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Photos of Claimed New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Logic Board Show NVIDIA GT 650M, Retained Layout

Here's adding nothing to the speculations

Sit tight and fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride


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Has anyone asked Siri about what she thinks will be announced?
 
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How about?

Just a thought:

There doesn't look to be very much 'competition' out there in terms of design and ease of use with powerful machines as the pros line of Macs. Macs are so specialized machines that APPLE can really take its time with drastic 'redesigns' etc because no other computers out there present any threat to image.

I went for the MBP 17" because of its look first and then realized I can do SO MUCH MORE than I did on my HP 1998 Pavilion (HAHAHAHAAA) but not that much more really, just more fancy and a little quicker here and there but that old HP machine still does a ton of great things for my music career (still).

Yes, it is true, it takes me that long to finally catch onto a good thing. If it wasn't the fact that I really need to refresh my MBP badly because it has developed a curious thing with which the fan is on as soon as I turn on the computer until I turn it off (for 2 years with no solutions in sight), it makes it difficult to record my albums in my apartment studio with the whooshing sound (sigh).

If I am unimpressed with the line up and announcements today I will hold tight 4 more years if I have to. This 2007, 2008 MBP 17" is still amazing and feels faster than its ever been, I haven't updated anything on it AT ALL since I first got it, the only problem has been the fan constantly on issue.

I only own one Apple product and I'm gonna keep it that way.
 
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lloyd709 said:
What's all the hype about a retina display?

The display on my 5 year old MBP seems to be fine. I'm a professional photographer and can see all the detail I need (and I would have thought if anyone needs detail it would be the likes of me). I've got an iPhone 4s (which I think has one) and haven't noticed any difference between it and my iPhone 3! Maybe I'm just going blind in my old age or perhaps when I actually see a images on a retina display I will be convinced - but in the meantime if anyone can explain the practical differences I would be interested!
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One takeaway from this discussion is that there's definitely room for a range of laptops betweent the Air and the Pro. I would love a Macbook that's slightly thinner with no optical drive, ethernet and FW, but with a decent GPU and replaceable RAM and hard disk.

The Pros can keep the current Pro ;)
 
Looking For Concrete Info...Strangely Absent.

Well, it won't be long...Less than 12 hours now, but I must say real concrete info on the new MacBook Pro has been difficult, at best, to nail down.

Saying it will be the same profile and thinner is akin to saying your next Hershey bar will be brown and rectangular. All laptops of either the same or higher power get thinner, if not monthly certainly yearly. Of course it will be thinner if only by a small margin. The real question isn't if it will retain the same profile, as that is almost a certainly with The Air being a wedge (why have a Pro Air?), but what will the composition of the chassis be? Will it remain machined aluminum, so-called "liquid metal", or something unknown in laptop manufacture?

We know Apple will use new Intel Ivy Bridge chipset technology and we know that Apple won't settle on imbedded video, these rumors have been fairly well substantiated. What we want to know is exactly how the display itself will be up-graded? I'm guessing by this site, as well as the general around-the-web rumor-mill, that a very refined super LCD back-lit display will be used. Will the new display achieve such pixel density as to be coined Retina is unknown, yet seems likely even if the technology isn't the same as the latest iPad.

As a Dell XPS 15Z user who only selected it due to the excellent 1080p screen,I expect this to be the machine that pushes me to make the jump to a Mac. I believe the compelling Ivy Bridge technolgy, a 1080p beyond screen - possessing quite possibly a new high in pixel-density, combined with the absolute thinnest profile possible (while retaining Apple's famous rock-solid chassis sturdiness) will be exactly what Apple delivers. This alone should push sales into overdrive as the last build is now, basically, two years old retaining physical and other traits from way over that period. Add a new OS and you have the nex-gen MacBook Pro. It will be a statement product in technology and build-quality and I am ready!
 
There is no reason for the Pro to Change Design, the Pro is a work horse which means it needs a Power CPU, good GFX, Large Hard Drive, and it still needs the DVD drive for those who need to export Large Amounts of data.

Apple Mince enough with the Pro Models you can see they already compromise performance for Style as they under clock their GPU's.

They can't go further towards style as it will make the word Pro look silly
 
Navdakilla said:
The point isn't that the design now is amazing (which I agree). It's the fact that theses laptops have had the same design for 4 years. Change is what the people need
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Change for the sake of change is the mentality of a spoiled child, please stop displaying it. (it's very unbecoming)

If the design still works and apple can't currently improve on it while providing a happy medium they won't change it. They are probably testing new designs but that doesn't mean they will use them.
 
Doubtful over Hi-Dpi

I have activated the hi-dpi option on my Mac for a while, and in doing so have thought for a good while whilst these rumours circulated that whilst a nice fanciful idea, the OS and applications are just not ready for it.

The majority of assets are still low res, and 99.5% of third party applications are likewise.

When you see a retina / hi-dpi asset sat next to a low one, it is really jarring and does not look great or indeed very professional.

Unless Mountain Lion is FULLY hi-dpi ready which in its current form is still not the case, the 'readiness' for Hi-Dpi displays is simply 'not now' in regards to the timing.

Still I wait for the official announcement to see if they surprise me, tempt me or dumbfound me. :)
 
vpro said:
Just a thought:

If it wasn't the fact that I really need to refresh my MBP badly because it has developed a curious thing with which the fan is on as soon as I turn on the computer until I turn it off (for 2 years with no solutions in sight)
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Have you tried opening it up and blowing the dust out of it!! Did this with a friends of mine and it solved his 'fan always on' problem! These things can get full of dust which acts as a very good insulator and making the temperature sore even with no use on the processor resulting the fans staying on!!
 
