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MacBook Pro Upgrade At Photokina?
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generik said:So do you mean to say Quanta deliberately does shoddy work for Dell just because Dell pays them less?
Roughly speaking, yes...Quanta does what it has to do, and receives what is commonly agreed with Dell.
If Dell prefers to pay less and have fewer quality-assurance stages or post-manufacturing follow-ups, Quanta will obviously charge a lower amount as compared with a company that demands more...it all depends on what both parties put in the clauses.
How about the speed of normal applications? I mean the launch speed and overall performance?generik said:In terms of access times, the 7200 will give an improvement, but for sustained transfers not so much. I'd rather invest in an external FW800 drive (maybe with a 10,000RPM drive!) to use as the video editing drive.
If your production fits into a 160GB laptop harddrive you aren't a serious pro anyhow
I'm curious about dev-work. Lots of small (by comparison) files rather than one big file. I think in that case that faster seek/access times could be a big boon.
Yichen said:
Has it finally happened?
NEW MACBOOK PROS???
HardMac.com article
Looks like one of France's largest resellers is running low on MBP stock and not getting anymore. Article concludes they are coming!!
NEW MACBOOK PROS???
HardMac.com article
Looks like one of France's largest resellers is running low on MBP stock and not getting anymore. Article concludes they are coming!!
aly said:
As optimistic as I want to be, it doesn't say anything about not getting anymore. It simply says they are currently out.
However, the rebate on the 2.0's is interesting, but could be to counteract the non-availibility of the 2.16's.
MacBook Pro stocks at their lowest point - Lionel - 16:17:30
We just learnt about the MacBook Pro stock of a French gross reseller. He has no more 2.16 GHz machines. He only has 2 GHz models, and there's a rebate on them.
So if you wish to conclude a renewal is at hand, we don't need to push you in this direction, you said it yourself
[translation by Kalomir]
Unless I'm missing some well hidden link to a full article somewhere, I just can't (personally) read too much into it. The current MBP is i n demand, and they seem to be having a delay everywhere to some extent. This reseller may just simply be out, and waiting.
tekmoe said:
I want to believe. I really do.
It's just that darned Appleinsider article that keeps bugging me. "Between now and Thanksgiving." That could mean Monday or Tuesday, but it could also mean the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Part of me says that MBP's will be coming out next week, and the article alluded to MB's coming out between now and Thanksgiving. I don't know. I'm keeping my healthy skepticism until I hear from Apple. Of coruse, that doesn't mean I won't be on pins and needles Monday/Tuesday in anticipation of new MBP's hitting store shelves.
HecubusPro said:I want to believe. I really do.
Of coruse, that doesn't mean I won't be on pins and needles Monday/Tuesday in anticipation of new MBP's hitting store shelves.
It's not just AI; O'Gradys PowerPage argues that MBP updates won't come until late October, early November. If that's true, we're all gonna be wasting another month on guessing games ...
skinimin said:
I'd say it's interesting, but I also wonder about their normal deliveries. Are they as needed, or on a set schedule, etc. It "could" mean anything, but it's could be looked for as a sign of hope.
generik said:
EDIT: Gah. That's what I get for posting pre-coffee (and thus conflating address space of north-bridge and CPU). Some time later, brain kicked in told me I was talking bollocks...
The Dell will likely either use a different northbridge/MCH or "steal" memory, ie you'll install 4GB and have, say, 3.5GB actually visible to the OS, because the IO has the rest. How much will vary with designs, but on i945 using 1GB seems pretty usual -- some Napa ThinkPads have the same limitation.
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o'grady is a dumbazz. he rarely ever predicts anything with the correct date. just look back at all of his postings. he's just posting schit becuz he knows people are going to talk about it and he will get more hits on his website. that's all. he doesn't have any sources.
on the other side of the fence, look at macosxrumors. generally if they post their own information and not just rumors from other websites such as AI, TS, etc., 9 times out of 10 it happens when they said it would. 17" mbp for example. got it right on the money. go thru the macosxrumors archives and you will see what i mean. they also had their own sources for the 23" imac. right on the money AGAIN. macosxrumors has a good inside source obviously.
mbp's on monday...you better believe it.
on the other side of the fence, look at macosxrumors. generally if they post their own information and not just rumors from other websites such as AI, TS, etc., 9 times out of 10 it happens when they said it would. 17" mbp for example. got it right on the money. go thru the macosxrumors archives and you will see what i mean. they also had their own sources for the 23" imac. right on the money AGAIN. macosxrumors has a good inside source obviously.
mbp's on monday...you better believe it.
danvdr said:
Amazon still has MBPs in stock. Just not the particular configuration that you linked to. Apple Notebooks available on Amazon.com
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High Capacity 5400rpm Drive Heads Don't Have To Move Very Far
I agree with the post about using an external FW800 drive anyway. I can't imagine doing any scratch disk work on the internal except perhaps temporarily in the field with copying to an external as soon as you get back to base.
Because the drive has a higher capacity, the heads don't travel as far to get from one place to another on the drive. So even though the drive is spinning slower, seek times are almost the same as the faster hotter more power consuming drive. I'm not sure teh 160 even comes in 7200 does it?rawdigits said:
I agree with the post about using an external FW800 drive anyway. I can't imagine doing any scratch disk work on the internal except perhaps temporarily in the field with copying to an external as soon as you get back to base.
Almost the same. You also get more disc space by going with the "slower" cooler speed.Yichen said:
I honestly doubt it.ckodonnell said:
ThunderLounge said:
A lot of people "broke" over these past couple of weeks. Their patience ran thin, or they absolutely needed the computer, and they went out and bought a yonah MBP (granted, a damn fine machine.) If the C2D MBP's don't end up releasing next week, I wonder how many more will buckle under the pressure and run out to buy a core duo MBP?
Amazon.com Buyer Hangs With Us
All that means is that the Amazon.com buyer hangs out here and stopped buying any more CD MBP thanks to our speculation.danvdr said:
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The Macbook I ordered was put in FexEx last night, so I think they will probably be upgraded on tuesday...