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MacBook Pro Specs Leaked? SSD, Better Battery, New Technology?

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blue22 said:
I give it another 4 hours before the 1,000th comment is officially marked on this MBP thread. :cool:
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I'm just doing my part to make this happen.
 
If you can exchange your recent MBP purchase than JUST DO IT!

AvengedX7 said:
Do you guys think this is enough of a change to return my current 13" (i'm still under return policy) and get the new one?

Please give me some opinions

arcite said:
Do it man! You won't regret it. I love my macbook pro and will upgrade it in due time. But if I had the chance to return it tomorrow and pick up a shiny new model I would do it in a heartbeat.
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miamialley said:
Take it back. You'll pay less for the old(er) model in a few days or either buy the new model. No brainer.
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These people are wise so LISTEN TO THEM and return that 13" for a newer system, you won't regret it.



AvengedX7 said:
I just bought a MBP a week ago so i still have the option to return it and upgrade. Should i return it before thursday to make sure i get a full refund and theyre not like wtf this is an old one.... OR should i just wait till thursday and return it + upgrade in the same day?
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Make sure you do it within your warranty period (14 day general return, 30 day exchange for newer model) and I would bring the system in the original packaging with you to the store when you make your case. Call the Apple store in advance just to get them prepared for your visit.
 
milescortez said:
I'd argue theyre AHEAD of the future. Physical media is going away. pulling the SuperDrive. Why add another physical drive? The machines are bluray capable if you have 1080p digital copy. I happen to have 125 or more all digital 1080p. Three years and all those bluray drives in windows machines will be going away.
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The bad thing is those 1080p are not even close to the standards of blu-ray. The bitstream for Dolby True HD or DTS HD sound is pretty high, there is a comparison somewhere on the web that compares HD on cable to blu-ray. You can tell the difference.

Besides downloading "HD" movies from iTunes take forever. I rather have my blu-ray. Perhaps 20 years from now everyone will be using digital but don't expect downloads. Everything will be in the cloud and when physical media finally disappears expect your "ownership" of media to disappear too.

The movie and music industry wants to make money, and what better way than have everyone pay in the cloud...
 
I don't know why people ask if they should return their recently bought computer. I mean isn't it obvious? No one has ever returned a computer to the Apple Store and then bought a brand new computer and said "Gee, I wish I had my older Mac that came out a year ago".
 
Michael CM1 said:
Has anybody turned into a convert of "Ooh, it's nice to have one computer for everywhere" to "Ooh, this iMac rocks at home and I can take an iPod/iPad/iPhone on the go?"
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Same here.

Amazed how productive I can be with the iPad and love sailing past the TSAs at the airport without having to remove it from my carryon.

Looking forward to ditching my Android phone for a iPhone 5 when it comes out to have the trifecta.
 
SSD totally worth it

ten-oak-druid said:
The SSD option is too soon. The benefit is minimal compared to the loss of capacity. I'm more excited to see regular 2.5" hard drives available in 750GB at 7200rpm and 1TB at 5400rpm for reasonable prices. I've heard 7200rpm drives of 1TB are available but are very expensive.
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As a user and HD replacement addict of all sorts of drives including the newer hybrid drives that are 512GB 7200RPM with 4GB SSD, nothing compares with a fast SSD.
I saw a reasonable speed improvement with the hybrid drive, nothing readied me for the speed improvement of a 256GB SSD from Corsair... damn..
I took one of my customer's first generation Mac Pro's with 1GB ram and a 80GB drive, cloned the data to the Corsair SSD and it's seriously faster than any new Mac Pro I've worked with so far... even with 1GB ram!

My new MB Air 11" is faster at standard tasks by a large amount than my MBPro with the hybrid drive, and the responsiveness means I use it much more.

I am very curious how the OS on a SSD will work with this latest rumor. I know that my next computers will all have SSD drives in them.. never going back to standard drives except for offloading content -- externals and such.

I'm really hoping that with Apple's buying power, they can bring down the cost of standard SSDs for the rest of us. SSDs 256GB+ are crazy expensive....

Anyhow, add me to the list of purchasers of this new MBP... whatever it ends up having at launch.
 
