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March 1st as Possible Date for New MacBook Pros?
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Well, at least this means that Apple won't wait around with the release.
(Hint: this is based on them wanting devices in stock, so that they can actually sell devices)
For what its worth, a good mate of mines works for a UK based Apple reseller and they're completely dry with stock on 15 and 17" MBP's - which of course isn't normal. They have a few 13" and he's told me that the manager believes tomorrow will be the day when they hear about either 1) new machines 2) more stock of the current gen. His manager personally thinks a newer generation will be announced tomorrow but won't receive shipment until early March.
Take from that what you will - will hopefully update this thread once I hear from him
Do you have any updates? What will it be? More Stock or New machines
Not a consultant, never said I was, but your assumption I do (and compute) exactly what you do is why all the fanboy whining is getting annoying.
The business world uses "final cut pro", "Logic", "Dvd studio pro", or even "photoshop", Adobe premiere", ect? The kinds of programs these machines where built to run. Sorry but the MacPros have always been designed for a niche market, thats what made them so damn awesome, we demand they do more than just look pretty and spell check. You just want a cool looking machine for all your spreadsheet jockeys' while gimping the functionality for others who can't get by using word on a Dell instead.
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Supporting literally thousands of customers, I can tell you that while the optical drive may be used seldom, most would refuse to buy a computer, let alone a Mac without it.
Not to but in, but I don't see a whole lot wrong with his comment. Air-obsessed people are crazed by the idea of removing the optical drive in hopes that Apple will beef up the machine with the left-over space, and knowing Apple, that's not what they'd do at all. It's a pipe dream and it does nothing but waste forum space.
True facts.
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...in_production_due_by_early_march_sources.html
cross posting this new info =) in production yay
cross posting this new info =) in production yay
EEEEEWWWWW. 16:9 is horrible, Apple is actually doing something right with the current 16:10 ratio on most of their notebooks. Please for the love of God, none of that 16:9 business.
Totally agree - 16:9 just means that they've cut off a bunch of very useful vertical pixels from the screen.
But, they'll save a bunch of money buying components built for the HDTV market - although the savings will add to Apple's margins rather than lead to lower prices.
on board graphics is equivalent to 320m more or less depending on graphics rendering usage, let's just say it's slightly less powerful but near it.
Much better power consumption ==> battery life. Clock:clock core speed beats out the first gen core-i rather nicely and destroys C2D machines. Comes in at the same price point to the first gen core-i. Should hopefully push quad core into more mainstream. More efficient DDR3 memory speeds (although benchmarked is not very much). newest generation of cpu! =)
to actually answer your question though, the first gen core-i should do everything the SB can do, just in some areas, not as well or efficiently if comparing direct replacement of CPU, say the i7-740QM vs i7-2630qm, the SB 2630qm is just simply much better overall.
I don't understand the problem. For 16:9 screens I put the dock on the right side, while for 16:10 screens the dock goes on the bottom.
Intel has a feature that is called Intel Insider that they claim isn't DRM, yet it unlocks high-definition movies from online streaming services.
All it does is keep already-encrypted video data encrypted further down the processor pipeline to prevent hacks where you can run processes that snoop memory and grab unencrypted video.
It's not DRM, but it helps prevent certain types of attacks on DRM. Not a reason for consumers to get excited, for sure.