Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
MacBook Pro Upgrade At Photokina?
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Multimedia said:
your wrong. I live in LA. there are alot of tv and movie people here who would love to be able to get a mac pro tower with one of these. not have to install it themselves. instead buy it from apple and get apple quality, warranty and support
prady16 said:
why do people still bring this up, Apple has said they have no future plans for a 12in/13in MBP the 12in PB was replaced by the Blackbook
Apologies For Not Knowing Only Old iPods Were Offered On That Ed Deal
I'm sorry. I should have researched what iPods you had to choose from. You did the right thing. My Bad.oneighturbo said:hey now, lame short sitednessanyways you only get the choice of a 30/60GB with edu discount.
and in the end, $120 is better for my wallet
Agree. What those people should really be asking for is either a 10"-11" 'MacBook mini' or a black MacBook with dedicated graphics.Clydefrog said:
OT: It should be possible to ask for a MacBook with an nVidia chip, shouldn't it? Heck, even mobile phones can come with 3D chips these days... (well, running OpenGL ES that is, e.g. the Falanx Mali - now acquired by ARM)
I Totally Agree Apple Should Be Offering $750 Sony Blu-ray Drives BTO
I'm not wrong. Just misinterpreted due to different post. In another Post, I mentioned I couldn"t understand why Apple wasn't offering them already. Can you?mdntcallr said:
mdntcallr said:
Santa Rosa is NOT a cpu for anything. It is scheduled to replace the current Napa platform / chipset early next year as I recall - will probably start off with the Merom cpu and then move to...
I'm Not Willing To Spend A Lot For 2GB Sticks
Yeah I'm not willing to pay that much for RAM and will stick to two 1GB sticks in my 17" with easy acces HD or C2D MB if MBP not HD access friendly.ergle2 said:
Multimedia said:
i agree. I believe it is the time for Mac Pro's to have it as BTO. definitely!
also would be a very welcome BTO for high end 15 and 17" MBP.
apple needs to prove they are on the cutting edge again. both for this and GPU
we know apple is never on cutting edge due to maintaining a profit margin. but with BTO, they ought to give us the ability to pay a lil more and get it.
I think apple will come out with atleast an underclocked 7600GT or 7900GT in the MBP, They might surprise us with a 7900GTX, but I think that is highly unlikley. I mean they can't even put in a x1600 in with normal clock speeds.
Clydefrog said:
But when
I am keeping a cautious eye on this Tuesday with next week's Photokina being at the limits of my waiting.The really frightening thing is that I am going to have to go through all of this again in selecting a 1080p projector. New models are rolling out at CEDIA, lots of different technologies with +/-, wide price ranges, decisions, decisions.
mdntcallr said:
You've misread, I think.
Santa Rosa is the new platform to replace Napa.
It consists of Merom, at least some versions of which will have an 800MHz FSB, Crestline (965 Express Chipset, optionally with the x3000 series integrated graphics) and Kedron (new wifi, 802.11n probably).
I believe memory speed stays at 667MHz, at least according to the last Intel spec-sheet I read.
It will also use the ICH-8M for USB/SATA/PCI-E, etc.
Perhaps the most interesting is the expected inclusion of "Robson" flash memory caching technology which should speed up certain operations.
I would expect Santa Rosa to be used for both MacBook and MBP. Note that there are generally a variety of low-end to high-end varients within a single platform definition.
I believe Crestline is expected to be on a small process than the current i945/946 chipset which should provide for lowered power usage, too.
Santa Rosa is somewhat interesting, but it's all essentially evolutionary, outside of Robson.
Much like the jump of Napa over Yonah (aka Napa->Napa64), the improvements are moderate for the most part with occasional huge jumps (say, the SSE performance in certain contexts on Merom benching ~220% of the speed of Yonah).
