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Mac Notebook and iPod Updates in September?
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I always hear about these updates to the macbook but nothing much is said about the macbook pro. Maybe they're going to make the macbook the flagship laptop of apple and for an extra $500, you can get the subpar macbook pro. They can even rename it to the macbook semi-pro
Thats the only comment that has ever made me laugh out loud on this forum. too true. too true.
Does anyone else love huge hard drives on their iPods? I have lots of music, movies, tv shows, and podcasts that need a large hard drive (>160GB) and i will be upset if apple decides to ditch the iPod classic with the large storage capactiy. I don't care if the classic doesn't have many features, I just want my music!!!!
I'd love it if the new iPods *were* released on September 16th since that's my birthday and my 1st gen iPod Nano died recently after having gone through the washing machine
I'd like to see a 16Gb version though.
I'd like to see a 16Gb version though.
I'd love it if the new iPods *were* released on September 16th since that's my birthday and my 1st gen iPod Nano died recently after having gone through the washing machine
I'd like to see a 16Gb version though.
My condolences. It must have drowned.
Hey, man. Don't talk about packaging around me. I'm sitting here with an unopened current-gen MacBook Pro (my mom's) that I'll be taking to Ireland in nine days and using the rest of the year at college (until Nehalem comes out and I can get my 17"), and I can't open it because I don't want to pay restocking if Montevina comes out before I go!
It's terrible.
You are aware that the BDA is made up of more companies than just Sony?
Apple has had their fair share of products that haven't dominated in sales, should we hold them in the same regard?
I think ipods would fly off the shelves if they gave you a little Gary Coleman with every purchase.. then theres no need for a case hmmm maybe Steve has some suprises this fall.
You heard it here first!!!!
I felt so bad for this one guy I knew who paid all this money to have a mini-disc player installed in his car. He thought he was soo cool and cutting edge, but in the end he was just out $300 and look at like a dork.
hmmm maybe Steve has some suprises this fall. You heard it here first!!!!
I felt so bad for this one guy I knew who paid all this money to have a mini-disc player installed in his car. He thought he was soo cool and cutting edge, but in the end he was just out $300 and look at like a dork.
Ffs. Technology changes all the time. Deal with it, open the box and start using your Macbook Pro. You bought it to use it, right? Not just to look at the box?Hey, man. Don't talk about packaging around me. I'm sitting here with an unopened current-gen MacBook Pro (my mom's) that I'll be taking to Ireland in nine days and using the rest of the year at college (until Nehalem comes out and I can get my 17"), and I can't open it because I don't want to pay restocking if Montevina comes out before I go!
It's terrible.
Actually, I heard there might be another update next year as well, so you may want to keep it unopened til then
Deal with it, open the box and start using your Macbook Pro.
Actually, I heard there might be another update next year as well, so you may want to keep it unopened til then
Does that one have a defective GPU? Thought not. I don't want to get stuck with a worthless GPU brick... much less a year-old one.
I wouldn't have this problem except for that. I would agree with you (and be the one telling people to open it) under any other circumstance.
I just hope Apple will keep the matte screen option available on the MBPs, and better yet, expand the option to MBs. Remember that the new iMacs eliminated the option of a matte screen.
This is not to say that glossy screens are bad, but that customers should be allowed to choose what kind of screen surfaces are best for them and their work.
This is not to say that glossy screens are bad, but that customers should be allowed to choose what kind of screen surfaces are best for them and their work.
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Oooh, I like "ManBearPig" All my prior posts now are officially retconned to reflect MBP as meaning "ManBearPig" unless there are subtle sexual overtones to the comment. For those I mean "Mass Balance Potential".
If we get a Blu-ray drive as an option, what are you going to do with it?
Finally the question worth answering:
Why Blu-Ray? In 2005 at the Macworld Expo Steve Jobs proclaimed it the year of HD, its 2008 and HD is just now becoming the standard. Don't believe me go look at Wal-Mart, even lowly WalMart is only selling HD Flat panel TV's.
We have been able to edit HD on the Mac for awhile but still have no reasonable way to share what we have done. HD camcorders are coming down in price, HDTV's are the standard (they shut off SD broadcasts soon). Mark my words, watch what happens to Blu-ray players on Black Friday(day after thanksgiving sales) this year.