I don't know about the rest of the thread, but it seems noone in the 1st 2 pages talked about the SSD.
Come on apple, really? 16gb SSD? That's not even enough for a boot camp partition, meaning the fast boot times doesn't help that much in boot camp restarting, which is the only reason someone shuts down his mac -.-
 
LoganT said:
I don't know why people ask if they should return their recently bought computer. I mean isn't it obvious? No one has ever returned a computer to the Apple Store and then bought a brand new computer and said "Gee, I wish I had my older Mac that came out a year ago".
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haha +2 lol
 
orfeas0 said:
I don't know about the rest of the thread, but it seems noone in the 1st 2 pages talked about the SSD.
Come on apple, really? 16gb SSD? That's not even enough for a boot camp partition, meaning the fast boot times doesn't help that much in boot camp restarting, which is the only reason someone shuts down his mac -.-
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It would be a 16GB SSD along with a regular HD.
 
drboy005 said:
Can someone please tell me where my Lightroom files go to. SSD or HDD?
Thanks.
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It'll be very interesting to see how Apple approaches this - whether there's any way to specify particular files to be written on the SSD rather than the HDD. Since Snow Leopard takes somewhere between 4-7 GB or so depending on which install options you choose, there'd certainly be a decent amount of room left for other files. :)
 
orfeas0 said:
meaning the fast boot times doesn't help that much in boot camp restarting, which is the only reason someone shuts down his mac -.-
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So you don't install any Mac OS X updates that require a reboot? That is interesting.

Anyway you can always choose to use an SSD instead of the 2.5" mechanical drive if you wish.
 
drboy005 said:
Can someone please tell me where my Lightroom files go to. SSD or HDD?
Thanks.
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Put your RAW/DNG files on the HDD. Put your Lightroom Cache and Catalogs on the SSD -- that is where the speed comes from. As soon as it accesses the RAW file once, it builds it into the cache on the SSD and as you work with it, you're working with it on the SSD.

I've done tests both ways where I import the RAWs to the SSD and completely work on the SSD (and move the RAWs to the HDD when done working on them) and it didn't feel much different to having just the cache and catalog on the SSD.
 
B Gallagher said:
It'll be very interesting to see how Apple approaches this - whether there's any way to specify particular files to be written on the SSD rather than the HDD. Since Snow Leopard takes somewhere between 4-7 GB or so depending on which install options you choose, there'd certainly be a decent amount of room left for other files. :)
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I bet the internal SSD would only contain the /System (and possibly /Library or parts of it) as well as caches. I am sure the whole partitioning "magic" would be hidden from the user — and I hope they would hide it, because the number of people wanting to "move my app to ssd" and ultimately breaking the whole system would be very high.

The way I'd design a system like that would be using the internal SSD for core OS files, swap and caches (much like the hybrid drive approach, only OS-controlled). All completely hidden from the user.
 
I plan on buying the 13' model, I would just be happy with extra USB , i3 series and 4 gb as the base, infact I would be delighted.


I'm after a computer that can run auto CAD via windows, would this be powerful enough? I know the 15' would be better suited because of the bigger screen, but I'm im not planning on using auto CAD full time on it ( using the computers at college mostly) but need a home laptop to do light drafting work plus to study at home.


I was going to get a windows laptop but the extra battery life,great screen and design plus the ability to use osx and windows 7 is just to tempting and I personally think I would regret the decision to just buy a hp laptop.
 
Has the rumoured conference been confirmed yet?

If so then there could be design changes too.

Get an SSD instead of the cd drive?

Would you still be able to plug in an external one if needed via usb?
 
Just read this on the new 9to5mac rumor. Not that I care at all about the White 13 inch Macbook, but if the French site was wrong about this one, why would they be right about the rest?

"Update: We have been told by two separate sources that the white 13 inch MacBooks are not on the brink of discontinuation. We’ll have to see how the new Apple notebook lineup works out… seems too cozy at this point."

PS. Not that the 9to5mac rumor is more or less credible than the French one, but only one of them can be right on this...
 
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tron1971 said:
milescortez said:
I'd argue theyre AHEAD of the future. Physical media is going away. pulling the SuperDrive. Why add another physical drive? The machines are bluray capable if you have 1080p digital copy. I happen to have 125 or more all digital 1080p. Three years and all those bluray drives in windows machines will be going away.
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The bad thing is those 1080p are not even close to the standards of blu-ray. The bitstream for Dolby True HD or DTS HD sound is pretty high, there is a comparison somewhere on the web that compares HD on cable to blu-ray. You can tell the difference.

Besides downloading "HD" movies from iTunes take forever. I rather have my blu-ray. Perhaps 20 years from now everyone will be using digital but don't expect downloads. Everything will be in the cloud and when physical media finally disappears expect your "ownership" of media to disappear too.

The movie and music industry wants to make money, and what better way than have everyone pay in the cloud...
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This is true unless he has all of the raw files. I plan on getting 12 TB or so of storage to put on a media pc and having the raw, 50GB files to play. I think that is the exact same as blu-ray playback. Am I wrong?
 
Skyldig said:
Just read this on the new 9to5mac rumor. Not that I care at all about the White 13 inch Macbook, but if the French site was wrong about this one, why would they be right about the rest?

"Update: We have been told by two separate sources that the white 13 inch MacBooks are not on the brink of discontinuation. We’ll have to see how the new Apple notebook lineup works out… seems too cozy at this point."

PS. Not that the 9to5mac rumor is more or less credible than the French one, but only one of them can be right on this...
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I would say they both are just guessing.
 
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