NVIDIA Powered MacBooks on October 14th?

[vendettabass]

The MBA removed the drive to get thin. The MB and/or MBP should remove the drive for extra features and functionality.

agreed, definately.

 

[im_noahselby]

Apple will not reduce the number of USB ports or remove the optical drive, for the sake of greater thinness or an increased battery. While some of you can do without an optical drive and/or don't mind hauling around an external one. It is a fact, that the vast majority of users DO want an integrated optical drive. This is a machine that must have mass market appeal and the MacBook is a mass market product. For the rest of you, who want the thinnest laptop without an optical drive, there is the MacBook Air.

 

[Boblister]

I hope that I can see Apple's invitation tomorrow!

And if invitations are not out by tomorrow then I think it's very unlikely there will be anything major released on the 14th.

 

[TouchYourHead]

And if invitations are not out by tomorrow then I think it's very unlikely there will be anything major released on the 14th.

or maybe it could be an quite update on the Online Store on 14 Oct.?

 

[aleksandra.]

The line up should be

Macbook Air $699 (position as an EeePC competitor), no video card
Macbook $1299, video card
Macbook Pro $1699, video card

itll be a eeepc competitor in a couple of years thats how it is with tech look at the iphone new tech found, 1 year later lowered price down, sames gonna happen with the mba

In the long run, due to the revolutionary manufacturing technique, the MacBook will drop down to the price of the EEEPC. We should see a price drop at the event, clearing the way for more price drops over the next couple of years.

This would be best:
So, 14" Aluminium MacBook of $799 to 14" Black Aluminium MacBook of $999.
MacBook Pros: mid to high $1000's (from 16" MacBook Pro of $1499 to to 18" MacBook Pro of $1799).
MacBook Air: $1299.

it performs terribly and the hardware problems make users and the company go crazy...

it is totally overpriced and the sales numbers will go down like crazy on the 14th. whoever was so (economically challenged) to buy the MBA in the first place will switch to the optimally similar new MB/portables series. the MBA was, as I wrote, only a side product preparing several construction/hardware details for the upcoming restructuring of the portables series. expect a price drop, for the very least, or the total absorption into the new series.

-B

Really? Have you seen data to support that?

If the new Macbook lives up to the rumors, it'll entice even more potential Air purchasers than it does now, so Apple's going to have to change it somehow or kill it. Personally, I would love to see Apple continue the Air and bring it in line with the competition by adding a larger HDD/SSD, more RAM, boosting battery life, and so on.

i have definite evidence that MBA will be discontinued either this coming month or at the very latest in early january

no, it didn't sell well but generated a lot of intermediate profit as a side-product of the transition... sucks for those who baught the mbA

I do not mind the MacBook Air being discontinued. Besides, Apple just made it for "extra cash" before these coming "real" updates where people will just buy the MacBook and they would not consider buying the MacBook Air.

An 11" Tablet with real Mac OS X would be just fine when it replaces the MacBook Air.

They need to make it an Tablet-Laptop convertible and smaller (12") if they expect it to survive with the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

But if they do kill it due to the poor sales, then my "MacBook Cube Air" line becomes true. Another one of Jobs' obsessions that just doesn't make it in the market.

On the other hand, an MBA with a 10" screen would be a killer!

I am starting to think the MBA is really the beta MB 2008. Apple wanted to know how much stuff can we live without? How many adapters do we need or will tolerate? What can we do with form factor, and new components.

I expect the new MBs will basically be MBA with optical drives. (aka no firewire, mini dvi, crazy usb ports.)

OMG, I didn't even notice how many of these posts I checked for Multiquote before I started to writing.

That's hardly a reasonable discussion. That's wishful thinking, pure and obvious. Sorry but it seems there're two reasons you're so much against Air - either you want it but won't pay for it (thus the delusion MacBooks will get all its best features, as in lightness, keyboard, screen - which would be stupid of Apple to do btw) or you blame it for not getting what you wanted (i.e. tablet, netbook). Both are ridiculous. You barely attempt to give serious arguments, and those aren't even good. If Air sells so badly (never mind that there're more people who buy it than those who buy AppleCare for Macs), why are Dell, HP, Samsung making similar (13" and light) laptops that are EXPENSIVE?!

 

[peepboon]

expect to see the boards highly active tonight and tomorrow

i hope there will be an announcement tomorrow as it does confirm that the MB/MBP will be released and end the rumors but if its not announced then it might be released quietly.

I personally think there will be an announcement as Apple wants to show that they are greener by showing the world that they have turned to aluminium, etc etc.

Also, by having an event, i think it will boost apple shares. if its released quietly then only a small percentage of the population will know about the release of new products thus not having a great impact on the share prices, etc etc

 

[Nobita]

And if invitations are not out by tomorrow then I think it's very unlikely there will be anything major released on the 14th.

What time does the invitation usually given out? And what time is this in the states? It is indeed the 7th in here, Australia.

