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I would be happy with the new 13" MBP if ...

I would be happy to buy the 13" MBP if the BTO SSD option was just slightly cheaper than today. Let's say 275$ instead of 350$ for the 128GB SSD option.

Thats not too much to ask, is it?

But then again, maybe I should do the upgrade to SSD myself. It can't be that hard.
 

I would be happy with the new 13" MBP if...

Blu-ray or no optical drive. Pick one. There is nothing super about the superdrive anymore so it's time to move on.

If no optical drive, then discrete graphics in it's place along with a bigger battery to power it.

SSD blades plus a 2.5" drive (HDD or SSD options).

What I am guessing we will get...

Odds are no Blu-ray. Losing the optical drive is possible but I would not bet on it.

Sandy Bridge integrated graphics.

The blade + 2.5" drive thing is possible too but again I would not bet on it.
 
NickZac said:
I guess the 13s don't have the optical:confused:
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13" MBP, has had optical out for a few years now … even my 13" Al_uMB circa 2008/2009 has this: Optical/Toslink In/out via the mic/headphone jacks. Are you guys seriously buying hardware without knowing what's in it or features? Do you buy them just for coffee shop fashion accessories?!
 
Prom1 said:
Do you buy them just for coffee shop fashion accessories?!
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Why does this surprise you? Everyone who wants or has a MacBook Air just wants a fashion accessory. It's not like they are actually useful. OK, the new ones are tolerable (only because of the SSD), but the old ones were the most pointless wastes of money ever devised by man.
 
zodqyv said:

I would be happy with the new 13" MBP if...

Blu-ray or no optical drive. Pick one. There is nothing super about the superdrive anymore so it's time to move on.

If no optical drive, then discrete graphics in it's place along with a bigger battery to power it.

SSD blades plus a 2.5" drive (HDD or SSD options).

What I am guessing we will get...

Odds are no Blu-ray. Losing the optical drive is possible but I would not bet on it.

Sandy Bridge integrated graphics.

The blade + 2.5" drive thing is possible too but again I would not bet on it.
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discrete graphics on the 13 EQUALS (=) need for a second fan...
 
zodqyv said:
A missing optical drive would leave plenty of room for a second fan.
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second fan, discrete graphics and more battery?
tbh i don't know how much room it will leave but... now that i think of it...
Sandy bridge's integrated graphics are integrated in the CPU, which means the nvidia's 320m spot will be free for something else. add that + the space from the ODD, you can get a huge improvement in battery combined with discrete gpu and a fan. right?
 
orfeas0 said:
second fan, discrete graphics and more battery?
tbh i don't know how much room it will leave but... now that i think of it...
Sandy bridge's integrated graphics are integrated in the CPU, which means the nvidia's 320m spot will be free for something else. add that + the space from the ODD, you can get a huge improvement in battery combined with discrete gpu and a fan. right?
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Sandy Bridge requires PCH so the number of major chips with a discrete GPU would be three compared to two found in current 13" MBP. GDDR chips for the discrete GPU take a little space too
 
Erasmus said:
Why does this surprise you? Everyone who wants or has a MacBook Air just wants a fashion accessory. It's not like they are actually useful. OK, the new ones are tolerable (only because of the SSD), but the old ones were the most pointless wastes of money ever devised by man.
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Yet another who thinks his needs are the needs of everyone else. Here's a clue: size and weight are more important than performance for many people.

Every MBA made can run email, web, MS Office, iLife apps. I'm not sure how you cab claim they are not "actually useful."
 
hayesk said:
Yet another who thinks his needs are the needs of everyone else. Here's a clue: size and weight are more important than performance for many people.

Every MBA made can run email, web, MS Office, iLife apps. I'm not sure how you cab claim they are not "actually useful."
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Agreed. I use the 11" MacBook Air every day on campus. I do all of my grad school work on it. And I don't give a damn who sees it! If I lived alone on the Moon I would still prefer Apple hardware. It has absolutely nothing to do with social status.
 
I would be happy with HDMI out. Cmon apple, its so simple! Putting it in the mac mini gives me hope, I really, really hope they put it in one of the MBPs.
 
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It's going to be SB, i5, with a mid-low dedicated graphics card and no SuperDrive (the success of MBA is all Apple needed to remove it). The extra space will be used as cooling and/or more battery. Oh, and either a bigger 5400RPM HDD or a slightly bigger 7200 - no way is SSD going in it.
 
Prom1 said:
13" MBP, has had optical out for a few years now … even my 13" Al_uMB circa 2008/2009 has this: Optical/Toslink In/out via the mic/headphone jacks. Are you guys seriously buying hardware without knowing what's in it or features? Do you buy them just for coffee shop fashion accessories?!
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Well then the people at Apple are just plain deuchebags for not labeling it on the computer (or allow the light to show) and I am glad I am not in pro audio anymore. The headphone in/out optical is kind of useless though; how many times have you used an optical wire in PA WITHOUT headphones?..and you don't always want to run a line into a DB to a mixer and then use headphones from that. How the hell are you supposed to know that is an optical port? It is labeled as headphones only. :mad:
 
zodqyv said:
Agreed. I use the 11" MacBook Air every day on campus. I do all of my grad school work on it. And I don't give a damn who sees it! If I lived alone on the Moon I would still prefer Apple hardware. It has absolutely nothing to do with social status.
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So you're 4 feet tall, and weigh 50 pounds? If not, how do you justify spending more money on a less fully featured computer, when you could have bought an extremely light and small MacBook for a lot less money?
 
I don't want the Macbook Air design, I'm a huge fan of the current look with it's black screen surrounding and I think the MBA is just a little to thin. I like the sturdy feel of the MBP.

For me:
-No Optical Drive
-New Processor's: not necessariliy sandy bridge, but how about we ditch the C2D's
-Lower starting point for the 15"
-No major changes the the unibody design
-Obviously some bumps in ram and hardrive space woud be nice.


Edit: reading some earlier posts, I like the blu-ray or no optical.
 
I hear apple is coming out with a refresh sometime new, don't tell anyone because this is secret insider information lolz
 
-New Processor's: not necessariliy sandy bridge, but how about we ditch the C2D's
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Why not? As far as I'm aware, there is absolutely no reason for Apple to skimp on putting in SBs in their new line since going for sub par part isn't really all that much cheaper. Certainly not for the 17% performance increase per clock rate IIRC and the better use of power.
 
Sandy Bridge =
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Sandy can have her bridges back.
 
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