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MacBook Pro Upgrade At Photokina?
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generik said:
lol
Yes, well, I'm certainly not going to wait for flash memory in a laptop. I'm sure by the time I buy my NEXT, next laptop, it'll be commonplace.
I was thinking i could get by with my PB at school for a while and while 95% of the IT system is comfortable with Macs...specifically Firefox. There are still key systems that EXPLICITLY want windows. Now if Apple had gotten their head outta their A**es i'd be ordering a CTO MBP pro now and dual-booting or paralleling windows on it and there'd be no issues but NOOOOO! we have to wait and wait and wait and wait and......
Now i'm torn, i know the Notebook line update is dangerously close, but the more time i hold off the more time i have to spend in my Library using Dell PCs (Celeron) to get work done urgh. I'd like to be able to work in the comfort of my own machine, desktop or notebook without constantly checking time and looking over my shoulder incase someone waiting to use a terminal
Maybe i should just get a mini to hold me off....or an iMac. Wait which do you guys think would have a better resale value? iMac? cos i'll be selling it off immediately updates are announce.
Now i'm torn, i know the Notebook line update is dangerously close, but the more time i hold off the more time i have to spend in my Library using Dell PCs (Celeron) to get work done urgh. I'd like to be able to work in the comfort of my own machine, desktop or notebook without constantly checking time and looking over my shoulder incase someone waiting to use a terminal
Maybe i should just get a mini to hold me off....or an iMac. Wait which do you guys think would have a better resale value? iMac? cos i'll be selling it off immediately updates are announce.
daneoni said:
Running VirtualPC for a couple weeks wouldn't kill you...although you may want to kill your computer. Hopefully you'd find a way where you wouldn't have to pay for such a program.
jhande said:Well, it makes me feel better about having ordered a MB to compensate for not getting the C2D MBP this week.
I don't blame you in the least. I'm sure you'll enjoy the MB from the second you have it well after the Merom versions do make their way out, whenever that eventually happens.
Get a $949 Refurb MacBook To Tide You Over
iMac 'cause it's already C2D. What about a $949 1.83GHz MacBook from the Refurb SAVE page? You will be able to resell it for no less than $800 - maybe even the whole $949.daneoni said:
Multimedia said:
Wow! I can't believe that a refurb 1.83GHz MB is $50 less than a refurb iBook 1.42GHz!
Who would buy the iBook?!?
Some Prices On The SAVE Page Are No Savings At All
Yeah some of those prices are quite out of line with reality.ct-scan said:
jhande said:Well, it makes me feel better about having ordered a MB to compensate for not getting the C2D MBP this week.
Though I'd like to wait for the C2D update to the MBP, and maybe even a redesign, I'm going to pull the trigger on a MB refurb. I think I'll wait for my bonus in Feb and sell it or pass it on to my GF. Perhaps by then the addition of a free OS upgrade in a new MBP will help offset some of the loss in the MB resale.
Anyway, add me to the ranks of yet another switcher.
deputy_doofy said:
Vista - at least in the Betas, but I see no reason it wouldn't stay - can do the ReadyBoost thang (the MS name for the flashmem tech) from most USB thumbsticks (it checks their speed first).
It'll be interesting to see if a future MacOS X supports that or requires a system with the flash to be onboard -- after all, Apple could well benefit more from requiring the latter, since hardware's where they make their money. Yes, that's terribly cynical of me...
It's especially interesting to me because Robson is the only thing Santa Rosa offers that I find of any real interest.
jfsouza said:
Although this is off topic...of Photokina
I'm not aware of any place...but there won't be that large of a demand, Nintendo is a nitche market product. PS3 on the other hand...start lining up...
generik said:
If it's a major redesign coming in the future, then I'm not sure whether I'd want to buy when merom is first implemented either. Ugh.
generik said:Alright, I guess this settles it, if no redesign this year then I will just get it in MWSF. If no redesign in MW then I am screwed
Haha, who would have thought buying a new Mac could be such a science...
... maybe Kevin Rose. At least if we make a mistake, though, there won't be sites created advertising our terrible decision. Thank goodness!
Multimedia said:
Hey Multi, Just a quick jump back in time -- Xbit labs has some early benchmarks on the 2.66GHz Kentsfield I thought you might be interested in.
Reminiscing
I'm kinda at the opposite end of the spectrum. I care more about an updated CPU than anything else that everyone else seems to be interested in. GPU would be nice, but I'll still settle for the underclocked X1600.
It kind of reminds me of back in college when I bought a PowerBook 3400. I loved that machine, and got great use out of it. 9 months later, Apple introduced the mutant PowerBook G3 in the same enclosure as the 3400. It lasted 6 months until Apple could fit everything into the sleek Wallstreet/Pismo enclosure.
We're kind of at a similar point. Apple needs to get their machines up to next generation chips. This isn't just a speed bump, in many respects, it is VERY similar to the 60X transition to G3, suddenly you've got a whole lot of new hardware bits to work with.
Had I known when I got the 3400 that the G3 was just around the bend, would I have waited? No, probably not. Would I wait now, knowing what I know from experience what generational hardware changes can make? Yep, so here I am.
I guess I don't mind seeing a kind of mutant in-between box like the first PBG3 was, some folks might want to wait for the Wallstreet/Pismo version, but you know what? That's another six months that I can definitely get some use out of. Current gen? Not as much.
generik said:
I'm kinda at the opposite end of the spectrum. I care more about an updated CPU than anything else that everyone else seems to be interested in. GPU would be nice, but I'll still settle for the underclocked X1600.
It kind of reminds me of back in college when I bought a PowerBook 3400. I loved that machine, and got great use out of it. 9 months later, Apple introduced the mutant PowerBook G3 in the same enclosure as the 3400. It lasted 6 months until Apple could fit everything into the sleek Wallstreet/Pismo enclosure.
We're kind of at a similar point. Apple needs to get their machines up to next generation chips. This isn't just a speed bump, in many respects, it is VERY similar to the 60X transition to G3, suddenly you've got a whole lot of new hardware bits to work with.
Had I known when I got the 3400 that the G3 was just around the bend, would I have waited? No, probably not. Would I wait now, knowing what I know from experience what generational hardware changes can make? Yep, so here I am.
I guess I don't mind seeing a kind of mutant in-between box like the first PBG3 was, some folks might want to wait for the Wallstreet/Pismo version, but you know what? That's another six months that I can definitely get some use out of. Current gen? Not as much.