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MacBook Pro Now Shipping Plus Speed Bump

If there's any proof the intel switch was worth it, this is it. Speed bumps before their even released, that's just awesome.
 
Such a good day so far! Will the 2.0s start shipping soon? (BTW call Apple to hear the automated message reguarding orders)
 
battery life

while this is nice.... whatever happened to the battery life benchmarks? they claimed the models were prototypes before with more to refine but now that they are shipping, i care more about the battery life than a small upgrade in ghz.

ghz is over guys, remember that?
 
MacTruck said:
Ouch. I'd save that money if I were you. :eek:
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I think I would too.

Eight thousand dollars is a lot of money. But it can go quickly if you don't have a job.

Just think, at 100 per month it would take almost 7 years to put away that much money.
 
cwedl said:
Sounds good to me! Don't understand why 2 people so far has said this story is negative!?
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because everyone at first thought that they weren't going to get the new chip if they already ordered it...that would be my guess for the negative story.
 
ipacmm said:
Well I am sure Apple will get a better rate on the chips for the iBooks...
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What difference would that make? There is a relation between (price on the Intel price list) and (price for end users). That relation will be the same for all chips, because Apple will get exactly the same rebate for all chips they buy. We know that $210 in the Intel price list translate to $300 coming out of your wallet. Whether Apple pays 100%, 90% or 10% of Intel's list price doesn't make any difference.
 
edesignuk said:
And so begins the dawn of Intel :D Regular and decent updates!

Suck on it Moto! :eek: :p
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I hope it doesn't get updated too quickly because it would be like the windows world of buying a new computer and the next week something better will be out...
 
ipacmm said:
because everyone at first thought that they weren't going to get the new chip if they already ordered it...that would be my guess for the negative story.
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Or maybe it's cause some people's VISA card poped out of their wallet today, and they aren't going to like the bill they get next month? ;)
 
Hmmmmmm...

ahuman7341 said:
i still see nothing of bettery life
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I'm thinking that to still not mention battery life at this stage of the game is going to be a BAD thing. I'm going to hold my order until someone posts some numbers.
 
ipacmm said:
I hope it doesn't get updated too quickly because it would be like the windows world of buying a new computer and the next week something better will be out...
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That's true, but I'd still rather live with that than 1 small update every ~9 months or whatever it was.
 
SiliconAddict said:
Apple lied to everyone and they MBP's aren't at 3Ghz. :p
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So can we expect our 2499 orders to ship soon? the 1999s are going to be a week? Is that what I'm reading?
 
guffman said:
So can we expect our 2499 orders to ship soon? the 1999s are going to be a week? Is that what I'm reading?
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Didn't ask. It'll ship when it ships. Couple things we can get out of this announcement. I think we now know the main reason why Apple didn't release battery life specs. Also I think it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that the MBP's ARE ZIF socketed.
 
gnasher729 said:
What difference would that make? There is a relation between (price on the Intel price list) and (price for end users). That relation will be the same for all chips, because Apple will get exactly the same rebate for all chips they buy. We know that $210 in the Intel price list translate to $300 coming out of your wallet. Whether Apple pays 100%, 90% or 10% of Intel's list price doesn't make any difference.
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the difference is that a $240 chip is too expensive for a $999 notebook.

if apple gets the chip for $200 (~20% rebate) it might be just cheap enough to put it in a $999 notebook.

so it's more about the absolute price that a duo core can have in order to allow apple to still make money on the ibooks. if the absolute price for the duo core is too high they will have to go single core.
 
Compare This !!!

MacBook Pro: (667 FSB)
... extra $300 to get 2.16 GHZ (Core DUO)
... extra $300 to get total 2 GB ram
... extra $100 to get the proper 100 gig 7200 rpm hard drive
... extra $349 for AppleCare 3 year warranty

Bottom line:

$3548
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Highest end Dull: $3781
2.26 GHZ, 2 gig ram, 60 gig 7200 RPM hard drive, 2 year warranty.
533 MHZ FSB, single processor.

100 GB 7200 RPM hard drive: $270

$4051

Gosh. More money for fewer but faster processor. Faster by a whopping 100 MHZ. More money for a slower Front Side Bus. More money for less warranty.
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Okay, all of you lab rats. Compare the MacBook Pro 2.16 to the Dull XPS M170.

Use only Universal applications on the Mac Intel. No Rosetta emulation.
... we already know that Rosetta slows everything.

I am betting that the cheaper computer wins in most of the scores because of the dual core processor and faster FSB.
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JJ
 
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