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

StealthGhost said:
With more and more games coming to Mac, plus the Mac App store or whatever, this isn't looking good if it's true.
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[attitude mode="Mac Fanatic"]Macs are for professionals. Professionals don't play games. Lame gamers can buy a Dell...[/attitude]

Well, to me, a €1,200 laptop should be versatile enough not to stall, should you try and play anything more recent than 2 year old games. Behind the curve... way behind.
 
So suddenly we have noone talking about Liquid-Metal, small boot SSDs and a complete redesign anymore ;)

Seems like only the Sandy-Bridge and Light Peak rumors are true, which is more than i expected actually.
 
leman said:
If you are so smart and know how to fit a better GPU into that case, drop Apple (or any company, for what matters) a line and they will surely make you a rich man.

But hey, trolling in forums is always easier than thinking...
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The current one has a better GPU, why would a better chip take up more room than the current one? Maybe cooling it might, but that's different.

How large do you think discrete graphics processors are lol?
 
devilcm3 said:
lol i'm starting to think these pictures looks kinda fishy

so the LP connector only works specifically for apples' display , duh ...
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Light Peak is supposed to work with video as well as data. How does that picture mean it's only going to work with Apple displays? :confused:

Light Peak is being developed as a single universal replacement for current buses such as SCSI, SATA, USB, FireWire, and PCI Express in an attempt to reduce the proliferation of ports on contemporary computers. Bus systems such as USB were developed for the same purpose, and successfully replaced a number of older technologies. However, increasing bandwidth demands have led to higher performance standards like eSATA and DisplayPort that cannot connect to USB and similar peripherals. Light Peak provides a high enough bandwidth to drive these over a single type of interface, and often on a single daisy chained cable.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak
 
Thicker on the back?

Sorry guys, but there might be some slight change in design. I think that there is a difference in thickness from back to front, from the pics posted. Or is it just me? :rolleyes: It might be the plastic that wraps it or the view angle, i don't know. It's a blurry image after all. Just a guess...
 
akis-k said:
Sorry guys, but there might be some slight change in design. I think that there is a difference in thickness from back to front, from the pics posted. Or is it just me? :rolleyes: It might be the plastic that wraps it or the view angle, i don't know. It's a blurry image after all. Just a guess...
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Thats what I noticed aswell.
A slight "macbook air" touch. I even tried to measure the gap and if I did it correct, the front is in fact thinner than the back. :D
 
So no Sandy bridge, no high res screen, no OS X on SSD, and an even worse GPU than before?! On top of that no SSD as standard (an upgrade I know, but still).

Am I missing something here?
 
bretm said:
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I'm annoyed that they're not 16:9. I thought all Apples displays were 16:9 like everyone else now.
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I prefer how it is know unless that would mean more pixels off course...
 
asdfgds

I ran over something, and I guess it scratched something underneath my car. It started making noises and this morning,
 
StealthGhost said:
The current one has a better GPU, why would a better chip take up more room than the current one? Maybe cooling it might, but that's different.

How large do you think discrete graphics processors are lol?
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You really have no idea what you are talking about, do you?

The current 13" MB(P) has an Nvidia integrated 320M graphics, which is part of the chipset. Its not a discrete graphics and its not a separate chip. So, in current one you have two "large" chips: a CPU and the chipset+GPU one.

The sandy bridge has the GPU integrated into the CPU, but you still have another chip which holds the chipset (stuff like SATA, network, audio etc.) Again, its a two-chip configuration. Apple would GLADLY use Nvidia chipsets (with Nvidia integrated GPU), but Intel forbid any other company to develop chipsets for their CPUs. As the result, Apple is stuck with Intel offerings. So, if you want to blame someone, blame Intel (the are also responsible for Apple not adoption the Arrandale CPUs for the 2009 13" models - Apple did not want to cripple their graphics offering by replacing the nvidia graphics with the crappy intel HD GPU).

As for getting discrete graphic chip into a 13" Macbook - it will never happen, at least not before chips are greatly reduced in size. Here MBP 13" Teardown you can see how small the mainboard of the 13" Macbook actually is. There is NO place to fit another huge GPU chip + VRAM. Compare it to the teardown fotos of the 15" MBP and you'll understand that a discrete GPU in the 13" MBP is simply a physical impossibility and not an "Apple is screwing with us again". The only way to get a graphics chip in there is get some space by either increasing the size of the laptop (which won't happen), or removing the optical drive / reducing the battery capacity / moving the whole system onto blade SSDs.
 
On French sites, rumors about a core i3 in the low-end MBP 13'.

BTW, theses specs are stange : if not looking for brute power and optical drive, why not to buy a 13' MBA with 4Gb Ram instead of a 13' MBP ?

It's cheaper, lighter, has a better resolution, better battery life... and SSD as standard.
 
SwedishBassist said:
So no Sandy bridge, no high res screen, no OS X on SSD, and an even worse GPU than before?! On top of that no SSD as standard (an upgrade I know, but still).

Am I missing something here?
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The current MBP 13' have 320M GPU aswell. I don't see how they can be worse in the new one ? :confused:
 
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