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MacBook Pro Launch February 12th?

BlueScreenX said:
I sure hope it comes out on tuesday. Been waiting for about a month to switch to :apple:. 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.
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I'm in the same boat. I sold my old imac and all my CS3 software is for mac. I thought I was going to get a MBP right away so everything would be fine. But then I read on here they're due for an update. Now I'm using my old windows box and my windows CS3 trials are running out!
 
"Looks like it's going to happen this tuesday!!!"

I am confused.... there have been a bunch of reports of Apple "upgrading" people for free recently when ordering the lower end MBP. Most seem to think it is just them clearing out inventory to make way for the new.

We all know that new MBP's are coming sometime, but I am curious... what makes you guys think this is an actual new model? The specs perfectly match the current 2.4.

Just curious...
:)
 
macmadandproud said:
"Looks like it's going to happen this tuesday!!!"

I am confused.... there have been a bunch of reports of Apple "upgrading" people for free recently when ordering the lower end MBP. Most seem to think it is just them clearing out inventory to make way for the new.

We all know that new MBP's are coming sometime, but I am curious... what makes you guys think this is an actual new model? The specs perfectly match the current 2.4.

Just curious...
:)
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I agree given the fact that if it is a new penryn based model, it would be equipped with the T8300 w/ 3mb of L2 and all information I have seen points to the new MPBs having the T9300 and T9500.
 
I am sure most of you guys have seen this, however, for those of you that have not, this comes from a poster called Tailpipe over at apple insider and it sounds reasonable. It was posted on 02-01-2008 at 11:12 AM and the link for reference is below.

"This info comes to you from London via an Englishman working at Apple, (and there are more than you think ;-))

A revised MacBook Pro with a Leopard 10.5.2 update was meant to debut at MacWorld but neither was ready.

The delay for the MBP was caused by Intel Penryn processors not being available due to some production glitch. As we all know, Apple doesn't like to announce products too far ahead of their shipping dates - with the notable exception of the iPhone - so decided to delay the launch. Penryn-based PCs now good to go and begin shipping Monday.

Expect new MBP 15-inch and 17-inch within two weeks. 17-inch gets LED.

New MBP DOES feature a slightly revised case design with the new black keyboard from MBA and a larger trackpad, but is basically very similar to existing design. Think evolution not revolution.

The idea is to achieve a commonality of look across the range.

SSD will be an option offering an exceptionally fast boot time < 30 seconds.

Also seen lurking in the corridors of Cupertino was an aluminum MacBook 13". Initially available in silver, my source reckons annodised black, blue, pink and other colours will be available around September. New MacBooks will be a big story later this year. One of the range (I don't know which, maybe the black one) will have a superior spec that basically makes it a MacBook Pro 13"."

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=83903
 
cmm26red said:
I am sure most of you guys have seen this, however, for those of you that have not, this comes from a poster called Tailpipe over at apple insider and it sounds reasonable. It was posted on 02-01-2008 at 11:12 AM and the link for reference is below.

"This info comes to you from London via an Englishman working at Apple, (and there are more than you think ;-))

A revised MacBook Pro with a Leopard 10.5.2 update was meant to debut at MacWorld but neither was ready.

The delay for the MBP was caused by Intel Penryn processors not being available due to some production glitch. As we all know, Apple doesn't like to announce products too far ahead of their shipping dates - with the notable exception of the iPhone - so decided to delay the launch. Penryn-based PCs now good to go and begin shipping Monday.

Expect new MBP 15-inch and 17-inch within two weeks. 17-inch gets LED.

New MBP DOES feature a slightly revised case design with the new black keyboard from MBA and a larger trackpad, but is basically very similar to existing design. Think evolution not revolution.

The idea is to achieve a commonality of look across the range.

SSD will be an option offering an exceptionally fast boot time < 30 seconds.

Also seen lurking in the corridors of Cupertino was an aluminum MacBook 13". Initially available in silver, my source reckons annodised black, blue, pink and other colours will be available around September. New MacBooks will be a big story later this year. One of the range (I don't know which, maybe the black one) will have a superior spec that basically makes it a MacBook Pro 13"."

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=83903
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It's always hard to say if somebody just takes a guess or has valid information.
All of that has been guess around before, even though it sound plausible.
It reflects what i would expect (and hope for).

So u would expect a slight design change towards air style.

let's just hope it's here soon!
 
If enough people want a tree to fall in a forest...will it fall?

I have a feeling our desire for this MBP has very little do with Apple's energy on the issue. Bummer.
 
ewxlt said:
If enough people want a tree to fall in a forest...will it fall?

I have a feeling our desire for this MBP has very little do with Apple's energy on the issue. Bummer.
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Are you kidding? If we all say "next Tuesday" loud enough, it will come! Just ask all the people who were waiting for a new Mac Pro last July! :D
 
One thing is for sure. If they continue to ship only the 17" with LED even after this future upgrade, I may just hold off buying until the end of the year upgrade.
 
what time does the apple store usually go down (when it DOES go down)?

..a timezone would be nice :)

(i'm in melbourne, AUS)
 
Bennett said:
what time does the apple store usually go down (when it DOES go down)?

