I'm wondering what benefit Apple could get by waiting to have this new update out ?
Assuming there have been MBPs ready to go and sitting in a wherehouse somewhere, then the only benefits Apple could gain by waiting to release them, are:
A. Allow the Air enough buffer time of being in the spot light to gain a following and demand by the time they hit the stores.
B. Allow their own supplies and those of their 3rd party retailer to shrink and thus have reduced the amount of "old stock" on the shelves.
C. To allow nuts like us, sit hear and give them a nice dose of free hype by our postings here and conversation else where.
While A and B could be reasonable actions, I'm willing to bet Apple doesn't need the "free press" from the likes of us. They can probably afford to pay for their own marketing.
If you also include the rumored early production issues Intel had with the new Pryen chips and toss in Apple's desire to have OS 10.5.2 out and in the hands of the end users, those could also add to the delay of the launch of updated MBPs.
Of course we look at it as a delay, I'm sure Steve Jobs has his own agenda and didn't feel the need to contact us individually to ask what launch date worked best for us.
Now if Intel has its issues corrected and has shipped the chips to Apple, then the BIG question is when will we see the updates???
The 19th, why not? Could it be on the 26th with the rumored event that is supposed to be more than just the release of SDKs, sure why not?
Do we sit here and bitch and moan and guess, sure why not?
They're coming out, we know that. But we're also the ones working ourselves into a frenzy. So how about one big collective... breathe in, breathe out. We'll get out new toys soon enough and then we can all complain how much we hate the new updates. Then we can start speculating about the NEXT update.
