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Macbooks Tuesday, May 9?

Chundles said:
75 more posts to make it true. We all know the rules, 1000 posts means a little light comes on over Jobs' desk and whatever the thread is about has the green light pushed for release.

Anybody wanna comment:

US$1099

13.3" MacBook 1280x800 270cd
1.66GHz Core Duo
512MB RAM (up to 2GB)
60GB HDD (80GB, 100GB options)
Intel GMA950 (64MB)
Front Row/iSight/MagSafe
2x USB 2.0
1x FW400
GigE/APx/BT 2.0
Mini DVI out (Up to 23" ACD supported)
4x SuperDrive
Optical/analogue audio-out
5.5 Hours battery


US$1399

13.3" MacBook 1280x800 270cd
1.66GHz Core Duo (upgradeable to 1.83GHz)
512MB RAM (Up to 2GB)
80GB HDD (100GB, 100GB 7200rpm, 120GB options)
ATI x1400 (128MB)
Front Row/iSight/MagSafe
2x USB 2.0
1x FW 400
GigE/APx/BT 2.0
mini-DVI out
Optical/Analogue Audio In/Out
4x SuperDrive
Backlit Keyboard

I think the last one could be very popular. I'm just very unsure about pricing/features. The second one is a better system but I'm not used to dealing with US$, do you think the extras are worth the extra US$300? It's too early/late for me to go looking at the store.

I don't want to offer the Core Solo on the cheaper model but if it's necessary to do so then so be it, what about the ComboDrive? I'd like to think Apple would be getting rid of the ComboDrive on it's laptops, there aren't many PC laptops worth their salt these days that can't burn DVDs and I'd like to think the MacBook would be able to offer such a feature even at it's lowest price, maybe a Core Solo, ComboDrive option at US$999 and bump the other two ones up $US100.

I dunno, it's 3:45am, I'm tired but not sleepy, been this way for weeks, not with anticipation or anything, just Uni stress getting to me. Hey, at least I should be wide awake if the store goes down tomorrow night. :D :D
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Looks good expect the second will probably be a MacBook Pro with 1.83 ghZ and more expensive. And a 12 " maybe. Because the proffesionals wants a MacBook Pro. Maybe, but that one might be a MacBook instead, we will see.
 
mdsll said:
Engadget picked it up now: http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/08/apple-to-hold-seminar-to-show-off-new-ibook/
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Apple is going to get some serious bad press if they have documents out talking about an "all new ibook" that's more affordable than ever...and then they have to admit they were talking about a machine that's a year old, and hasn't had a price reduction.

Isn't there something in consumer law that says how long a product can be referred to as "new"?
 
maccheeken said:
Don't think he ever said he was going to a PC, though can anyone really blame him if he did? Chronic software issues (which I associate with PC's)may be a pain, but chronic hardware failures can be agony. My now 9-month peebook itself's on its third trip (in as many months) out to Apple service, and I've been told at the G-bar that while replacement/refund is and will always be out of the question, I'll at least have 2+ more years of Applecare to rely on--or 2+ more years of monthly downtimes.

Not that I've become some reformed devotee of the Cult of the White Apple--I still think Apple has a great OS and I'm really waiting for their next desktop--but I think Legacy's point is that one thing he didn't expect from his ibook (or me from my powerbook) were constant service interruptions well before the machine's first b-day, and that he's expecting the best and better in the upcoming Macbook. I too am pretty excited about the Macbook, believe it or not, :eek: if only to see what leaps forward Apple's engineers and designers have been able to make.

Though Legacy, if you're looking for something sturdier but just as portable, I have had several notebooks that have lasted me years (software issues notwithstanding, of course) from the PC realm. If I've ever sent one away for hardware service, I've never had to worry about it more than once every few years. But they'll also never have :cool: the same sort of mystique either.

Anyway, what I hope to see from tomorrow's (?) Macbook? On the higher end, at least, I don't see why the processor can't go up to 2.16 mhz. And if Sony can fit an nvidia 7400 in a 13.3" form factor, I'm sure Apple can do it with the same or the x1400--unless of course it's education market-specific. And it's just bound to look real cool. As for shooting over the moon, I'd say 7200rpm hard drives. :p
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umm, i think he did say he would go PC if the problems continued...

and the problem with people who make such dramatic claims is that you're talking about ONE machine...yes, it's awful that it happened to you, yes, i know how much of a pain it is...but that doesn't mean the whole ibook or p-book line is somehow crap. it's ONE machine...i've taken my ibook into the apple store four times now. is it a pain? sure...but i don't think a PC is going to be magically more sturdy or more well-built. sometimes we just get the crappy one of the bunch...c'est la vie.
 
Someone agrees that Apple's "April Fool" sucked? The Fool was nothing, no MacBook.

It is a bigger chance that there will be a MacBook today than before.
 
Maybe a few details from OHIO U

OHIO University has a laptop program starting on May 19th and it is currently showing the iBook as one of the laptops. They may change this once the macbooks are release. Kind of funny the 19th is the opening of the Apple store in New York.
http://technology.ohio.edu/go-mobile/

Funny why date is the 19th and not on a Monday or something.

Another note that doesn't support this but is interesting to say the least.
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/05-06/May/a291-056.cfm
 
blakemsf said:
OHIO University has a laptop program starting on May 19th and it is currently showing the iBook as one of the laptops. They may change this once the macbooks are release. Kind of funny the 19th is the opening of the Apple store in New York.
http://technology.ohio.edu/go-mobile/

Funny why date is the 19th and not on a Monday or something.

Another note that doesn't support this but is interesting to say the least.
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/05-06/May/a291-056.cfm
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Interesting! More proofs for the MacBook. :) It must be tomorrow or this week. Otherwise I don't think Apple would "leaked" the Hardware>MacBook thing. :p
 
Peace said:
Not trying to burst any bubbles but that seminar has been an ongoing one.I receive the Apple lists for seminars and that particular one has been sent to me at least 5 times over the past 7 months.Each time saying "the new iBook".
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Of course, who is to say that Peace doesn't work for Apple? :D
 
If this will help...

>75 more posts to make it true. We all know the rules, 1000 posts means
>a little light comes on over Jobs' desk and whatever the thread is about has
>the green light pushed for release.




If this helps push the post count up over 1000 and make that prediction come true, then I will throw my text into the ring. Time to upgrade my PB G3 Bronze, anyway. It's in pieces right now, which kinda affects its performance.

Ok, so I lurked. So sue me. (Quiet, Apple Corps.) I didn't have much to say....
 
Lets go for 1000 posts then!
GIVE ME A B
GIVE ME AN U
GIVE ME A M
GIVE ME A P

WHAT IS THAT?
BUMP!
 
The New iBook

Ladies and Gentlemen, the new iBook.
 

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KaiMac said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, the new iBook.
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The "new" iBook with a PowerPC processor.

Haha it would be so funny, a new iBook with a PowerPC processor.

People would be mad lol.
 
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