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New MacBook Pros... This Tuesday? [Closed]
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This seems to make the most sense, and is probably what we will end up seeing whenever they are released.
I would be happy with this upgrade... Maybe a high-res option for the 15?
Don't get your hopes up for Blue Ray. The Mac Pro was just updated and no sight of Ble Ray. I don't think that the Macbook Pro will get Ble Ray first.
Gonna happen or what?
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Steve in his dark room and exclaimed to my "high place friend" that "MAYBE"
CC at the ready (but been that way since the show in SF)
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Steve in his dark room and exclaimed to my "high place friend" that "MAYBE"
CC at the ready (but been that way since the show in SF)
1 Hour and 20 Minutes
So, uh, without wanting to be offensinve, you put this post up front for 1 hour and 20 minutes first thing Sunday morning and then took it down to check sources or conflicting information? The reliability of the forum may come into question here. I, for one, had already begun to rearrange my calendar and travel in my head...
So now we have a situation where we are WAITING for a message confirmation or withdrawal because we are on a thread that is for Apple loyalists (mostly) who are WAITING for an overdue product upgrade.
Is this whole thing just a huge doctoral dissertation study in Pavlovian psychology?
Clarification posting, please... Or PM? Or Something?
The fun's begun.
ZootHorn Rolo
So, uh, without wanting to be offensinve, you put this post up front for 1 hour and 20 minutes first thing Sunday morning and then took it down to check sources or conflicting information? The reliability of the forum may come into question here. I, for one, had already begun to rearrange my calendar and travel in my head...
So now we have a situation where we are WAITING for a message confirmation or withdrawal because we are on a thread that is for Apple loyalists (mostly) who are WAITING for an overdue product upgrade.
Is this whole thing just a huge doctoral dissertation study in Pavlovian psychology?
Reward - Withdraw - Lure - Punish - Reward - Evaporate - Reward - FREAK OUT
This is one reason why our world is so insane... Every experiment we do in this field is based on the responses of white rats or college sophomores ... and now, Apple Enthusiasts who are being treated like either white rats or college sophomores.Clarification posting, please... Or PM? Or Something?
The fun's begun.
ZootHorn Rolo
So, uh, without wanting to be offensinve, you put this post up front for 1 hour and 20 minutes first thing Sunday morning and then took it down to check sources or conflicting information? The reliability of the forum may come into question here. I, for one, had already begun to rearrange my calendar and travel in my head...
So now we have a situation where we are WAITING for a message confirmation or withdrawal because we are on a thread that is for Apple loyalists (mostly) who are WAITING for an overdue product upgrade.
Is this whole thing just a huge doctoral dissertation study in Pavlovian psychology?
Reward - Withdraw - Lure - Punish - Reward - Evaporate - Reward - FREAK OUTThis is one reason why our world is so insane... Every experiment we do in this field is based on the responses of white rats and college sophomores ... and now, Apple Enthusiasts who are either white rats or college sophomores.
Clarification posting, please... Or PM? Or Something?
The fun's begun.
ZootHorn Rolo
Hmm.. Well no doctoral dissertation going on here.. Just an editor of a major Mac news/rumor website who posted a story, then found new information from another source which warranted the original story being pulled. Its simply responsible journalism.
It's all o.k.
Fair enough, my friend. Sorry if the strain of impatience got the best of me. Some of us are frazzled... even though we know we shouldn't be; We simply are.
Please let us know the outcome of your due diligence.
Your work IS appreciated.
Z
Fair enough, my friend. Sorry if the strain of impatience got the best of me. Some of us are frazzled... even though we know we shouldn't be; We simply are.
Please let us know the outcome of your due diligence.
Your work IS appreciated.
Z
I concur - thanks for all of your work, Arn - much appreciated!
Now, let's hope he re-posts with, "it's def coming."
Now, let's hope he re-posts with, "it's def coming."
Well played, sir.
This has to be the most painful example of "Made ya look!" that I can think of in recent memory.
In any case, I am eagerly awaiting (and refreshing this thread) any tiny scraps of information which might help me think that there's something to this latest rumor. Please, don't let us down.
This has to be the most painful example of "Made ya look!" that I can think of in recent memory.
In any case, I am eagerly awaiting (and refreshing this thread) any tiny scraps of information which might help me think that there's something to this latest rumor. Please, don't let us down.
If you are so annoyed by us MBP crybabies, what good does it do for you to get on here and talk like that? Especially if you don't think that they will deliver. Thank you "Debbie Downer"...
I want a new MBP as much as anyone else, but I thought I'd temper some of the high expectations some have, lest they otherwise be disappointed with the update.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
- 17" LED backlit screen: Extremely unlikely. 17" LED notebook screens are neither shipping nor even announced, anywhere, at all.
