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Please sweet sweet baby Jesus please be true. I am about to buy and now would be a good time for the update.
 
1: Lose the superdrive, small SSD (40GB) for OS X and Applications, large regular HDD(500-640GB) for storage.

2: i3 for Macbook, i5 for Air and 13" MBP, i5 and i7(option) for 15" and 17" MBP

3: 4GB Ram for Air, along with glass trackpad and 8hr battery

4: Black/Colour anodised options on all MBP
 
If you are a video content producer and having given up on the 15" with the lower resolution and SD card slot, and moved up to the 17" . . . may I ask what you are waiting for?

Ever since the 17" went hi res, I've left the 1 lbs lighter 15" behind.

I don't want a gigantic laptop. I've had 15" Macs since the Wall Street and love the form factor. I can't imagine carrying around such a big portable. I'm sticking with my late 2008 MBP 15 until some better solution comes around for the hard drive situation.
 
I'm willing to drop serious $$$ if we have a 15 inch MBP with;
-core i7 processor
-all black unibody design
-matte screen
-without superdrive
-over 10 hours battery life per charge
-intel ssd option
-nvidia optimus technology

You'll be keeping your money. Besides, the difference between core i7 and core i5 is really just the cache, and that's not that severe a different for most usage. They might or might not put it in, but it isn't a big deal either way.

The rest of your stuff, a matte option excluded, ain't happening.

bring the SSDs across the Macbooks, 80 and 160 GB intel SSDs would be nice!!!

Q4 2010, 25nm SSDs set to become cheap, but with all the $$$ in bank, apple can pull a trick and bring SSDs across the laptops (may be prepay millions for Samsung or micron or intel)

8 hour battery life with Core i5s, i think there has to be some changes in the over all power consumption; SSD might be good option to save battery life...

Not flippin happening. SSDs are not going to be price competitive for HDs any time soon on a GB-for-GB basis.
 
I speak fluent Chinese...
It's saying that the factories will see increased orders through June-i.e. talking about getting orders and a piece of the business. Not that the release is in June.
 
WOLF! WOOOOLF! Hey everyone, a WOLF!

Long time reader, first time poster.
The odds of mbps being updated in April are zero. The iPad 3G ships later in April and Apple will not let anything focus away from that. I predict the update will happen in early June. In Oct - Nov 2010 the mbps will again receive a minor refresh (bumping up the miminum specs) in time for the holidays.

See, I really don't get this kind of thinking, though I'm sure my own thinking is very wishful. Right now, EVERYONE is focused on Apple. Everyone who is thinking about buying an iPad is probably doing so regardless of whether or not there are new MacBook Pros, and I doubt that the people who want a MacBook Pro are really swayed by the iPad. If they want one, they are ordering one. If they don't, then they are waiting and getting more and more frustrated (or, at least, I am).

But with the strong focus on Apple right now, it seems to me like it would be an ideal time to refresh at least the Pro line of machines. Not only will it give the pro buyers what they want and cause them to throw their money at Apple, it may also sway a great number of other people who are merely thinking about buying new computers (though with the still fairly strong sales of the current Pro machines, this may be moot).

Basically, I don't see any reason not to release them as soon as the machines are ready. The iPad is in a completely different league, so 1.) an update to the Pro machines is unlikely to sway the people who want and iPad and 2.) an update to the Pro machines is unlikely to impact iPad sales or enthusiasm.

That said, I'm having a hard time getting too excited about this latest rumor. "Boy who cried WOLF!" syndrome is going strong. I want very much for this to be true, as I too have been waiting for months to throw my money at Apple for a new MBP (my current machine is seriously on it's last legs and is no longer a mobile computer, and the current line-up is just not satisfying to me given what is being released in the PC world and what may be Just Around The Corner™ or Real Soon Now™ for new Macs).
 
I speak fluent Chinese...
It's saying that the factories will see increased orders through June-i.e. talking about getting orders and a piece of the business. Not that the release is in June.

That's like saying "I speak fluent Canadian"

s.
 
Dear Apple:

We are ENTITLED to new Macbook Pro models!

The one's we bought in June have all mysteriously stopped working and are now useless!

Haha Apple can do no wrong!

Dude, please. Many of us do not believe that Apple owes its customers these new computers. However, considering the unique amount of love Apple gets from its fanbase (to which you and I belong), one would hope that maybe they would return the favor. Does Apple not respect its customers enough that it considers it reasonable to charge a premium price for old technology?
We don't expect new computers, but do expect those that they currently offer to be properly priced.
 
