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Macbooks Tuesday, May 9?

I personally can't wait. I have been saving up since Decenmber last year. At least i have something positive about the wait; it gave me extra money to get a better MacBook and i can kit it out!!

I personally would like a black one and i will buy a black full screen iPod as soon as they are released. They will look awesome together.
 
I welcome the new MacBooks when / if they arrive on tuesday. But I personally won't be getting one just yet. I will hold out until I can buy one with the following specifications:

13.3" Screen
>= 2.0Ghz Merom Duo Core
>= 1GB DDR667 RAM
>= 100GB HD

I wouldn't even mind settling for any of the current top-end MacBook Pros, but with a 13.3" screen.
 
Balli said:
I welcome the new MacBooks when / if they arrive on tuesday. But I personally won't be getting one just yet. I will hold out until I can buy one with the following specifications:

13.3" Screen
>= 2.0Ghz Merom Duo Core
>= 1GB DDR667 RAM
>= 100GB HD

I wouldn't even mind settling for any of the current top-end MacBook Pros, but with a 13.3" screen.
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Same. That would be a GREAT spec for me. (Current Top-End Macbook w/ 13.3")
 
Balli said:
I welcome the new MacBooks when / if they arrive on tuesday. But I personally won't be getting one just yet. I will hold out until I can buy one with the following specifications:

13.3" Screen
>= 2.0Ghz Merom Duo Core
>= 1GB DDR667 RAM
>= 100GB HD

I wouldn't even mind settling for any of the current top-end MacBook Pros, but with a 13.3" screen.
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Don't forget discrete graphics. I'd be willing to throw down $1700 for a 13.3" MBP. If these don't come out soon or they come out but with really lame specs, I might go for a 15" MBP refurb (which can be had for $1700).
 
I, for one, am praying for two accessable RAM slots, discrete graphics, and a core duo. Don't even have to have a Superdrive. If Apple releases a 13.1in widescreen with those specs I listed above, I'd happily up to 1700 for it, presuming reasonable performance compared to a MBP (I set 1700 as my limit, as 1800 buys a MBP with student discount). This is, of course, with the assumption that it would be cooler, as previous iBooks have been, and without the MBP's teething issues.
 
Shipping and Customizing

1) How long do you think until these things actually ship? If they've been in production and this isn't a rush job, maybe immediately? Do you think the stores will have them in stock?

2) Do you think they'll have customizations right off the bat for 100gb or 120gb drives? I prepare a lot of media for my classes, and always run out of space. (plus, adding win xp on the drive -- whoah!)

3) Is there any non-apple retailer that sells new macs with upgraded hard drives and ram that doesn't price gouge as much on the upgrades?

Thanks!
 
BugSitter said:
1) How long do you think until these things actually ship? If they've been in production and this isn't a rush job, maybe immediately? Do you think the stores will have them in stock?

2) Do you think they'll have customizations right off the bat for 100gb or 120gb drives? I prepare a lot of media for my classes, and always run out of space. (plus, adding win xp on the drive -- whoah!)

3) Is there any non-apple retailer that sells new macs with upgraded hard drives and ram that doesn't price gouge as much on the upgrades?

Thanks!
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1) Directly, it seems like the Apple Stores already have them and these are the boxes that don't gonna open till Tuesday.

2) They will probably offer the same hardrives as the MacBook Pros can have.

3) Don't know, probably. It is cheaper to buy RAM on another store than Apple, don't know about the hard drive thought.
 
DeathChill said:
Uh, the GMA950 isn't THAT bad, it ran the other games just as fast as the 9200, plus the GMA950 supports Core Image:
http://www.barefeats.com/mincd.html
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That website compares the Intel Mac mini to its predecessor, not the GMA950 to the Radeon.

The Intel Mac mini has a better CPU than the PowerPC Mac mini. The more powerful CPU made up for the poorer GPU performance in the majority of cases. There's nothing in that set of benchmarks that suggests the GPU held its own. It didn't. It's awful. A hypothetical Core Duo Mac mini with a 9200 will run modern graphics-intensive games faster than a Core Duo Mac mini with a GMA950.

Trust me on this, Apple releasing a GMA950 based Mac at a games show would not go down well.
 
peharri said:
That website compares the Intel Mac mini to its predecessor, not the GMA950 to the Radeon.

The Intel Mac mini has a better CPU than the PowerPC Mac mini. The more powerful CPU made up for the poorer GPU performance in the majority of cases. There's nothing in that set of benchmarks that suggests the GPU held its own. It didn't. It's awful. A hypothetical Core Duo Mac mini with a 9200 will run modern graphics-intensive games faster than a Core Duo Mac mini with a GMA950.

