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MacBook Pro Update Due for Launch as Soon as Tomorrow?

I love my Macbook. I also loved the Macbook Pro I had a few months ago, and the other Macbook before it. (I go through computers like mad, I buy and trade em like Pokemon! : ) ) In any case, after switching to Apple 6 months ago, I have not looked back to pc's yet.

You can really put the machines Apple makes through the paces. They are not merely "pretty show-horses". But rather they are machines that aptly handle anything you want. When I put an SSD into this late 2008 Macbook I was so surprised at how nimble it became.

Apple makes some fine products, and I hope they continue to do us proud with the Macbook/Pro lines. I am pretty stoked for the new i* chips. I am a graphic design student, so processing power, threads, ssd drives, and lots of ram is well used daily by me.

The SSD is great because it loads Adobe suite fast, loads brushes and images fast, and performance with those programs is awesome now. I also added 4 gigs of ddr3 to the mb and that gave everything ample breathing room.

When these new Macbooks come out, I'll be stoked and I will start saving up for one. When it comes time I will take out my SSD and try to dump my c2d macbook for a couple of hundred bucks. I would really like a 15" : ).
 
inertiat said:
My friend let me play on his MBP today to do some media work... maaaaan how much do I want one now!
Everything about the user interaction was polished and slick, just the way it should be; sure beats typing on this PC! :(
Really looking forward to the update now - if the user experience on the new MPBs is as good as it was today PLUS having the extra horsepower for my work it will be a dream!
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After using PC for a decade, when I picked up my Mac I was surprised at that too. The keyboard was a lot better than what I had been used to. (I had used some pretty $$$ equipment before too.) But the Apple was a far more enjoyable experience.

With this in mind, I do love my Apple Wireless KB and Magic Mouse. They work like a dream.
 
Jason Beck said:
I love my Macbook. I also loved the Macbook Pro I had a few months ago, and the other Macbook before it. (I go through computers like mad, I buy and trade em like Pokemon! : ) ) In any case, after switching to Apple 6 months ago, I have not looked back to pc's yet.

You can really put the machines Apple makes through the paces. They are not merely "pretty show-horses". But rather they are machines that aptly handle anything you want. When I put an SSD into this late 2008 Macbook I was so surprised at how nimble it became.

Apple makes some fine products, and I hope they continue to do us proud with the Macbook/Pro lines. I am pretty stoked for the new i* chips. I am a graphic design student, so processing power, threads, ssd drives, and lots of ram is well used daily by me.

The SSD is great because it loads Adobe suite fast, loads brushes and images fast, and performance with those programs is awesome now. I also added 4 gigs of ddr3 to the mb and that gave everything ample breathing room.

When these new Macbooks come out, I'll be stoked and I will start saving up for one. When it comes time I will take out my SSD and try to dump my c2d macbook for a couple of hundred bucks. I would really like a 15" : ).
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What SSD did you put in it? What was the process like? :)
 
Not a laptop killer -- a printer killer

saltyzoo said:
Actually they are real computers. They have more power than a desktop did 10 years ago. They are extremely functional for doing 99% of what 90% of the population does with computers. You don't need a dual core cpu to browse the internet and send emails.
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Most of the chit-chat I have seen places the the iPad in conflict with the Printer. Print to the iPad, rather than to the color inkjet or laser printer. Will people prefer to see something on their iPad or get a hard copy-- that is the question.
 
New MBP line - what interfaces?

What I would be looking for is a fully-functional (including digital audio) MiniDisplayPort AND fully-functional (including digital audio) HDMI. Apple already has digital audio -- why can't they route it through the displayport interface?

The other thing that would be nice would be USB 3.0, but, I guess Intel is dragging its feet? I sure hope they keep FireWire 800 until USB 3.0 comes out. USB 2.0 is slow and lame.
 
Out of stock...

Hi guys just an update as to what I was saying earlier in this post about Currys in the UK having limited supply, this is a picture of their current stock.

