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MacBook Pro Launch February 12th?
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From http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/...ockups-get-yours-in-before-its-too/2#comments , middle of the page
Come onnnnnn Apple
Come onnnnnn Apple
The second they come out... 15" MBP - multitouch pad - 2.8 Duo Extreme - Penryn - mag latch - for me.
Still using my Dual 1.0 G4 mirrored door tower.
Still using my Dual 1.0 G4 mirrored door tower.
Well, yesterday the order status of my entry level MBP said "Not Yet Shipped". Today it says "Prepared for Shipment" and the config specs still say:
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
160GB Serial ATA Drive@5400rpm
SuperDrive 8X
15" Glossy Widescreen Display
No Modem
No iWork Preinstalled
No Final Cut Exp Preinstalled
No Aperture Preinstalled
No Logic Exp Preinstalled
BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS
Country Kit
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
160GB Serial ATA Drive@5400rpm
SuperDrive 8X
15" Glossy Widescreen Display
No Modem
No iWork Preinstalled
No Final Cut Exp Preinstalled
No Aperture Preinstalled
No Logic Exp Preinstalled
BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS
Country Kit
How awesome would it be if right when they came out on Tuesday they shipped you the entery level penryn.
Before someone else says it, you might want to provide a screen shot for us.... Great news though!
That would be sweet. And I'm getting overnight delivery so if i shipped Monday it would be in my hands (figuratively speaking since I'm completely paralized below the neck and can't use my hands) Tuesday afternoon.
That's the way I'm looking a it.
This what you wanted to see?
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Thanks for all this news Wheelie - you might have inadvertently bumped into the new entry-level MBP specs
Please keep us updated on the evolution of your order...if it doesn't ship on Monday I guess we are up for the official update on Tuesday...I wouldn't be surprised if the lower range MBP has the T8300 processor after all - it gives reason to the price differentiation. I doubt that the new Penryn processor will be slower with respect to the previous one, give the whole new instruction set. Either way, should these specs turn out to be indicative of the new MBPs, its good that the HDD at least got bumped an extra 40 GB after over a year at 120 GB. Video card mystery is still there though, do orders usually carry information on the video card?
where do you sell your used macs?
I mostly have used desktop macs since 1986, and we used them for several years: Mac Plus, MacIIsi, PowerMac, eMac G4, and the one I currently use is a late 2006 MacBook.
Now I do prefer to use the portables, and I'm waiting to get the soon to come MBP.
Because the portables tend to be updated/improved faster than the desktops your strategy is a nice one, and I would like to do the same in the next months.
Where do you typically sell your used macs??
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I mostly have used desktop macs since 1986, and we used them for several years: Mac Plus, MacIIsi, PowerMac, eMac G4, and the one I currently use is a late 2006 MacBook.
Now I do prefer to use the portables, and I'm waiting to get the soon to come MBP.
Because the portables tend to be updated/improved faster than the desktops your strategy is a nice one, and I would like to do the same in the next months.
Where do you typically sell your used macs??
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I-SHIFT
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Thanks for all this news Wheelie - you might have inadvertently bumped into the new entry-level MBP specs
I wouldn't be surprised if the lower range MBP has the T8300 processor after all - it gives reason to the price differentiation. I doubt that the new Penryn processor will be slower with respect to the previous one, give the whole new instruction set. Either way, should these specs turn out to be indicative of the new MBPs, its good that the HDD at least got bumped an extra 40 GB after over a year at 120 GB. Video card mystery is still there though, do orders usually carry information on the video card?
Nice for wheelie, but isn't this missing many of the improved/new features that we are expecting?
I understand that
will not disclose anything until their official release, but why are you so happy, please elaborate?________
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Nice for wheelie, but isn't this missing many of the improved/new features that we are expecting?
I understand that
Well, I'm happy because no matter what, I need to buy a new MBP on Tuesday (have been without laptop for almost 2 months) so I would rather get the upgraded version which obviously gives you better bang for the buck and hopefully will have some of the hardware defects of the previous MBP model (yellowing screen, keyboard freezes, etc.) resolved. Plus of course, a 160 GB standard over 120 GB and possibly a slightly upgraded video card. It makes it worthwhile to have waited between MWSF and now. I don't think we shall be seeing substantial changes, perhaps multi touch trackpad, but keyboard and case will stay the same - I wouldn't bank on the magnetic latch either. Still, it won't be a compelling upgrade for owners of past C2D MBPs, but it will be very alluring for people without a laptop, with a Winblows machine or with a PPC Mac laptop...