- Case redesign: Unlikely. The new MBPs will use the current Santa Rosa chipset, while Montevina in 6-or-so months will offer a 58% reduction in area. Look for Apple to take full advantage of that extra space with a case redesign incorporating Montevina.
- Blu-ray support: Unlikely. To my knowledge, no one is yet making an ultra-slim optical drive with a Blu-ray diode that would fit in current MBPs. In 6 months this will probably be a different story.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I want a new MBP as much as anyone else, but I thought I'd temper some of the high expectations some have, lest they otherwise be disappointed with the update.
- 17" LED backlit screen: Extremely unlikely. 17" LED notebook screens are neither shipping nor even announced, anywhere, at all.
- Case redesign: Unlikely. The new MBPs will use the current Santa Rosa chipset, while Montevina in 6-or-so months will offer a 58% reduction in area. Look for Apple to take full advantage of that extra space with a case redesign incorporating Montevina.
- Blu-ray support: Unlikely. To my knowledge, no one is yet making an ultra-slim optical drive with a Blu-ray diode that would fit in current MBPs. In 6 months this will probably be a different story.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
If they don't have all those new features I dance in the street. I bought the current Macbook Pro 17" and I felt a little bad about it because I sure want the features you mentioned (minus the redesign. I think the current design including the keyboards are perfect. ) Now - I know it doesn't make a lot of sense that I am happy about that, because I have what I have anyway but it just tells me that I made the right decision (not to wait). I couldn't care less about Penryn. Sure - will be a little faster. But not more then 20%.
I just hope they don't use a black keyboard on an Alum body like they did wit the Air. It just does not look "PRO".
No issue wit the actual keyboard, I just don't like the color mix, but then that may only be me.
No issue wit the actual keyboard, I just don't like the color mix, but then that may only be me.
Personally, I don´t care if Apple includes Blu-ray drives or not. What I think they should do, though, is give full software support to this format. It is ridiculous that one cannot watch BR content in Mac computers (except data).
I would not buy a MBP blu-ray drive (probably BTO) because of the price, but there are good external options out there
I would not buy a MBP blu-ray drive (probably BTO) because of the price, but there are good external options out there
Unless the price was absolutely outrageous, I would pay just about whatever
wanted for a Blu-Ray drive, especially if I would be able to write on blank Blu-Ray discs. I don't buy computers very often, and I've had this PowerBook G4 for 4 years now. I'm going to buy the best that I can in a 15" size because I will probably have this new MacBook Pro for another 4 years.
would 1680x1050 be considered hi-res on a 15 or would it need to be 1920x1080? This that technically possible and would it be readable on a 15.4" screen?
Hmm.
Maybe it's time to check inside the wallet to see if... I ... have... enou--
Nope.
It's like getting to the front of the line at Tim Horton's just to find out you don't have any money on you.
Maybe it's time to check inside the wallet to see if... I ... have... enou--
Nope.
It's like getting to the front of the line at Tim Horton's just to find out you don't have any money on you.
And 6 months after montevina they will have 32nm chips, and 6 months after that, holographic projection that substitutes the need for screens, and 6 months after that.....you get the picture.I want a new MBP as much as anyone else, but I thought I'd temper some of the high expectations some have, lest they otherwise be disappointed with the update.
- 17" LED backlit screen: Extremely unlikely. 17" LED notebook screens are neither shipping nor even announced, anywhere, at all.
- Case redesign: Unlikely. The new MBPs will use the current Santa Rosa chipset, while Montevina in 6-or-so months will offer a 58% reduction in area. Look for Apple to take full advantage of that extra space with a case redesign incorporating Montevina.
- Blu-ray support: Unlikely. To my knowledge, no one is yet making an ultra-slim optical drive with a Blu-ray diode that would fit in current MBPs. In 6 months this will probably be a different story.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
The update this teusday will incorporate a subtle case redesign, however, their will be not be a radical redesign for montevina. MBP is about constant, SUBTLE updates.
Haha me too, but who cares, the June 07 MBP had a very long run, compared to other previous models.
Sure, I've been using 1920x1200 on my two year old Dell Latitude D810. Problem is, I don't want it any other way.. Currently there's only T61p from Lenovo which would give me 1920x1200 on a PC. Sucks.. Sure hope at least the macbook pro 15" will give me something close to this.
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Steve in his dark room and exclaimed to my "high place friend" that "MAYBE"
CC at the ready (but been that way since the show in SF)
Good one. Got any information on monitors with an iSight? Strange that mac pro users do not have an iSight solution from Apple. Mac mini users don't either, but Apple doesn't care about them.
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