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Penryn Based Mac Pros Soon?

Ok.. ****!

I literally just purchased my first mbpro - 3k with tax!

And now I see that they're set for a major update...

What should I do - attempt to cancel order tomorrow AM and hold out for the update which sounds like its coming within the next couple weeks??

UGH
 
Yeah, a base 17" MBP and AppleCare and you're already over $3K. Throw in some RAM or bump up to the HD display and it can be even more.
 
wd40 said:
Ok.. ****!

I literally just purchased my first mbpro - 3k with tax!

And now I see that they're set for a major update...

What should I do - attempt to cancel order tomorrow AM and hold out for the update which sounds like its coming within the next couple weeks??

UGH
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Ya, this is the right thread for that 🙄...

So hopefully tomorrow there's a MacPro announcement. 😀
 
I just ordered a 2.6GHz 17" MBP with 250GB HDD and Hi-Res screen. Decided to max it out as much as I could, but will get RAM elsewhere. It comes to less than £2000, or almost $4000.

Am waiting for a new Mac Pro, too. When's the rumoured announcement? This week or next?
 
darkpaw said:
Am waiting for a new Mac Pro, too. When's the rumoured announcement? This week or next?
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Intel's formal announcement for Penryn is Sunday, 11 Nov. So no sooner than next Monday and (hopefully/probably) not much later than that as well.
 
Nugget said:
Intel's formal announcement for Penryn is Sunday, 11 Nov. So no sooner than next Monday and (hopefully/probably) not much later than that as well.
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Unless Apple got the go ahead to announce tomorrow, shipping next Tuesday, since they were able to kick out a silent MacBook update a week early. 😀
 
No worries 🙂

I'm also waiting with baited breath for this Mac Pro update. I certainly hope its soon too, hopefully specced with the ATI 3970 or whatever it is.
 
The 8800GT certainly seems to be taking the world by storm. Apple would make a lot of people happy if this was a BTO option.
 
darthraige said:
Ya, this is the right thread for that 🙄...

So hopefully tomorrow there's a MacPro announcement. 😀
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Woops! Sorry about that guys - my very first post and I messed it up =/

Anyways... I guess I should cancel the order then =(
 
disp.

i wonder what's going to happen with the displays if there's a macpro update... any rumours in that regard?!

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I don't have Apple stuff just like everyone else here....
 
Firebar said:
No worries 🙂

I'm also waiting with baited breath for this Mac Pro update. I certainly hope its soon too, hopefully specced with the ATI 3970 or whatever it is.
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And what kind of bait are you using to cause you to have bated breath?😉
 
Whoops! I'm using £2000 worth of notes, that's my bait for Apple.... 😀
I just hope that beast bites, a beasty octo-core, 8800GT, 4GB RAM beast...... beast.
 
I so hope we have a release this nov....I pawned all my old stuff off on ebay to scrounge up enough cash...Up to $2200...All....Most....there..... 🙂 (well at least with a student discount lol) Will definitely have to add a little on the plastic card if the 8800GT is a BTO option...but i'm not getting my hopes up!

(sign up on Wild Bills sig link and tell apple you want an 8800GT!!)
 
adamzx3 said:
(sign up on Wild Bills sig link and tell apple you want an 8800GT!!)
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I've filled a few of those out and I'd be more than happy with the GT, and that's probably what we'll get. As long as it's not one of the under-performing 2900s or an 8600.

A more exciting announcement would be the graphics card equivalent of "free love". Of course, there's no incentive for Apple to do so: I know I'm buying a Mac Pro only because my old graphics card can hardly run youtube (no joke) and I can't upgrade. Otherwise, Apple wouldn't be getting my cash for another few years. 🙁
 
Borderless screens

This is sort of random, but I heard from a pretty good source within another PC maker that has knowledge of the OEM market that Apple is working on laptops with borderless displays, locking up much of the near-term production capacity for this type of system.

I don't know if this would be for updated MacBook Pros or for something new.
This is probably more like a Page 10 rumor, and given that I have no track record, I understand the doubts, but I had to share.
 
Coleco said:
This is sort of random, but I heard from a pretty good source within another PC maker that has knowledge of the OEM market that Apple is working on laptops with borderless displays, locking up much of the near-term production capacity for this type of system.

I don't know if this would be for updated MacBook Pros or for something new.
This is probably more like a Page 10 rumor, and given that I have no track record, I understand the doubts, but I had to share.
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I think physically at the moment, you need a border of some form for the signal wires to run round the lcd unit ... its not much of a border, but you still needed.

*IF* something like a borderless screen were to manifest itself, i think the borderless aspect would come from the glass cover reaching right to the very edge with a small black border behind it ... much in a similar manner to the revised iMac design where the glass appears to extend all the way to the edge, but the image from the LCD noticable within that by a good margin.
 
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