The cloud solution to HD content is way off. Think bandwidth and storage. I have a DVD collection of 200+ movies. Not only would I need enough storage to store them, but also to back them up in case of a Hard drive failure. (not gonna happen anytime soon)
Blu-Ray may very well be the last physical media format, but it will gain all the standing DVD has now. And probably will last lots longer because the next transition will be to direct downloads.
It has taken the FCC forever to finally get to this 1920x1080 standard, and I venture to say that will not change for a long long time. So this is a Standard.
I would say the next Apple laptops should embrace the standard:
16x9 screens (would require a case redesign)
HDMI out
Lower res screens at 720p resolution
Higher res screens at 1080p resolution.
Blu-Ray (readers in low end, writers in high end)
Chipsets that offload the HD encoding and decoding (as I understand it, that was the whole point of intels Centrino 2 chipsets)
Everyon is complaining about battery life, if you dont value Blu-Ray then you wont be playing movies and it wont affect your battery life. In fact your battery will likely get more runtime to accomodate Blu-Ray movie playback.
You may not use your laptop to play movies (some of us do on the road), or edit videos, but this is the new standard in terms of resolution on media content.
It is time for the Macbook Pro HD. Everything else is just speed bumps.
Hey, man. Don't talk about packaging around me. I'm sitting here with an unopened current-gen MacBook Pro (my mom's) that I'll be taking to Ireland in nine days and using the rest of the year at college (until Nehalem comes out and I can get my 17"), and I can't open it because I don't want to pay restocking if Montevina comes out before I go!
It's terrible.
You should definitely open it. No update until september. And you dont want to fly out there to find out you have a defective unit
Although i have no use for blu-ray, your absolutely right.
Option please. I do not want Blu-ray.
MacBook Pro HD... finally!
The upcoming update appears to involve some sort of multi-touch. Blu-ray and HD displays would be nice though.
Well, they're all defective... I'm just going to wait until the 5th. I e-mailed Steve about the GPUs and the next MacBook Pros, and if they give me a reply worth posting, I'll post it.
I totally agree.
At the moment I have an 80GB Classic but I have about 200GBs of media on my iTunes.
I don't think the Classic will be discontinued until they have a 250GB Classic.
Then the next year after the 250GB Classic (which may be this year), the Classic will be dropped probably due to the fact that the iPod Touch will have a nice capacity maybe even at a max of 124GB - 160GB considering that there will probably be a 64GB model this September.
I'm the worst person for this type of the thing, exponentially impatient.
I really could care less if the new MBP has Blu-Ray, HD, or Intel 9.26748core Montevina/Santa Rosa/other religious sounding title. I just want it to come out NOW, so that way if it does have any of those, I'm not an edition behind when school starts. ;P
Come on, my iBook G4 is dying... It's an artifact! (An adorable, well designed, marvel of technology artifact, but an artifact.)
I can't wait until the end of September for my new laptop! My school starts the 26th.
I really could care less if the new MBP has Blu-Ray, HD, or Intel 9.26748core Montevina/Santa Rosa/other religious sounding title. I just want it to come out NOW, so that way if it does have any of those, I'm not an edition behind when school starts. ;P
Come on, my iBook G4 is dying... It's an artifact! (An adorable, well designed, marvel of technology artifact, but an artifact.)
I can't wait until the end of September for my new laptop! My school starts the 26th.
Hahahahaaa!
I'm the one who goes to the apple store, pulls out my 1st Gen iPhone and one of the fancy new ones, hits the GPS on both, (for the record, mine was faster) and tells mine how much "sexier" it is than the plastic-backed 3G phones...
The Core 2 Quad laptop CPU due out in a month or so has the same 35W TDP as the Core 2 Duos in the MBP.
blu-ray in macbooks?
you can't really tell me that you wan't to watch these on a tft-screen!
I know this sounds pretty crazy, but some people might want to connect their laptops to a TV to play a movie !
There's no need for a bigger screen. Heck, I have a PC laptop dating from 2004 that has a 15" 1920x1200 screen.
did you also notice how your "gps" put you in a one mile cross eye while the 3g showed your exact location due to real gps?
That is the 2.53 GHz Core 2 Extreme with a TDP of 45 W. It is rumored that there will be a 2.27 GHz Core 2 Quad in Q4 with a TDP of 35 W.
And now there's a 13" screen with 1600·900.