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Macbooks Tuesday, May 9?
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this is probably really stupid and i know this isnt true:
you know how the ipod page was damaged and showed something about the macbook
maybe they're being combined into one? i wonder what it would be called... hmm.... could it possibly the the long awaited iTab?????
Hahahah... i wish but no
you know how the ipod page was damaged and showed something about the macbook
maybe they're being combined into one? i wonder what it would be called... hmm.... could it possibly the the long awaited iTab?????
Hahahah... i wish but no
Macintosh --> Mac
1) As for the Macbook, has ANY other Apple product created this much anticiption? (My used and abused 12" 867mhz powerbook is soooo dying, so I need something -- I hope it lasts, so I'm with you guys in anticipation. I'm worried that so many people want one, it will take weeks for mine to ship when I order it.)
2) If the high end, decked out macbook is like $1500/$1600, wouldn't it be worth it just to get a refurbished Macbook Pro?
3) Is it true that Apple Stores won't upgrade the HD on site for purchases (I need a big HD!), and that has to be custom ordered from Apple?
4) A little off topic, but when were "Macintosh" computers formally rebranded to "Macs"?
Keep the spin going, y'all...
1) As for the Macbook, has ANY other Apple product created this much anticiption? (My used and abused 12" 867mhz powerbook is soooo dying, so I need something -- I hope it lasts, so I'm with you guys in anticipation. I'm worried that so many people want one, it will take weeks for mine to ship when I order it.)
2) If the high end, decked out macbook is like $1500/$1600, wouldn't it be worth it just to get a refurbished Macbook Pro?
3) Is it true that Apple Stores won't upgrade the HD on site for purchases (I need a big HD!), and that has to be custom ordered from Apple?
4) A little off topic, but when were "Macintosh" computers formally rebranded to "Macs"?
Keep the spin going, y'all...
BugSitter said:2) If the high end, decked out macbook is like $1500/$1600, wouldn't it be worth it just to get a refurbished Macbook Pro?
3) Is it true that Apple Stores won't upgrade the HD on site for purchases (I need a big HD!), and that has to be custom ordered from Apple?
Keep the spin going, y'all...
2 - Maybe, maybe not.
3 - Yeah, pretty sure that's true, depending on the design it can take an hour or so to get the thing open and the new HDD in - they're pretty tricky little buggers to get to.
BugSitter said:
If you can remember, or look at the slashdot archives, there was a LOT of anticipation for the PowerMac G5. Whenever it was released, people were taken by storm at what was packed into them, (optical audio was a big deal). I remember when the specs were leaked a few days beforehand, nobody believed what they had seen.
if anyone actually cares what i have to say...
okay... so i finally finished reading this entire thread. hopefully i can maintain some objectivity as i really have no desire to own a new 'macbook', ergo i'm not passing out with ridiculous anticipation. that said: am i the only person here who thinks the ipod/macbook breadcrumb thing was intentional?? i mean, everyone is citing the url as 'www.apple.com/ipod'. but if you went to 'www.ipod.com', it would link you to the same place. i feel like the ipod/itunes section of the apple website would be an extremely high-traffic area, and for an 'accident' like this to go uncorrected for as long as it did seems a little suspicious.
people have been asserting that perhaps this whole thing was the result of a 'misplaced' index.html file. but for anyone who did 'view source' on the ipod/macbook page, there was nothing to it but the code for the title bar and bottom search box, etc. that appear on every page of apple's website. if this had actually been part of a yet-to-be released page for the 'macbook', i would have expected to find at least some evidence of that in the page source. and yet all we see is a breadcrumb. frankly, the sole purpose of the page seemed to be focusing attention on that oh so enticing 'glitch'. not all of the traffic on apple's website comes from people like us. i mean, i could easily conceive of a great many folk venturing to 'www.ipod.com' or wherever else, people who are totally oblivious to the looming 'macbooks'. and so seeing the page as it appeared earlier today would be somewhat confusing. (hmm... i should be seeing ipods... what's all this about 'macbook'?? never heard of it...). interest is piqued. curiosity grows.
imho, apple is trying to get people excited. trying a whole new approach to marketing, as it were. leaving an obvious clue for people to obsess over on forums such as this. because that's what fuels anticipation. if they followed the same formula that we've seen with the intel models up to this present, there really wouldn't be any surprise. i mean, everyone is basically certain at this point that the next thing in the pipeline is the ibook replacement. i remember watching the webcast where steve introduced the ipod nano last fall. people didn't know what hit them. it was the same thing when the mpbs and intel imacs came out. catching people off guard and surprising everyone by coming out ahead of schedule. (surely people haven't already forgotten the ridiculous speculation surrounding the 'one more thing...' invite). and yet by the time we got to the intel minis, the 'effect' had sort of worn off.