The only reason I'm happy is that instead of them replacing my defective Blackbook (my first mac ever after 5 years of DOS and 13 years of Windows) with another Blackbook, they let me choose to pay the difference and upgrade to a MBP (that 13 inch screen was killing me). And if the specs on my order status are true I'm getting a bit more than I was expecting to get, so more reason for me to be happy since I was expecting a 2.2GHz processor and 120GB drive.Nice for wheelie, but isn't this missing many of the improved/new features that we are expecting?
I understand that
Still the specs on my status page could be an error.Plus, I can't wait to be back on OS X. Being on the old Dell with WinXP is odd. WinXP file system/structure feels so archaic and totally unorganized and terribly slow after using OS X for 6 months.
I was thinking of the same thing. The specs on the screenshot look like an upgraded MBP. I'm not following.Nice for wheelie, but isn't this missing many of the improved/new features that we are expecting?
I understand that
Thanks for all this news Wheelie - you might have inadvertently bumped into the new entry-level MBP specs
I wouldn't be surprised if the lower range MBP has the T8300 processor after all - it gives reason to the price differentiation. I doubt that the new Penryn processor will be slower with respect to the previous one, give the whole new instruction set. Either way, should these specs turn out to be indicative of the new MBPs, its good that the HDD at least got bumped an extra 40 GB after over a year at 120 GB. Video card mystery is still there though, do orders usually carry information on the video card?
I was just looking over the Penryn line as well as the processors currently in Apples laptops and one thing that strikes me is that all of them have a C2D with 4mb of L2. The T9500 and T9300 are at the exact same price point as the T7700 and the T7500 when they were released last summer; $530 and $316. The price dropped on these processors in September to $316 and $241, respectively. The T8300 with its 3mb of L2 comes in at the exact same price point (241) as the current T7500 in the MPBs. This concerns me as I was eyeing the lower end MPB, which I hope will be equipped with the T9300. Also, I looked at Intel’s roadmap and in 2009, the Nehalem chips will be shifting from L2 to a larger L3 cache (24mb in high end servers), and I would not be surprised to see the mobile chips follow suit after the 8mb L3 versions (probably 2010). Given that the new $1999 MPB has a T8300 (which I hope it does not), I think I would have to upgrade to the $2499 model with the T9300 for the sake of my laptop being viable in 3 years with new instruction sets geared towards larger caches.
p.s. This will be my first MAC!
I was thinking of the same thing. The specs on the screenshot look like an upgraded MBP. I'm not following.
Ovbiously they look like an upgraded MBP. Do you think apple would release the specs of their nexgen MBPs before the release? No. They could just be close the the next baseline specs or they could just be an upgraded mbp. We won't know until Tuesday I guess.
This what you wanted to see?
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Thanks very much for posting the screenshot.
Very interesting to see that you've been upgraded! It's a shame they dont tell you the GPU, as that's one of the key selling points for myself.
Looks like it's going to happen this tuesday!!!
i sure hope tuesday is the day. that's the day i'm supposed to call apple and set up the replacement for my 2.2 ghz MBP (a 2 month old laptop that has been in for repair 4 times - which was a replacement for a 2.16 MBP that had nearly as many problems). it would be fantastic to get to upgrade - maybe enough to help me forgive and forget all the problems i've had with apple so far... of course, if they'd throw in a free iphone for all my problems that would help too.
I sure hope it comes out on tuesday. Been waiting for about a month to switch to . My PCs have been making me sad
If not im still waiting. Not being patient has always burned me in the past.... But i could really use a new laptop.. my old dell is dead (ding dong the witch is dead)... and im without a laptop. I need somthing to run CS3 on as well.
. My PCs have been making me sad If not im still waiting. Not being patient has always burned me in the past.... But i could really use a new laptop.. my old dell is dead (ding dong the witch is dead)... and im without a laptop. I need somthing to run CS3 on as well.