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MacBook Pro Upgrade At Photokina?

I Enjoy Being Surprised Every Day

Apple Corps said:
Multimedia "Wait a dog gone minute ck. I wrote WORST CASE. It is more likely to be in October in time for your purchase. I'll be surprised if it isn't in the next 4 weeks sometime."

How many times are you (we) going to be surprised? Down south they would say "that dog don't hunt no more" :rolleyes:
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I'll be surprised as many times as it takes. ;) I enjoy being surprised every day. Doesn't everyone? :p
 
I have a Sony laptop (PCG-Z505JS), a p3 class machine from summer 2000. It is a NICE laptop, and I haven't encountered another notebook aside from the MBP's with a shape, size, and feature set that I like as much.

Today the Vaio runs XP and I've upgraded the drive to a 7200rpm hitachi. Here's a list of things that I'd be looking forward to getting when buying an MBP:

-3d hardware
-more memory
-built in wireless
-gigabit ethernet
-USB 2
-more pixels

A 15" MBP will be larger and heavier than the Vaio. I'd consider a 12" MBP but don't think one will exist. The price difference between the MB and MBP is greater than is justified by the mere inclusion of a low-end 3d chip, and with a 12" MBP competing against a 12" MB, customers would notice that fact more readily.
 
imperium said:
Aly, Anim8or, are you guys in Edinburgh? We should start a local support group (and let me have anything you're getting rid of: I'm stuck in G4 hell until this chip update makes it worth springing for an MMBP). :D
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Glasgow my good sir :) only a 40 minute train journey away. Rather live in edinburgh though, glasgow is a smelly **** hole, shame the uni here is the only one in scotland that does my course!
 
Micro Anvika

Big fiasco with my MBP delivery yesterday so it's been shipped back. Long story and I got a little heated and just wanted to fix the problem immediately rather than deal with faxing birth certificates, etc.

Anyway...

So I went into Micro Anvika (London Apple reseller by my flat) today to pick out a Blackbook and go home happy. (They've been having a sale for the past week or two). Turns out, they're sold out of them! White Macbooks? Nearly all gone. Christ, even MBPs are down to a few 17" and some 2.0 ghz 15"....

Take this for what it's worth, since it came out of the mouth of a sales manager... but he said they had not received any new Macbooks or Macbook Pros from Apple for more than two weeks.

Without prompting or anything, he said that new models were coming in next week.

So, I guess I'm waiting for another week. Crap. :rolleyes:
 
io_burn said:
PROTIP: Apple resellers have as much "inside info" as your average Mac Rumors poster.
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Yeah, obviously. But they do know when they haven't received a shipment in two weeks.
 
aidan60657 said:
Yeah, obviously. But they do know when they haven't received a shipment in two weeks.
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Which may or may not mean anything except that they are running out of falfa sprouts in the salad bar..
 
Making sense

Okay, I guess this makes sense.

First off, I think the "Big to do" at Photokina was a tad of a misstep for Apple. It is very possible that they were intending to roll out the MBPs at that point, but maybe they still aren't ready for release.

The big announcement, of an incremental upgrade (not even to version 2) of Aperture seems like a kind of silly reason to have a keynote. Its not a new product, not an enormous improvement, is a free upgrade, and didn't even make it to the front page of the website.

Is something that's not front-page website material worth a keynote, even if its not by Steve?

Methinks the release is imminent.

Neuroguy



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Neuroguy said:
Okay, I guess this makes sense.

First off, I think the "Big to do" at Photokina was a tad of a misstep for Apple. It is very possible that they were intending to roll out the MBPs at that point, but maybe they still aren't ready for release.

The big announcement, of an incremental upgrade (not even to version 2) of Aperture seems like a kind of silly reason to have a keynote. Its not a new product, not an enormous improvement, is a free upgrade, and didn't even make it to the front page of the website.

Is something that's not front-page website material worth a keynote, even if its not by Steve?

Methinks the release is imminent.

Neuroguy



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Bear in mind that keynote was at a photography show.

It makes perfect sense to me to showcase Aperture to that crowd.
 
Neuroguy said:
Okay, I guess this makes sense.

Methinks the release is imminent.

Neuroguy


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I hope you're right, but I am becoming more and more intrigued by the Mac Pros. Not that need either of them immediately - I am more in the mode of "if I were about to get something, what would it be...." It's a fun exercise every now and again.
 
