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MacBook Pro Tomorrow (June 5, 2007) - Some Specs?

i'm kind of 50/50, if its a really big update, i'll be selling my mbp to upgrade, whereas a minor bump would mean that i would stick with what i have...a lot less hassle!

deep down though i'd love it to be a massive update...we haven't had one since the intel transition!
 
otispunkmeyer said:
and it is likely that DVI out will be exchanged for HDMI out....everyone else is doing it.
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Unless Apple are planning on releasing new Cinema Displays,with HDMI connections, at the same time, this won't happen. Why bring out a product that can't work with their own-branded monitors?

And as for the talk of the MBP having Blue-Ray, I think this is probably doubtful as well, unless of course they immediately make it a CTO option on the MacPro as well, after all, the tower is the flagship 'pro' machine of the Apple product range, and most people feel that it would be first in-line for such an upgrade.
 
thworple said:
Unless Apple are planning on releasing new Cinema Displays,with HDMI connections, at the same time, this won't happen. Why bring out a product that can't work with their own-branded monitors?

And as for the talk of the MBP having Blue-Ray, I think this is probably doubtful as well, unless of course they immediately make it a CTO option on the MacPro as well, after all, the tower is the flagship 'pro' machine of the Apple product range, and most people feel that it would be first in-line for such an upgrade.
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I've said this before, but I'll say it again. It is not a smart business decision to include either Blu-Ray or HDDVD drives in Apple products until the dispute for market superiority is finally decided and we're left with one possible specification, not two competing specifications.

:apple:
 
Sbrocket said:
I've said this before, but I'll say it again. It is not a smart business decision to include either Blu-Ray or HDDVD drives in Apple products until the dispute for market superiority is finally decided and we're left with one possible specification, not two competing specifications.

:apple:
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Agreed! :)
 
JFreak said:
Why not?
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Because MacBooks are shipping with 160GB HD's? It would be silly for MBP to have smaller HD than MacBook has. MBP is supposed to be better than MB. Having smaller HD does not make it better, it makes it worse.

If they have three models, there needs to be a difference. Leaked specs indicate that base model would get 2GB RAM (which would then be same in every mode) and the smaller video memory of the lowend model is really artifical move. CPU speeds are not that much different, so they're very likely putting in smaller hard drive to the lowend model.
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They would probably put 160GB HD in the low-end model, while giving the two better models 200GB drives. Other differentiating things they could do is optical drives (blu-ray vs. regural DVD), faster CPU (2.4GHz vs. 2.2Ghz), better GPU with more VRAM and maybe higher-resolution screen? Point is that there's lots of things they could do.
 
JFreak said:
What's the point if the memory controller only supports 667MHz? There's a bottleneck between FSB and RAM, if the leaked specs are true.
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Well, the FSB in Core 2 is 64bits wide, whereas the memory-channel is 128bits wide. That gives us 800 x 64 / 8 = 6400MB/sec of FSB-bandwidth, whereas RAM has 667 x 128 / 8 = 10672MB/sec of bandwidth.

So you are right, there is a bottleneck. But using even faster RAM would have made it even worse. And yes, increasing the speed of the FSB does help, even if you don't touch the speed of the RAM, since the RAM would still have more bandwith than the FSB has.
 
thworple said:
Unless Apple are planning on releasing new Cinema Displays,with HDMI connections, at the same time, this won't happen. Why bring out a product that can't work with their own-branded monitors?

And as for the talk of the MBP having Blue-Ray, I think this is probably doubtful as well, unless of course they immediately make it a CTO option on the MacPro as well, after all, the tower is the flagship 'pro' machine of the Apple product range, and most people feel that it would be first in-line for such an upgrade.
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you can still get HD content though...via the net.

it just makes sense to me to have HDMI, i mean all the others are doing it and its really not difficult to get a HDMI->DVI cable. i seen them in maplins the other day.

alot of newer monitors like BenQ's 24 incher come with HDMI inputs now. HDMI is the way forward. nearly all decent HDTV's come with it and now computer LCD's are also coming with it.

i wouldnt be supprised if apples new cinema displays use it either.

plus macs are good for the old content creation stuff being able to whip that up on a big 1080p plasma with just one cable seems like a desirable feature to me
 
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