I would also like to further update you, the UK apple store had their mid range 15" pushed back to 2 business days, it now seems a 2nd has joined the 2 business days club. I'll probably get chewed out for saying it but I think that an update next Tuesday is very possible and more likely than we have had recently. The German store is also out of supply of the mid range 15" MBP and the Sweden store also.
 

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Hi guys just an update as to what I was saying earlier in this post about Currys in the UK having limited supply, this is a picture of their current stock.

I would also like to further update you, the UK apple store had their mid range 15" pushed back to 2 business days, it now seems a 2nd has joined the 2 business days club. I'll probably get chewed out for saying it but I think that an update next Tuesday is very possible and more likely than we have had recently. The German store is also out of supply of the mid range 15" MBP and the Sweden store also.
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iPad Preorder UK please, but MBP first.
 
inertiat said:
What SSD did you put in it? What was the process like? :)
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I got the Intel x-25 gen2 80 gig one for 225$ish off eBay. It was as simple as taking the 160 gig hdd out of the macbook, (theres only like a few screws (and the torq ones that are on the drive which I used pliers to get off). It's a snap. Took all of 10 mins to switch drives. Then booted from OSX install cd and flashed from a time machine backup I had on an external drive.

Whole process took roughly an hour and I was back in OSX. Then I disabled the sudden motion sensor, changed the sleep mode so it didn't write the ram contents to disk, and did a repair of permissions to be safe. I also flashed the firmware (you can do it in osx, just burn the firmware with minidos to a cd-off intel's site). After I flashed the firmware I noticed a 10% increase in speed, and the other little tweaks just added to it.

It was so simple. I posted a Youtube video of my boot now. Boots to the OSX desktop in fifteen seconds flat. Sometimes less. Yesterday I did it in
7 seconds. : ) Photoshop is was fun to work with now.

I saved the old drive and it is now an external one in an enclosure. Just got a cheapie off ebay for like 5 bucks, and it is my itunes disk now. I will pop it in when I get rid of this MB in a few months though. I am seriously taking the SSD with me into my next mac. Here's the link to my booting my new
SSD. I was bored and wanted to play with iMovie : ).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqk--eunG8
 
The last couple of days I was on fire to buy an iPad and a nice 13'' MBP. No matter what. I was so hoping (like the rest of us) until yesterday.
But slowly I have to admit I am losing interest, look at the nice weather outside and think about a fancy new mountain bike instead.

Untill now I would have bought both, no matter the price and features. New gadgets gallore. The more I think about it the more it depends on the price (must be below 400 Euros for the pad) and features (13'' MBP should have at least some real graphics capabillities).

If Steam brings more of my still-to-play games from the PC to the Mac (Valve games are not enough for me here) it might give me another push to throw my cash at Apple. My last hope is either this tuesday or the day Steam will be revealed to be playable throughout the lineup of MBPs.
 
1-3 days for 15" 2.8 Ghz from Apple store

Not sure if this means anything other than I'm anxious like everyone else. I just talked with a 800 my apple person and they quoted me 1-3 days ship time on a stock (no mods) 15" MBP 2.8. The web site says 24hr.
 
This Tuesday...

...I think it will hopefully be the day! Most places seem to be out of the 15" macbook including most resellers in London. Please apple.
 
djellison said:
No they don't. It's comparable to, but not in excessive of what we had back then. 10 years ago we were on 1Ghz Pentium 3's.

That's about 2600 MIPS
The Arm A8 is 2000 MIPS
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You're simply comparing clock speeds :confused:

An A8 would wipe the board against any 1Ghz P3. Clock speed is not the only factor when it comes to power. Cache, FSB, etc...
 
Skinfaxi said:
You're simply comparing clock speeds :confused:

An A8 would wipe the board against any 1Ghz P3. Clock speed is not the only factor when it comes to power. Cache, FSB, etc...
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Agreed. Plus, the OS makes such a big difference too. I don't buy into the whole laptop-killer thing, but for what it is, I think the ipad does a good job and does it quickly. It's a lot faster than my old 1 Ghz P3 for my needs.
 
