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New MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air Models Scheduled for Launch This Month?

iMav said:
I wish I would've held onto mine. Had no clue they would be discontinued until after I sold it. :(


Many years ago, I had a Dell Inspiron 8600 (15") with a 1920x1200 display. To this day it floors me that I STILL can't get that pixel density in an Apple laptop (6+ years later).
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I'm also wondering what the big deal is about 1920x1200. Even with glasses on, that can be too small, unless you have a larger monitor. 15" makes it inconvenient to say the least. I'd much rather they upgrade something else!
 
Hi everyone!

I'm following the forum since a few months but decided to register only today...
I'm a PC user and I'm considering to finally switch to a MBP but I'm waiting for an upgrade that worths the money it costs and this is why I'm holding the breath every tuesday as many of you do!

I changed my mind after I successfully hackintoshed my AMD desktop: even though the system was crippled (some software simply refused to work) the overall experience was so impressive that I decided to switch (still some problem with shortcuts, though)!

Anyway the real reason I registered here is to submit the following link to your attention (I think the site I'm linking is a MacRumors competitor, I hope not to violate any netiquette; if so, please forgive me!).

http://macosrumors.com/2010/04/01/roadmap-2010-macbook-pro/2/

The article lists some possible hardware configuration that new MBPs might feature and I would like you to comment on... Anyway I find quite suspicious that the article has been posted on April fool's day and that their price should be lower than current ones... What do you think?

Thanks in advance, cheers,
P.
 
Hi Guys,

I am also a PC user, but I am forced to use a Mac at my place of work. My MacBook is on the way out and I have been given the OK to spend $1500 on a MacBook Pro. I can not believe what I will be forced to buy to stay within this budget. Core 2 Duo? 13" screen? 250 GB hard drive? Ancient graphics? I have been waiting about two months for "THE UPGRADE"......... I sure wish I could just get a PC.
 
PoianaNana said:
Hi everyone!

I'm following the forum since a few months but decided to register only today...
I'm a PC user and I'm considering to finally switch to a MBP but I'm waiting for an upgrade that worths the money it costs and this is why I'm holding the breath every tuesday as many of you do!

I changed my mind after I successfully hackintoshed my AMD desktop: even though the system was crippled (some software simply refused to work) the overall experience was so impressive that I decided to switch (still some problem with shortcuts, though)!

Anyway the real reason I registered here is to submit the following link to your attention (I think the site I'm linking is a MacRumors competitor, I hope not to violate any netiquette; if so, please forgive me!).

http://macosrumors.com/2010/04/01/roadmap-2010-macbook-pro/2/

The article lists some possible hardware configuration that new MBPs might feature and I would like you to comment on... Anyway I find quite suspicious that the article has been posted on April fool's day and that their price should be lower than current ones... What do you think?

Thanks in advance, cheers,
P.
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You haven't violated any netiquette I know of (although that particular rumor has been mentioned previously), but that site has been generally considered very unreliable for the last few years.
 
i just checked best buys web site all mac books were on back order as of yesterday
 
iMacmatician said:
You haven't violated any netiquette I know of (although that particular rumor has been mentioned previously), but that site has been generally considered very unreliable for the last few years.
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Agreed. That particular roadmap has been posted in the past and is full of contradictory data.
 
Quad Core i7

ckelley said:
I understand this, the chips and their utilizations are different, but from my last generation desktop C2D to a current generation desktop i5, it gets smoked. Yes, it's quad core vs. dual core, but Apple never shipped a Mac with a Core2 Quad but they do ship the iMac with the same i5 750 processor I have in the Hackintosh. See here for performance differences between a 2.4C2D & the 2.6 i5:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/12/quad.core.imac.near.3x.faster.than.past.gen/

Everywhere you go though, the reviews show the i5/i7 line fly past the Core2 Products they're replacing, and when the Quad Cores enable Turbo Boost, they're even better. I can't imagine the mobile versions won't offer this kind of performance increase.

I'm an Apple aficionado, I love my Macs (the 24" iMac, the 3.06GHz MacBook Pro that I ordered and am waiting on and hoping is delayed because new product is coming out), but I just found it downright disgusting that for $800 I bought and built a computer that's running OS X flawlessly that just screams in power and performance, easily taking on the heaviest of tasks that I'd require a Mac Pro for. Here's to hoping that the MacBook Pro line gets these i5 & i7 chips soon.

In all honesty, I think the i5's should go for the 15" and possibly the 13"'s, and the i7's for the 17". BTO configs for the 15" can snag an i7, but I think it should go 13" = i3, 15" = i5 with i7 BTO on high end, and 17" with Quad Core i7. Seems perfect to me.
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Hope and pray that you are right. I am still limping along w/ 3 year old MBP here. Quote for a current top end BTO 17" MBP is sitting on my desktop... can't quite bring myself to pull trigger yet, but...

Audio production is a power hungry animal...
 
