Ive been waiting for a quad core MBP since Sept last year. Now Im going to go all out and get a MP. Like everyone else, I too am sick of waiting! My mirror door G4 is gone and I have the money waiting to get the anticipated hexacore! (hopefully a dual hexacore) Everyday I get on macrumors and check for any 'inside information' or 'hot tip', (which I really think is a load of BS, but I want to believe it anyway!) Here's what I think of the release dates.
There seems to be two general opinions on when Apple are going to release the new lines of Macs. The first is, it could be any coming Tuesday now, possibly even when the iPad is released. And the other guess is that it'll be after the iPad.
My money is on after the iPad, sometime in May, but if Apple are going to wait until May, then why not just release it at WWDC in June?
This is just my opinion, I dont have a marketing degree, and Im relatively new to Mac, but why would Apple release new Macs around the same time as the iPad? Isn't it best to keep the focus on the iPad and once everyone calms down, then release the new macs. If the ipad and new macs were released close to each other, I could imagine a lot of people thinking, '...well, at first, the ipad didnt look all the interesting, and I do need a new computer, but now that Ive had a go, this things pretty cool...' People will be distracted. Im not saying the ipad will stop people from buying much needed macs, but I think it's important that the focus is on the ipad. The ipad is a new product line, and like the ipod, it could be, and probably will be, a huge milestone for Apple. So I dont see any benefit for Apple to release multiple products at the same time, and on the contrary, they probably think it could have the opposite effect, and be possibly detrimental it's 'wow' factor as it enters the market.
Some people are saying that it could be mid April for the new macs, after the ipad is released. Makes sense. But for the rest of the world, the ipad comes out late April, and if you go with the idea of not stealing the thunder from the ipad, then we'd have to wait a little bit more into May for the new Macs, right? But, we've waited until May, what's another month? WWDC is around the corner, why not release the new macs then?
IPad in April, everyone gets curious and excited, the initial surge of buyers settles down, and then a month or two later, get everyone excited again with hexacore mac pros and quad core macbook pros. Sounds logical to me. What do you think?
And the last point, yes, they're overdue for a refresh - overdue, if you're measuring off the average 'days since refresh'. But it hasnt been longer than the time it took to refresh the current line of MPs, and there have been times where we've waited similar periods to now for the MBPs.
Having said this, I hope the mac store goes down next week and there's a new mac pro in the morning waiting for me : )
