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MacBook Updated with LED Display, Multi-Touch, 7 Hour Battery
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Not so sure I agree. I think the combination of Headset and line-In jacks was a BAD move for consumer lineup (only iMac has this left for the consumers).
I think its because FireWire 3200 (compatible with FW800) is still over a year away and not taken up by a lot of manufacturers and also USB3.0 is already ratified and with Apple & Intel having much of a love thang going on, Apple gets sweet dibs on USB3.0 on their Pro lineup, then consumers by end of 2010.
I'm just glad I didn't buy a USED 1.8Ghz MacBookl, Intel Duo Core 1/2nd gen for $585CAN last week Friday.
Wish me luck on this new job ... if it hits my family will be a full-time OS X house with new machines and daughter gets to learn Photoshop soon, and me Notes v8.5.1 on OS X
Its £772.80 for the 13" MBP
Try googling for an 'off campus' link for the higher education site :wink wink:
I'm guessing tht a lot of consumer camcorders these day use USB instead of Firewire for transfer-you can get a MacBook Pro if you need Firewire
i bet some aftermarket company will make machined or cast aluminum plates... remove 8 screws and rubber bottom. install new aluminum cover and reuse screws. then it would be funny if someone made "heatsink" bottom covers for the macbook.
also, how will incase make a hardshell for this? We'll see...
also, how will incase make a hardshell for this? We'll see...
Target Disk Mode. Hard drives. Audio interfaces. DV camcorders.
Not a big deal for me, since it's $125 to replace the non-replaceable battery, and a new battery is generally in that price range anyway. I'm not one to swap batteries generally.
Firewire. But if you don't use it, I wouldn't see the point.
Why? There wouldn't be much point.
Exactly why I waited until this gen of MBP's to get my personal laptop. My 13" can handle 8GB, whereas my 15" can handle only 6GB.
And when the prices drop, I definitely will be getting 8GB.
Oh wow, I was pretty close. The memory is a scary thing.
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Your argument is flawed. Walk into any electronics retailer and look at digital camcorders. The lower end, consumer friendly models connect via firewire. Only the high end HD model connect via USB. Apple has actually alienated the consumer market with their low end laptop.
You are 100% wrong. The lowest price camcorders, which still account for the majority, connect via firewire. Only the mid-to higher end range models, specifically the HD models, connect via USB.
I've just check up posts on this thread, but cant see anything about battery level indicator? Do we have to say goodbye to it also
edit: nvm. Checked the US website which has got a video of the trackpad, and it does support exposé swipes.
Yeah... on my Unibody MacBook, it def heats up more when there's no air space underneath, such as on a pillow.
I'm curious to get my hands on one.
I like the new MacBook more than the old one despite the exclusion of FireWire, because I do not rely on it.
£799, ouch!
The MacBook has gone up by £150 in the last 12 months with the 13" MBP much more tempting at only £100 more.
i think thats the idea lol
If Apple is so margin sensitive how come the Macbook has a bigger hard drive than the entry MBP 13" ? $50 to go from 160 to 250 GB. Firewire is extremely likely a sub $25-30 part. (wouldn't be surprised it was closer to $10).
There is something besides costs that is driving this.
The last time Apple trotted out something lame like "No bleeding edge cameras ship with Firewire anymore". Like folks are likely to go out and buy a new computer and video recorder right now.
Eventually Firewire will die off. Apple's interest in Light Peak makes that even more likely to happen sooner rather than later. However, Apple is not shipping Light Peak or USB 3.0 yet. To kill off a tech before you have the replacement deployed is whacked. There is no customer value there.
If you even out the hard drives the MBP 13" / 250 GB goes up to $1249. That's a $250 gap between the two. That is very substantive percentage increase. So you either take hit on disk space and get Firewire (plus a few other goodies) or more space and less goodies.
I can see how Apple thinks "Just spend $250 more" is beneficial for them. Just having huge trouble seeing the customer value proposition there.
Quite the opposite, I think they are trying to herd the folks who really do need this feature into a more expensive model than they really need to buy.
You are right in that it will be a slight muted response than last time ( a few will move up, but they are asking a 10+% premium for something that doesn't cost anywhere near that and can get (in FW400 flavor) on alternative Windows laptops that cost hundreds less. )
This is an interesting update. I like what they did with it, but I feel they could have designed it better; made it look cleaner
I could actually use 8GB of RAM on my MacBook. When I got my MacBook 1.5 years ago and upgraded to 4GB I thought I would be good. However, I use my MacBook for neuroimaging stuff for research (I prefer using it to any of our lab computers - we're only just starting the transition away from Linux to Mac in the lab {and don't have any lab Macs yet}). Anyway, I've run processes where 4GB of RAM is not enough. 8 is the sweet spot for what I do. But that's just me.
I just said that Apple is going to say that cost drove this decision. I didn't say that that was true.
I don't think you can believe a word that Steve Jobs says. For him the more smoke and mirrors involved, the more he likes it.
"More expensive" = higher profit margin for Apple. That's exactly what I've been saying since the first time FW was dropped.
Are you sure you haven't just overlooked them ?
EDIT: The vents are visible on this picture taken by Gizmodo
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the Aluminum vs Plastic/Carbon case are far more visible effective in that. Dividing on FW is petty and annoying.
I think it more likely this is an offering at the Intel alter. Apple kills off future Firewire in return to Intel working on both Light Peak and USB 3.0 at the same time. There is no customer peripheral matching, product differentiation, or cost/margin cutting at all.
If it was product differentiation why put a bigger hard drive on the MacBook? If you "have to" buy the 'Pro' machine to get better stuff how come there is a bigger drive in the MacBook.
They can clean up standard disk on the MBP on a later refresh but in the mean time it is a mixed message. If don't need FW but have drive need and will coin flip on AL vs. Carbon case folks will buy the cheaper model. So if the presumption is that customers don't need/want FW they'll go cheaper.
If they do need FW then why then stick it to the customer on disk? if put the units on parity with HD size then that focuses even more on the FW differential which is suppose to be the key point.
This new MacBook is very likely just a warmed over version of the AL Macbook from last Fall. Just a different case:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP500
they probably just switched case materials ( made a carbon case in the similar manner at the AL one) so could just reuses the 98% of the old design in the "new' one. This is last year's MacBook.