..a timezone would be nice :)

(i'm in melbourne, AUS)
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Last time the applestore for OZ went down for updates was during Macworld and found was live about 9am AEST.
 
Bennett said:
what time does the apple store usually go down (when it DOES go down)?

..a timezone would be nice :)

(i'm in melbourne, AUS)
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Hi sitting in syndey and last tuesday (for the iphone mem upgrade) the us store went down around midnight (ozzy time).

so if u don't crawl to bed too early tomorrow night u might see it happen!!!

cheers
 
Should i wait for blu-ray?

Come on apple!!! MBP. I been waiting since oct. I really hope that it will be out tomorrow, but for some reason i think apple is going to release either:
time camsule and/or aperture. If MBP come out tomorrw and its a minor update and does not have blu-ray, i think i'm going to get mac mini and wait. I really need my MBP to last at least 3 years.

What do you guys think? should i wait for the blu-ray or f*** it.?
 
t56 said:
Come on apple!!! MBP. I been waiting since oct. I really hope that it will be out tomorrow, but for some reason i think apple is going to release either:
time camsule and/or aperture. If MBP come out tomorrw and its a minor update and does not have blu-ray, i think i'm going to get mac mini and wait. I really need my MBP to last at least 3 years.

What do you guys think? should i wait for the blu-ray or f*** it.?
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Do not expect Blu Ray any time soon.
 
Another date comes and goes...

It isn't going to happen in February now, doubt it. Stay parched in March. They will, in April. Maybe May, see. June's too soon. Why July? Or just August.

This isn't a high priority issue for Apple anymore, they have bigger fish to fry - I told you they was trouble!!
 
JaySoul said:
Another date comes and goes...

It isn't going to happen in February now, doubt it. Stay parched in March. They will, in April. Maybe May, see. June's too soon. Why July? Or just August.

This isn't a high priority issue for Apple anymore, they have bigger fish to fry - I told you they was trouble!!
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noooooo, shunnnnnn the nonbelieverrrr
(charlie the unicorn)
 
jnc said:
Do not expect Blu Ray any time soon.
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I honestly don't understand the need for Blu Ray. Given where things are moving (wireless with faster and more reliable throughput), SSDs, etc... what's the main attraction/need? I rarely use the DVD reader I've got now. Who would something like Blu Ray be targeted for?
 
Bennett said:
what time does the apple store usually go down (when it DOES go down)?

..a timezone would be nice :)

(i'm in melbourne, AUS)
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Unannounced downtimes for store/product updates usually happens around 14:00 GMT+1... so Melbourne, ...GMT+11? sometime around midnight then...
 
dasein said:
I honestly don't understand the need for Blu Ray. Given where things are moving (wireless with faster and more reliable throughput), SSDs, etc... what's the main attraction/need? I rarely use the DVD reader I've got now. Who would something like Blu Ray be targeted for?
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Because people just like gadgets, and they want what everyone else has. It's the consumer syndrome. They want it because it's new and it's cool and it's there.

BluRay isn't going to be some big standard that everyone adopts and millions of people trash their DVD players for. Right now it's still too expensive and the market doesn't know where it's going so BluRay and HD-DVD are going to sit on the fence and wait for the population to decide.

With a write speed of up to 4x burning 50GB of data would be murder, and for the cost of the drive and the discs you could just pay the $350 for a terabyte harddrive and enclosure and backup your stuff that way. The movie quality is wonderful though, but I doubt the majority of people that have both a decent TV and a DVD player have been begging for higher quality movies, and that many people sit down and stare into their screen looking for imperfections in their shadows.

BluRay is nice, but from it looks like movies on optical media will just become a small market like VHS did in the late 90s. Now that Apple has movie rentals I will be buying an Apple TV after possibly one more update to the hardware and I will be renting the movies right from my couch like the fat @$$ American I am. :D
 
Today my order status has change from "Prepared for Shipment" to "Shipped" with a FedEx tracking number. The config list is the same as yesterday. Even though the order status page shows Shipping Method as Overnight, FedEx's tracking page says shipped on 11th with expected delivery date on the 14th.
 
optical drives will be obsolete in a very near future. it will be replaced with flash memory. heck, nowadays even a card reader has 512MB capacity at least, and a card the size of a finger nail that can easily store 8GB of data is not that uncommon. that's equivalent to 2 single layer DVD.
most softwares, music, and videos are now sold (downloaded) via internet. some vendors even starting to sell softwares via read-only memory card.

i can't remember the last time i use my CD drive. my blank DVD stack has been collecting dusts since forever now. why would people need to burn DVDs anyore while they can easily and quickly copy stuffs to their keychain usb drive anyways? it doesn't make sense. and why would they backup their data on DVDs while they can do it much faster and more reliable with harddrives.

furthermore, storing backups on harddrives (or NAS for that matter) makes it much faster and easier to access, as opposed to dividing your data on tens if not hundreds of DVDs and take them in and out and in and out whenever you need access. it's a very tedious process. it is surprising it isn't obsoleted yet.

i really hope the next Macbook Pro won't have optical drives at all. you can do a lot more useful things with that extra space.
 
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