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MacBook Pro Updates Imminent (Really), Part Numbers Appear

I don't know if this has been pointed out in the previous fourteen pages, but I really doubt the prices are all for MBPs, let alone that they signify price increases.

There's already a $1799 product in the Apple Store, the higher-end preconfigured MBA. Apple has more sense than to put two notebooks at the same price.

There's also a $2299 product, the most powerful 15" MBP. The new SKU can only be the refresh of that product.

The leak certainly seems incomplete. The $2299 part can't be the 17" MBP, because then they've only got a $100 difference between in and a 15" MBP, which is far too small.
 
Hardware errors regularly happening?

Hi,
reading here for some time waiting for the MBP upgrade I am a bit worried about the part of the discussion regarding extended warranties.
I have had a lot of notebooks beginning with a NEC Multispeed (8086 CPU, no harddrive, 2 3,5" disks, monochrome display, DOS), an Olivetti (colour DSTN disply, Windows 3.1), discounter notebooks with WIN 98 and several others to my last Samsung with Windows XP. None of these experienced hardware errors, heck even my 12 year old discounter notebook is still working (of course the battery has died some time ago).
Reading about lots of people needing an extended warranty due to hardware errors within the first 2 or 3 years after purchase makes me a bit worried about my decision to buy my first apple notebook. It seems the highly praised quality of the MBPs is not that great!? Perhaps I should stick to the brands I have experienced them not to go havoc after only some years of usage!?

Regards

ppgg
 
r they usually in stores the day they come out? there is an apple reseller across the road from where i live and i would rather pick one up, than wait 24hrs for online order. i needed one months ago. my masters project is all but falling apart right now because i refused to "update" to stupid core2
 
ppgg said:
Hi,
reading here for some time waiting for the MBP upgrade I am a bit worried about the part of the discussion regarding extended warranties.
I have had a lot of notebooks beginning with a NEC Multispeed (8086 CPU, no harddrive, 2 3,5" disks, monochrome display, DOS), an Olivetti (colour DSTN disply, Windows 3.1), discounter notebooks with WIN 98 and several others to my last Samsung with Windows XP. None of these experienced hardware errors, heck even my 12 year old discounter notebook is still working (of course the battery has died some time ago).
Reading about lots of people needing an extended warranty due to hardware errors within the first 2 or 3 years after purchase makes me a bit worried about my decision to buy my first apple notebook. It seems the highly praised quality of the MBPs is not that great!? Perhaps I should stick to the brands I have experienced them not to go havoc after only some years of usage!?

Regards

ppgg
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Consider yourself lucky with all the hardware you bought before...Today, every laptop manufacturer has reliability problems...be it Apple, Lenovo, Dell etc...
 
Who wants a bet they're going to drop the 13" model? :rolleyes:

3 of the 15" models and 2 of the 17" models would seem a more plausable (or at least cleaner) strategy for Apple, given they're supposed to be 'Pro' products.

Or, given this article relates to 'new' products (and parts), the 13" model could see the same update the iMacs did - a 3.06ghz chip. That'd be sweet!
 
FallenEagle8531 said:
Can't wait going to be my first mac!!! Hopefully i7 Quad is the standard and usb3.0. Better graphics would be nice! Do you guys like the current design and just want the "guts" updated or do you want a complete refresh.
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What have you been smoking?
 
seb-opp said:
I think they'd be stupid to do that, as my local apple store has a big banner on the wall saying the 13" MBP is the most popular mac!
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Steve Jobs has said that about a lot of things ;) The most recent one was the 13" White-plastic model... He just wants them to all be "the most popular"!
 
so close you can almost taste it..

We have come so far! Hopefully this Tuesday they release it!
I'm hoping they give us amazing specs for the 15", i was originally going to get 13" but from all this time waiting i put 1000$ more towards my pro, getting the expensive 15" soooo excited!

theres alot of people complaining about the 13" so HA! you suck :p lol just dish out a couple more hundreds and your good, (for the 15:cool:)
 
Gadzie said:
Apart from the shipping costs, they also need to consider the fact that the Aussie dollar could depreciate at any time, and they need to make sure they'd still be making a good profit if the dollar fell to 80 or 70 US cents.
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I can't see that happening, Australia currently has one of the strongest economies and lots of people believe the AUD will be at parity with USD by the end of the year: http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/parity-talk-time-again-for-the-aussie-20100409-rwwg.html

Having said that, I don't know much about the economy so I could easily be wrong
 
miniroll32 said:
Who wants a bet they're going to drop the 13" model? :rolleyes:
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From what I hear the 13" is there highest selling MBP. Apple may want to delusionally push people towards the iPad as a legitimate notebook replacement (which it's most definitely not) but they aren't stupid. As long as it sells they will continue it.
 
ppgg said:
Hi,
reading here for some time waiting for the MBP upgrade I am a bit worried about the part of the discussion regarding extended warranties.
I have had a lot of notebooks beginning with a NEC Multispeed (8086 CPU, no harddrive, 2 3,5" disks, monochrome display, DOS), an Olivetti (colour DSTN disply, Windows 3.1), discounter notebooks with WIN 98 and several others to my last Samsung with Windows XP. None of these experienced hardware errors, heck even my 12 year old discounter notebook is still working (of course the battery has died some time ago).
Reading about lots of people needing an extended warranty due to hardware errors within the first 2 or 3 years after purchase makes me a bit worried about my decision to buy my first apple notebook. It seems the highly praised quality of the MBPs is not that great!? Perhaps I should stick to the brands I have experienced them not to go havoc after only some years of usage!?

