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Macbook pro, wait, or buy.
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If you need it, say it's required to help you make money. Then buy it now, it make s alot more sense in the long run. However, if it's not urgent, perhaps waiting a couple more months for the updated version?
I think 256Mb of VRAM is plenty for most users, having the extra 512Mb of VRAM won't be much of a benefit, not on the 8600GTM.
Huh?
Yea its not urgent and it is going to be the laptop that i go to college with, so by wait a while do you mean until they have another update or till the Exbo in January because i would really like it for school now, even thou it is not totaly needed, yet.
Myself, I would have put them out BEFORE the back-to-school rush and did iPods before the Xmas rush.
But hey, thats just me.
Most back to school people don't care about an update, but seeing ads out for brand new MBs would have helped their sales. But Apple was probably pulling the get rid of as much stock as possible and finish off the B2S rebate before updates scheme.
when the back to school promotion ends apple will release first new mbps an shortly after that new macbook. just my 2 cent
Wishful thinking? ...or why do you think the Pro will come first?
Quite often the MB is released first and then the Pro. Not always, but I have no idea what determines which comes first. Paper, scissors, rock?!?
Quite often the MB is released first and then the Pro. Not always, but I have no idea what determines which comes first. Paper, scissors, rock?!?
hope?
lol
http://gizmodo.com/5048126/rumor-apple-macbook-event-on-oct-14
either way its a over haul new design and its comming soon
eww 30 freaking days.
lol
http://gizmodo.com/5048126/rumor-apple-macbook-event-on-oct-14
either way its a over haul new design and its comming soon
eww 30 freaking days.
Oh man, another month to wait. Apple, you killing me! Maby I'll go pick up a new Nano to hold me over
My philosophy is, and always has been: buy it when you need it. There will always be something newer released in the future regardless of what you do, and it's not like a revision is going to make your computer suddenly self combust and become an expensive paperweight.
What do you think they are doing to the MBP? I really need a laptop but I want to wait to see the updates? How long is the return policy at bestbuy? If I bought one this week could I return it for all my money back?
good god, dont buy something like that at best buy, their return policy is SHI*. But i heard the case is going to have a "mac book air like look" with the curved edges. I also heard about blue-ray and possibly this processer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino#Montevina_platform_.282008.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino#Montevina_platform_.282008.29
Why don't you read about it for a second: https://buyersguide.macrumors.com//#MacBook
Last time they both came out at the same time, the release before that (2007) had the MB out a MONTH (May) before the Pro (June).
Myself, I would have put them out BEFORE the back-to-school rush and did iPods before the Xmas rush.
But hey, thats just me.
Blame the entire delay on nVidia. Now waiting feels much better because it was all for our own good.
Wrong. The release before that which was the update to Santa Rosa, the MBP was updated in June, and the MB had to wait until November.
Now that Montevina is out, there is no way that will go in the MB first.
Actually you're wrong & save your strawman argument. We're talking new revisions/updates not chipsets. Look again, the MB was updated twice that year, the MBP only once. The first MB update came out a month before the Pro.
You're most likely bang on about who will get the Montevina first, doesn't mean they won't update the MB in other ways. Who knows what this nVidia issue has done to update schedules for the MBP.
Apple inventory warning?
It seems strange that end of July(!) Apple urged resellers to place orders of at least 3 weeks worth of stock for certain notebooks as they anticipate dwindling supplies.
Now 6 weeks later we're told to expect a further 5 weeks delay for a total of 11 weeks (as seen from end of July). So what good does 3 weeks worth of stock do here?!? Apple should have advised them to get 6-8 weeks worth of stock.
Something must have gone awfully wrong between July and today to delay things so drastically.
It seems strange that end of July(!) Apple urged resellers to place orders of at least 3 weeks worth of stock for certain notebooks as they anticipate dwindling supplies.
Now 6 weeks later we're told to expect a further 5 weeks delay for a total of 11 weeks (as seen from end of July). So what good does 3 weeks worth of stock do here?!? Apple should have advised them to get 6-8 weeks worth of stock.
Something must have gone awfully wrong between July and today to delay things so drastically.
You should wait! The price of the notebook now is the same as the price when they launched it, while the price of hardware already dropped tremendously, the notebook's price the same. So what I'm saying is you'll be ripped off if you buy the notebook now, because the hardware only half worth of what you're paying...
iMacs more of a Christmas concern?? You're wrong.. Christmas is for iPod's etc.. MAYBE some MB or MBP, but there is not a growing iMac market around the holidays. And de iPods already have an upgrade, so the notebooks will be first in line right now.
iMacs more of a Christmas concern?? You're wrong.. Christmas is for iPod's etc.. MAYBE some MB or MBP, but there is not a growing iMac market around the holidays. And de iPods already have an upgrade, so the notebooks will be first in line right now.
Again, I think you're wrong. Apple is all about the performance/watt nowadays. The Montevina will be in the new MB and MBP's (what else?).. If they build in a faster model of the resent cpu, they'e performance/watt goes down (you do the math). So that wouldn't be much of an update. So I think we can be sure both MB and MBP will get Montiva, but both at different core speeds ofcourse. And they have always been protective about the distance between the MBP's en MB's, so they can't update the MB first. If they get the 2,0Ghz Montevina, they will be better/faster than the processor in MBP's now! So that's crazy.. I don't know why you think Apple will do something like that. It's more likely they introduce the MB and the MBP at the same time, or MBP first and MB later...
P.s. my University advices me to buy a MacBookPro (because MB can't run the heavy DNA simulating programms etc..) so I really hope they update the MBP soon!! I'm not paying 2k for a 2,6 Ghz with an old 8600GT card!
I've just gone and bought a MBP 15" 2.4 GHZ, I couldn't wait and seeing as my college has Imac's and we've already started photo editing I treated myself to one. It's on the prepared to ship stage atm how long does it usually take them to ship it?
Apple online store? 24-hours