I bought a macbook pro core i5 2.53 GHz a week ago, now i am hearing rumors that a refresh is round the corner? was i too hasty in buying a macbook pro? have i missed a trick here? I really needed a new laptop as my previous dell xps was giving up on me and iPhone development required mac os x platform on a proper apple machine.
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But, i live in Pakistan, it will take 2 months for the new MBP to get here so i took that stuff into consideration.
There is no evidence the new models will be released on Feb 14th
OP, if you needed a new MBP, then you did the right thing
You have a great machine
There will always be updates down the road
When the new MBPs will show up, we don't know yet
OP, if you needed a new MBP, then you did the right thing
You have a great machine
There will always be updates down the road
When the new MBPs will show up, we don't know yet
By the way i am also buying Seagate momentus XT and 8gb ram, How is the momentus? does it really make a difference? i don't believe youtube videos they might be biased...He answered his own question...
It does in some things, I dont notice it now because it is only holding music and a time machine partition. SSD is doing all the work.
A lot of folks love the Momentus, and it will likely give you a boost
You will especially appreciate the RAM upgrade
You will especially appreciate the RAM upgrade
A lot of folks love the Momentus, and it will likely give you a boost
You will especially appreciate the RAM upgrade
I'm a programmer so it might give me a good boost on loading X-CODE SSD are expensive at the moment but soon they will be cheap and considering that MBP comes up with 5400rpm(sucks in many ways) its better to buy the momentus
Your computer is still going to kick allot of ass. And unlike other brands of computers even a MacBook Pro 3 generations behind is still kick ass.
You have an amazing machine. I have one and I love it. It does everything that I throw at it.
It sounds like the new mbp's, whenever they would be released, werent even an option for you.
It sounds like the new mbp's, whenever they would be released, werent even an option for you.
If the MacBook Pro is going to updated, does that suggest that the Macbook will also be updated? Or are these things on totally different timelines and uncorrelated?
I wouldn't say you bought too early.
First I would guess a refresh can come out in mid-summer but with baggage. If the new MBP has Sandy Bridge, will Intel get its act together with known issues by then? Even if apparent issues are ironed out, do you want to be an early adopter of a much different type of processor which the Sandy Bridge is, also which is much more of a jump over current "i" processors and certainly more than when those "i" processors upscaled the Core 2 Duo processors.
I think there's too much unknown to be an early adopter of Sandy Bridge, especially with early SNAFU recently.
the 2010 model is proved to be nearly problem-free (c.f. threads about macbook pros 2008 dying), it's not bad to purchase it now if you need a notebook. Everyone knows that sometime in early to mid 2011 Apple will update its Macbook Pro lines and rumors about the refresh usually come out 2-3 months before the actual update. So an April to May guess is quite safe.
Yeah, but it's like trick or treat. Will you get a treat with a lower power consumption/better battery life/faster MBP with Sandy Bridge (hopefully if no snags happen) or will you get a "trick"/"bum" machine that has a SB and chipset that is not quite yet bug-free. It's not a chance I am will to spend a lot of money on.
Definitely wait for SB powered MBPs in their next incarnation. If I got a MBP I think either a low cost 13", which proves to fill most people's needs, or a nicer one with mid-level Core i5 is a great option right now.