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MacBook Pro Shortages Continue as Apple Struggles to Deliver Replacement Machines

lifeinhd said:
Unless it's something amazing, I think I'll pass on this one. My 2006 C2D MBP is still going strong, and I'm hoping it'll get me through college for the next four years. Maybe at the end of college I'll upgrade, so I can use my student discount :D
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Over the years since the Macbook, I've given away several of my old Macbooks to family as I kept on the upgrade treadmill.

All of them from the 2006 C2D white Macbook to the latest 2009 MBP 13" are all functioning beautifully and keeping their new owners happy.

I had a chance to spend some time with my oldest MB while upgrading it for my mother-in-law, and was amazed at how well it functioned and how nice it still looked... this machine is over 4 years old.

Keep your MBP and hopefully it lasts another 4 years!
 
TigerWoodsIV said:
Yeah quad core is definitely coming with the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture. I'd be shocked if Ivy Bridge's power usage was still too high to support a quad core MBP.
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Most users will see a huge speed increase with SSDs and not from quad core CPUs. Unfortunately for me I need lots of space > 500GB so I will wait until that gets affordable
 
cvaldes said:
It will take more than two days for Apple to ramp up production of Sandy Bridge-based systems for a responsible and sane global launch of new MacBook Pros.

Apple may want to qualify the part themselves before ramping into what would be several weeks of production before launch. My guess is 4-6 weeks after February 20 (when Sandy Bridge ships) before Apple product hits store shelves.
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Intel has been known the slip these chips to Apple ahead of the "public" offering. I'd say anything's possible, but March seems more likely.
 
lifeinhd said:
Unless it's something amazing, I think I'll pass on this one. My 2006 C2D MBP is still going strong, and I'm hoping it'll get me through college for the next four years. Maybe at the end of college I'll upgrade, so I can use my student discount :D
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Yeah, but by then you student loans total will be so huge that you'll be regularly peeing the bed.

By the way, my 2006 Intel MBP is doing just fine too even after nice fall while running onto a cement hard surface. I also run it for hours on some really graphic intensive apps that heat it up like a toaster oven. I'm about ready to up-size the HD and load Snow Leopard on it.
 
CmdrLaForge said:
Most users will see a huge speed increase with SSDs and not from quad core CPUs. Unfortunately for me I need lots of space > 500GB so I will wait until that gets affordable
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Yeah that's another reason why I'll wait. For the most part I'm not doing anything too intensive, but having a large SSD would be quite nice for overall performance. I just wish I wasn't losing my student discount this year, bc the Ivy Bridge upgrade would've been nice to grab before it ran out. I guess that's what I get for graduating in 3 years.
 
chrmjenkins said:
Your news article makes no mention of a reduced TDP.

There were no Merom or Penryn quad cores. Clarksfield was 45W/55W. There are no Arrandale quad cores. Sandy Bridge quad cores are again 45W/55W. Unless Apple ups the TDP they allow for MBP processors, quad cores aren't happening until Haswell most likely.

I'd love to be proven wrong and shown that Ivy Bridge quad cores will be 35W, but I've seen no article to that effect.
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The news article had nothing to do with the TDP, it had to do with the release date which you were questioning.

Apple won't need to increase the TDP their machines use because of the die shrink that will be happening to the quad cores. Both quad core chips have not been on the "tick" cycle yet but they will be when Ivy Bridge rolls around.
 
*waits for*

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profoshow said:
so what would be the best setup to run imovie smoothly?

edit: other than buying top of the line mbp
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It runs fairly well on my 2006 Intel MBP with one gig of memory.

Remember, iMovie has been around for years and works just fine on some ancient (relatively speaking) Apple hardware.
 
Thats good news, I'm really hoping we see new Macbooks/iMacs with the new Sandy Bridge processors :]
 
The delay is because Apple is too busy making and selling iToys. Anything that has the "Pro" moniker is delegated to the back of the line. Won't be much longer before the only thing that Apple ships will have an "i" on front of the brand name.
 
asdf542 said:
The news article had nothing to do with the TDP, it had to do with the release date which you were questioning.

Apple won't need to increase the TDP their machines use because of the die shrink that will be happening to the quad cores. Both quad core chips have not been on the "tick" cycle yet but they will be when Ivy Bridge rolls around.
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It gives an unsubstantiated date. The last estimate was H2 2011 and that was prior to the current Sandy Bridge fiasco. Intel is not going to give these chips only <8 months on the market before supplanting them. Especially when they've already lost a billion on them.

With the die shrink will come higher clocks that fit that TDP. The mobile quad cores (Clarksfield and now Sandy Bridge) have always been 45W/55W. Similarly, the highest clocked dual cores have been at 35W for the last 3+ generations. Supposing that they'll be lower is speculation and has no factual basis.

TigerWoodsIV said:
Yeah quad core is definitely coming with the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture. I'd be shocked if Ivy Bridge's power usage was still too high to support a quad core MBP.
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Power draw isn't the issue. It's the maximum thermal power that they have to have the design able to dissipate that's the problem.
 
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Hm, my colleague will be pissed when I tell her that her replacement will probably take 8 weeks. DOA, nothing heard of the repair since.
 
THX1139 said:
I've seen this splash page many times on Apple. It means nothing other than they are doing routine site maintenance.
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Uhh, I'm pretty sure that they also pull that page up when theyre editing the store page for new products...
 
still rocking the '07 Blackbook, which has served me well. I will commemorate it with a small ceremony before moving on to one of these new shiny MBPs. :)
 
TigerWoodsIV said:
Yeah quad core is definitely coming with the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture. I'd be shocked if Ivy Bridge's power usage was still too high to support a quad core MBP.
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The faster the horse, the more oats they eat. At some point we need to admit that some chores are just not meant for a laptop. However, I am shocked, amazed, and stupefied at what power we have today in a laptop.
 
j-a-x said:
My original Unibody Macbook (non pro but looks like what they now call pro) is hanging in there still, and I don't have any desire to upgrade yet. I am actually impressed at how long this computer has been lasting me.

Although those i7s seem pretty nice....
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Same here

but id be happy if they added iX processor, dedicated GPU, SSD (like the air's, but with 2nd HD for storage) and No DVD.

i can dream :)
 
aaps59 said:
Uhh, I'm pretty sure that they also pull that page up when theyre editing the store page for new products...
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They also throw it up when Sandra, the recently-wed Russian secretary, is wandering around in one of her famous short outfits.
 
chrmjenkins said:
It gives an unsubstantiated date. The last estimate was H2 2011 and that was prior to the current Sandy Bridge fiasco. Intel is not going to give these chips only <8 months on the market before supplanting them.

With the die shrink will come higher clocks that fit that TDP. The mobile quad cores (Clarksfield and now Sandy Bridge) have always been 45W/55W. Similarly, the highest clocked dual cores have been at 35W for the last 3+ generations. Supposing that they'll be lower is speculation and has no factual basis.
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Yonah to Merom = 6 month difference. You were saying? If you want to give a more recent article than that then be my guest and do so.

Oh and the dual cores have not always been 35W. Arrandale includes the 10W IGP into the overall TDP. Likewise with the new Sandy Bridge quad cores. ;)
 
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