Neuroguy said:
The big announcement, of an incremental upgrade (not even to version 2) of Aperture seems like a kind of silly reason to have a keynote. Its not a new product, not an enormous improvement, is a free upgrade, and didn't even make it to the front page of the website.
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I don't know if I would call going from version 1.1 to 1.5 of Photokina an incremental upgrade by Apple standards. Next year they're going from OSX 10.4 to 10.5 and look how big of a deal that is.
 
AlphaAnt said:
I don't know if I would call going from version 1.1 to 1.5 of Photokina an incremental upgrade by Apple standards. Next year they're going from OSX 10.4 to 10.5 and look how big of a deal that is.
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As I see it, any upgrade that lets you stick your product in front of the target market for 90 minutes is "enough".

It's all about the marketing...
 
AlphaAnt said:
I don't know if I would call going from version 1.1 to 1.5 of Photokina an incremental upgrade by Apple standards. Next year they're going from OSX 10.4 to 10.5 and look how big of a deal that is.
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Yeah but 10.4 to 10.5 is an OS update much much bigger than your average software upgrade, there are atleast 9 or 10 major stages between OS upgrades, whereas software updates can be small (x.x.1, x.x.2 or x.1, x.2) with little difference to the previous numbers.

From 1.1 to 2.0 would have been something to merit a keynote, the only reason i see for Aperture to get the keynote was that Aperture was perhaps not as publicly popular as other photography software out there, so apple wanted some attention for it.
 
Next week sounds good to me...theres been 3-4 reports of low stock mbp's and macbooks. Unfortunately, I think they are going to just drop this new chip in without any modifications other than a video card upgrade.

The one problem with the rumors is that updating the entire mobile line at once has also never been done before (I could be wrong). We are now entering the longest time without an upgrade to the PowerBook/MBP line. The longest was from Feb. 05' to Oct' 05. In 3 weeks (at the latest) there will be new laptops shipping. Dell still hasn't shipped out machines yet - Either has a lot of other companies. Apple has never been too quick with processor upgrades, and this time is no different.

-Jeremy
 
Photokina Event Was A Press Conference Not A Keynote Speech

Neuroguy said:
First off, I think the "Big to do" at Photokina was a tad of a misstep for Apple. It is very possible that they were intending to roll out the MBPs at that point, but maybe they still aren't ready for release.

The big announcement, of an incremental upgrade (not even to version 2) of Aperture seems like a kind of silly reason to have a keynote. Its not a new product, not an enormous improvement, is a free upgrade, and didn't even make it to the front page of the website.

Is something that's not front-page website material worth a keynote, even if its not by Steve?

Methinks the release is imminent.
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Pardon me, but it was not a keynote. It was a press conference explaining to the world's photographic press the details of all the new improvements in Apple's signature photographic application the day before the world's largest photographic conference and expo opened. Very big difference and certainly appropriate and well done.
 
lessthandmb said:
The one problem with the rumors is that updating the entire mobile line at once has also never been done before (I could be wrong).
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I always figured they'd do the MBP first, then have a gap, then do the much-faster-selling MacBook -- purely because Merom supplies won't be so tight as time passes.
 
ergle2 said:
I always figured they'd do the MBP first, then have a gap, then do the much-faster-selling MacBook -- purely because Merom supplies won't be so tight as time passes.
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And because having their pro-line have a worse processor than their consumer line is completely illogical? :eek:
 
Multimedia said:
Pardon me, but it was not a keynote. It was a press conference explaining to the world's photographic press the details of all the new improvements in Apple's signature photographic application the day before the world's largest photographic conference and expo opened. Very big difference and certainly appropriate and well done.
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Multimedia, you have serioulsy been holding together morale in this thread. Your positive reaffirmation that Apple will release C2D updates gives us all something to hang on to. Thank you very much.
 
rtharper said:
And because having their pro-line have a worse processor than their consumer line is completely illogical? :eek:
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Not really. When you consider that the MBP is bigger than the MB, has more features, more powerful components (i.e. videocard) etc., and its made from aluminum vs. plastic; the processor really does not matter.
 
Multimedia said:
By not shouting too loud to begin with, they can reduce the flood of new orders they will need to fulfill right away while they continue to make more for the masses who will follow as the word drips out from us to them - "us" being the word of mouth messengers who blab any shred of Apple news to anyone with a pulse every day. :p
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I'll just have to keep refreshing the apple home page if I want mine before everyone else gets theirs! MUHAHA!
 
"Before embarking on its next-generation notebooks in 2007, Apple later this year will refresh both its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines with Intel's new Core 2 Duo mobile processors."
-AppleInsider
 
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