New MacBook Pros to Carry Larger Trackpads, Dedicated SSD for Mac OS X?

bedifferent said:
If they're not copy protected, why not just rip the music/DVD's and share them? It's much easier then copying CD's and DVD's, sending em out and throwing them in landfills.
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Cd's for cars...I find if you upload at Apple Lossless Quality and Burn them they play better than through the iPod adapter (which is weird) and I continue to use mine.

Also, one more question, kinda off topic...say I transfer all the iTunes music to another computer with an external hard drive (I want to keep my playlists and play counts) Do I just select "Album Artwork, iTunes Music, and the iTunes Library" in the iTunes Folder and paste them onto my new device?
 
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I've been doing this for about 8 months now on my i7 hackintosh. Its absolutely amazing. OS X boots up in about 20 seconds ready to go and all the apps startup instantly. I got a 60gb OCZ Vertex 2 and have the OS and apps on it. I moved my home folder to a 2 tb HDD. Its fast and I've reinstalled OSX a couple times and all my settings and files are all the way I left them without having to do a restore. This seems like a logical and affordable step before high capacity SSDs go down in price.
 
jobesucks said:
The complete lack of upgradeability to a better drive, if its soldered to the board. What if it goes tits up, your screwed?

theres 2 things for starters
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???? Upgradeabliity? Don't you think you're jumping ahead? I think he (the other poster) said "soldered to the board" as a figure of speech. Besides, it would more than likely be the regular hard drive that you'd want to upgrade.

In this rumor (as it hasn't actually happened and might not) the SSD is there just to help your computer start instantly and access all system functions very quickly. Very low risk you'd ever want to upgrade this part.
 
Yaboze said:
This is a cool idea, but people have been doing this on home built Windows PC's for a few years now.

They get a smaller, fast SSD (used to get 10k RPM drives for this purpose) drives and install Windows and apps on that drive and put all the data on a regular SATA drive.
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I do this now with my 13" MacBook Pro with the OWC Data Doubler. Remove the optical drive and put in the Data Doubler bracket with on of their SSDs. It uses the optical drive bay's SATA port and now my OS and applications launch in seconds!
 
jeez a girl goes out with her boyfriend for a few hours and BAYUM this!!

thank you for allowing optical drives :D
 
Gemütlichkeit said:
Any larger of a track pad and you're ghost clicking on your palms.
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The current glass trackpad (since unibody and later) already recognizes and ignores your occasional palm resting on the pad... I can rest half my hand on one half of the pad and finger-mouse with the other and it doesn't go haywire... try it out.

You only notice how cool this is once you go back to a non-mac trackpad, and see how horrible the false clicks can get while typing (worst are the cheapo netbooks).
 
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Popeye206 said:
???? Upgradeabliity? Don't you think you're jumping ahead? I think he (the other poster) said "soldered to the board" as a figure of speech. Besides, it would more than likely be the regular hard drive that you'd want to upgrade.

In this rumor (as it hasn't actually happened and might not) the SSD is there just to help your computer start instantly and access all system functions very quickly. Very low risk you'd ever want to upgrade this part.
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IF and only IF this rumour is true, at 16GB there will be a good chance IMO of it being soldered direct. This brings massive issues if it goes wrong, yet more non user replaceable parts.
Whats wrong with 2 drive bays one for a ssd even if its only 64GB, of decent quality. 2nd can be a larger standard drive for data, obviously ditching the ODD.
I hate the idea of blade ssd's or even worse soldered direct, just makes for less choice, and harder repairs
 
r00fus said:
The current glass trackpad (since unibody and later) already recognizes and ignores your occasional palm resting on the pad... I can rest half my hand on one half of the pad and finger-mouse with the other and it doesn't go haywire... try it out.

You only notice how cool this is once you go back to a non-mac trackpad, and see how horrible the false clicks can get while typing (worst are the cheapo netbooks).
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This is a standard feature in most notebooks, you are talking out your ass apple fanboy.
 
Popeye206 said:
Because we like computers we don't have to mess with and that will last more than 3 or 4 years. :D

To each his own... but I'll keep my Mac.
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How the hell can you be so imcompetant you dont know how to use a pc, ok here is how you do it.

you buy said notebook

you click the power button

it powers up you enter details on windows first boot

It well "just werks"

It is that simple and FYI apple uses cheap foxxcon mother boards and with that aliminium they are running hot most of the time and fail much faster then a pc notebook get your facts strait boy.
 
Eitrig said:
This is a standard feature in most notebooks, you are talking out your ass apple fanboy.
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Yet... it's still terrible. My M11x I had it turned down ALL the way down on palm check sensitivity and it would stil click and move and zoom in/out. Multitouch worked fine but the palm check via synaptics did not really work. Even my backup machine right now a crappy Inspiron 1501 with the TINY trackpad still gets screwy and I start typing mid sentence elsewhere due to fail palm check. Rarely an issue on previous MB's.
 
jobesucks said:
The complete lack of upgradeability to a better drive, if its soldered to the board. What if it goes tits up, your screwed?

theres 2 things for starters
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Who said it's soldered to the motherboard? And it IS upgradeable - replace the HD with whatever you want.
 
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I have to say that all of these rumors so far sound AMAZING!!!! I am more than likely to purchase one, especially with my Apple Developer discount.
 
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