Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

More New Apple Products... This Tuesday?

Called my local Apple Store... Said they won't know whether or not they will be selling the new units TODAY until they OPEN at 10am. DAMN.
 
Interesting updates but no redesign. Can't have everything but at least the waiters will find some relief. Bed time.
 
Does anyone know if there is *any* way to determine if the 7200 drive is a Seagate or Hitachi drive before you buy it? I realize you can check it after you get it but wanted to know if there was a way to find out beforehand...I'm making the assumption that Apple uses both in their MBPS.
 
shadowlander said:
Does anyone know if there is *any* way to determine if the 7200 drive is a Seagate or Hitachi drive before you buy it? I realize you can check it after you get it but wanted to know if there was a way to find out beforehand...I'm making the assumption that Apple uses both in their MBPS.
Click to expand...

Ring Apple, they should be able to tell you that, providing your intention is to buy then :)

R-Fly
 
Finally..!

Just ordered the 15.4" MacBookPro with the 7200rpm drive
Now the only wait is for delivery :D
 
Keyboard changed on MBP?

Does anyone know: did they change the keyboard at all on the MacBook Pro? I hate the old keyboard, and I was really hoping they would make it like the Macbook or MBA. It looks the same as the old one in the pictures, but maybe it feels different when pressed (i.e. more responsive, more tactile feedback, less spongy)? Thanks.
 
anahhas said:
Does anyone know: did they change the keyboard at all on the MacBook Pro? I hate the old keyboard, and I was really hoping they would make it like the Macbook or MBA. It looks the same as the old one in the pictures, but maybe it feels different when pressed (i.e. more responsive, more tactile feedback, less spongy)? Thanks.
Click to expand...

Same keyboard, some new decals
 
Pretty nice, the new MBP gets a new graphic card or better said with more memory (512 Mb). Very nice stuff.
Gonna get one in march, finally :cool:
 
Just ordered my 15" - 2.4Ghz, 2GB, 250GB

And an addon ITouch-16GB (will sell it) --- Got a rebate for the price of Ipod nano.... Not at all a bad deal.....

Great specs even better prices..... Thnx :apple: ..... Apple forever....
 
Well I don't know about anyone else but now the Macbooks are done, I'm wondering what else Apple has left to update this year ?

Were two months into 2008 and just about everything's had some sort of refresh...

Are they making space for something really amazing?

Hope it's a proper Apple Television - that's the last big 'Apple shaped' hole in my home...
 
surferfromuk said:
Well I don't know about anyone else but now the Macbooks are done, I'm wondering what else Apple has left to update this year ?

Were two months into 2008 and just about everything's had some sort of refresh...

Are they making space for something really amazing?

Hope it's a proper Apple Television - that's the last big 'Apple shaped' hole in my home...
Click to expand...

Isn't the iMac due for an update?
 
surferfromuk said:
Well I don't know about anyone else but now the Macbooks are done, I'm wondering what else Apple has left to update this year ?
<snip>

Hope it's a proper Apple Television - that's the last big 'Apple shaped' hole in my home...
Click to expand...

Well, on the cynical side, Apple could make little updates for the whole year pretty easily. An iPhone update one week, iLife point upgrade, etc. However, if they were trying for that they could have separated out the MB and MBP announcements.

Hopefully, they've decided to build an excitement around every Tuesday - have people hitting their site EVERY Tuesday. They won't do that if the releases are too minor.

There are many things Apple hints at having - they've been talking about great new products for a couple of years and have provided some great stuff, but it always sounded like they were intending on more. I wonder how much gets prototyped and abandoned. Maybe they are working on touch iMacs & touch displays, a 9" MacBook Air, tablet Macs or a bigger iPod Touch, 'lite'/thin terminals for your kitchen and bedroom or video phones for homes (using iChat?), a media server or a real TV :). All of those are relatively small steps from existing Apple products... just a question of where they are pushing towards and what works.
 
No it's "TGIT" not "TGIF" with Apple.

stoutboy1 said:
Looks like macrumors was right on with this one, now just predict something for friday... Please!
Click to expand...

Never on the Friday. Steve's vacationing with Gov Arnold.

But look to Tuesday for new iMacs to come since they use the same processor as the MacBooks. Hopefully Apple can do something about the 10.5.2 iMac freezes. Plug up all three USB ports and the keyboard will get sluggish and then the iMac 24" 2.8 extreme freezes up – no mouse or keyboard action - not even a force quit is available. Keep one USB port open and there's no problems.

I'd jump on it IF they threw an iMac Extreme out there with a 30" glossy. Dream-n, I know...

If you follow the Apple refurbs page you can guess what's coming because they unload the inventory at great prices.
 
Dilema

Well so I have a couple questions to ask for everyone's opinion.

1. How big of a step is 256 graphics to 512. If I want to game, is it really worth $500, because that's practically the only difference. I'm not going to be a hardcore gamer, but I'd like to be able to buy a game 3 years down the line and still play it, not necessarily on best graphics, but at least not running slugishly. I'll probably run Halo 2, battlefield 2142, half life 2, maybe crisis (about as high end of a game I'd ever run), etc. Is 512 really worth the extra $500 if I'm not a hardcore gamer?

2. Now or Montevina? Should i get one in a month when I can, or wait for this summer to get the Montevina update. I've heard the speeds not going to be much better and I know the processor will still be penryn, just a platform change. But does anyone see a new graphics card like say the 8800M being in it? or will it probably just be a 8600/8700 again. I thought about waiting too, to see what the probably eminent redesign will be. I LOVE the current design, but what if they make it thinner and add a magnetic latch??? However, the current design has almost all the bugs worked out, whereas a new design will have kinks to work out... So its a hard decision. Any input from you guys would be awesome. thanks. As of now, I'm leaning towards buying one in a month.
 
TimeWaister101 said:
Well so I have a couple questions to ask for everyone's opinion.

1. How big of a step is 256 graphics to 512. If I want to game, is it really worth $500, because that's practically the only difference. I'm not going to be a hardcore gamer, but I'd like to be able to buy a game 3 years down the line and still play it, not necessarily on best graphics, but at least not running slugishly. I'll probably run Halo 2, battlefield 2142, half life 2, maybe crisis (about as high end of a game I'd ever run), etc. Is 512 really worth the extra $500 if I'm not a hardcore gamer?

2. Now or Montevina? Should i get one in a month when I can, or wait for this summer to get the Montevina update. I've heard the speeds not going to be much better and I know the processor will still be penryn, just a platform change. But does anyone see a new graphics card like say the 8800M being in it? or will it probably just be a 8600/8700 again. I thought about waiting too, to see what the probably eminent redesign will be. I LOVE the current design, but what if they make it thinner and add a magnetic latch??? However, the current design has almost all the bugs worked out, whereas a new design will have kinks to work out... So its a hard decision. Any input from you guys would be awesome. thanks. As of now, I'm leaning towards buying one in a month.
Click to expand...

1- For the core used, you may not see too much of a difference. Games 3 years from now may be too advanced for the card even with the extra ram. I wouldn't make a choice on graphics ram alone, there has to be something else in the more expensive models that you like.

2- Really it is up to you. If you wait, you will get told you may as well wait till Nehalem.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back