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MacBook Shipments Have Begun?

hmmm....aggresive pricing? Maybe this is my big chance to forsake my old Sony Vaio for a macbook pro. Now that I have a job, and that they might shave the price (even if a little) I might get one before I go to college. ^_^
 
Lets hope they're due soon, I want to pick me up a refurb model but there's been none about for quite some days now... New MacBook = Cheap clearance models... :D
 
baz1860 said:
Lets hope they're due soon, I want to pick me up a refurb model but there's been none about for quite some days now... New MacBook = Cheap clearance models... :D
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I'm in the same boat, I couldn't care less about the new Macbooks. I'm getting a current gen refurb MBP.
 
I'm finally done reading All the posts :p That took me a few hours!
I can't wait to get the new Macbook. Have been waiting for this for quite some time.
I'm running Fluxbuntu (lightweight version of Ubuntu) on my old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop (1,5ghz celeron m, 256mb ram, 40gb hdd... wifi-reception that is horrible and a battery that fully charged lasts a little over one hour.) I need a new laptop :p I'm buying a new Macbook the day it's announced. :)
 
Toe said:
Also, Apple tries very hard not to put the ports by the front of the computer. I mean, why would they, when there is plenty of length to put them toward the back. Nobody wants cords sticking out near where they type.
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That image showed the port in the same place as the current DVI connector: in the back right corner of the laptop (on the side). That's definitely the logical location for it unless they change the overall look of the laptops, but obviously that's not how it would look either.

jW
 
captnfun said:
I couldn't agree more. I have a DVD collection of over 200 movies, I haven't bought a single DVD in like 6 months because I know I am going to want it in Blu-Ray to keep for a long long time. The download model works for rentals, but not for purchase. 200 discs x 25GB per Movie = 5000GB, and then I need another 5000GB for backup in case the Hard Drive takes a dump.

Not going to happen anytime soon. That is what makes Blu-Ray so important, it may very well be the last physical format, thus it will be around for a long long time. Screen resolutions aren't going to change again for a long time, just ask the FCC.

Blu-Ray is the reason to keep the Macbook Pro, Blu-Ray burners on the high end, readers on the low end, and the Macbooks will stay with DVD and integrated graphics, and hopefully a reasonable price tag to grow market share. Maybe a more expensive Macbook with a Blu-ray reader? HDMI out for all.

Mark my words this will the the Christmas of Blu-Ray.
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I dont agree with you, now days all new laptops have blu-ray and hdmi out. So i do really hope they have HDMI out and blu-ray in all macbooks.

What do u all say to this??

I hope new macbooks have:

500 gb hdd
2.6 ghz (atleast)
latest intel processor
4 gb ram
bluray/dvd Read/Wrrite
HDMI out

price: 1000-1200$

pls tell me ur views............
 
I think theyre just using that PowerBook photo as a stock image, as a mockup to show that the DisplayPorts go on laptops. The G4 design is pretty much the "design standard" for recent laptops and you often see it in advertising and on TV and whatnot to depicit a standard laptop.
 
Baadshah said:
I dont agree with you, now days all new laptops have blu-ray and hdmi out. So i do really hope they have HDMI out and blu-ray in all macbooks.

What do u all say to this??

I hope new macbooks have:

500 gb hdd
2.6 ghz (atleast)
latest intel processor
4 gb ram
bluray/dvd Read/Wrrite
HDMI out

price: 1000-1200$

pls tell me ur views............
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I don't think you are going to see Blu-Ray technology in Apple's lowest end computer. Doubtful on the HDMI out as well...
 
Mal said:
That image showed the port in the same place as the current DVI connector: in the back right corner of the laptop (on the side). That's definitely the logical location for it unless they change the overall look of the laptops, but obviously that's not how it would look either.
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I got the impression that the corner shown was the front of the laptop. I forgot that on Pros, Apple puts ports on both sides.
 
Eric S. said:
That's what I thought too; new Penryns w/ nVidia chipset.
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I am hoping for this. While the GMA X4500 in Montrevina is an improvement, I still think it's a tragedy among graphics solutions. I would like to be able to use my regular Macbook for some moderate gaming. nVidia's MCP79 chipset integrated graphics would be much better than the X4500. The possibility of hybrid graphics is also very intriguing.

Although a simple BTO discrete graphics option in the lower-end Macbook line would rectify many of my qualms too.
 
