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New MacBook Pros Likely to Launch on Thursday
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I've been wanting to switch to mac for months now, I started saving up in october when my job boguht me a new HP Laptop, This past friday i realized i had enoguh already to buy it cash, and I almost went to the apple store to pick up a MBP 13 Luckly I came on here before.
The only way I'll regret leaving the MBP and going iMac is if Thursday brings a quad 15" for ~$2000. Someone I don't see that happening. But I am reallyooking forward to seeing what the new spec lineup is. Also dying to know what they do with the 13".
What are the chances I go to the Apple store here in NYC on Thursday to pick mine up and they are all out?
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I don't see the new mbp on best buy website any more. Does this mean that it's not happing any time soon
I don't see the new mbp on best buy website any more. Does this mean that it's not happing any time soon
Interesting tweet: http://twitter.com/9to5mac/status/39884270541611008
I guess this indicates the new MBPs could be quite close.
I guess this indicates the new MBPs could be quite close.
I wonder if my workplace will have the new MBPs when I go to work tomorrow. If so that would be great, I would be able to get one straight away when they are released. Probably not though, head office is always slow getting new products in 
What is exactly is your medical expertise and how long have you been treating Jobs.
Nothing and never is my guess. You are trusting the words of a known tabloid quoting another known tabloid from another country that it turns out sourced two doctors that have (if they actually said anything) not only never been in the same room as Steve Jobs, but aren't even anywhere close to working in cancer treatment. And were perhaps looking at altered photos.
Yes the man HAD cancer, yes he had a liver transplant. But clearly he is not 'incredibly ill' as he can walk and talk and drink liquids and eat food etc. That trip to the hospital could have been a checkup that happens every couple of months or even related to the recent hospital announcement.
IF Steve Jobs is on his last breath and really wants to make that announcement himself he will get up on that stage in a wheelchair with two nurses and an oxygen tank and do it. Or if he really really can't do that, he'll have them put a camera in his hospital room and freaking cam him into things.
that comment just highlights the real issue. Too many folks focusing on the people and not the products. Even Steve has said that folks need to focus on the product.
If the rumors are true this will be the laptop to redefine laptops, especially for Apple. If folks are focusing on products then it doesn't matter who, where or by what means they announce it. Frankly I wouldn't be shocked if they just send out a shot on campus live stream. Not because Cook is 'second class' to anyone or Steve is dying. But simply because that method is cheaper, allows them to highlight new media forms and means they don't have to send out invites to the media etc that will leak out that something is happening and what day in a definitive manner. We know how Apple loves to play things close, so dropping the site out at midnight or 2am the morning of with nothing but a placeholder to stay tune at X time for a special streaming broadcast would be a stunt they would pull. ANd it would be brilliant, effective and even the folks that hate it would talk about it on a dozen blogs creating buzz and press Apple couldn't pay for
And it possibly indicates to us two less Apple retailers in Melbourne. Apple is very very serious about their security. I feel confident that they make their resellers sign agreements not to make such comments. For the security of their products and the stores. Now someone knows two stores to go rob that have something potentially very new and nice to grab.
And according to the stories about these shipments, if you did break those agreements even in such a 'minor' way that was the end of your license to sell. To the point that if it is feasible, someone could go back and grab that pallet from them before the date arrives. After all, if they would tweet they got a pallet like that, they might open it and leak details. No good in Apple's eyes.
I hope for the sake of these stores the info was fake. Or they can prove that it was some underling staff member that did it and that person has been found and summarily fired or someone was stalking the loading areas with a long distance lens and Apple is appeased that the owners and managers didn't knowingly break the rules and lets them off with a stern warning.
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