe (Germany, UK ...).
But the new iMacs are in the iPod offer. So Apple could do the same with the MMBP. Or You think the demand for new MBPs are so much higher? On the other hand Apple wouldn´t offer two different MBP lines (CD and C2D).
At the end we will see next week in relation to this question.
 
mquaack said:
Under Educational Institute online the MB is 5 to 7 day and for a MBP it is 2 to 3 weeks. :eek:
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What's funny, that someone mentioned before, is that if you BTO a MBP the shipping times drop.

I played around with this, and found that for the 15.4", it didn't change.

For the 17", if you bump it up to 2G of RAM it drops from 3-5 business days to 1-3 business days.

Not that it means anything really, just an observation.
 
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