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MacBook Pro Launch February 12th?
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I have a pismo. upgraded the hell out of it. as i have done an ibook 2001.
I was watching tv with my girlfriend the other day and there was a pismo on screen, barely visible really. I told her it was sexiest computer ever made and she looked at me and left the room.
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I paid thousands for my titanium PowerBook but I never think of longevity when I get a mac. I think of resale value and so every 6-12 months I get a new one and sell the old and it costs me nearly nothing.
I paid thousands for my titanium PowerBook but I never think of longevity when I get a mac. I think of resale value and so every 6-12 months I get a new one and sell the old and it costs me nearly nothing.
If this new mbp dosent hurry up and update i dont know what im going to do....
i need it for school but am dying to get it to run pro tools and record some stuff....
if i dont see an update by the 12th-im debating on going on ebay and getting say g4 for like 300ish and getting the mbp in august for school (hopefully it would have updated then)...yeah i realize it would be stupid becuase the mbp would totally outperform the g4...i just need a mac asap...and who dosent want an extra apple laying around? The more the merrier right? Can anyone tell me that protools would run fine on a g4?
i need it for school but am dying to get it to run pro tools and record some stuff....
if i dont see an update by the 12th-im debating on going on ebay and getting say g4 for like 300ish and getting the mbp in august for school (hopefully it would have updated then)...yeah i realize it would be stupid becuase the mbp would totally outperform the g4...i just need a mac asap...and who dosent want an extra apple laying around? The more the merrier right? Can anyone tell me that protools would run fine on a g4?
an imac g4...but now im looking at the imac g5's....its really surprising how cheap you can get the older imac's on ebay....
Are you sure you aren't dyslexic? Maybe your god told you and not your dog. If it was your dog then I'm pissed because mine never talks to me!
I updated my Pismo with a bigger HD (80Gig) and more Ram (768MB). I didn't bother with a G4 logic board. It clicks along nicely and fires up faster than the Macmini G4 1.4GHz although it does only have 512 MB ram.
As I said price at the time was 4,000 Australian dollars (about 2,500 US dollars) which was for the superceded model. The newly released titanium G4 was 6,000 Australian dollars (over 3,500 US dollars!) at the time.
These days they tend to keep the price the same when they release new models I understand.
The one thing that really upset me was the DVD drive. The first one knackered within the year and the replacement under warranty lasted quite a bit longer. BUT I travel a lot and when you pay a lot of money only to find that your DVD player won't play local DVDs because it is in the wrong zone (5 changes and self destruct!) It is a little bit frustrating to say the least. A laptop is a world travelling computer after all. I suppose most Apple folk rarely travel outside America and wouldn't understand the problem.
Anyway, while we are waiting for the MBP, back to the thread.
How good are DVD drives in Macbooks these days? Somewhere long ago I read that the fundamental problem was that Mac tend to use Matshita drives which are inherently poor.
Any comments?
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As I said price at the time was 4,000 Australian dollars (about 2,500 US dollars) which was for the superceded model. The newly released titanium G4 was 6,000 Australian dollars (over 3,500 US dollars!) at the time.
These days they tend to keep the price the same when they release new models I understand.
The one thing that really upset me was the DVD drive. The first one knackered within the year and the replacement under warranty lasted quite a bit longer. BUT I travel a lot and when you pay a lot of money only to find that your DVD player won't play local DVDs because it is in the wrong zone (5 changes and self destruct!) It is a little bit frustrating to say the least. A laptop is a world travelling computer after all. I suppose most Apple folk rarely travel outside America and wouldn't understand the problem.
Anyway, while we are waiting for the MBP, back to the thread.
How good are DVD drives in Macbooks these days? Somewhere long ago I read that the fundamental problem was that Mac tend to use Matshita drives which are inherently poor.
Any comments?
The Sultan of Brunei's dog has gone to sleep. His birthday is next week.
I don't know about the drives in the MBP's, but my TiBook has a Matshita drive, and it's crap. I'd assume they still use the same manufacturer. The drive was always noisy, especially after it spun up when the computer was brought out of sleep mode. Right after my apple care ended, the drive stopped recognizing blank CD's. Piece of crap.
That was just an international currency adjustment. The US price was unchanged.
The last MBP update was hardly "crap". The CPU speed didn't go up by much, but it had a faster frontside bus, supported more memory, LED backlight (in the 15" models), better battery life and probably better video.
Due to lucky (?) timing of my PowerBook G4's death, I was ready to buy a MacBook Pro in June, just as the current model was announced. I've been very happy with it.
The MacBook seems to be on a regular six month update cycle, in May and November, generally lagging one processor generation behind the MacBook Pro.
The MacBook Pro updates are driven mainly by new processors from Intel, so their releases are timed differently.
The MacBook is already a "new design". The MacBook Pro case design is very similar to the PowerBook G4. I'd love to have easily swappable hard drives in the MacBook Pro.
I'd be inclined to expect a major redesign of the MacBook Pro later this year, along with Montevina.
The MacBook should get updated in May (likely to get LCD backlighting, maybe Penryn), then again in November (definitely Penryn). It won't get Montevina (and possibly a new design) until mid 2009.
I don't think my god is into computers....If he were he would certainly buy a mac and if I did ask him, his answer is would be yes, no, or wait....so I'm guessing he would be saying..... wait!
I have a pismo. upgraded the hell out of it. as i have done an ibook 2001.
I was watching tv with my girlfriend the other day and there was a pismo on screen, barely visible really. I told her it was sexiest computer ever made and she looked at me and left the room.
I have a fully working Lombard, 1 or 2 years prior to the Pismo. Love it, but man, I wanted that Pismo.