Val-kyrie said:
Have you ever used one? The text on a 1900 x 1200 on a 15" screen strains my eyes. A higher resolution is not necessarily better.
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increasing the font size on a higher resolution would result in crisper fonts than the same display size font on a lower resolution.

more lines on the screen = more columns of text = better for programmers :)
 
fynwine350z said:
increasing the font size on a higher resolution would result in crisper fonts than the same display size font on a lower resolution.

more lines on the screen = more columns of text = better for programmers :)
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As a programmer I call bullshiat on that. There's a limit beyond which small is too small. Remember all those 21' Trinitron FD CRT monitors from the 90s that people cranked up to 1600x1200? I ran mine at x1280. At 1600x when you switched from IDE to a shell terminal for prolonged sessions the font would burn the eyes. And I have 20/20. With a current generation, I find 1920x1080 unpleasant on monitors smaller than 24 inch.
 
anthonybsd said:
As a programmer I call bullshiat on that. There's a limit beyond which small is too small. Remember all those 21' Trinitron FD CRT monitors from the 90s that people cranked up to 1600x1200? I ran mine at x1280. At 1600x when you switched from IDE to a shell terminal for prolonged sessions the font would burn the eyes. And I have 20/20. With a current generation, I find 1920x1080 unpleasant on monitors smaller than 24 inch.
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I agree, but why is it so hard to scale text, icon, toolbar etc, size "universally" up within a higher res? I've never understood this shortcoming.
 
Can't wait for the new line up.

I am going to sell my current notebooks (thinkpad x301 and my mbp) to consolidate to a mbp that has everything that i want. =) now to decide between 13 and 15..
 
They better hurry up

There better be some truth behind this. I was planning on buying my girl friend a MBP for her birthday. I guess I will wait a little longer and see if this plays out.
 
fynwine350z said:
increasing the font size on a higher resolution would result in crisper fonts than the same display size font on a lower resolution.

more lines on the screen = more columns of text = better for programmers :)
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Only if the app handles the "higher" font sizes cleanly throughout the interface. Many apps allow font size changes only for user-entered text. So you're still squinting at buttons in the button bar (for example).
 
psychic tellings of the future

so i went to my regular psychic today, and she told me the new MBP would be released when the moon lines up with mars, which should be in about 10,000 years. she also said that the ipad was going to actually be relevant to my life, so who knows what she is talking about.
 
peapody said:
Can't wait for the new line up.

I am going to sell my current notebooks (thinkpad x301 and my mbp) to consolidate to a mbp that has everything that i want. =) now to decide between 13 and 15..
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Thank you for this very important information about your personal computer plans. It has really helped increase the knowledge base of when the new models will be released.
 
ufodog624 said:
Thank you for this very important information about your personal computer plans. It has really helped increase the knowledge base of when the new models will be released.
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Indeed. Based on his statement, I've moved up my guesstimation for release by one week. However, I feel that Apple may let it slip back again because of pointless whining about innocuous posts in this thread.
 
zoemacuser said:
I'm also wondering what the big deal is about 1920x1200. Even with glasses on, that can be too small, unless you have a larger monitor. 15" makes it inconvenient to say the least. I'd much rather they upgrade something else!
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Surely it's a matter for an individual's eyesight? I'd rather see as much info on the screen as possible. Being long sighted, my near sight is very good and even the Sony Z 13.3" 1920x1200 screen is no problem for me with regular fonts. I think that resolution should be an option on any top-end laptop.

Cheers,

jahman
 
jahman said:
Surely it's a matter for an individual's eyesight? I'd rather see as much info on the screen as possible. Being long sighted, my near sight is very good and even the Sony Z 13.3" 1920x1200 screen is no problem for me with regular fonts. I think that resolution should be an option on any top-end laptop.
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With my 24" iMac, I went for the 17" MacBook Pro because it shares the same 1920x1200 resolution. To be honest, if I could get something higher than that, I'd go for it instead. As a designer, the more pixels, the better.
 
ckelley said:
With my 24" iMac, I went for the 17" MacBook Pro because it shares the same 1920x1200 resolution. To be honest, if I could get something higher than that, I'd go for it instead. As a designer, the more pixels, the better.
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Indeed. Actually I should've said short sighted not long sighted! I had a Dell Inspiron 15.4" WUXGA which I loved. A lot of other people complained that the text was too small on it but it was fine for me. A Full HD screen is an absolute minimum for me now. I'm fed up with the Dell XPS 1330 I have at the moment which has a measly resolution.

Cheers,

jahman
 
gtokidd said:
I am also a PC user, but I am forced to use a Mac at my place of work. My MacBook is on the way out and I have been given the OK to spend $1500 on a MacBook Pro. I can not believe what I will be forced to buy to stay within this budget. Core 2 Duo? 13" screen? .... I sure wish I could just get a PC.
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Unless something remarkable happens, you won't get much for your $1500. I personally am waiting for a decent 13" that doesn't look like a mirror (anti-glare glass..) with the fastest chip and disk I can get.

With $1500 (a good sum in PC-land) I would probably look at the refurbished specials. Make sure you factor in applecare, which is a good idea on any laptop.

OR get a mac mini and an extra monitor or two. Mine drives two displays, for a good price.
 
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