I was planning to buy a new laptop but if this ultra portable news is true than I think I will wait for some time and see how worth it is.
Umm...what? You haven't heard about the MacBook Air? It's definitely true, lol...
I was planning to buy a new laptop but if this ultra portable news is true than I think I will wait for some time and see how worth it is.
You're right, I was a year off. It shows the following:
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Aside from the black keys, it's pretty much looks the same idea. So you're right, it wasn't 8, it was 7 (which is what I said in my original post but that was just a lucky guess).
You can argue with me all day (I don't know why you'd defend something like that though) but you can't deny the design is very old.
I wouldn't be surprised if MacBook Pro updates happened tomorrow, if not next Tuesday. They must be ready, but they didn't want to take the bite out of the Air annoucement.
Now that the dust has settled, Apple will bring its MBPs up to speed. 12" I very much doubt, considering Air has just been introduced, so I'll be going for the new 15" with new flat, black keys and multi-touch touchpad.
I expect the design to change a little also, but not drastically. There's not that much they can do with the shape. And the current design is 5 years old - as released with the 12" and 17" PowerBooks at MacWorld SF 2003. The older Ti-Book is a completely different design (the only similarity being the G4 processor at the time and the 1" thickness form factor. Other than that though - different material (painted on so that it chipped), sqaurer shape, different trackpad, different hinge (that sat on top when closed), black keyboard with flimsy keys and old style Apple font, ports on the back, etc, etc, etc).
That would be sweet.Apple is said to be working on a multi-touch OS X device about 1.5x the size of the iPhone with a 720x480 screen.
I was waiting for the announcement to buy a new laptop to replace my Toughbook W2. Macbook Air left me wanting. I ended up getting a plain ol' MacBook though compared to my 4-year-old Panny it really is a clunker size-wise.
I think the Macbook Air is one of those once-every-few-years Steve Jobs follies where he focuses on design above user needs (see: Mac Cube, Mac Mini, NeXT Cube). This time he obsessed about Thinness. It's a design study more than it is a mass market notebook.
Aside from everyone's wished on the next revision, let's get back to the question everyone wants to know....
When do you think we will see them? Should potential users buy the current one now or wait? Are we talking a month, this summer?
What are people's educated guesses?
At this moment, low-end macbook pro 15" and macbook pro 17" models are backordered in BestBuy, with estimated shipping date in 1-2 weeks...
Maybe these are coming soon![]()