HP has already started selling i5 notebooks (and had been selling i7 notebooks long before). Unlike Apple, which as always, will takes months to update their processor options.
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Intel Claims Core i5-Based MacBook Pro Promotion a Marketing Error
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HP has already started selling i5 notebooks (and had been selling i7 notebooks long before). Unlike Apple, which as always, will takes months to update their processor options.
Problems with Apple computers are also given disproportionately large amounts of media and mac basher attention relative to the actual scope of the problem. Although the iMac monitor problem does seem to be rather widespread. This is why it is best to wait before purchasing a first gen product from any company.
Whilst this is good advice, why should consumers have to wait with first gen products? If the company had done good enough R&D, problems should be minimal. (See: XBOX360. What a farce of a console!)
I couldn't ever agree with thinking "oh well, it's first gen tech" after spending over £1600 on a computer.
either way, im waiting
im due for a new computer as is my wife.
i think we are both gonna go with the MB pro.
and that means we wait to see what happens.
im due for a new computer as is my wife.
i think we are both gonna go with the MB pro.
and that means we wait to see what happens.
Bad communication? How the hell do you get Apple's MacBook Pro from HP Envoy? An aesthetically beautiful laptop to a plastic clunker with more hot keys than you'll ever use?
I think someone went to work drunk, high, depressed, angry, distracted... and a whole bunch of other things.
Or, it was simply a fabrication of the truth...
I think someone went to work drunk, high, depressed, angry, distracted... and a whole bunch of other things.
Or, it was simply a fabrication of the truth...
Bad communication? How the hell do you get Apple's MacBook Pro from HP Envoy? An aesthetically beautiful laptop to a plastic clunker with more hot keys than you'll ever use?
I think someone went to work drunk, high, depressed, angry, distracted... and a whole bunch of other things.
Or, it was simply a fabrication of the truth...
The Envy is a magnesium/aluminum notebook that is an inch thick and 5lbs. No more a clunker than the 15" MBP with their weaker processor and video cards
hi everybody!
Hi,
c'mon guys it's sure. I'm sure that every this fake informations is projected by Steve Jobs himself, because it's his strategy! they did the same with Orange few days ago. People seem to know something but after two days they deny it. if you look this pict http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9a2e895226c2e541f4fdb0d743a22100.png you can see that Apple has been using Intel Core 2 Duo since late 2007 and IMHO they know they must change. we must also consider what they did with the new iMac and thinking about every of these reasons I finally think they will change processor and maybe graphic.. always IMHO..
Bye
PS: sorry for my english, i'm italian..
Hi,
c'mon guys it's sure. I'm sure that every this fake informations is projected by Steve Jobs himself, because it's his strategy! they did the same with Orange few days ago. People seem to know something but after two days they deny it. if you look this pict http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9a2e895226c2e541f4fdb0d743a22100.png you can see that Apple has been using Intel Core 2 Duo since late 2007 and IMHO they know they must change. we must also consider what they did with the new iMac and thinking about every of these reasons I finally think they will change processor and maybe graphic.. always IMHO..
Bye
PS: sorry for my english, i'm italian..
To those saying this was a 'controlled leak.'
I don't see what advantage this would have. If anything it would keep people from buying the current MBPs, which Apple would not want b/c I'm sure they want to deplete stock.
At the same time, I don't think this was a "mis-communication" either.
I really hope we see an update at or by the rumored media event. I can't wait too long.
I don't see what advantage this would have. If anything it would keep people from buying the current MBPs, which Apple would not want b/c I'm sure they want to deplete stock.
At the same time, I don't think this was a "mis-communication" either.
I really hope we see an update at or by the rumored media event. I can't wait too long.
Of course it wasn't a mistake. NO ONE in his sane mind would type "MacBook Pro" instead of "HP Envy" in error...Intel has announced it, so now we're gonna wait for the new models.
A Non-denial denial. The marketing material may be wrong - but they did not deny that the i5 will be in the MBP.
Also, if you do not want to buy an all in one there is only the Mini then a huge leap to a Mac Pro.