The "Apple store was just refreshed with new MB and MBP!!!" joke was tempting, but as I'm dying to know when they'll be released I think I'll pass. :p
 
bigmc6000 said:
I've said this before and nobody bothered to reply but what's the point of better reception if you're never far from the base station anyway? I mean, I'd say the overwhelming majority of people use Wi-Fi in their house. You'd be hard pressed to find any laptop that wouldn't be able to get at 3 "bars" even if you house is fairly large. I just don't see the big deal - I'm never really at a point where I'm thinking "oh man, I wonder if I can get free wi-fi from that hotel over there, dang, bummer." Does that really happen that often? I suppose you can argue it slows down the file transfers and download speeds but, at least in my experience, it doesn't slow them down so much that I notice and/or care.
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umpf, don't know what you use your MBP for and how big your house is but reception is a permanent problem when i'm traveling and in my house/backyard i get reception everywhere just because i set up a WDS. otherwise my mac wouldn't get reception in a third of my house.

this is especially annoying when others get great reception with thier PC notebooks and I with my mac do not. happens quite often.

i wish they would build a small external wifi antenna port in the MBP's.
 
Aluminum cases

I'll start by saying by no means do I have any great knowledge of operating temperatures of mb or mb pros; but is it possible that the switch to aluminum is functional by expelling excess heat much more efficiently? If so, that might make people less sour about the wi-fi range loss.

New G2 iPod touch at my door thursday, and I'm getting my first mac the day the new MBPs are out. Cheers!
 
sangosimo said:
stop the fud. Server 2008 and vista use the same kernel; once you enable all the services required to have a functional workstation os you have vista.

edit: when cs4 comes out I would rather use my vista box then a mac pro for image editing.
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Same kernel, different implementations. Vista is not bad, it's just not good and it's not fud. If you like the limitations of a crippled kernel, great. I'd rather use something that isn't dependent on bad apis.
 
Black Mac Aluminum

I don't care what the price cuts are for the silver...I'll STILL pay hundreds more for the black!
 
I do like the idea mentioned before of dropping the pro and just going with MacBook. It might work out to be a great marketing move. Apple would obviously need to allow for lots of customised features to accomodate pro users, like faster processors, graphics, bigger hard drives etc. They could advertise it as the most customiseable mac laptop ever which could draw more switchers.

Price wise they have to drop the MacBook to around $899. But I don't know if thats enough to win more buyers. There are too many cheap laptops out there to tempt people. Obviously you pay for what you get but money talks. I recently priced an order for 9 Dell Vostro 15" base line laptops. The price came in at around the $600 level, a price Apple would never be able to drop too. These Vostro's are very basic, bulky and heavy but for our needs they are just fine. I know these are a business model laptop but I can easily see anyone needing just a basic laptop being attracted to these. If Apple could aim for the price bracket just above these, they might be able to tempt buyers to pay a bit more for quality.
 
IrishMac said:
I do like the idea mentioned before of dropping the pro and just going with MacBook. It might work out to be a great marketing move. Apple would obviously need to allow for lots of customised features to accomodate pro users, like faster processors, graphics, bigger hard drives etc. They could advertise it as the most customiseable mac laptop ever which could draw more switchers.
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That could have something to do with the "brick" rumor posted by 9 to 5 mac. A theory is going around that the "brick" refers to building blocks, which could lead to more modularity and customization of the notebooks.
 
Good point! I'd forgotten about that rumor. As long at they're not lego blocks :D

Does sound exciting. Could we have a return to the great G3 Powerbook with all the swappable bits?
 
iMacmatician said:
That could have something to do with the "brick" rumor posted by 9 to 5 mac. A theory is going around that the "brick" refers to building blocks, which could lead to more modularity and customization of the notebooks.
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But hasn't Apple always been against this kind of '100 versions of 1 product' ?
Like they made ads on how there are a gazillion different versions of Vista (home, premium, ultimate, pro and whatnot) and just one Mac OS X?
 
captnfun said:
I couldn't agree more. I have a DVD collection of over 200 movies, I haven't bought a single DVD in like 6 months because I know I am going to want it in Blu-Ray to keep for a long long time. The download model works for rentals, but not for purchase. 200 discs x 25GB per Movie = 5000GB, and then I need another 5000GB for backup in case the Hard Drive takes a dump.

Not going to happen anytime soon. That is what makes Blu-Ray so important, it may very well be the last physical format, thus it will be around for a long long time. Screen resolutions aren't going to change again for a long time, just ask the FCC.

Blu-Ray is the reason to keep the Macbook Pro, Blu-Ray burners on the high end, readers on the low end, and the Macbooks will stay with DVD and integrated graphics, and hopefully a reasonable price tag to grow market share. Maybe a more expensive Macbook with a Blu-ray reader? HDMI out for all.

Mark my words this will the the Christmas of Blu-Ray.
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Hope you're right. I invested in blu-ray in January and was also in the market for a laptop, but want to move from PC to Mac. Thus, instead of just buying a Dell w/ Blu-ray, I've been holding out for Apple. I'm getting restless. I hope it's soon, as I don't currently own a laptop and I need one.
 
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