1finite said:
This is gonna be the same kind of let down that the iPhone 4s was.
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The 4s was not a letdown in any way. Before the announcement some joker spread a rumor that a radically different iPhone 5 was going to be announced, but nobody with a clue believed it:

o The iPhone 4 didn't really lack
o The iPhone 3G was followed by the 3GS
o Had Apple blown their wad jamming everything into the iPhone 4 successor, what would that leave them for this year?

All the hype for a big redesign, but it's actually just an incremental upgrade. So lame...
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You do understand the concept of a rumor right?

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iChrist said:
Now Jobs gone Apple is conservative. No design remake is fail. Big fat clunky version of notebook to stay is fail. and sad. This news is so bad.
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How can something "be" "fail"? I suggest getting your money back from your ESL instructor.
 
Based on this thread, the majority of people seem more interested in change for change's sake than actually improving the MBP in any meaningful way.

Is strange.

Faster CPU, and GPU ~50% faster than before. No significant other info. And people still complain.

Very strange.
 
Optical drive taking space

While I'm sure there are some who use the optical drive often (still think most don't nowadays) it sure takes up a ridiculous amount of space inside, space that I think could be used for much better things. It's also possible to use an external ”Superdrive”, so I would definitely like to see a MacBook (Pro) without an optical drive.

I guess it's easier to do the logic board re-design with all that extra space. Don't necessarily think the design of the case has to be thinker (just for the sake of it).
 
MacRumorUser said:
I have activated the hi-dpi option on my Mac for a while, and in doing so have thought for a good while whilst these rumours circulated that whilst a nice fanciful idea, the OS and applications are just not ready for it.

The majority of assets are still low res, and 99.5% of third party applications are likewise.

When you see a retina / hi-dpi asset sat next to a low one, it is really jarring and does not look great or indeed very professional.

Unless Mountain Lion is FULLY hi-dpi ready which in its current form is still not the case, the 'readiness' for Hi-Dpi displays is simply 'not now' in regards to the timing.

Still I wait for the official announcement to see if they surprise me, tempt me or dumbfound me. :)
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I concur without any tech reasoning from my part, but isn't apple an entity pulling the rest of the tech world forward?
 
Face it; this is WWDC, not Macworld. I can't understand why everyone expected Apple to actually announce new hardware on stage!

Stores will be down and up in the next 24-hours with a quiet refresh ;)
 
lloyd709 said:
What's all the hype about a retina display?

The display on my 5 year old MBP seems to be fine. I'm a professional photographer and can see all the detail I need (and I would have thought if anyone needs detail it would be the likes of me). I've got an iPhone 4s (which I think has one) and haven't noticed any difference between it and my iPhone 3! Maybe I'm just going blind in my old age or perhaps when I actually see a images on a retina display I will be convinced - but in the meantime if anyone can explain the practical differences I would be interested!
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Wow sir. If cant tell difference between iPhone 3 and iPhone 4 screen something is wrong. Need to see doctor or something of that nature. How is possible to not tell??? Is so crazy.
 
coolguy$$$ said:
I think still there is a possibility for a redesign. Rumours said the new design will have the same outer design but in a thinner form factor (not a wedge shaped design like Air). If they remove the optiocal drive, ethernet, and firewire there is still a possibility to get the same MACBOOK pro unibody design in a thinner formfactor.

Also in such a case, logic board screw positions will remain the same.

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Why would Apple remove the SD slot that it can find room for in the MBA?

I am curious to see whether Apple is going to dump the ethernet, in spite of business users, in favour of updating the WiFi with 80.211ac chips from Broadcom.
 
Virgule82 said:
One takeaway from this discussion is that there's definitely room for a range of laptops betweent the Air and the Pro. I would love a Macbook that's slightly thinner with no optical drive, ethernet and FW, but with a decent GPU and replaceable RAM and hard disk.

The Pros can keep the current Pro ;)
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Man - that would really annoy a lot of people seeing room for an xMac between an iMac and a Mac Pro, with basically the same reasoning (decent/replaceable GPU/Ram/HDD for "Prosumers"). Now if Apple would close that hole in their mobile portfolio, but not on the desktop line...
 
QuarterSwede said:
No, Jobs was working on these before he died. Apple works 2 years out.
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Which doesn't necessarily mean Steve Jobs worked on these designs.
Not the iPhone, not the Mac's or anything else for that matter.

Steve jobs last years most have been extremely hard.
Do you really think Steve worked till the day he died?
He was a human not a freaking robot that just stopped working.

If Apple says that new products over the years are from Steve Jobs you'll know it's just marketing right?
 
Erasmus said:
Based on this thread, the majority of people seem more interested in change for change's sake than actually improving the MBP in any meaningful way.

Is strange.

Faster CPU, and GPU ~50% faster than before. No significant other info. And people still complain.

Very strange.
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I am one of these "people" hoping for even incremental design changes. In contrast, what is with all the people saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? What kind of company would Apple be today if it followed these same rules for the last 6-7 years?

Where is the innovation-pushing efforts at all on any of the Macs (aside from "wedge-shape on the Air) in the last few years?

No higher resolutions at all on "Pro" machines (STILL 1280 on the 13"), no SSD+HD innovation for overall speed, no effort to shrink the bezel even a little around the screens, there are countless even minor things Apple could do to improve the MBP, but you seem content to just leave it as it is indefinitely? It's been 4-5 years now. Something needs to change.
 
Now i think Kuo's claim goes to be true. Legacy MacBookPro for people that needs superdrive, fw800, ethernet etc... And a new notebook with all modern stuff: thinner, tb+usb3, no-odd, ssd+hdd, retina. Now 15", in future 13 and 15.
It makes much sense for me.
 
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