New Apple MacBook on Tuesday? GMA X3100?
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xUKHCx
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so what! Even such an OLD configuration can get so many people's appreciate every day. And apple make so much money with continuous complain last year. Why apple should update the machine? Update or not, both can get their product sold out. Why update?
So If you guys want the update. Please stop buying their computer.
The horse and cart got us around.
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Preaching to the converted.
JSpence
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so what! Even such an OLD configuration can get so many people's appreciate every day. And apple make so much money with continuous complain last year. Why apple should update the machine? Update or not, both can get their product sold out. Why update?
So If you guys want the update. Please stop buying their computer.
lol well Richard, people will stop supporting apple and purchasing their hardware if they don't update the MB's soon. Look a the competition, who's isn't going to buy a dell or hp with better specs at a close selling price? The only people not to buy them would be individuals content on switching to Mac's, and they're smart enough to realize that the GMA950 is wayy old and the MB needs better specs to compete.
Hence our whining. We're not buying.
Ahh, The pleasure of finding things out.
That is a totally correct choice.
I always wonder why there are so many people support apple after many many times cheated. Apple is always making us waiting and waiting and waiting. It seems that only our waiting will take them happy.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
Once again I have to say that I have around $2,000 sitting here for Apple since May.
They haven't given me a reason yet to buy a Mac.
You can sign up the other members waiting for a Mac Pro as well. (80-100?)
JSpence
macrumors regular
I have wait for a very long time too. Of course I will buy a HP or IBM or others rather than the stupid macbook if mac isn't my wife's favourit.
Brianstorm91
macrumors 65816
Either he's going to buy someone's Mac from them..
Or a Mac produced by someone other than Apple..
If Apple's Mac isn't his spouse's favourite.
So if his wife doesn't like the Apple Mac, he will buy a second-hand one?
Even though she doesn't like it, it's not her favourite.
She prefers second-hand, old models of non-Apple Macs.
... Right.
Eidorian
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MIDI_EVIL
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$1,799, how about no?
I can get two Macs for that price.
You aren't going to get two Macs with a decent graphics card for that price though...
...is Anime/Manga porn that GPU intensive?
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
True, but the only thing that I really need a decent graphics card for is gaming.
I do that in Windows anyways. So my situation is a MacBook Santa Rosa + gaming rig or Mac Pro Penryn/SS.
I don't think that was necessary.
lmao... what if he tapes the two macbook's together?
Have you played the UT3 demo yet? I need to bootcamp vista here so i can play it when it comes out.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
I'm on a Dell Latitude D800. Dawn of War and Half Life 2 are my friends right now on the GeForce Go 5650.
MIDI_EVIL
macrumors 65816
Ok, so you game in Windows, so build a dedicated Windows rig and get the MacBook for your OS X needs. It wasn't this complicated before Bootcamp.
Of course it wasn't necessary, but neither is most of the ranting/moaning/complaining in this thread.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
I still do want some sort of 3D performance in OS X. I don't find the GMA 950 to be adequate for any of my needs. The GMA X3100 at least compares to previous generation low end video cards.
On the other hand I'm willing to spend it all on a Mac Pro, forget about mobility, and dealing with two computers.
I have OS X games too.
Apple hasn't given me the hardware to fulfill my wants. Why buy now?
muttley1211
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machatch
macrumors regular
Why dident you invest your money in something else Eidorian? you know you could just make a bet when it comes ore not?are you inn?he,he
whoever loses buy the new mac..
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Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
I had a chance to get a COD a few months ago but I didn't take the chance. My money needs to be liquid right now.Why dident you invest your money in something else Eidorian? you know you could just make a bet when it comes ore not?are you inn?he,he
whoever loses buy the new mack..
I don't know, I still think the MacBook Pro right now is really appealing, in terms of its combination of size and weight (especially relative to things like the almost 7 pound Asus G1S) and performance (since the 8600M GT with GDDR3 memory is still pretty much tops). Plus the LED-backlit screens.
But I assume there's something about it that doesn't fit your needs, since I saw you say Apple hasn't given you anything that gives you a reason to buy a Mac.
I think there's something to be said for just building/buying the dedicated gaming rig. I was actually getting ready to build a new PC (my old one was a Socket 754 system with an AGP 6800GT, so starting to get long in the tooth), but I ended up buying a clearance Velocity Micro system from Best Buy (was originally $2099, but was marked down to $1199 because they were clearing out old stock. At $1199 it was impossible to pass up (E6700 C2D, 2GB Corsair RAM, eVGA superclocked 8800GTS 320MB, Lian Li case, Asus P5N-E SLI 650i motherboard), as it was cheaper than just buying the similar components I was looking at using to build my new rig.
But I think I made the right choice; I've found that I just don't like using a laptop for gaming; you of course need to be near AC power, and somewhere where you can use a mouse. Invariably that is either at home for me, where I'd just as soon use a dedicated PC, or somewhere else, but those other places are simply not places I want to game. If I went to a lot of LAN parties or something I could justify it, but otherwise not.
So while I still think I might get a MBP anyway (at $1599 using my ADC Student pricing), it would more be for other reasons (the screen, the keyboard, etc.).
So I think there's something to be said for the dedicated custom gaming PC and a laptop for other typical stuff.
After reading through this thread on and off all day I'm wondering. If a fella is laptopless at the moment and very very very rarely plays games on his computer, is there much to be gained by an upgraded graphics card? It sounds like that is about all that will be upgraded. I can't see them ramping up the speed that much because then it will be to close to the MBP.
machatch
macrumors regular
You know people have hacked the new os allready in a computer.i dont know if it's any good..but hey a cool idea...
by the way people allways want new cool useful gadgets thats what the ranting's fore..and if the products is rumored to satifies some "mac" needs, the ranting gets higher/louder...
xUKHCx
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