the press already adores apple. and the roaring anticipation going on right now in the underground should be more than enough to draw attention to the 'macbook', whenever it gets released. steve knows his stuff. sure, apple could hold a big press conference with mister jobs prancing in and out of his reality distortion field trying to sell people on apple's newest consumer-grade portable. but where's the excitement in that? these 'macbooks' are going to be a huge commercial success. of this i have no doubt. a product with this much anticipation surrounding it's release should be able to sell itself quite easily, running on nothing but it's own merits. that said, the need for a special press event and a relentless onslaught of commercial campaigns seems almost null. in fact, there is such a thing as overkill. apple can only tout it's own greatness for so long before people start to get agitated. don't get me wrong... i love apple. and i'm certainly well aware of their obvious greatness and superiority. most people are. but preaching to the converted can get old fairly quickly. and before you know it people have already tuned out.
i'm not making any predictions as to when the 'macbook' will first appear. at this point i've lost count of the number of 'new ibooks this tuesday??' inquiries and speculations and claims that have come to manifest themselves on these boards before meeting their respective and equally swift demises. i will say this, however: so far, claims for may 9 seem more 'factually' sound than anything else that was said before this point.
...sorry. i had to get that out.
EDIT: i hate paragraphs.
okay... so i finally finished reading this entire thread. hopefully i can maintain some objectivity as i really have no desire to own a new 'macbook', ergo i'm not passing out with ridiculous anticipation. that said: am i the only person here who thinks the ipod/macbook breadcrumb thing was intentional?? i mean, everyone is citing the url as 'www.apple.com/ipod'. but if you went to 'www.ipod.com', it would link you to the same place. i feel like the ipod/itunes section of the apple website would be an extremely high-traffic area, and for an 'accident' like this to go uncorrected for as long as it did seems a little suspicious.
people have been asserting that perhaps this whole thing was the result of a 'misplaced' index.html file. but for anyone who did 'view source' on the ipod/macbook page, there was nothing to it but the code for the title bar and bottom search box, etc. that appear on every page of apple's website. if this had actually been part of a yet-to-be released page for the 'macbook', i would have expected to find at least some evidence of that in the page source. and yet all we see is a breadcrumb. frankly, the sole purpose of the page seemed to be focusing attention on that oh so enticing 'glitch'. not all of the traffic on apple's website comes from people like us. i mean, i could easily conceive of a great many folk venturing to 'www.ipod.com' or wherever else, people who are totally oblivious to the looming 'macbooks'. and so seeing the page as it appeared earlier today would be somewhat confusing. (hmm... i should be seeing ipods... what's all this about 'macbook'?? never heard of it...). interest is piqued. curiosity grows.
imho, apple is trying to get people excited. trying a whole new approach to marketing, as it were. leaving an obvious clue for people to obsess over on forums such as this. because that's what fuels anticipation. if they followed the same formula that we've seen with the intel models up to this present, there really wouldn't be any surprise. i mean, everyone is basically certain at this point that the next thing in the pipeline is the ibook replacement. i remember watching the webcast where steve introduced the ipod nano last fall. people didn't know what hit them. it was the same thing when the mpbs and intel imacs came out. catching people off guard and surprising everyone by coming out ahead of schedule. (surely people haven't already forgotten the ridiculous speculation surrounding the 'one more thing...' invite). and yet by the time we got to the intel minis, the 'effect' had sort of worn off.
the press already adores apple. and the roaring anticipation going on right now in the underground should be more than enough to draw attention to the 'macbook', whenever it gets released. steve knows his stuff. sure, apple could hold a big press conference with mister jobs prancing in and out of his reality distortion field trying to sell people on apple's newest consumer-grade portable. but where's the excitement in that? these 'macbooks' are going to be a huge commercial success. of this i have no doubt. a product with this much anticipation surrounding it's release should be able to sell itself quite easily, running on nothing but it's own merits. that said, the need for a special press event and a relentless onslaught of commercial campaigns seems almost null. in fact, there is such a thing as overkill. apple can only tout it's own greatness for so long before people start to get agitated. don't get me wrong... i love apple. and i'm certainly well aware of their obvious greatness and superiority. most people are. but preaching to the converted can get old fairly quickly. and before you know it people have already tuned out.
i'm not making any predictions as to when the 'macbook' will first appear. at this point i've lost count of the number of 'new ibooks this tuesday??' inquiries and speculations and claims that have come to manifest themselves on these boards before meeting their respective and equally swift demises. i will say this, however: so far, claims for may 9 seem more 'factually' sound than anything else that was said before this point.
...sorry. i had to get that out.
EDIT: i hate paragraphs.
