Your display port is between audio in and usb (made obvious by the symbol for display port), the question is, what kind of display port is it?
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Your display port is between audio in and usb (made obvious by the symbol for display port), the question is, what kind of display port is it?
Yes I saw that. I was actually hoping for some sort of standard DVI output without an adapter (as the 'mystery port' looks something like a DVI port).
doubt this was mentioned, but thought it would make an interesting addition. Has anyone thought why the Optical Drive is on the right? What on the right is? Well 9to5 mac put this together:
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Would make sense and cause me to drop my soon-to-be last edition $2.5k MBP.
Of course, my other feeling on it is that it's an HDMI/Display Port.
What's the consensus here?
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Would make sense and cause me to drop my soon-to-be last edition $2.5k MBP.
Of course, my other feeling on it is that it's an HDMI/Display Port.
What's the consensus here?
they clearly just guessed at this..
Also, why the hell would they waste precious side real estate on an eject button that can easily be placed on the bottom of the case where the 1 person in a month would actually use it.
Furthermore, there is a good chance the battery is in the back. Why would they route a 1 foot long rod all the way to the back of the unit to eject a battery?
Oh stop quoting wikipeida people. everyone knows that anyone can post and change information on wikipedia - this is the most inaccurate website out. One local radio station pointed out a company that went in and erased all the negaitivity about their company and filled it with marketing hype.
You can corroborate quite easily though (they should teach that in schools - never trust just one source of info).
Wikipedia is a nice resource.
Is this a thread where we're having a discussion about a discussion that took place in another thread?
Haha...I think so! Is it tomorrow yet?
The signal itself isn't, but you can use DP connectors/cables to send DVI-D or HDMI, and the negotiation shouldn't be hard to implement.
Also, with DP you also lose VGA.
Looks like mini-DVI but it's too small (by ~30%), the suggestion right now is mini displayport.
It's been mentioned over 9000 times in the old thread.
Isn't necessarily, some people think the round hole is for IR but I don't buy it, doesn't make any sense.
it does, as it's a ray of light.
Have you ever tried posting false information on Wikipedia? It gets erased and you get banned. (I did an experiment once, my account didn't even make it through the day!)
FW400 is now ubiquitous on the most basic barebone systems from Asus, Shuttle and moreso.
To make it a non-standard part of a MacBook is absurd. They already distinguish the markets by FW400 or FW800. Extending the top-end to FW800/3200 combo would make the price for the MacBook Pro more justified.
doubt this was mentioned, but thought it would make an interesting addition. Has anyone thought why the Optical Drive is on the right? What on the right is? Well 9to5 mac put this together:
Link
Would make sense and cause me to drop my soon-to-be last edition $2.5k MBP.
Of course, my other feeling on it is that it's an HDMI/Display Port.
What's the consensus here?
I think I said that a bunch of posts back.. who knows, this is a continuation of the other thread which is at 1500 posts. anyway, would be nice... However, given the size of a mbp, that would big imac doc. I was hoping more for a tablet with dock.
hmm.... macbook pro tablet, that offers an optional dock to one that includes the imac doc -> $1700 - $3100 depending on options?
Ding Ding, that would be a winner....
I am trying to talk my wife into letting me sell my macbook to my pastor and upgrade (if tomorrow is not a disappointment to me). I keep telling her that 50% of my initial cost was the software, but she keeps saying no as I spent
about $2500 in April on my macbook with parallels/xp and additional software to dump 90% of my windows apps.
I can't really tell what's going on in your pics there but the port that's taped up is taped up inside as well
exactly... especially with bloggers posting every bit of misinformation these days, at least the Wikipedia is peer-reviewed. if I had to the choice of starting at a random website or at the Wikipedia, I'd hit the Wikipedia. It's, at the very least, a good starting point, and at best, pretty comprehensive depending on the topic.
No, but I come a cross a lot of gray, open to interpretation information. It is nice, but what I don't like is to send someone information and then when they go back, the information is changed.
What if that hole wasn't a battery release, but a battery level button like is currently on the bottom? Moving it to the side (and the taped-over hole could be where the actual LED readout on the battery shows through) would make it more convenient, because you don't have to turn the computer upside down to see it. It's about the right location if the battery's still in the front, though if it's in the back it's less likely.
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the mystery port is a heat vent. that's why it's taped up. some heat exchange element will go in there. it's because the battery is on the backside where the heat vents used to be. 
I was going to sell my MBP to my GF (For like 1500) and then buy a Nehalem MBP in 09. But tomorrow may make me rethink that idea. This whole dock idea would make me do it. Assuming it comes and I wouldn't be able to use it with my current macbook pro.
Plus - a 24" imac could easily hold a 15" Macbook Pro. And would explain the lack of a new Apple Display for a while.
the mystery port is a heat vent. that's why it's taped up. some heat exchange element will go in there. it's because the battery is on the backside where the heat vents used to be.
I'm pretty sure the battery is going to be in the front, since we've seen that the optical drive is going to sit toward the back and open to the side.
Its obviously been said about a thousand times... but I just wanted to throw my "no firewire!? wtf!?" post in.
As someone who uses Firewire EVERY DAY, I really don't see Apple abandoning it. They invented it, and it is far superior to USB!
As someone who uses Firewire EVERY DAY, I really don't see Apple abandoning it. They invented it, and it is far superior to USB!
If Apple were to do something like that patent I would very highly doubt it would be an iMac (why put a computer inside another computer?) but rather an Apple Cinema Display.