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Next MacBook Pro to Get New Case Design
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1) I dont care about making it thinner. Its thin enough as it is.
2) Can we get one that doesn't have any overheating issues? You guys keep wanting thinner but they are having a hard enough time as it is properly cooling what they have in there.
3) Ill take the same body style with a retina display and a proper thermal paste job
1) You are so right!
2) I agree.
3) Precisely, that & properly assembled would be great.
I don't care about liquidmetal or carbon fiber unless they can maintain the structural integrity, lower the weight, and avoid a price increase. Or heck, maintain all three but increase scratch resistance. But I don't want to pay more for something that is not providing tangible benefits for the sake of simple aesthetics when I'm quite happy with the form and function of the current case design.
The SuperDrive has become a liability for many mobile professionals. It is not required for content creation, only content distribution. The space it occupies in the chassis would be better spent (in many peoples' opinion) on increased battery and/or storage capacity. I would guess most people who use SuperDrives do so at home or at work, where it would not be impractical to keep a $50-$70 SuperDrive peripheral. At this point, the SuperDrive is limiting many options for improving the MBPs mobility.
And +1 for improved thermals and heat dissipation.
I've asked this before and I've come to the conclusion that in most of the cases its because it's new ... and it's a snappy name. They also look forward to boasting about owing a "Liquid metal laptop" despite not having a clue what the actual significance is to them as a user.
thinner??
Thinner is only cool to look at. Not use on a desk or lap. The new Macbook Air 11" is almost top heavy.
keep the thickness of the current model and make battery life longer.
I like aluminum, but would enjoy a black model option. I think it looks classier and stands out a bit more than white or sliver.
Thinner is only cool to look at. Not use on a desk or lap. The new Macbook Air 11" is almost top heavy.
keep the thickness of the current model and make battery life longer.
I like aluminum, but would enjoy a black model option. I think it looks classier and stands out a bit more than white or sliver.
I still much prefer the prior generation. I don't think I'm necessarily alone, it appears quite often in print media/advertisements. Stiffer, but heavier and larger? No thanks.
I think Apple can do alot to improve on aesthetics and functionality.
A dedicated GPU is not a given because, as it is, the MBP has no space. The alternatives would be either cutting down on battery life (yeah right), taking out the Optical Drive (makes sense, with iTunes as is and MBA being "the future of computers"), or the HDD and putting in space as SSD flash memories (doubt it, would be too expensive).
Killing the optical drive seems too soon. For us knowledgeable people that put optibays and SSDs in RAID-0, we want it away. For the regular Mac user (the one that goes to the Genius bar to have things explained and fixed for them), it doesn't make sense.
Yeah, I'm with you there. I rest my wrists right on that sharp edge and it's never even been close to uncomfortable.
They must have really thin skin (which says something cause I don't particularly have thick skin myself. Hell, in winter it just takes the slightest thing to cut my hands cause my skin gets so dry it cracks just by me flexing my hands). Shoot, I'm sliding it across that edge and pressing down and it isn't even coming close to cutting me (I doubt it would even scratch an itch
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Great, I've been hungering for a new Macbook Pro for quite some time, and was hoping I could hold out long enough to get a non-ugly model
I can't stand the UB look.
Hungering? Bet it doesn't taste like chicken!
The UB look is rather nicer than the plastic PCs that are the norm in big box stores and other venues...
Hilarious to all those people who jumped on the THUNDERBOLT bandwagon. No thunderbolt devices yet and they have the hideous old case design.
That's like buying a refrigerator when food hadn't been developed yet.
We bought ours for other useless things like faster video and the high-end CPU.
They're useful for installing apps, but not much after that. I'm hoping the next release has a superdrive as an external peripheral.
*ZING*
I honestly hope not!!! 16:9 is great for movies but bad for real life, where one has to move their head more to the right and left. I bought two 16:9 LCD screens and am still getting used to 1920x1080 vs the original 1920x1200. As a designer, the added 120 vertical pixels come in handy, especially re: the dock/taskbar/etc taking up space and I loathe having to 'auto-hide' those.
I would think a change in composite/structure would be with that "End" in mind.
They know as well as anyone the limits hit on the current gen form factor.
Honestly I don't know the heat absorption/dissipation properties of CF or Liquid Metal but whatever decided on will be with strength to weight ratio factored, along with Thermal.
At the time of the last refresh, Aluminum was "that" resource to offer the best...here's hoping for something fresh.
Most desirable thing about a new casing: 13" matte option.
Superdrive ditching: Fine with me
Connectors on both sides would be nice
Liquid metal, carbon fiber, whatever. It will look nice anyway.
But keep the power. The Air is not suited for me for heavy work.
Superdrive ditching: Fine with me
Connectors on both sides would be nice
Liquid metal, carbon fiber, whatever. It will look nice anyway.
But keep the power. The Air is not suited for me for heavy work.
Yawn. Show me the refresh rate of it running at that resolution or don't waste my time.
Edit: Actually I'll answer that myself using the monitor they used.
http://au.viewsonic.com/support/manuals/files/LCD/Series P/VP2290b-3 User Guide English.pdf
25 Hz. Still waiting.
Am I missing something? Are you just into the 13" or something? The upper half of the line-up has and will continue to sport dedicated GPU's like the AMD's that are in the current 15 & 17 incher's and the 320/330M and 9400/9600's of the previous versions.
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I'm sliding it across that edge and pressing down and it isn't even coming close to cutting me (I doubt it would even scratch an itch
hmmm, like pain?
But I thought we all kinda saw this coming. I thought we kinda guessed that the 2011 MBP was the last of that specific unibody design. I think the current look has become somewhat iconic. I'm excited to see what Apple will put out next.