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MacBook Anticipation

If they come out with black models, I sure hope they make they keyboards match the color of the body. A black machine with a white keyboard looks, well...like any old Dell/HP/etc...ugly.

Sorry...pet peeve of mine...I think computers look much nicer when the keyboard matches the rest of the machine. But it seems like Apple & IBM are the only computer manufacturers that agree with me.
 
justflie said:
sorry if someone already mentioned this, but i don't feel like reading the other pages to check. i don't think a special event would be required or even a good thing unless the macbook has some crazy new features. If there aren't new features, then i would say just release it with a press release or something. Otherwise, it will be a bunch of people sitting around looking at steve and being like, so this is just a dumbed down macbook pro, why do i care?
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My thought is, if they held a special event for the Mini & iPod Boombox, they'll have one for the MacBooks.
 
Sound great. I just hope they don't do the different colors and integrated graphics. My dad is looking into buying an Apple laptop this year and he is very interested in buying a MacBook when it surfaces.
 
Boggle said:
You are correct! Here is your prize.

~hands MrCrowbar a small slightly used attack pidgeon. Sorry, it only speaks german. Enjoy in good health!
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Thank you very much. Hmmm, I wonder what happens if I tell the pigeon "Sie haben einen schönen Busen". :p


Back to topic, the Macbook deserves an event since it appears to be redesigned, i.e. won't look like the current iBook. Of course the insides will be a stripped down MBP but there are those rumors about magnets instead of the standard latch... I hope this wonÄt just be one magnet on the display and one in the base so you just have to pull like crazy to get the thing open. I can imagine when you press the button on the base, the magnet moves a bit (or turns around) so that the lid opens by magnetic force. Makes sense since it would be more durable than the current latchand better suited for students that have a tendency to break fragile things. On todays powerbooks and iBooks, it's quite easy to force the latch to come out and break it. Or even worse, Imagine a school kid pulling like hell to get the display to open becausehe's too dumb to press the release button... A magnetic system would have no parts sticking out and you don't break anything if you try to open the computer without pressing the button.
 
m-dogg said:
My thought is, if they held a special event for the Mini & iPod Boombox, they'll have one for the MacBooks.
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Your logic is sound, certainly, but it seems like Apple has gotten off their schedule this year. I think there was a delay on the Yonah Mac Mini that was supposed to be introduced at MWSF, so they pushed it back to coincide with the iPod HiFi. If it were just the iPod accessories I don't know that they would have done an event just for them.

With all the anticipation for the iBook replacement however, I could see them doing something along the same lines (on the Cupertino campus, relatively small) or try to coordinate the release of something else like a 6GB iPod Nano along with it to make the release a true "event."

By the way, what's in store for the Paris Expo? Will Conroe be around by then?
 
My dream Tuesday..
New ipods, itunes becomes a media store, Macbooks announced...

The problem is that AI said that the new serial numbers will be ready next month. Also I think that apple could have put aperture and remote desktop on the website at the same time instead of going offline twice... I reackon they were teasing us and its going to happen again tomarrow.

Also I think that the main product being launched of feb 28th got pulled at the last moment and thats why we were so underwhelmed.
 
What kind of analyst thinks the new ibook is coming TOMORROW? What a rediculous comment! Sarcasm/exaggeration perhaps.
 
I'm starting to wonder how easy it would be to start a rumour you'd all drool over. Seems to me there's really only 2 criteria to get everyone riled up
1)Gotta include "possibly this tuesday" in the story
2)New iPod/iBook/MacBook/Powermac

Hey, nobody saw bootcamp coming and that's been the biggest news of the year. I bet apple silently drops the new iBooks when no one's looking.
 
dornoforpyros said:
Hey, nobody saw bootcamp coming and that's been the biggest news of the year. I bet apple silently drops the new iBooks when no one's looking.
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Problem is, everybody will be looking for the new MacBooks :p:p
 
dornoforpyros said:
I'm starting to wonder how easy it would be to start a rumour you'd all drool over. Seems to me there's really only 2 criteria to get everyone riled up
1)Gotta include "possibly this tuesday" in the story
2)New iPod/iBook/MacBook/Powermac

Hey, nobody saw bootcamp coming and that's been the biggest news of the year. I bet apple silently drops the new iBooks when no one's looking.
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I doubt that since the MacBook and MacStation are the two Mac's to be re-designed.
A new design implies a "one more thing" from Steve ;)
 
Doubt

Part of me hopes to look stupid tomorrow, but I feel like Tuesday will be another let down. I get so excited every time i read about a possible release and then when nothing happens I'm disappointed.

This time I'm not even getting my hopes up. Though it would make financial sense to release new products as consumers try to figure out what to do with their tax returns.
 
i bet they are released once the 5th ave store is open since it opens on the 20th of may
 
Don't tell me any of you actually BELIEVES there will be a Powerbook G5, err, I'm sorry, a new Macbook next tuesday. There WILL be an event and we will know about it when the invitations are out there.
 
If An Event, Then Two More Weeks

MrCrowbar said:
Don't tell me any of you actually BELIEVES there will be a Powerbook G5, err, I'm sorry, a new Macbook next tuesday. There WILL be an event and we will know about it when the invitations are out there.
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If there will be an event to introduce the MacBook, then it won't be for 2 more weeks. Next week is all about NAB.
 
I sure hope it comes out tomorrow!

I've been waiting for the Intel iBook or "Macbook" for ages. I just dont really want it to cost more than the current £699 because thats why the iBook sells so well. It's got great features for a great price.
 
Chris Bangle said:
I went ot the Apple store in Bluewater on Saturday and I dont think I saw any ibooks on display. I remember seeing macbook pro and imacs and mini and i only saw the 2 powermacs they usually have on display. There was a table and I cant remebr what was on it but i think it was either macbook pros or powerbooks not ibooks. I also went to John Lewis and they had no new 60gb only customer returns... No new powermacs only ex-demos and they ibooks all had big reductions.

This seems like a promising week.
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I went to the Apple store in Birminhgam UK, on friday and they had the MacBook's in the middle and two iBooks and a Power?ook 17" on the left.

I thought they were pushing these with being at the front of the store and all.
I.E. Trying to get rid of them asap. I believe it was an unusual place to put then considering what usually is at the front of the store.
 
milo said:
Consumers want a lot of things. Apple isn't able to offer every single combination of features and sizes. That's the way it goes. Sorry.

They never had a 17" ibook, did they? Or even a 15"?
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Every single combination? I'm talking about a whopping 2 choices of size! :rolleyes:

Apple has had, in the past, 2 sizes of ibook and 3 sizes of powerbook. That's all I'm advocating for. Just change the 12" to 13" and the 14" to 15" and all is well.

1 size of macbook and 2 sizes of MBP is way too few choices. There's no conceptual reason apple couldn't have 13" and 15" models in both the pro and consumer lines, and it would be no more "complicated" than the last revision of G4s.
 
Can't Wait, or can I?

I am greatly anticipating the release of the new iBook. One, because I don't want to read about any more speculation of when they will be released. However, I will not be purchasing it when it comes out.

I will really really want to buy one when they do come out, and I will have to restrain myself, but I know I must wait for the first revision. I stick to the common wisdom that is also used when buying redesigned cars; to wait at least one year. So the sooner they come out with the intel iBook, the sooner the revision, with many of the corrected bugs of the new design, will be released. I am hoping that the first revision won't take a year. Not to mention, Leopard my be released by then as well.
 
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