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MacBook Pro Specs, LightPeak Known As ThunderBolt?
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Update is very meh. Not bad but not great either. I find it weird they are using a 2.3 i5, I didn't know they had that clock speed on those for some reason. For the price you know they will charge it should be a 2.66 i5 500GB HDD, suck it up and add more ports no of this combined sh**, it won't make it look bad.
I knew the graphics card was going to be Intel. Some could say "Well just get teh 15 or teh 17, but good lord those are wretchedly overpriced for what you get. Apple isn;t to blame, their customers are for continuing to buy lower specs from them. If no one bought it they would be forced to play the spec game and in return have kick butt computers.
One day the pixie dust will wear off and they will do better on specs, but thats a ways off.
Yesterdays technology at tomorrows prices
PS if this is a Macbook replacement then thats actually fine. And thunderbolt is a horrid name. Lightpeek sounded better.
I knew the graphics card was going to be Intel. Some could say "Well just get teh 15 or teh 17, but good lord those are wretchedly overpriced for what you get. Apple isn;t to blame, their customers are for continuing to buy lower specs from them. If no one bought it they would be forced to play the spec game and in return have kick butt computers.
One day the pixie dust will wear off and they will do better on specs, but thats a ways off.
Yesterdays technology at tomorrows prices
PS if this is a Macbook replacement then thats actually fine. And thunderbolt is a horrid name. Lightpeek sounded better.
I'm not disappointed in the slightest
Funny, so two crappy GPUs are suddenly better then one crappy GPU? Its not like you can use them in parallel anyway.
So basically, you people argue that the Sony laptop which is 50% as thick, has about half the battery and a similarly performing GPU system is supposed to be better then this leaked Macbook? I guess there are things I'll never understand...
You were right.
The issue was your first post made it sound like they were available for sale at the store -- not just that they had arrived in black-sealed pallets. But good on you, you were right. They are here.
You still didn't post any photos, though.
ALRIGHT everybody just CALM DOWN! May I suggest pouring a nice tall drink this evening, have a good long sleep (for clarity this does not mean refreshing the Apple Webstore every 10 seconds) and wake up tomorrow and you will have all your answers with no need to speculate further!
And if you're still disappointed - it's only a machine.
And if you're still disappointed - it's only a machine.
In the past week, Macrumors has been wrong PLENTY of times. They just repeat what they hear. I would hardly use them as a gauge for accuracy.
Bravo!
All this speculation, moaning and general chit chat does make for great reading on a Wednesday night when TV is awful!
Update is very meh. Not bad but not great either. I find it weird they are using a 2.3 i5, I didn't know they had that clock speed on those for some reason. For the price you know they will charge it should be a 2.66 i5 500GB HDD, suck it up and add more ports no of this combined sh**, it won't make it look bad.
I knew the graphics card was going to be Intel. Some could say "Well just get teh 15 or teh 17, but good lord those are wretchedly overpriced for what you get. Apple isn;t to blame, their customers are for continuing to buy lower specs from them. If no one bought it they would be forced to play the spec game and in return have kick butt computers.
One day the pixie dust will wear off and they will do better on specs, but thats a ways off.
Yesterdays technology at tomorrows prices
PS if this is a Macbook replacement then thats actually fine. And thunderbolt is a horrid name. Lightpeek sounded better.
ahahahahah i have to say when you said "yesterdays technology at tomorrows prices" i just started cracking up..whether its from annoyance and just plane insanity idk but i did ahah
Look on the bright side....
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to MiniDisplayPort.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to VGA.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to DVI.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to Dual-Link DVI.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to USB3 (so that you can actually use high speed peripherals that you can buy today).
Jobs loves those dongles - they're almost pure profit.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to MiniDisplayPort.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to VGA.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to DVI.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to Dual-Link DVI.
You get to buy a dongle to convert the proprietary LightPeak/MiniDisplay port connector to USB3 (so that you can actually use high speed peripherals that you can buy today).
Jobs loves those dongles - they're almost pure profit.
why doesnt apple just announce a release date?...******!!! if people are going to buy either way!
I KNOW!!! PUT A FREAKIN DATE ON THE WEBSITE APPLE!
-cough-
so your telling me that the 13' has no chance with the intel hd 3000 graphics card to play SC2?
Might not be a great refresh, but for those wanting a new 13" MBP its better than before. Good chip, solid construction, great battery...
It's enough for me to only press refresh every 20 seconds.
It's enough for me to only press refresh every 20 seconds.
For those who don't think it is real..
please take a look at this thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1101148/
please take a look at this thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1101148/
I'm pretty sure the name "iPhone" was trademarked by someone else when Apple released the same.
My work gave me a brand new lenovo with an i3 in it and it says 6 hours of batter life on the box.. i can't even get 3 out of it doing just web and email. Sure windows 7 is a step up, but i was mosly referring to the reliability of the laptops themselves. Almost everyone i knew in college who started off with an hp/dell/whatever PC had it completely die on them within 2-3 years.
Apple laptops are more stable and more reliable and the OS is 1000 times better. Sure your grandma probably doesnt need one, but I am much more effecient using SL than i am with any windows OS. Also windows copies everything from apple, and they dont even do it well. I do music production and an i5 is going to greatly improve the amount of rtas plugins I can load w/o killing the cpu. I dont give a **** if starcraft 2 doesnt run on high settings, if you do, get a PC. If you've never owned a mac then you have never experienced how much smoother everything is. If you dont have one you cant judge it on specs alone. I was like you befor i got one, but i got sick of windows crashing on every update that came out. I thought they were too expensive too.. i picked one up and I will never ever ever go back. I tried both worlds, hell i even own a pc (granted its a hackintosh now), And my experience with apple laptops is much better.