Twilight Elk
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I'm not too crazy about that picture. Oct. 14 can't come soon enough :\
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MacBook Pro Prototypes and Design Details?
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I actually really like the tapered look..and if apple is trying to unify their compies the tapered is the way to go...and the bigger trackpad, and all aluminum...and i honestly would not mind seeing the optical drive and some ports go if this brick thing is real..which sounds effing sweet btw...and i dont think that the hdmi port in the MBP is that farfetched either...hdmi now...and new ACD at macworld along with snowleopard
Virgil-TB2
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Ho-Hum for laptops
Am I the only one that finds the prospect of new MacBooks kinda boring? 😛
If a new form factor is announced at the same event I could maybe get excited, but laptops? They just seem kind of passé to me.
I have a desktop at work and one at home for serious computing. I also have a nice laptop, but for the most part it just sits on a shelf unused since the multi-touch stuff came out. It's already come to the point for me where it's more of a hassle to start up the clunky laptop and carry it around with you than what you get in return.
It doesn't sync with my desktops, so nine times out of ten if I am writing a document, I have to start up the laptop, transfer the file, lug the thing to the coffee shop, work on the file, lug the laptop back, transfer the file back to the desktop ....
I mean I know there are syncing solutions and MobileMe etc. so I am exaggerating a bit, but it almost seems as if the only reason to have a laptop any more is if it is your one and only computer. As a portable, it kind of fails. Unless you think of it as a portable desktop.
I sure hope Apple comes out with something else besides mildly re-styled laptops or I might go to sleep half way through the presentation.
Am I the only one that finds the prospect of new MacBooks kinda boring? 😛
If a new form factor is announced at the same event I could maybe get excited, but laptops? They just seem kind of passé to me.
I have a desktop at work and one at home for serious computing. I also have a nice laptop, but for the most part it just sits on a shelf unused since the multi-touch stuff came out. It's already come to the point for me where it's more of a hassle to start up the clunky laptop and carry it around with you than what you get in return.
It doesn't sync with my desktops, so nine times out of ten if I am writing a document, I have to start up the laptop, transfer the file, lug the thing to the coffee shop, work on the file, lug the laptop back, transfer the file back to the desktop ....
I mean I know there are syncing solutions and MobileMe etc. so I am exaggerating a bit, but it almost seems as if the only reason to have a laptop any more is if it is your one and only computer. As a portable, it kind of fails. Unless you think of it as a portable desktop.
I sure hope Apple comes out with something else besides mildly re-styled laptops or I might go to sleep half way through the presentation.
All MBP models have had some sort of multi-touch (scrolling, right-click etc). I said the same thing when they came out with the newer "multi-touch" models but they didn't release any support for my original MBP.
These things happen, especially with Apple. They tend to like to drop support for anything less than current-generation.
Virgil-TB2
macrumors 65816
drFUNK
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So, Apple is still making prototypes of the MacBook Pro? Maybe they cannot choose which one to make final. 😛
What do you call the Macbook air? What do you call the new Silver/Black Nano? Apple is heading in this direction, whether you like it or not. I personally like it.
gadgetgirl85
macrumors 68040
Yes Apple, at least release the MacBooks before the MacBook Pro and decide which design of the MacBook Pro to release then. 😀
Detektiv-Pinky
macrumors 6502a
There is this theory of the 'optimal design'.
Once you have reached it, it can only go downhill - regardless of the direction you take...
sinser
macrumors 6502a
From http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2304
"My fear: all glossy screens. It would be a major mistake for the MBP design if Apple only ships glossy screens without offering a matte option. Glossy screens will prevent me from buying or recommending them. I cant stand them, especially on notebook computers that are capable to be used outdoors."
This rumors are really, really, scaring me. I know I'll need a new laptop soon, and the Powerbook G4 has been just perfect, fantastic design, right features, but if they'll remove the matte option, dismiss optical drive or something this drastic I think I'll have to switch back to some Windows machine 🙁
"My fear: all glossy screens. It would be a major mistake for the MBP design if Apple only ships glossy screens without offering a matte option. Glossy screens will prevent me from buying or recommending them. I cant stand them, especially on notebook computers that are capable to be used outdoors."
This rumors are really, really, scaring me. I know I'll need a new laptop soon, and the Powerbook G4 has been just perfect, fantastic design, right features, but if they'll remove the matte option, dismiss optical drive or something this drastic I think I'll have to switch back to some Windows machine 🙁
digitalbiker
macrumors 65816
So someone please tell me why we should have any faith in the comments of O'Grady. He now confirms a photo is fake when we all already knew it was fake and that gives him credibility.
He says it will be thinner by reducing the bezel around the screen but that would only effect the width and length not the thickness.
Next he says it will have a smaller trackpad, possibly two split trackpads, possibly two buttons. Then he writes it all off with a warning that Apple may build multiple prototypes and all these features may or may not make it to the final version.
Well NO SH&*T SHERLOCK! What are we suppose to gleam from this gold mine of information.
I thought that the MB & MBPs had been spotted in the wild. Some said that they were even being delivered, and O'Grady is speculating about prototypes.
Did we just take a step backward or what?
I'm lost. Goodnight everybody.
He says it will be thinner by reducing the bezel around the screen but that would only effect the width and length not the thickness.
Next he says it will have a smaller trackpad, possibly two split trackpads, possibly two buttons. Then he writes it all off with a warning that Apple may build multiple prototypes and all these features may or may not make it to the final version.
Well NO SH&*T SHERLOCK! What are we suppose to gleam from this gold mine of information.
I thought that the MB & MBPs had been spotted in the wild. Some said that they were even being delivered, and O'Grady is speculating about prototypes.
Did we just take a step backward or what?
I'm lost. Goodnight everybody.
I believe Apple will try to push out the new laptops ASAP so we may see them before the 14th. Windows ads have been in constant rotation. It would be kinda hard for Apple to come out with a counterattack seeing how the laptops are old. And after the lackluster new ipod lineup they need to do something quick because their stocks are dropping.