Macbook Purchase, should I wait?

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jeditigger

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I am slowly transitioning from PC to Mac. I am in the market to purchase another MacBook in the near future. Anyone have an idea when the next updated line of MacBooks are to be released? Should I buy now and not worry about what is to come for it is too far off? I like to get the most for my money so if waiting a bit will give me a better machine then so be it.

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The General

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The MacBook Pro section says "days since update - 186" ... that can't be right, the LED backlit line like just came out. :confused:
 
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BioChron

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What you could do is wait until October to get a new MacBook with Leopard on it, but if it doesn't matter get a new one now. :)

- Daniel
 
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S.R.G

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Macbook upgrade

The reason for me not to buy a Macbook right now is that I am seeing it likely Apple will need to upgrade the Macbooks hardware, especially the graphics chip before Leopard.

Anybody care to comment on my thoughts?
 
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jeditigger

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S.R.G. That is exaclty why I am considering waiting. I would kick myself if I buy now only to have a newer hardware config for Leopard come about within a month or so.
 
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razyorv

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I think Apple will update sometime in January. If you look at their history, Macbooks have been updated in May and in January.

What I think Apple should do is justify the $125 for the Blackbook by upgrading the black to the Santa Rosa platform and give it the X1300 graphics.
 
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S.R.G

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razyorv, that is exactly what I am expecting.
As long as they will do this change to all, the computer will surely be fine at least for another year.
Personaly I do expect that Apple will upgrade all Macbooks to SantaRosa with the GMA X3100 384RAM and then differentiate the macbooks by a higher cpu and memory ram.
 
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iBookG4user said:
According to the guide on average it will be updated in 100 days or so, that'd be around December.
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But they'd never update in December, instead it's most likely to be in January.

S.R.G said:
The reason for me not to buy a Macbook right now is that I am seeing it likely Apple will need to upgrade the Macbooks hardware, especially the graphics chip before Leopard.
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The MacBook's run Leopard just fine at the moment with the GMA950 so I wouldn't expect them to upgrade them before Leopard. They'll upgrade to the next stage with Santa Rosa most likely in January.

I just bought a BlackBook and couldn't be happier.

razyorv said:
What I think Apple should do is justify the $125 for the Blackbook by upgrading the black to the Santa Rosa platform and give it the X1300 graphics.
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Technically the black casing is made of a different composite than the white ones that I have heard is slightly more expensive anyway, albeit not by much.

I don't doubt that all MacBooks will get better graphics with Santa Rosa, but I'm not sure what their plans could be for the Black model, it should be a bridge between the lower and upper end laptops, but it isn't currently.

Time will tell, January will tell. Buy now.
 

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