As Soon as Tomorrow?!!? Ha - LOL!

Dude, this is getting ridiculous.

I thought Apple made the switch to intel, so we could be up-to-date with technology with the PC guys.

Arrgghhh. That hasn't happened. Dell had i7 laptops before Thanksgiving. What so like 6 months and still nothing. C'Mon!

Oh, well. Maybe there will be another rumor siting tomorrow! Starting to get to me like all the Powerbook G5 rumors.

Sorry - just cranky!
 
Great Dave said:
Arrgghhh. That hasn't happened. Dell had i7 laptops before Thanksgiving. What so like 6 months and still nothing. C'Mon!


Sorry - just cranky!
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Not that it makes much difference in the scope of your argument, but those weren't Arrandale laptops. They were Clarkdale. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want that in my laptop.
 
Jason Beck said:
I got the Intel x-25 gen2 80 gig one for 225$ish off eBay. It was as simple as taking the 160 gig hdd out of the macbook, (theres only like a few screws (and the torq ones that are on the drive which I used pliers to get off). It's a snap. Took all of 10 mins to switch drives. Then booted from OSX install cd and flashed from a time machine backup I had on an external drive.

Whole process took roughly an hour and I was back in OSX. Then I disabled the sudden motion sensor, changed the sleep mode so it didn't write the ram contents to disk, and did a repair of permissions to be safe. I also flashed the firmware (you can do it in osx, just burn the firmware with minidos to a cd-off intel's site). After I flashed the firmware I noticed a 10% increase in speed, and the other little tweaks just added to it.

It was so simple. I posted a Youtube video of my boot now. Boots to the OSX desktop in fifteen seconds flat. Sometimes less. Yesterday I did it in
7 seconds. : ) Photoshop is was fun to work with now.

I saved the old drive and it is now an external one in an enclosure. Just got a cheapie off ebay for like 5 bucks, and it is my itunes disk now. I will pop it in when I get rid of this MB in a few months though. I am seriously taking the SSD with me into my next mac. Here's the link to my booting my new
SSD. I was bored and wanted to play with iMovie : ).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqk--eunG8
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Nice vid! :D I'm definitely going to have to go with SSD then, I know exactly what you mean about Photoshop, plus loading files for AfterEffects can be slow at times. I did have a RAID 0 at one point which sped things up nicely, but the paranoia of a drive failing was too much and so I switched to a RAID 1 in the end lol. But SSD is the best of both worlds - fast and reliable :cool:

So you can use any SSD you want? Is it just a SATA interface? But does it void the warranty if you install your own drive? One more q - if you took that drive out and put it in another Mac, would everything load perfectly or would you have to reinstall OSX? (I know with Windows it tends to go crazy if it doesn't recognise the motherboard)
 
I was just walking through a shopping mall in germany and was stopping by at two shops selling macbooks.both got special offers until this monday with nice discounts *hoping* :D
 
wolololo said:
I was just walking through a shopping mall in germany and was stopping by at two shops selling macbooks.both got special offers until this monday with nice discounts *hoping* :D
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Those guys don't have any special knowledge. If anything they're just guessing along with everyone else, or else they have their own reasons for wanting to clear inventory.
 
john123 said:
Not that it makes much difference in the scope of your argument, but those weren't Arrandale laptops. They were Clarkdale. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want that in my laptop.
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Yeah, I got it. As I mentioned, just getting frustrated. The waiting is getting the best of me. And now we have another front page rumor.

But, as I mentioned in another post, April 13 might be a good day for a release, if Apple does have some issues with Adobe.

Clearly, a good MacBook Pro release on the 13th would take some thunder away from the CS5 release.
 
Great Dave said:
Clearly, a good MacBook Pro release on the 13th would take some thunder away from the CS5 release.
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Watching the CS5 release now. It might be good timing, even though Adobe and Apple might be having problems, to release the MBP tomorrow because regardless of those problems, many of the MBP users will be using CS5 on them.

What better wait to kick off a new Creative Suite than on a new Macbook Pro?

That's what I'm hoping to do.
 
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