The article explicitly says "will be released in April"

I speak fluent Chinese...
It's saying that the factories will see increased orders through June-i.e. talking about getting orders and a piece of the business. Not that the release is in June.

The article says "蘋果電腦(Apple)將在4月發表新一代MacBook系列筆電" which is pretty clear about the actual release being in April. For non-Chinese speakers that literally translates as "Apple Computer (Apple) will, in April, release a new generation of MacBook series notebooks." Whether or not it is true is another matter entirely.

I am spending the summer in China and leave on June 4 so I sincerely hope they do NOT wait until June to release as my current MacBook has a dead screen and I will be forced to buy a computer in late May regardless of what Apple does. It would suck to watch the new release come out a few days after I leave.
 
Rumor has it that when the new MBPs are released, you can get a discount on an iPad if you buy one at the store on the same receipt.
 
I guess MacRumors doesn't make enough to pay someone to give them a real translation. So we end up with a rumor about another rumor. Round and round and round it goes, what it says, nobody knows. Is there a MacRumors Pro that has a few bucks to pay a human translator?

I hope I get paid for this. :p

First of all, Apple Daily is a [Hong Kong] newspaper, though it's quoting reports from Taiwan sources.
*Update: The report is indeed from the Taiwan version of Apple Daily. Sorry for the confusion

Notes of interests from the report:
1. New MBPs, MacBooks and MBA are going to be released in April
2. The new notebooks will use Intel Core i3, i5 or i7
3. There is a delay of launch from March to April due to i5 Processor shortage
4. MBA will use UM version of processor
5. MacBook Pro will have 13, 15 and 17 inch (no change from now)
6. MBPs will have 640GB HDDs or 248GB SSDs
7. MBP battery life will be 8 hours
8. Uses unibody enclosure

Not much of difference from the translated version actually. Hope this helps
 
Late April...

I heard from a friend of mine working at Apple that they are are likely to release the MBP, MB-Air and MP late this month (April).

I Can't Wait!!
 
I know for a fact the Pros will be updated. I don't know about the Air but it'll get a design makeover probably at the end of this year or early next, with 15" ones coming out next year.
 
This is good new. my old laptop have been broken for months.
and i have been looking forward to this update in a long time.
plz dear apple sell the new 15" in Denmark first^^
 
The Mobile i7 & i5 chips as far as I'm aware are still dual core, just more performance boots about 12%-18% so its not massively substantial. My 2.53Ghz C2D 13'' MBP would more than likely compensate with its 7200RPM 500GB Hard drive and its 8GB RAM :D

Have you seen the Geekbenches for the i7? a couple of weeks back MR posted a Geekbench for which should be an i7 MacBook Pro, beeing about 20% faster.

I really don't get why Apple doesn't have an option for replaceing the Superdrive with a battery or extra harddrive (just the Mac Mini server edition)

My hopes for MacBook Air :p
1 More battery! If you could get 7 or 8 hours out of it, it wouldn't bother me sacrificing the GPU to an even weaker GPU than the 9400M - (it's not a gaming computer!)
2 Higher resolution (using Word and Pages is horrible on the 13")
3 More harddrive capacity and cheaper SSD option would be nice
4 3G option, just like the iPad
5 4 GB of ram would be nice
 
A shame that nothing is said about the new graphics card. I really hope it's not up for a downgrade (Integrated Intel GMA).

Dying to buy a new 13".
 
I hope I get paid for this. :p

First of all, Apple Daily is a Hong Kong newspaper, though it's quoting reports from Taiwan sources.

Notes of interests from the report:
1. New MBPs, MacBooks and MBA are going to be released in April
2. The new notebooks will use Intel Core i3, i5 or i7
3. There is a delay of launch from March to April due to i5 Processor shortage
4. MBA will use UM version of processor
5. MacBook Pro will have 13, 15 and 17 inch (no change from now)
6. MBPs will have 640GB HDDs or 248GB SSDs
7. MBP battery life will be 8 hours
8. Uses unibody enclosure

Not much of difference from the translated version actually. Hope this helps

"4. MBA will use UM version of processor" - what does that mean? any who look up which processor there could be utilised in the MBA then?
 
Resolution bumps are a mixed blessing. Text can be very hard to read at high resolutions.

I think higher resolutions are more likely on MBPs released with and after 10.7 because it would require bigger menus and chromes.

The 27" iMac and the 17" MBP screen resolutions stretch the ability to read text on many web sites.
 
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