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MacBook Pro Specs, LightPeak Known As ThunderBolt?
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We still got tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed for 15" specs that I'll gladly throw money at!
True, plus with copper peak you can hot wire into your car and have a hybrid for cheap.
ahah no like i7! higher revolution display and possibly a redesign? i dont know if im hoping high here but i think i stand for all of us when we say we are dissapointed with this outcome but i think it will replace the macbook white and the macbook pros will be more pro
edit:are we 100% positive it will come out tomorrow? because it hink maybe the base model will come out tomorrow and then the other models march 2nd?
As funny as that is at first blush, it's not really that bad of an idea. That way plugging it into an ACD wouldn't interfere with being able to use the Thunderbolt port whenever devices come out that support it.
(Yes I know it'd take up room, and yes I know there's nothing out YET. It's futureproofing. If Apple says it's a standard, then it IS a standard, and people will adopt it)
What do you believe is the price of one?
They are not for "Pros" either. Though that tends to depends on which "Pro" you ask.
Exactly. My only concern though is doing so on the pictured model. I mean, I use my MBP on the desk with an external HDD and an external monitor. So, if I want to do this with a Thunderbolt external I just won't be able to, because they use the same port? Now that's not very clever, is it? Unless Apple releases a splitter and charges us even more money for it
Where I live, something with a Phenom X4, 6GB 1066MHz and a half decent GPU would take you circa 1200 USD. Though I haven't checked lately. Of course, the MBP costs that, but I don't want a Windows machine as my main. Not saying it's bad, it's just that I don't like it.
What a huge disappointment. I really thought Apple would be leading the way with the 16gb SSD and 1440x900 resolution that was rumored in the other news post.
Instead we get some lopsided, unbalanced laptop with an i5, gimped ass graphics and some half-assed "light peak" port. Yea, I love the idea of losing the port just cause I have a monitor plugged in. Hopefully there'll be something we haven't seen yet but I'm not holding my breath.
Instead we get some lopsided, unbalanced laptop with an i5, gimped ass graphics and some half-assed "light peak" port. Yea, I love the idea of losing the port just cause I have a monitor plugged in. Hopefully there'll be something we haven't seen yet but I'm not holding my breath.
How about giving them a chance to actually reveal something other than the very base model?
No they won't. Look at mini display port. All that did was help Apple charge us more money to hook up a computer to a monitor whereas everyone else adopted a REAL standard like HDMI.
I think everybody here agrees that considered the screen resolution this better be, and likely is, the new iteration of MacBook - be it getting the "pro" tag or not.
There goes your battery life though when you put the dedicated gpu in it running at a higher resolution.
And if it was as easy as just popping in a gpu inside the chassis in a minute then I'm sure they would offer a dedicated gpu option. I don't think it is that easy. Probably requires a different internal design. Another assembly line at the factory maybe? Another model for retail to stock and learn about?
All for what? The few gamers that want to buy 13" mbps for $1500 to play Windows games who just refuse to step up to the 15" MBP?
the issue for me is that it would actually be a stepdown compared to the previous gen MBP, the i5 would actually be a pointless upgrade since most mainstream applications will never use the i5's full potential. C2D would have been enough. An SSD would have actually been a better improvement in terms of speed, but i already see those in MBPs and in MBAs.
how is the MBP better compared than the old MPB. in numbers we can see the difference, but in actual performance, i would honestly think the difference would be negligible
and yes im still fixated with the step down (if not the same) in graphics performance. playing starcraft 2 on an MBP was actually a pleasant experience for me, and so was WoW, and running bootcamp to run SFIV.
how is the MBP better compared than the old MPB. in numbers we can see the difference, but in actual performance, i would honestly think the difference would be negligible
and yes im still fixated with the step down (if not the same) in graphics performance. playing starcraft 2 on an MBP was actually a pleasant experience for me, and so was WoW, and running bootcamp to run SFIV.
Hmm. I'm not really privy to the port design, but if it's backwards compatible with USB, perhaps the USB ports are also light peak and the port everyone is making a fuss over is just a new kind of combo port that would work with monitor output.
I shouldn't even post this because I doubt it myself... but would be interesting.
And why are we all (myself included) so hyper over this? Everyone whinning (even myself) really cares about the 15" anyway. I guess we just dont have those details to croon over. Maybe a bad employee will open one of those pallets and post a few dirty pictures for us...
Well I guess my point is there really isn't a point of adding a "dedicated" GPU of such horrible quality in that Sony Vaio hence why it's a Sony. I bought a 13" MBP once and never again
Ive been saying that till blue in the face...the m11x has a 335m with 1GB of VRAM...at 600.00. Why cant Apple follow suite and give us some oohmff in the GPU dept? SB graphics will let them achieve their great promises of battery life with optimus switching...
I hope Apple releases a BEAST of a mbp tomorrow that way everyone can live happily ever after. THE END!