At some point Merom will probably be replaced by Penryn, which is just Merom on a smaller process (45nm, I think) with more L2 cache (3-6meg, depending on price-point, vs 2-4meg now) and perhaps other minor improvements.
mdntcallr said:
I think a Go 7700 is more likely. Won't be the 7800, the 7900 uses less power due to it moving to a smaller process (110nm->90nm). Go 7700 is the first to use the 80nm process for nVidia and should use less power than even the X1600 for a quite decent speed increase.
It is my sincere hope that the MBP's will see a quiet upgrade this tuesday, similar to how they did the iMacs on the 6th.
Why am I so hopeful? Will I rush out to buy a MBP? No, no, no, I have a 3 month old Blackbook that is "practically perfect in every way".
I want Apple to update the MBP's so we can put a stop to these endless and countless "When will they update the MBP?" threads and the "Should I buy or wait?" threads and get on to something more interesting.
Like the "Grrrr, they didn't update the MBP just the way I wanted it !" threads
Why am I so hopeful? Will I rush out to buy a MBP? No, no, no, I have a 3 month old Blackbook that is "practically perfect in every way".
I want Apple to update the MBP's so we can put a stop to these endless and countless "When will they update the MBP?" threads and the "Should I buy or wait?" threads and get on to something more interesting.
Like the "Grrrr, they didn't update the MBP just the way I wanted it !" threads
Multimedia said:
2GB total will do me fine -- I'm used to running half a gig so it'll be luxury by comparison.
The easy-HD access is nice but not that important to me. None of the MacBook plusses (magnetic latch, etc.) are. The black model looks nice but I'm not paying a premium for a different colored case. I'm cheap like that.
What I would like is a higher res LCD panel tho' -- just not enough to move up to the bigger/heavier 17" ... hell, I'd even prefer the MBP to be 14" rather than the 15" it is (yeah, I know that ain't gonna happen).
dsnort said:It is my sincere hope that the MBP's will see a quiet upgrade this tuesday, similar to how they did the iMacs on the 6th.
Why am I so hopeful? Will I rush out to buy a MBP? No, no, no, I have a 3 month old Blackbook that is "practically perfect in every way".
I want Apple to update the MBP's so we can put a stop to these endless and countless "When will they update the MBP?" threads and the "Should I buy or wait?" threads and get on to something more interesting.
Like the "Grrrr, they didn't update the MBP just the way I wanted it !" threads
these "Should I buy or wait?" threads will never stop, considering there are already threads for people waiting for intel's next platform, Santa Rosa which will enable merom to run at 800mhz on the fsb instead of 667 and lots of other cool stuff. Soon before that is released people will be talking about penryn, the shrinking of the merom from 65 nm to 45nm. What i believe is why wait for santa rosa after the merom release? Just buy the damn thing. Because if you plan on waiting again you'll probably never buy a macbook pro because you'll be too busy watching and waiting for technology advance. I just hope we will have merom macbook pros buy the 25th or possibly the 19th.The only thing that would hold me back from buying the merom macbook pro would be if it doesn't support 4gb of ram. I would wait for santa rosa if that's the case.
dsnort said:It is my sincere hope that the MBP's will see a quiet upgrade this tuesday, similar to how they did the iMacs on the 6th.
Why am I so hopeful? Will I rush out to buy a MBP? No, no, no, I have a 3 month old Blackbook that is "practically perfect in every way".
I want Apple to update the MBP's so we can put a stop to these endless and countless "When will they update the MBP?" threads and the "Should I buy or wait?" threads and get on to something more interesting.
Like the "Grrrr, they didn't update the MBP just the way I wanted it !" threads
Then will come the "when are they going to update to Santa Rosa thread?!" It's just going to keep happening, and happening, over and over. Don't expect it to stop once C2D is in the MBP. It's a vicious, vicious cycle.
does anyone think that the merom mbp will support 4gb of ram since the new imac only supports 3gb?
considering it's an imac and not a promac, its possible- however I'm not sure. Ask stevemacman2790 said:
so does the current chipset but people are saying that intel disabled that feature for some reason. As in putting 2x2gb sticks in should work but for some reason they aren't compatible