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New MacBooks by November?

Dear Mr. Jobs I apologise profoundly for the above poster mentioning Toshiba on this Apple thread, and for bringing up the tablet idea.
We all know how hard you've been working on your portable laptop-with-that-weird-but-probably-quite-cool-and-useful-new-fangled-trackpad 😉
Oh and that new MBP I'm after if we're all going to be cheeky 😀
:apple:
 
Brianstorm91 said:
Dear Mr. Jobs I apologise profoundly for the above poster mentioning Toshiba on this Apple thread, and for bringing up the tablet idea.
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For once Apple could learn something from someone else! Honestly, I'm surprised they weren't the first to do this. You gotta admit that would be freaking cool with OS X 😀
 
We have 2 Toshibas in this house and I loathe both of them 🙂
Granted, they're not Protégés or anything, but it makes it hard for me to like them.
The tablet could work very well, though.
Why would people pick it over an ultraportable, though?
 
psychofreak said:
In marketing it definitely does...
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That was what was meant by my initial post--I guess I should have been more specific.😱 Although the graphics chip is not as great as other offerings, the CPU speed entices most consumers because in my experience most do not know the difference between various graphics chips or graphics cards.
 
MacinDoc said:
Actually, considering Penryn's slated release on Nov. 12, you could be right about the Nov. 6 date for MacBooks. Nov. 19 is probably too late to ramp up for holiday sales.

So Nov. 6 it is! SR/X3100 integrated graphics/2.2GHz & 2.4GHz/120GB - 200GB HD/1GB RAM (1 X 1GB), same prices as current models.

Only remaining question is whether it will come in colored anodized aluminum like the iPod Nano/Shuffle. Oh, and whether Apple will finally drop the Combo Drive.

Edit: How about a $899 2 GHz 80GB Edu model too?
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I believe that the Nov. 12 Penryn release is for a desktop (or server?) chip only. I don't think Intel is slated to release mobile Penryn chips until January.
 
Looks like I'm in the same situation as others here. I was planning heading over to the Apple store on Friday to purchase my first Macbook with release of Leopard, but now I'm not sure what to do. I'm torn between holding off my purchase for a few more weeks to see what happens or just going ahead and buying. I just don't know how much longer I can wait.
 
thirtysixty said:
Looks like I'm in the same situation as others here. I was planning heading over to the Apple store on Friday to purchase my first Macbook with release of Leopard, but now I'm not sure what to do. I'm torn between holding off my purchase for a few more weeks to see what happens or just going ahead and buying. I just don't know how much longer I can wait.
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You can always buy, and then wait to install based on opinions you hear and read 🙂
 
TheBendingUnit said:
Same here! well, in my case I never had a notebook before, but I'm a java developer and heard from different people (collegues and forums) that the macbook is a nice java dev machine!

I have always been very interested in linux, but now I found it's time to try something else! Reliable, no virusses, no more configuration probs (I had my share with al the linux distro's I tried 😉 ).. I just want a machine that works! A machine on which I don't need to spend hours configuring and updating antispyware/antivirus programs. A machine to to some development, play some old games (all my old lucasarts adventures with scummvm! oh yeah 😎), do a bit video-editing, surf, read my mails,... => :apple: seems like the way to go 🙂
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Yeah, I've been waiting for that too. I've wanted a Mac for some time now, it's about a year or so. But me too, I knew :apple: would release something new. I just HOPE that it gets released in November, because after Christmas things will be difficult for me financially🙁
But IF a new MacBook comes out these days, I'm DEFINITELY getting one on Christmas!! It's likely that Apple releases a new MacBook now in November, with both Leopard and iLife preinstalled, don't you think?
I'm bored of Windows. I'm bored of my idiot PC that ALWAYS seem to hang, freeze, and run at the speed of a turtle...
I want MY MAC!!!! MINE!! MY OWN!!! I never had my own computer, I always shared it with my older brother🙁🙁🙁
Now will be the PERFECT chance for me to get my OWN!!
Sorry for spamming but... you know... I kinda dragged into it🙁
 
Val-kyrie said:
the CPU speed entices most consumers because in my experience most do not know the difference between various graphics chips or graphics cards.
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yeah..u r right. 🙂 most of the general people i know of care about cpu speed> hard disk> ram >graphics card for computers...😱
 
thasan said:
yeah..u r right. 🙂 most of the general people i know of care about cpu speed> hard disk> ram >graphics card for computers...😱
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Unless you know gaming nerds, and when they ask you how powerful your graphics card is all you can do is mumble somtheing off topic.
 
thasan said:
yeah..u r right. 🙂 most of the general people i know of care about cpu speed> hard disk> ram >graphics card for computers...😱
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Yeah so imagine what happened to sales when Intel released the Core Duos and such with their lower clockspeeds (but obviously more efficient pipelines). They obviously had to advertise a lot. I remember telling someone I was going to get a 1.8 ghz Core Duo computer and they laughed and said theirs was 3.4 ghz and 1 year old.
 
CPU's

Back in the day, it used to be the more Ghz, the better. Nowadays, you've got to know what's better (ie Core2Duo's) because we're creating smaller better architecture within our CPU's and it's not longer the main clock speed that counts 🙂

-Rich-
 
richardsim7 said:
Back in the day, it used to be the more Ghz, the better. Nowadays, you've got to know what's better (ie Core2Duo's) because we're creating smaller better architecture within our CPU's and it's not longer the main clock speed that counts 🙂
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Yeah well tell that to anyone who doesn't know a thing about computers. This, I think, is why AMD has always used names like 4000+ for a processor clocked at a speed more like 2.6ghz or something (I'm not sure if that's actually it, it's just a comparison). They had to show people that they DID compete with Intel back in the P4 days.

Anyways... back on topic!...
New Macbook this week?? I hope!!
 
I would consider purchasing a new Macbook if it was released in November. For all those waiting though I wouldn't rule out the worst case scenario however. That being no update at all until Macworld. If the rumored new portable mac is real and is intended to be a replacement for the macbook line it could happen.
 
richardsim7 said:
Back in the day, it used to be the more Ghz, the better. Nowadays, you've got to know what's better (ie Core2Duo's) because we're creating smaller better architecture within our CPU's and it's not longer the main clock speed that counts 🙂
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And what really matters any more are power consumption and heat. My MacBook (2nd gen, almost 1 year old) is ultra fast for my needs, and I do software development on it. The only real downside is that when both cores get pushed hard, then the fans rev up, the heat gets noticeable, and the battery charge goes down 5x faster than normal.

This is par for the course with modern CPUs. "Fast" and "efficient" are at odds with each other. "Dual core," "higher clockspeed"--those are things that also mean "runs hotter," "uses more power."
 
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