Don't know for sure, but I think it hopefully should get one. Stuff like Mac Minis can just slip into inventory though.
That's quite a likely possibility.
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MacBook Pros Due in Early March, Additional Enhancements?
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I hope the Macbook Pros don't move towards SSD-only like the Air is. SSD is awesome on a super-thin machine like the Air, but those of us with full-size laptops still prefer to have oodles of storage, and flash isn't quite there yet.
I suppose I COULD buy a 750GB SSD for my MBP, but it would double the cost of the machine!
Let us have our mechanical disk drives just a bit longer please.
I suppose I COULD buy a 750GB SSD for my MBP, but it would double the cost of the machine!
Let us have our mechanical disk drives just a bit longer please.
My predictions:
1) 128 GB SSD hard drive as basic standard for all models
2) New design to be similar as Mac Book Air (if not thinner)
3) Definitely lighter
4) Optical drive optional
5) No changes to the camera (iSight or Facetime, whatever they call it)
6) New trackpad design with more multi-touch gestures
7) Price - Similar or almost no difference to their previous models
8) Little darker color (or at least option for a darker MBP)
9) No 3G/4G cards
10) Not very optimistic about this, but might include a GPS for location enabled apps that are going to be supported after Lion
11) All MBPs will be armed with a laser shooting death ray machine. Fan boys may use this to destroy nearby PCs.
1) 128 GB SSD hard drive as basic standard for all models
2) New design to be similar as Mac Book Air (if not thinner)
3) Definitely lighter
4) Optical drive optional
5) No changes to the camera (iSight or Facetime, whatever they call it)
6) New trackpad design with more multi-touch gestures
7) Price - Similar or almost no difference to their previous models
8) Little darker color (or at least option for a darker MBP)
9) No 3G/4G cards
10) Not very optimistic about this, but might include a GPS for location enabled apps that are going to be supported after Lion
11) All MBPs will be armed with a laser shooting death ray machine. Fan boys may use this to destroy nearby PCs.
Following the rumors which involve display improvements, I'm wondering whether or not IPS is going to be the Apple's panel type of choice for the upcoming MBP revision. Or smth fairly similar like PLS. Also, make it a standard instead of a pricey BTO option. Yeah I'm dreaming I know
No. It needs a SSD for speed and a HD for capacity and backup.
BTW lookie what's faster now already.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0335245/Nvidia-Demos-Kal-El-Quad-Core-Tegra-Mobile-CPU
I would like to see them really work with GPU acceleration. They have been talking about it for some years now.
BTW my understanding of Light Peak is it allows several protocols to coexist on a single very high bandwidth line. So it would support 2-3 MDP as well as USB3 and a couple of others all at once.
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You and the people you know must be hard on your equipment. I personally have never seen one fail. Must be the dry AZ air we have here.
I like this idea! A Macbook Air style SSD, maybe 128GB just for boot and applications, along with a mechanical hard drive for bulk storage.
We can put things like music, video, the SteamApps folder
and such on the mechanical hard drive, which would also spin down when not being used, saving battery life too.Mechanical drive could also be optional (empty bay) for users who don't need that much capacity. Mmmm.
Heck we can already do this with current models, by sacraficing the superdrive, putting an SSD in the HD bay and a mechanical drive in the optical bay with an adapter.
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...s_apple_increases_notebook_orders_report.html
In regards to the SB design error, but still being able to push out high volumes for Q1 2011:
oh jeeez... if they're still going to be using the first gen core-i chips, I expect then the 13" will be lagging behind again. I assume 15" will be newer tech, but this report makes it seems like older gen stuff still may be used. Meh!
On a more positive note, here's to hoping the no issue of delay article is really the main point. That the use of the SATA III ports will be used and thus the short delay, and NOT the use of last gen tech.. =)
In regards to the SB design error, but still being able to push out high volumes for Q1 2011:
oh jeeez... if they're still going to be using the first gen core-i chips, I expect then the 13" will be lagging behind again. I assume 15" will be newer tech, but this report makes it seems like older gen stuff still may be used. Meh!
On a more positive note, here's to hoping the no issue of delay article is really the main point. That the use of the SATA III ports will be used and thus the short delay, and NOT the use of last gen tech.. =)
You make me sick some people cant afford basic necessities and your bragging about your bank account.
Not necessarily. Before, people who had Macintosh computers would easier get laid because only very few people could afford a Mac. Now, things have changed. I have seen many people here on MR who want Macs to become more expensive so that they have their egos stroked when prancing around with their computers.
Personally I think the weight is good (and I have a current 17" model), the battery life is good, and the Superdrive is fine. If I was Apple I'd continue to keep the "Pro" line and the priorities of the "Pro" line separate from the white MB's. I agree with many of your assessments for the "White" line, as this is the consumer product. Make it lighter, make the Superdrive external, etc. With the Pro line however, I think the priorities *should* be different. It's unfortunate, IMO, that the Pro machines are more or less considered by most as the upgraded version of the MB, and not their own line targeted to a different set of users, the professional user.
As a Pro user, give me more cores in my processor at the cost of battery life. Give me the standard camera over HD, because the isight camera is really only a "bonus" for me since I don't chat on Facetime to my friends all day. Keep your SSD because I need the scratch space and a SSD will fail prematurely if you use it for this. Give me more ports. Give me the most RAM possible.
On my SSD comment, keep in mind I'd love to have an SSD in mine, but only if I can also have a standard HD as well so I can keep the OS on the SSD for speed, and everything else on the other HD. I've been setting servers up like this for years, and it works great.
Mike
As a Pro user, give me more cores in my processor at the cost of battery life. Give me the standard camera over HD, because the isight camera is really only a "bonus" for me since I don't chat on Facetime to my friends all day. Keep your SSD because I need the scratch space and a SSD will fail prematurely if you use it for this. Give me more ports. Give me the most RAM possible.
On my SSD comment, keep in mind I'd love to have an SSD in mine, but only if I can also have a standard HD as well so I can keep the OS on the SSD for speed, and everything else on the other HD. I've been setting servers up like this for years, and it works great.
Mike
I would really like to have USB 3, but I doubt they will implement that. Lightpeek sounds nice, but USB 3 is ten times faster than USB 2, which is a lot in my opinion. Transferring a few gigs of pics will be a matter of a few seconds.
USB has the big advantage of being backwards-compatible - it has been the standard for the last decade and I would not mind if it stays that way (considering the thousands of printers, adapters, keyboards etc.).
And there are already some USB 3 devices and laptops available, unlike Lightpeek...
USB has the big advantage of being backwards-compatible - it has been the standard for the last decade and I would not mind if it stays that way (considering the thousands of printers, adapters, keyboards etc.).
And there are already some USB 3 devices and laptops available, unlike Lightpeek...
The new MBP may look so much like the old MBPs that no one realized when one was out in public.
Also, its not like a person is likely to just leave a computer in a bar.
Stop making me drool!
I'd love for a dual HDDs/blade HDDs/blade SSDs or 1 blade SSD and a HDD BTO option. Pulling out the optical is of course a great option for us now, but having the optical installed, with a dual storage drive option would make that PRO in the name really POP.
Although, I probably won't be able to plunk down the $4000 Apple would ask for such SSD option.
I do pray that they don't make the notebooks any thinner and remove the technology that most heavy lifting laptop users want and need. Nothing hurts more than a 17" notebook with a 1.4GHz processor and integrated GPU.