bigger trackpads? Don't know about you, but my trackpad is bigger than just about any other laptop trackpad on the market... You mean you want a trackpad even bigger than that?
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MacBook Pro 2011 predictions
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bigger trackpads? Don't know about you, but my trackpad is bigger than just about any other laptop trackpad on the market... You mean you want a trackpad even bigger than that?
I think the real question is not whether were getting Sandy bridge or not but whether we will finally get a quad core in the macbook pro (even as a BTO!). Personally as much as I'd love this to happen I've got this nagging feeling that it won't...
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Apple will have to cut costs somewhere, probably at the GPU as advertising they have quad core is much more marketable than a better GPU. There are a lot of quad core options so they will definitely have a BTO option, but the question will be whether the high end 15" will get a quad core i7 or will they opt for a lower voltage i7 at 2 cores?
quite funny to call somebody a computer-illiterate just because one likes the 13" model.
furthermore the mba and the mbp 13" are not alike. just look at the technical specs. while the mba is designed to be as thin as possible while managing small tasks, you can actually work with the mbp 13".
i know that there are many benchmarks which state that the mba is faster than the mbp. however they compare a new model to an almost 8 month old model. the new mbp 13" will be a lot faster and more powerful than the mbp.
Yeah that was pretty harsh, 13" MBP is very viable still. I don't think they're going to keep it AND the Macbook as the Air has caught on strong enough to replace one of them. Either they strip down the MB and sell it for $800 or they beef up the 13" MBP to be a higher end competitor to the MBA at a slightly higher price. Don't call people computer-illiterate because their preferences disagree with yours. I think it would be much better to ditch the optidrive and put a 750 GB HDD there and a couple SSD blades in the current HDD slot because I want to keep my massive media library on my machine and still get SSD performance, but a lot of professional photographers, video editors and gamers still need it and disagree with me.
I think it could be a bit bigger, then it could maybe have more gestures in it. Although I can use the current one fine if Apple don't make the display touch sensitive then they would need to concentrate on the trackpad.
I'd really like to see the auto graphics switching solution that Arrandale had, debugged and improved in Sandy Bridge before jumping in. Too many issues seen on OS X running on the integrated Intel card (freezes, kernel panics, garbled graphics) and flash.
Oh no, apparently ALL the flash faults are Adobe's fault, according to the 'in denial' Apple....... It's a sore point with me..
As for the auto switching, Arrandale didn't have one, you had to manually tell the computer which GPU to use and then log out and log back in to use it.
this is a stupid question so sry for my ignorance. but doesnt chrome has flash (built in?) so... cant you just use chrome?
Yes it does and no I can't, because chrome alway's activates the discrete graphics so using the 330m just for browsing when on battery is a tad OTT and hot. Firefox is the same but it also can have flash issues.
I'd love to see a HD screen in the new MB Pros
Ugh... 16:9 screens on laptops are just horrible. 16:10 is just perfect IMO.
wait what??
using chrome or firefox will active the Nvidia? thats lame... that means we are stuck with safari for longer battery life and less hot bottom?
What about Camino? Anybody know? I like Camino as it is the most Mac-like of the browsers and has built-in Flash filtering with exceptions.
I think MBP will follow some of the recent MBA moves.
Also, I'd expect a decent GPU and CPU bump. However I'd really like for them to rip out the optical drive and do a more significant power bump, and then I'd just buy all my stuff off the mac app store. 10 hour battery life is good enough, i.e. use it during the day and charge it at night.
Also, I'd expect a decent GPU and CPU bump. However I'd really like for them to rip out the optical drive and do a more significant power bump, and then I'd just buy all my stuff off the mac app store. 10 hour battery life is good enough, i.e. use it during the day and charge it at night.
Most retarded thing I've ever read. Screw thinner. It's already stupid thin. You want thin, go buy the MBA. This is the macbook PRO. It's supposed to have top-end specs. It's supposed to have robust construction and cooling to run 100% CPU for hours on end. I want a *thicker* chassis, so that we can actually have a decent GPU fitted for once, instead of the boring midrange GPU's that the past few MBP's have received.
Dont be a jerk, but I do agree I think they're going a little too thin. The MBP is marketed towards experienced users who know better than to be fooled by gimmicks like a thinner machine. I'd frankly like it to be a little thicker if they can get a better GPU and CPU in there. Im on a 08 pre unibody and its dramatically thinner than all the current PC models that Im seeing. Maybe they should keep thinning the 13" model and make that the mainstream model and make the 15 and 17 a little thicker and make them the high performance models.
i'm thinking that apple will go with the nvidia 420m or 360m because they seem to have only a bit higher TDP that a bigger battery should compensate for. please just give us a GB and not a crappy 512 mb card
edit: the 4xxm series will be rebadged to 5xxm with slightly higher clock speeds
edit: the 4xxm series will be rebadged to 5xxm with slightly higher clock speeds
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lol you think that's the most retarded thing you've ever heard? get real and think about the direction tech and especially apple is going. its not at all silly to think the mbp is gonna get thinner. to think otherwise is the most retarded thing I've ever heard
My clients still demand DVD's to be delivered to them while we're on set all day. This is what really scares me about apple lately. It seems they no longer design computers to what clients are demanding now, but what they think they should far to far in the future. If there is no OD this will be one more step backwards, for me at least, in a "new" apple computer.
any thoughts on whether apple will allow support of widi with the new processors. apparently its either built in or already capable in sandy bridge. that would be tremendous for the mbp
