Official™ "WTF??!! No Merom MBP's today?" thread

[ryanx27]

We got wtfOWNED consistently on C2D MBP rumors. Surprise, it happened again!
I hate rumor sites now.

(I know I'll keep coming back, though...)

 

[maverick808]

I'm really dissappointed in Apple over this. Other PC manufacturers now have Core 2 Duos available for their low end laptops, and have had for about a month, and Apple still haven't managed to get a Core 2 Duo in their flagship professional laptop

 

[slabbius]

slabbius, you can't call us a sad bunch of people because we expect apple to update their hardware to MATCH (not exceed) the competion. Many of us are forking over at leask 2k for a piece of hardware that is outdated as soon as we get it.

Simple solution: if you feel what you are buying is alrady outdated at the time of purchase then don't buy it. if you truly need performance

It is not about the fact that Merom has slightly better performance than Yonah. It is mostly psychological. If I am going to throw down nearly 3k for a computer, i want to know i am getting a top of the line, most current piece of hardware.
I could understand if Apple were a company that charges around 1k for a laptop. They're not. Apple is asking for us to pay a premium for what? A machine that is inferior to the competition?
I am a switcher and am dying to switch to the Mac bandwagon but I will not make the switch to an outdated laptop. The current may be great and yada yada yada but it would make me feel and a lot of other people feel better about our purchases if Apple could simply MATCH the competition. If i have to come to the computer lab everyday and do my work, so be it, because i cannot justify to myself paying a premium for a Core duo. Peace

If you plan on spending close to 3k, then might I suggest you purchase a mac pro if portability is not an issue.

 

[Kelmon]

Dude, things tend to ALWAYS be obsolete next week. You could spend an eternity waiting for the next big thing. I mean, if you can wait, that's great. But if you're waiting on something and losing money by working on an older slower laptop when a new one (no matter what the exact specs) would be faster, that's just silly. Whether you buy at the beginning of a refresh cycle or the end, you're still getting the same hardware. The obsolesence thing is 100% psychological.

Er, no. If I'd bought a MacBook Pro on Day 1 then, given the current delays, as a model in Apple's product line, it would not be obsolete for about 9-months. If a laptop was upgradeable (and this is not an argument for it) then buying now wouldn't be much of an issue since I could always put in the new components later. However, as we all know, the MacBook Pro isn't upgradeable beyond memory so I have no intention of buying an existing model that should be replaced soon with one with the best components possible today. Yeah, it's painful waiting but I'd rather do that and buy a model that (iMac G5 to Intel iMac excepting) should be current for at least 6-months. If the new models came out with, for example, 160GB hard drives and I'd just bought one of the current line then I'd be kicking myself since disk space is important to me. The same applies to other features that could be upgraded, such as the graphics or upper memory cap. This is especially important because I expect this machine to be my one and only for the next 3-years+ so when it is bought I need it to be as cutting-edge as possible.