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Leaked MacBook Pro Casing Confirmed?

Breegy said:
I understand your reasoning, but surely this can't be the only big reason to buy a MBP over a regular MB?

I know it would piss off a lot of people to have to shell out an extra 1k just to get a dedicated graphics card. I know it already does piss off a lot of people. But aren't there other advantages to the MBP? I don't really see anything different in the specs.

Well, even a less powerful dedicated graphics card would be better than nothing.
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I currently have a low-end 2.0 Ghz. Macbook. However, I use my Macbook for a lot of things, including some fairly demanding games. I don't need a better processor, I don't need more RAM (2 GB is plenty), I don't need a better or faster HDD, or a bigger or better screen (I like the size of the MB better than the MBP 15"). I just need a good graphics card, and would have to spend an additional $1000 to get what I want.

It's actually quite disappointing Apple has such a huge hole in their lineup.
 
Beric said:
I currently have a low-end 2.0 Ghz. Macbook. However, I use my Macbook for a lot of things, including some fairly demanding games. I don't need a better processor, I don't need more RAM (2 GB is plenty), I don't need a better or faster HDD, or a bigger or better screen (I like the size of the MB better than the MBP 15"). I just need a good graphics card, and would have to spend an additional $1000 to get what I want.

It's actually quite disappointing Apple has such a huge hole in their lineup.
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I agree with you. I don't need a big screen, and the specs I can set up for myself are plenty enough. Though LED screens and a backlit keyboard would be nice. But I'd like to think that if I wanted to play a game every once in awhile, I could have a good card without having to worry about it not working or occasionally dying right after I just beat a really hard part. It is really dissapointing that they can't even put a less powerful dedicated graphics card. But I'm not paying the extra $1000, when I'll hardly play games or do intensive graphics work anyways.
 
Amazing

Love it when i plan on buying a mac in a month or two new things got to love it:)

but what matters to me more than a new design or not but will it have the same problems as the current mbp cause if so im just gonna go with a blackbook

both are good
 
Thank you Apple. Just to let you know I'll be selling my PowerBook and buying one of these as soon as they hit the market.

Yours cheerfully,

James.

Also my friend has the hots for you.
 
Here an idea, why dont they just brink out a new line called "Macbook" 13, 15 and 17 inch all sharing smiler design and feature set just different screen sizes instead of the pro/non pro versions.
The pro in the Macbook Pro is a little unnecessary and its kinda a old term when so many different people use it.
 
I like my MacBook Pro case design as it is. However I want dual hard drives. I like the airdisk feature of the MacBook Air and rarely use my superdrive away from my desk so how about this for a design change...

Move all the ports to the left hand side as is the case with the MacBook. Have a slot loading hard drive bay on the right hand side of the MBP and as an opinion (like the Matt / Glossy displays) give users the right to not have a superdrive but instead have two removable sata hard drives on the right side of the display.

No turning over the computer, removing the battery and all that crap - just flip up a leaver on the side of the computer and pull out the hard drive. With a Drobo style RAID setup it would be great to have three hard drives and just swap one out at the end of the day. Super backed up then.

Just an idea. Don't bite my head off guys!
 
babyjenniferLB said:
Here an idea, why dont they just brink out a new line called "Macbook" 13, 15 and 17 inch all sharing smiler design and feature set just different screen sizes instead of the pro/non pro versions.
The pro in the Macbook Pro is a little unnecessary and its kinda a old term when so many different people use it.
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I really like the idea. Each model would simply have different specs options; different RAM, HDD, and graphics card options, and we would be set.

Why oh why Apple won't you do this?

Oh, right, because then the current business model of forcing customers to upgrade to the significantly more expensive Pro line for one small thing, like a graphics card, would then no longer work. :rolleyes:
 
sick of this photo

Ive been refreshing all afternoon hoping for announcement of iTunes 7.0 or ipod touch software 2.0. I think I have this dumb MBP photo memorized.
 
for what its worth, its a terrible idea to post that video about how to take apart a macbook pro. first of all, he does it wrong, second of all, you're going to have 9000 noobs all thinking they are superheros and start yanking about their stuff, breaking components and losing screws.

there are very delicate components inside. I take them apart for a living at the biggest apple service center in the country....i'd love to not have 1000 more machines to fix because of neglect.......
 
mattwolfmatt said:
Ive been refreshing all afternoon hoping for announcement of iTunes 7.0 or ipod touch software 2.0. I think I have this dumb MBP photo memorized.
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You mean you refresh the News Page, then forget you clicked this link, so you click it again and see the photo..?
 
whooleytoo said:
If the plants in China/Taiwan are already building enclosures, then I'd venture certainly within the next 3 months; probably much less than that.
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Prototype.

This could be an old prototype, a new prototype, a prototype for a MacBook, anything really. Don't start gettin' people's hopes all up and stuff. According to the Buyer's Guide the MBP is only mid-cycle. Don't expect anything this quarter.

My guess would be a speed bump after the B2S sales are done, just in time for the holidays (say October) and then a decent update release between the holidays and MacWorld, maybe even at MacWorld along with announcements about Snow Leopard.
 
HD303 said:
What's so new about this design? Looks like the same old macbook pro if you ask me.
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The design is timeless, they really can't change to much about it especially if they want to have a lot of stuff inside it.
It could be like a big Macbook air but then you have the same limitations of the airs design and would ether have to remove the optical drive or make part of the case thicker to accommodate it then you have the heat of a GPU and high speed CPU and then things like hard drive replacing and ram replacing.
None of this allows much of a radical design shift unless there removing a lot of things.
 
it looks like the rubber "feet" on the new MBP will be larger, similar to that on the current Macbook Air
 
babyjenniferLB said:
The design is timeless, they really can't change to much about it especially if they want to have a lot of stuff inside it.
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i agree - when asked why the MacBook Pro design hasn't changed since it's transition from PowerBook G4, Steve Jobs answered "why would we want to change it? it's perfect right now" and it basically has been since the Titanium PowerBook.

i'm sure some people would want to change it up a little. especially with the different look of the iMac, iPod classics and the possibility of a MacBook going aluminum + black. but look at the lenovo thinkpad. it's practically had the same design since it was made by IBM and it's as much of a corporate staple as the BlackBerry.
 
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