Regards

ppgg
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That's how the market works. Go buy any computer and they offer the same thing. What makes Apple's warranty worth it is the service. That's why people love them.

And no, lots of people don't have problems. It's just that when they do they bitch and moan loudly (though their hardware always gets fixed). Why? Because its Apple. High Expectations.
 
ironman4life said:
I can't see that happening, Australia currently has one of the strongest economies and lots of people believe the AUD will be at parity with USD by the end of the year: http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/parity-talk-time-again-for-the-aussie-20100409-rwwg.html

Having said that, I don't know much about the economy so I could easily be wrong
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That's entirely possible, but at the end of the day they need insurance against a drop in the dollar should it happen, because Apple only changes its prices when there's a refresh, which can clearly take a very long time.
 
Looks like these models are Macbook Air's so I wonder what the prices will be for the macbook pro. Though, 4 models for Macbook Air, won't that be a little bit too much? :p
 
netcastle said:
That's how the market works. Go buy any computer and they offer the same thing. What makes Apple's warranty worth it is the service. That's why people love them.

And no, lots of people don't have problems. It's just that when they do they bitch and moan loudly (though their hardware always gets fixed). Why? Because its Apple. High Expectations.
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Agreed. And Apple has had its share of quality problems lately. My current model 15" MBP first had a problem with screen unevenness. Apple replaced it without any hint of a fight. The replacement had a problem with the trackpad that the Apple store couldn't fix. They replaced the second one without any fight. The third one has been a charm.

Hopefully I'm in the extreme with having had to replace two. But the point is that Apple's tech and sales support were courteous and helpful and didn't try to make me send a brand new product back to them for repair. They happily replaced them. I was impressed.
 
A lot of people here say Apple's going to give up the 13" pro. It doesn't make any sense, you don't incorporate a product into a line and obliterate it not even a year later.

There have been rumors/predictions that Apple would get the superdrive out of all machines and basically turn them into macbook Air (sans the name). In this case, the current MBA would just become the 13" Pro, I guess. This would make sense.
 
Remember the story about the little boy who cried wolf? I no longer believe any of these rumors about mbps next Tuesday. Not this month... not in May... maybe in June. It's all about the iPad. The 3G iPad has yet to ship and Apple isn't going to release new hardware that interferes with the focus on that.
 
stanislas said:
A lot of people here say Apple's going to give up the 13" pro. It doesn't make any sense, you don't incorporate a product into a line and obliterate it not even a year later.

There have been rumors/predictions that Apple would get the superdrive out of all machines and basically turn them into macbook Air (sans the name). In this case, the current MBA would just become the 13" Pro, I guess. This would make sense.
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This would be surprising because the Air has major limitations. One example: you can't add more RAM. I think the 13" MBP is safe. They might call it a MacBook and drop the Pro but it would be the same computer. And I doubt they'd even do that.
 
slackpacker said:
Hopefully they have solved the Heat Problems of the current crop of Unibodies.
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Oh dear, i wasn’t aware of heat problems. Kinda hoped the’yd learnt their lessons from the first non uni macbook pros, slightly worrying. Is it a burning of the skin kind of issue or more of an internal overheating one?
 
ValSalva said:
Agreed. And Apple has had its share of quality problems lately. My current model 15" MBP first had a problem with screen unevenness. Apple replaced it without any hint of a fight. The replacement had a problem with the trackpad that the Apple store couldn't fix. They replaced the second one without any fight. The third one has been a charm.

Hopefully I'm in the extreme with having had to replace two. But the point is that Apple's tech and sales support were courteous and helpful and didn't try to make me send a brand new product back to them for repair. They happily replaced them. I was impressed.
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I'm glad they're efficient, pro-active and NICE regarding laptop repairs/replacement. That gives me a lot of hope as far as customer service considering my recent iMac situation. While I'm not sure I'm in the market for a MBP, the lack of repair/refund hassle is very attractive. I am quite impressed with the 15" MBP, but being so used to desktops I'm not sure a portable would be the right machine for me since my only experience is noodling around with the MBPs at Apple stores.

That said, I'm curious to see what the new MBPs will offer and if they are as easy to use as this portable noob experienced.
 
At the risk of sounding stupid, is there any chance of getting touch screen capability, a la iPad/iPhone? If not this release, is it something to expect down the line?
 
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