I love the Mini but the graphics are not quite up to what I need, so that leaves me stranded in the dark abyss more commonly known as the GAPING APPLE LINEUP HOLE.
seeing as currently it offers the i5 and no mac laptop does, i don't think it makes it a POS. design preference aside, it offers specs that the mac should be ashamed of. Quadcore and BD? Not that everyone will get it, but its nice to know you have the choice.
That and Microsoft and PALM are DEAD! and Blu Ray is Still born!
That and Microsoft and PALM are DEAD! and Blu Ray is Still born!
Other Option
Well, you can buy a MBP and attach external display and keyboard, close the lid, wake it back up with the keyboard, and you have a computer faster than the mini, with dedicated graphics, for less than a pro (though still $2000).
Plus, when you unplug it, it's a really nice laptop. When it goes i5 this month, it will be even nicer, and maybe less expensive?
Well, you can buy a MBP and attach external display and keyboard, close the lid, wake it back up with the keyboard, and you have a computer faster than the mini, with dedicated graphics, for less than a pro (though still $2000).
Plus, when you unplug it, it's a really nice laptop. When it goes i5 this month, it will be even nicer, and maybe less expensive?
That's just untrue.
Apple has often been the FIRST to use a new mobile processor, in laptops or iMacs. They have also had specially built processors faster than anyone else, like the 3.06 Core 2 Duo in my nearly 2 year old iMac, a chip nobody else had and Intel is still struggling to outperform on a dual core basis, at least at a low price point. Apple also were the first to use newer Xeons in the Pro.
Apple does have a "product cycle" and so sometimes a competitor gets their chip into a product a week, a month, even a quarter ahead. So? It doesn't change the fact that HP laptops, while once good, have become crap. Tell my sister who's had hers fixed 3 times and it continues to break how great they are... If I'm going Wintel, I'll take Toshiba thank you, even if it's 20% more expensive...
The truth will come out if Apple comes out with Macbook Pros with i5s and Intel changes the promotion back to Macbook Pros instead of the offering from HP.
Accidents do happen, but not in this level. I would think it is a controlled leak
It would be useful for Intel to show to Apple, that people do really want i5 in MBP. For example, since 9400 is sightly faster than integrated intel GMA HD, and NVidia and Ati cannot provide their IGPs for i5 processors due to licensing issues, Apple might be pushing Intel to allow 3rd party IGPs. However, Intel says NO and recommends Apple to announce i5 MBPs as soon as posible by "leaking" info about oncomming i5 MBP. There might be other reasons for Intel to terorize Apple in a similar way
It would be useful for Intel to show to Apple, that people do really want i5 in MBP. For example, since 9400 is sightly faster than integrated intel GMA HD, and NVidia and Ati cannot provide their IGPs for i5 processors due to licensing issues, Apple might be pushing Intel to allow 3rd party IGPs. However, Intel says NO and recommends Apple to announce i5 MBPs as soon as posible by "leaking" info about oncomming i5 MBP. There might be other reasons for Intel to terorize Apple in a similar way
That and Microsoft and PALM are DEAD! and Blu Ray is Still born!
Do people still believe in Blu-Crap-Ray?
It doesn't matter what is in it, HPs are crap. Specs don't mean everything. Sure, they can put everything nice in there but they don't actually do a good job assembling the computer.
My own experience with HP. Ordered a Pavillion laptop/tablet for a low cost portable computer to be secondary to my iMac and digital drawing pad. First one came and the screen didn't work. No image. Sent it back. Nearly a month later, received the replacement. It never ran well and constantly got so hot it burned my lap. After about a year and a half, my wifi failed. I looked into it. That is pretty par the course for Pavillions and I would have to pay $150 to get it fixed (only to have it fail shortly after). Decided to just by a USB card. About 2 months ago (after less than 2 years of ownership), the power supply failed completely. Neither batter or power cord would power the laptop. Took to a professional for repair who told me it was unrepairable.
I found out after this experience that my inlaws (weren't when I bought this computer) had HPs and had nearly the same experience. So yes, HPs are POS's and now, I will get a MacBook Pro. I am done having to by a new computer every two years. My iMac is between 3 and 4 years old and runs just as good as it did when I bought it.
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It's not that hard to go to HP's site. The 17" Macbook Pro isn't a lightweight either.