 

[andrewds]

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro?mco=MTE2NjM

Apple store:

2.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Duo
1440 x 900 resolution
2GB memory
200GB hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256 MB

new macs?????????
just my site said "new macbooks"

and im looking to get my 1st mac

 

[puffnstuff]

What time does the invitation usually given out? And what time is this in the states? It is indeed the 7th in here, Australia.

cupertino time

 

[Creditcard]

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro?mco=MTE2NjM

Apple store:

2.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Duo
1440 x 900 resolution
2GB memory
200GB hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256 MB

new macs?????????
just my site said "new macbooks"

and im looking to get my 1st mac

OLD!

 

[ACubed]

oh my i can't wait. Been waiting too long, it's taking forever

 

[Nobita]

It's currently 6th October, 7:35AM in Cupertino, which means we have to wait at least 16 hours and 25 more minutes if the invitations are to be sent tomorrow...

 

[Silverhawk]

I hoping the integrated NVIDIA GPU is correct but lets hope these are not the problematic ones.

True it would be nice to get a slightly lighter Macbook along with bringing back the 12" or heck make a 11" line of them (the air should of been a smaller model in the first place; nor would I ever expect it to have a NVIDIA GPU due to the hight cost of the device already)

 

[Creditcard]

C'mon.. gief new MBP's without faulty GPU's..!

 

[peepboon]

even if its announced tomorrow, there will still be a weeks wait until the event happens. thats 168 hours lol

also, there will be further wait if they do not ship immediately... but from rumors, I think there might not be a wait after the event (or when its released)

 

[puffnstuff]

It's currently 6th October, 7:35AM in Cupertino.

Someone needs to wake Steve Jobs up then.

Has there ever been any invites for macbook updates? Even though this is major ibook to macbook was major and I do not remember an event for that.

 

[infernohellion]

And if invitations are not out by tomorrow then I think it's very unlikely there will be anything major released on the 14th.

I think most of the time when there was a change to Mac products, they do not usually have any presentation.

 

[Nobita]

So big events are just for iPods? What a waste? I remember there was one for Macbook Air, right?

 

[Wolfpup]

I wasn't really understanding the point of using a different company's chipset...but I wasn't thinking about the Macbook. For the Macbook, as long as they're refusing to use a separate GPU, this probably makes a lot of sense. I'm not familiar with what this thing's specs are, but it almost certainly blows away Intel's graphics, since they always do.

If it's semi-decent, this will effectively be a nice upgrade for the Macbooks (though for the price they really should have a GPU).

 

[Ironduke]

So big events are just for iPods? What a waste? I remember there was one for Macbook Air, right?

that was macworld that happens every january, from what I have seen apple has 3 garunteed events each year

Mac World in Jan
WWDC in June
Itunes/iPod in September

Then they have the odd suprise, as has been mentioned before apple switched from the ibook to the macbook without a show

 

[benjs]

My gut feeling is a merging of the lines - MacBook and MacBook Pro are now simply "MacBook"s. Have five base models, one in each size category (13", 15", 17") and have options for a dedicated GPU in the latter two. Now all sharing the same sleek aluminum casing. Wireless USB option, several different capacity and speeds of hard drives, and the speed bumps in the processors to match the current technology. Available as of October 14th. Well, I can dream

 

[Digital Skunk]

I really hope Apple will remove the optical drive, keep it as a external option (like the MacBook Air), and, instead of trying to make the laptop very thin, use the extra real estate for a bigger battery or an extra hard drive.

The MBA removed the drive to get thin. The MB and/or MBP should remove the drive for extra features and functionality.

I am SO glad that you aren't saying get rid of it for thinness! Thank you so much for making sense on the professional level.

Then, all they need to do is adopt newer smaller ports like HDMI or display port, take out the ethernet port (make it USB dongle like the Air) and use the extra space for more FW800 ports (two of them) an eSATA port and maybe 1 more USB port for the other users.

 

[Ironduke]

My gut feeling is a merging of the lines - MacBook and MacBook Pro are now simply "MacBook"s. Have five base models, one in each size category (13", 15", 17") and have options for a dedicated GPU in the latter two. Now all sharing the same sleek aluminum casing. Wireless USB option, several different capacity and speeds of hard drives, and the speed bumps in the processors to match the current technology. Available as of October 14th. Well, I can dream

why would you need wirelesss usb in a notebook its portable ffs

 

[Aranince]

Someone needs to wake Steve Jobs up then.

Has there ever been any invites for macbook updates? Even though this is major ibook to macbook was major and I do not remember an event for that.

There was no event for the MacBooks. As for invitations, they will come tomorrow. If they don't, then Apple could introduce them without an event.

 

[benjs]

why would you need wirelesss usb in a notebook its portable ffs

The reason you would need, or want, wireless USB in a notebook is specifically BECAUSE it is a notebook. I'm not a fan of wires. Period. If I could, I'd have none of them visible. The idea of having a wireless USB hub situated out of sight in a drawer or something and have a card reader, maybe external Blu-Ray drive, external hard drive sitting there while I have my laptop in the living room is something that's very exciting to me. Anyone else with me here?