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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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Blu-ray has to be a reasonable bet in new MBP's

Blu-ray as at least an option must be a fair chance in the coming MBP, for a couple of reasons.

Pro users, the people who buy these laptops, are likely to be dabbling in HD content, be it as a hobby (like me) or for professional purposes (like not a few people who have posted to this thread). The most practical way for storing and distributing HD video for an end user is still, at this time, optical media.

To use me as an example, I have a Sony consumer HDV handycam and right now I have 10 HDV tapes on the shelf waiting to be put into a format I can share with my family. I can watch the files on my mac in iMovie, off my large external hard drive but at 25GB per hour of footage I have no economical way to send the footage to my family overseas. External hard drives don't travel well in the mail and even my ADSL2+ link would take forever to upload that much data - and some older members of my family are still on dial up, so them downloading at the other end is right out!

If my next MBP had a Blu-ray drive I could archive my stuff and burn finished BD's to post away. And I bet I'm not the only user thinking that way.

I know Apple wants to sell it's download service over disk sales but BD is not just for watching commercial titles. MBP's are the product for people who would be wanting to do the sort of apps that would be enhanced by Blu-Ray.

Apple have been in the Blu-ray consortium since the early days so they would certainly have the technical knowledge to do a BD drive anytime they wanted. I don't doubt a prototype or two have been built along the way to keep their technical options open.

Why do one now? Well, 08 is undoubtably the year the consumer players will achieve real mass popularity and that means all the end users will find reasons to burn to the format. The time is right in the Blu-ray product cycle.

My guess is:

17" has it as an option

OR


17" has it as standard and upper 15" gets BTO option or just maybe as standard.

But don't hate me if I'm wrong!
 
dante@sisna.com said:
Not quite true.
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it is true, actually. motevina brings ddr3 and 1066 fsb. both are shown to have little performance advantage. penryn in addition to increase of mhz to 2.8ghz has sse4 however which when taken advantage of by software developers including apple will dramatically improve video-related operations.

montevina will be great for it's improved power consumption and dramatically reduce footprint which will lead, undoubtedly to a MBP redesign.
 
I think we all need to realize that we may here in the next week that the SDK has been delayed. If this is the case the MBP update may be held off until a SDK event in March. I maintain that I dont think this will come in a silent update.
 
I'm willing to wait a bit longer - to the expense of going slightly mad! I do hope there will be a proper event by mid-March, which means that the update will be significant... ;)
 
I don't think people are going to wait too much longer...I am really doubting a MBP release next week. No media invites yet!
 
jrko said:
I folded:D

I bought a refurb 17 hi res 2.4 with 7200 hd...............................


For the price of a standard 15.4 2.4:p
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wow good on ya!! i hope it serves its purpose (it will do that + alot more) nice price aswell.

dj420118 said:
I don't think people are going to wait too much longer...I am really doubting a MBP release next week. No media invites yet!
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yup yup i agree... not too happy about it, but ahh what can you do.
 
dj420118 said:
I don't think people are going to wait too much longer...I am really doubting a MBP release next week. No media invites yet!
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that rumour was really just a bunch of crap, no special apple 26th Feb event seems likely unless it's all really, really secret .. and if they have a really, really secret event .. it's not the yawn macbook yawn penryn yaawwwnnnn update, it's something important.

I know we're all desperate but this whole 26th Feb thing really got out of hand. I don't care, my G4 rumbles along, I won't buy aperture 2.0 until I get a better box, I won't upgrade to iLife 2.0. Apple I'm waiting, the next upgrade you put out, I'm there.
 
I'm waiting for the MBP 15" for college.

What im looking for:
Case redesign - it still looks exactly like the powerbook g4 I had 5 years ago.
Upgraded gpu - possibly 8800M series?
Higher res screen

blue ray and a user replacable harddrive would be cool options, but im not gonna whine if they arent included.

