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getting a mbp...but leopard isn't here till october
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yeah. couple of MONTHS.
so it looks like i'm gonna wait till next week and when I find the time and I'm off of work, I'm buying a macbook pro...2.33 ghz, 2gb ram and 160gb hard drive
I have the exact machine.
You'll love it!
I too was waiting for Leopard and Santa Rosa on a MBP and am still struggling to come to terms with the OS X delay
I would wait for Santa Rosa if I though it would arrive in MBP in June but as a Apple convert (designate) I am starting to find the experience very very frustrating. A little bit of info from Apple would be helpful (even if it is wishful thinking... Mr Jobs take note!! there must be thousands of potential MS to OS X converts struggling with this and starting to find the process tedious).
The real cost to me in waiting for Santa Rosa/June is as follows:
1. I could be incredibly frustrated come June with no revised MBP/Santa Rosa
2. I will still have to fork out £55 for iWork '06 and even more for the Leopard upgrade in Oct
3. I will have to reinvest in Apple type software to replace my MS proggies
Im soo sooooo p*ss*d off Im seriously considering Vista as an alternative
HOWEVER
the benefits of waiting/converting to Apple
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I would wait for Santa Rosa if I though it would arrive in MBP in June but as a Apple convert (designate) I am starting to find the experience very very frustrating. A little bit of info from Apple would be helpful (even if it is wishful thinking... Mr Jobs take note!! there must be thousands of potential MS to OS X converts struggling with this and starting to find the process tedious).
The real cost to me in waiting for Santa Rosa/June is as follows:
1. I could be incredibly frustrated come June with no revised MBP/Santa Rosa
2. I will still have to fork out £55 for iWork '06 and even more for the Leopard upgrade in Oct
3. I will have to reinvest in Apple type software to replace my MS proggies
Im soo sooooo p*ss*d off Im seriously considering Vista as an alternative
HOWEVER
the benefits of waiting/converting to Apple
1. Big Smile
Really??? I can think of a few no-brainer improvements:
1. magnetic latch
2. easily-accessible HDD
3. better ventilation/fan/cooling
Other non-case-related improvements:
1. longer battery
2. better display
3. eSATA port
4. more graphics options
5. price reduction
I actually don't think Santa Rosa will make much of a difference to MBPs. Apple has been pretty conservative in adopting new technologies, IMO. So I don't expect Apple to really do anything with Robson, which is the only really new thing in Santa Rosa (other than the X3000 which isn't relevant to pro machines). Perhaps in future iterations, Apple will incorporate the technology in creative ways (my fantasy: instant switching between OS X and Vista).
Just buy it...do you remember how long they waited to update the ibooks?( I know it's unrelated, but still). The MBPs could go another year before being upgraded! Apple is very focused on all the other stuff now, I don't think the computers will be updated as often now. Don't wait for the faster chips...there's always something faster around the corner, and in 2 years from now, you wont care if you have core2duos or the santa rosa platform, because whatever's out then will be 100 x better than either of those two!! Buy it now, and enjoy it! You can always sell it if the new model is REALLY that much better.
Hi there, I think you should just buy it now coz I just bought a current 2.33GHZ mbp and im ever so pleased with it.
I use several computers everyday and I have a Windoze desktop that i customized for gaming (Dual-core geforce SLI etc) that is a hell of a machine but this macbook pro is really very snappy.
I had no dead pixels, the lid shuts perfectly, its not that hot and im just very pleased with it. I had used a Powerbook, iBook, Macbook before buying this and I have to say that all of them had a dead pixel and had some issue or another.
If you WAIT for the newer platform, remember that then youlll encounter that rev A discussion where there will be a new set of problems like possibly whining or heat or whatever, although thats just a possibility. The macbook pros now have gone through more production cycles and have been revised accordingly and is a good time to buy I think.
Hope that helps
I use several computers everyday and I have a Windoze desktop that i customized for gaming (Dual-core geforce SLI etc) that is a hell of a machine but this macbook pro is really very snappy.
I had no dead pixels, the lid shuts perfectly, its not that hot and im just very pleased with it. I had used a Powerbook, iBook, Macbook before buying this and I have to say that all of them had a dead pixel and had some issue or another.
If you WAIT for the newer platform, remember that then youlll encounter that rev A discussion where there will be a new set of problems like possibly whining or heat or whatever, although thats just a possibility. The macbook pros now have gone through more production cycles and have been revised accordingly and is a good time to buy I think.
Hope that helps