Holy crap dude, use some paragraphs, I couldn't even bring myself to read that monster post.
To whoever said we're all going to be disappointed because we've hyped it up so much, I'm sure that's true, but I myself will be happy no matter what, because I am in desperate need of a replacement computer, and the release of the MacBook will either result in me buying a new one of those, on site at the Apple Store day of if possible, or buying a refurb iBook. Either way, it's better than what I've got, but I can't just go buy an iBook right now without at least finding out what Apple's got up their sleeves, especially since it's an imminent release, obviously.
jW
To whoever said we're all going to be disappointed because we've hyped it up so much, I'm sure that's true, but I myself will be happy no matter what, because I am in desperate need of a replacement computer, and the release of the MacBook will either result in me buying a new one of those, on site at the Apple Store day of if possible, or buying a refurb iBook. Either way, it's better than what I've got, but I can't just go buy an iBook right now without at least finding out what Apple's got up their sleeves, especially since it's an imminent release, obviously.
jW
Well, my friend called me up tonight and he has a gig next week at another convention in LA. Well, he and his friend went down to the LA convention center today to sign temp hire paperwork and he is almost 100% he saw Apple listed as an exhibitor at this show of some kind. Though on his booth set up sheets they weren't listed, so he doesn't know if they were a scratch or if they are just renting a meeting room or something, since the last 3 times he has been able to help with set up or be pretty close by to catch a glimpse of what's going on. So, 9th or 10th for somehing looks pretty positive... could also be something huge like Apple just bought Nintendo.
...and you can online shop for bullet-proof clothing as well!Tastannin said:Well, call me a cold and callous Apple fanatic, but I've prayed and said I don't mind war or famine or plague, just let there be a dedicated video chip in my new MacBook! The MacBook ought to be bulletproof, will keep me distracted from feeling so hungry, and can get online to find cures for whatever ails me, so all's well.
AppleInsider agrees...
FWIW, AppleInsider claims that well-placed sources have confirmed that Core Duo based Macbooks sporting iSight and FrontRow will be introduced this month (sorry if this has already been posted). The article appears to mostly be a rehash of what AppleInsider has claimed in previous articles, but I would be surprised if it posted such a strongly worded article without some evidence...
FWIW, AppleInsider claims that well-placed sources have confirmed that Core Duo based Macbooks sporting iSight and FrontRow will be introduced this month (sorry if this has already been posted). The article appears to mostly be a rehash of what AppleInsider has claimed in previous articles, but I would be surprised if it posted such a strongly worded article without some evidence...
yep
i believe that the "MacBook" will be released sometime soon, as early as tuesday. i also believe it is getting way to much hype. yes, i am going to buy it and fall in to the hype. this is good planning by apple, because so many people are waiting to buy it.
i believe that the "MacBook" will be released sometime soon, as early as tuesday. i also believe it is getting way to much hype. yes, i am going to buy it and fall in to the hype. this is good planning by apple, because so many people are waiting to buy it.
Sorry, but LOL.azentropy said:
5 times better at what?
I have a couple of dual-monitor systems where one monitor is VGA and the other is DVI. It's really, really hard to see any difference unless you put on a moire test pattern.
Of course, I have top quality cables with ferrite chokes on the analog ports. With cheap cables, your mileage would vary....
why would it be a powerbook g5 when intels blow them away. why would apple sell mac mini with a screen, wouldn't that raise the price, their selling point for the mac mini is the really low price for an almost powerfull desk top matchine(atleast more powerfull than a dell thing)
I really dont think it's going to be the macbook though, i bet my life(almost) that the macbook will come out may 19th. but then again, that's not a tuesday. we'll see.
I really dont think it's going to be the macbook though, i bet my life(almost) that the macbook will come out may 19th. but then again, that's not a tuesday. we'll see.
All the Apple Stores will do is upgrade RAM, which in my opinion is a total waste of money. Apple overcharges, or rapes, you for RAM. You are better off going through online stores like OWC, RamJet, etc... that specialize in upgrade items.BugSitter said:
I can get 2x512 MB Paired RAM (1 GIG total) for my PM G5 through OWC for $83, if I went through Apple it would cost $200 for the same total.
ro2nie said:
hahaha... sorry about that. i guess i was just off on a rant and didn't realize how long it had gotten. either way. it's fixed.
and yes, my return key works.
Is there any chance they'll release a 13.3 inch MacBook Pro on tuesday as well?
Please apple, PLEASE!!!
Please apple, PLEASE!!!
I don't know if this has been mentioned already (I'm not about to read 20 pages of posts) but the 12 inch powerbook now says 5-7 buisness days waiting with *any* upgrades, including a simple ram upgrade. This has to be a sign that a replacement is near...