Trust me on this, Apple releasing a GMA950 based Mac at a games show would not go down well.
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The benchmarks show, the benchmarks show, the benchmarks show!!!

It's half ********. Or maybe even more than half. My older brother recently got this laptop:

Acer 15.4 inch Notebook
Intel Core Duo 1.66Ghz
1GB ram
100GB Hard drive
Intel GMA950 Graphics

It playes World of Warcraft, and Knights of the Old Republic at flawless framerates!!! How do you explain that?
 
peharri said:
That website compares the Intel Mac mini to its predecessor, not the GMA950 to the Radeon.

The Intel Mac mini has a better CPU than the PowerPC Mac mini. The more powerful CPU made up for the poorer GPU performance in the majority of cases. There's nothing in that set of benchmarks that suggests the GPU held its own. It didn't. It's awful. A hypothetical Core Duo Mac mini with a 9200 will run modern graphics-intensive games faster than a Core Duo Mac mini with a GMA950.

Trust me on this, Apple releasing a GMA950 based Mac at a games show would not go down well.
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Would the GMA90 be able to run the next OS X (Leopard) at top performance?
 
ImAlex said:
1) Directly, it seems like the Apple Stores already have them and these are the boxes that don't gonna open till Tuesday.
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I thought these were just the display models - didn't realize they had gotten that many boxes!
 
I have integrated graphics at the mo' and a crappy old variety at that (considering my laptop [Acer Travelmate C11Tci] is basically 3 years old). I can play EA sports games (up until the 2004 mark) quite well, with good framerates. Same for games like Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. I don't know which games, exactly, would not function on the GMA950, but odds are I can play my choice of games just fine.
 
AidenShaw said:
I was challenged to find something that didn't run on an x86 - something that requires an x64 CPU. The next version of Exchange fits that description.

You won't find a G5-only app, because OSX has very lame 64-bit support - it's not true 64-bit, severe restrictions apply to 64-bit apps.

A Merom in 32-bit mode will be about 25% faster than Yonah. A Merom in 64-bit mode will be about 50% faster than Yonah.

Those aren't small numbers.
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Unless it will enable me to be able to write a term paper in 50% less time (or even be 50% more productive in ANY way), they are still small numbers.
 
baddaddy said:
I had a friend recently that spent quite a while in Israel. He told me that everyone there uses a Mac, because if something breaks they have to send it 1/2 way around the world to get it fixed. Mac's don't break.
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I'm off to Israel in a couple of weeks. Nice to know my iBook will be amongst friends. But shame there isn't a nice big Apple Store in Tel Aviv for me to buy the MacBook that's going to be announced on Tuesday...

I'm working on the basis that if you wish for something hard enough it'll happen and my other half has just given me the nod to use his money to buy a nice shiny new Apple toy! :)

So come on Steve, bring it on!
 
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what is the font apple uses for invitations/ product adds. i would like to type something along with a mock up i made. thanks.
 
April Dancer said:
I'm off to Israel in a couple of weeks. Nice to know my iBook will be amongst friends. But shame there isn't a nice big Apple Store in Tel Aviv for me to buy the MacBook that's going to be announced on Tuesday...

I'm working on the basis that if you wish for something hard enough it'll happen and my other half has just given me the nod to use his money to buy a nice shiny new Apple toy! :)

So come on Steve, bring it on!
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My uncle lives in israel, and he says no one uses a mac. He says that the whole mac craze is an american thing.

Maybe he's smoking something......
 
SiliconAddict said:
Quartz 2D extreme is not enabled in Tiger and secondly you missed the entire point of my post in that VRAM is used as a buffer for what is going on screen. Think of VRAM as a 256MB of RAM. When it gets full it spills over to your virtual memory. In the case of the GPU virtual memory is RAM. Your main goal like RAM is to avoid that spillover as much as possible. Read up on the subject at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/13
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Fair enough it isn't..

But the 256mb of VRAM is still overkill.. Firstly, cuz it is. And secondly, you'd be a idiot to make OS that would require atleast 256mb of VRAM. And I didn't miss your point, but maybe you missed mine. There is no way that anything you put on your desktop can take up that much space as a simple image. If 256mb of VRAM is enough to contain all the data there must be while playing a graphic intesive game like Doom 3, it should be more then plenty (read: way to much) to take care of the 2d graphics of your desktop. So you wasted your money dude.
 
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