I will be purchasing as soon as it is released. So add me to the list.
jBook
 
Maybe we should join cyber-hands again and start another round of Kum-Ba-Ya....screw that lets get wasted!:cool:
 
Actually, I wouldn't mind having A/C plug adapters plug-in port thingamajigs on both sides...I don't even know if that is possible...mine is still in the back. Maybe they are on both sides on the present MBP's...I don't think so but that way you could plug in the computer from either side without having to run the cord in an awkward direction if your sitting somewhere that makes the plug in difficult. I want all the other stuff that everyone has been talking about but the plug in port thingamajigs would be nice on both sides. I'ts the simple things that are sometimes over-looked. Have a great day everyone....Kum-ba-ya...awwww forget it!
 
Count me in too. I returned my 17" 2.6 hi-res to jump on the bandwagon. I couldn't stand having it in my house uopened! It was killing me!
 
I wish apple could at least give us a date to oogle over and prepare for, so at least people wont drive eachother crazy with speculation--or themselves for that matter...
 
Add me to the waiting list. My G4 12" Powerbook is looking to retire! Quite fancy MacBook Air but 80GB is just not enough, half of that would be taken up with iPhoto and iTunes library.

Like the durability of the MacBook Pro, my old powerbook gets used everday and looks as good as new!! Roll on new MacBook Pro's
 
Remove me from the list.

I caved and purchased a used MBP off this board. It's my first Mac and I all I have to say is "WOW".
 
BNO said:
Now that BestBuy and other retailers are stocking up again, I believe that a MBP update is not imminent.

So, Centrino 2 MacBook Pro, I'm waiting for you!
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Does anyone think they would really skip Penryn? I feel like they would really fall behind some of the other manufacturers if they didnt introduce a Penryn laptop. Unless they have intel giveing them early access to the next stuff I dont see this happening.
 
melchior said:
it is true, actually. motevina brings ddr3 and 1066 fsb. both are shown to have little performance advantage. penryn in addition to increase of mhz to 2.8ghz has sse4 however which when taken advantage of by software developers including apple will dramatically improve video-related operations.

montevina will be great for it's improved power consumption and dramatically reduce footprint which will lead, undoubtedly to a MBP redesign.
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Depends on your perspective I guess: very few people do much with Video. DDR3 and 1066 may have little gain but so does Penryn, in general. It is shown to have negligible performance gains in most non video apps -- the info is out here. The 2.8 penryn is shown to have maybe a 3 to 5% performance boost over the current 2.6.
 
Paix247 said:
Wow! Thats the lowest number I've heard yet! It seems like the performance boost from Penryn keeps getting lower and lower the longer we wait for it. :rolleyes:
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It may not necessarily be those numbers however history has shown with Intel processor updates that they have been very minimal speed increases and people waiting to get these updates are generally disappointed because they've hyped themselves up to think it would be 50% faster than the previous and just never been the case.
I beg to differ if we see a 20% increase in processing power by mid 2009 from Intel.
Intel is really focusing on efficiency and no longer clock speeds. Notice the Penyrn has higher cache levels and very minimal clock increases?
 
dante@sisna.com said:
Depends on your perspective I guess: very few people do much with Video. DDR3 and 1066 may have little gain but so does Penryn, in general. It is shown to have negligible performance gains in most non video apps -- the info is out here. The 2.8 penryn is shown to have maybe a 3 to 5% performance boost over the current 2.6.
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There is a bigger gain for those looking at the base model MBP

If the current 2.2 is swapped out for the 2.5 like it is rumored to be:
2.5-2.2 = .3
.3/2.2 = 14%
14%+ 1 to 8%
= 15 to 22% increase for the same price

+SSE4
+L2
+Battery life
+etc


That's how I see it anyways.
 
List: MR Members Waiting To Buy A New MacBook Pro

Airon count me in.

If this release date is going to be pushed way back.. I might as well wait for the monetiva update..
 
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