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List: MR Members Waiting To Buy A New MacBook Pro

What's your situation in relation to a MacBook Pro?

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I'm waiting till mid year to salary sacrifice a 17" Macbook Pro. I think I'll get it with the 250gig HD, and hiRes glossy screen. Will also be getting Time Capsule. Via the reseller I'll get 4 gig ram I think (or might buy the ram later and add it myself). I wonder what the config will be like by June when I'm ready to purchase?
 
I was thinking of getting the low end 15" model. I figure it will have specs about like the current mid-range model giving me more bang for my buck if I wait.

Question: How much better is a nvidia 8600M than an ADI Radeon X1600?
Because I found an older model (but new) 17" macbook for a good price with good specs except for it has a Radeon X1600. Are they a huge difference? And would I be able to put a nvidia 8600M in myself? Sorry I'm a bit of a newb with this stuff. :pThanks
 
So I've just finished reading this ENTIRE thread.

I'm in a position where I'm starting a new business and one of the critical components for running my business is a new laptop.

I've known about the MacRumors Buyers guide for some time (Bought my first Mac [a Mini] with it's help) but due to the nature of necessity I haven't been paying to much attention to it in regards to the MacBook Pro. I needed one and that was that. Besides it's going to be leased and I was going to get the special 2.6GHz processor to ensure I was as bleeding edge as possible and extending the "time to obsolete" factor of it.

I checked the buyers guide tonight and was quite disapointed to see that an update is so imminent.

I need a MacBook Pro. YESTERDAY

I actually have lease papers filled out and sitting in front of me this very moment for a MBP 15" 2.6GHz

After going through this thread I'm now in the same boat as you people.
There's no way I can allow myself to purchase a laptop NOW with a new release so close but I NEED it now. Aaargh!!

If it's not released this Tuesday I'm going to have a nervous breakdown or something.

On a side note... The other good thing about my new laptop is that it will also herald the move of my Mac Mini from my Desk to the Entertainment Center (Apple TV alternative)
Check this out.
 
Add me to waiting...for the MBP and my insurance company to pony up for the replacement of my machine that took a swan dive at work.

It was a stunning end to a pretty tragic and perpetually faulty machine (Rev D. PB 15" 1.67Ghz)

So I can't pounce on any new release until the insurance claim is processed. Though I think the refresh maybe inline with Montevina platform update and not the Penryn CPU update. I do hope I am wrong.
 
Count me in...

This will be my first step in converting from MS. They did me in with Vista, and I'm considering buying some stock while it's down. I just read an article predicting the market share to double in the next few years--and I believe it. I've been waiting since the fall of 2007. It's just been difficult the past couple weeks. The present configuration meets my current needs, but I will buy top of the line since I don't update that often. I'm just hoping for a black case like the smaller macbook. I know this seems trivial to most--but that's what I want. The article about the ID numbers is encouraging to the arrival date. This is the first hard core evidence that it is near. It sounds as if someone is testing one as we speak. It would be nice to have that job. But, it would be so hard to keep the secrets. How do they do it?
 
I have always wondered how the keep such good secrets. I would think out of all the people working on the new :apple: MBP project someone would leak us some pictures. I am checking this blog 2 - 3 times a day hoping for some relief. Lets put all of our eggs in to the basket for a relase on tuesday or better yet the SUPERBOWL!!!
 
The MBP in my sig will be a year old in March. When I bought it last year, I had planned on owning it for only one year, but now my (firm) plan is to wait at least until the first revision of a Montevina-based MBP is released. I think that will introduce a sufficiently significant reason to upgrade (also hoping for a case re-design). Heck, depending on how well my MBP holds up, I might just wait for Nehalem...
 
ibizarocks said:
i think i'm ready to commit suicide. who's with me?
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Yes let's all get together in a cyber-bunker, wear all black with black Nikes....wait thats been done...hmmm okay all white with white Nikes and drink some apple flavored laced punch.....nahhh I'd rather just wait miserably until Tuesday and then the Tuesday after that and then the Tuesday after that and so on and so on Forever!!!
 
7even said:
Don't you want to know what exactly will be included in an updated MBP? After that, if unsatisfied, sure :p
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See... if we all do that how will this area of the forum survive? and to kill Mac Forums or any piece there of would be wrong, no suicide until they release an upgrade that is actually a downgrade!
 
So I called American Express to check if my limit was high enough to order the laptop when it came out.
I got a green on that one, so next step I called the Apple Online Store, since I could not find on the Dutch site if they even accept AMEX.
They told me that they do, and then went ahead and asked me if I wanted to order the laptop now on the phone.
So I told him that I have heard that a new version is coming soon so I want to wait a little bit.
Now this most probably is a Sales person thing, but he told me that he also reads Macrumors, but that he is rather sure that there is not going to be a revision for at least a couple of months, since there was an update in November.

I of course asked him if he would make me a nice guarantee that if I buy it now, if there is a update in a month, he will exchange it for the new one.
He told me he could not do that, but that Apple has a guarantee that if there is a new version within 14 days, I will get that one instead, and if there is a price drop, I will get the difference back.

Well, I will continue to wait, I never trusted Sales people. :-D
 
I'm waiting to get one, but I'm getting the iMac first and the MBP will be replacing my iBook which I think I may give to a friend after I get the pro
 
eldaria said:
Now this most probably is a Sales person thing, but he told me that he also reads Macrumors, but that he is rather sure that there is not going to be a revision for at least a couple of months, since there was an update in November.
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I talked to a sales person in my local mac-store (who is actually a friend of mine) and he told me to wait a few weeks.

Hope it helps.

I'm waiting too. I might be wait untill the Montevina later this year, beacuse i really don't need it before that. Havn't decided yet though. It's hard to wait :(

(first post on these forums btw...)
 
I hope the Canadian prices are more inline with the American ones...aka...same price because right now, I have to get student discount to even have the same price as in the States. Anyways think it's possible to cross the border and show my ID at an US Apple Store? "Ontario" or "Canada" is nowhere listed on the uni's ID. :D
 
So if there is not a spectacular redesign (only just a spec upgrade), will we see a new design in Montevina? I might be hoping for no reason, but i'm praying for a thinner model
 
i got an 867mhz g4 tibook which is already in the sate of falling apart, flickering and which has already eaten three hard drives within the last 10 months... so i definetly NEED a new computer ASAP.... but i am waiting... patiently... for the next revision... it's hard...
 
"Despite hopes for an imminent release, it appears Mac OS X 10.5.2 is not yet ready for public consumption. Last week, Apple released a couple of seeds with "no known issues", but apparently has continued to work on the latest Leopard release."

Does this mean that the refresh for the MBP will be delayed?

:confused:
 
I need an Apple MBP ASAP for university work, I really hope Apple announce them with a month or so. Never owned an Apple machine before so a little excited.
 
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