lol if you actually click the second link at read the posters comment he clearly says "My Mockup" aka this is not real, just another fan made graphics generation.
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Even better now. Show this to Apple and maybe they will consider this design. Seriously, show it to Apple and I am sure they will enjoy this design concept.
I heard there might be an apple event on the 9th of september. Hopefully they will announce it there. i'll hold off buying my macbook pro till then
This mock-up is fine and exactly what I would expect from taking what has already been designed and tweaking it based on the rumors. However, design is very different from what this very nicely done PSD is.
Think of the visual history of the iMac and iPods. Great design changes were made over the years - not just small touch ups here and there based on what already is. Photo composites/collages of existing images is different than design.
Spend your time mastering a CAD program and design the next MBP on that. Then send it to Mr. Ive ... he will be much more impressed than just seeing their own current designs slightly tweaked. Oh, and think outside the box (to use an overused expression) - that's what Apple has always done at its best.
Think of the visual history of the iMac and iPods. Great design changes were made over the years - not just small touch ups here and there based on what already is. Photo composites/collages of existing images is different than design.
Spend your time mastering a CAD program and design the next MBP on that. Then send it to Mr. Ive ... he will be much more impressed than just seeing their own current designs slightly tweaked. Oh, and think outside the box (to use an overused expression) - that's what Apple has always done at its best.
Don't forget that this wasn't 'designed' to be equal to what would come out of Apple's design department, but was merely an attempt to provide a mashup of current rumors, although I don't mind that so many people are pleased with it.
Also, about the CAD program, I'd probably use Maya 8, and unlike this PS ad, it would definitely take up a large chunk of my time. I guess what I'm saying is, taken for what it is, I'm pleased with this design, although I don't deny that if I was being paid the big bucks at Apple, this would probably not be the final result.
Understood. I look forward to the next gen of laptops where the interface will be similar to the iPhone ... but on steroids.
Unfortunately so true. Your thoughts proven by the lack of cut and paste on the iPhone after 14 months on the market. Sigh.
Whatever it looks like, and quite frankly I really don't care, I hope it's speced like this, which is what I really care about. Come on Apple. Build it and I will buy it.
HP today preceded the SIGGRAPH expo by introducing a notebook it claims breaks two records in notebooks. The 17-inch EliteBook 8730w is the first known notebook to use a true Intel mobile quad-core processor rather than repurposed desktop parts and thus has the same size and battery performance of regular 17-inch systems. The company doesn't reveal the processor but is known to be using a 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme with 12MB of Level 2 cache, trading the clock speed of some Core 2 Duo processors for better performance in video encoding and other tasks that can recognize more than two cores.
It also uses the updates of Intel's newer Centrino 2 notebook platform to support as much as 8GB of memory, twice that of earlier notebooks.
HP EliteBook 8730w
17-inch display with optional 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1200, or 1900 x 1200 LED
Intel Core 2 Duo processor (up to 3.0-GHz)
Supports up to 8GB of RAM
160GB/250GB 5,400-rpm hard drives; 160GB/250GB/320GB 7,200-rpm hard drives
Blu-ray R/RE optical drive; DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL drive. The optical bay can also be used to store a secondary hard drive (250GB, 5400-rpm or 320GB, 7,200-rpm) that allows RAID 1 mirroring or RAID 0 striping
ATI Mobility FireGL V5725 (with 256MB of memory), Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M 1GB of video memory.
2 MP webcam
802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 2.0
ExpressCard/54, memory card reader
4 USB 2.0, HDMI, eSATA, FireWire, VGA, stereo headphone, stereo mic, Ethernet
TPM, fingerprint sensor, HP ProtectTools, Disk Sanitizer, Drive encryption, Enhanced Drive Lock, Credential Manager, integrated SmartCard reader. 6.6 pounds.
The mobile workstation is also one of the first to use a true high-color display, HP boasts. The 8730w borrows the similar color accuracy development as the PC maker's recent DreamColor desktop display and outputs a full 16 million colors versus the 260,000 of most existing notebook LCD panels; while less than the one billion of the 24-inch original, the accuracy is enough to improve visual editing without relying on an external LCD.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/11/hp.elitebook.quad.core/
HP today preceded the SIGGRAPH expo by introducing a notebook it claims breaks two records in notebooks. The 17-inch EliteBook 8730w is the first known notebook to use a true Intel mobile quad-core processor rather than repurposed desktop parts and thus has the same size and battery performance of regular 17-inch systems. The company doesn't reveal the processor but is known to be using a 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme with 12MB of Level 2 cache, trading the clock speed of some Core 2 Duo processors for better performance in video encoding and other tasks that can recognize more than two cores.
It also uses the updates of Intel's newer Centrino 2 notebook platform to support as much as 8GB of memory, twice that of earlier notebooks.
HP EliteBook 8730w
17-inch display with optional 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1200, or 1900 x 1200 LED
Intel Core 2 Duo processor (up to 3.0-GHz)
Supports up to 8GB of RAM
160GB/250GB 5,400-rpm hard drives; 160GB/250GB/320GB 7,200-rpm hard drives
Blu-ray R/RE optical drive; DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL drive. The optical bay can also be used to store a secondary hard drive (250GB, 5400-rpm or 320GB, 7,200-rpm) that allows RAID 1 mirroring or RAID 0 striping
ATI Mobility FireGL V5725 (with 256MB of memory), Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M 1GB of video memory.
2 MP webcam
802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 2.0
ExpressCard/54, memory card reader
4 USB 2.0, HDMI, eSATA, FireWire, VGA, stereo headphone, stereo mic, Ethernet
TPM, fingerprint sensor, HP ProtectTools, Disk Sanitizer, Drive encryption, Enhanced Drive Lock, Credential Manager, integrated SmartCard reader. 6.6 pounds.
The mobile workstation is also one of the first to use a true high-color display, HP boasts. The 8730w borrows the similar color accuracy development as the PC maker's recent DreamColor desktop display and outputs a full 16 million colors versus the 260,000 of most existing notebook LCD panels; while less than the one billion of the 24-inch original, the accuracy is enough to improve visual editing without relying on an external LCD.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/11/hp.elitebook.quad.core/
i wouldn't necessarily say that, because chances are that if you're doing something GPU or CPU intensive (eg converting something to h264 or running a game) chances are that you're not going to use you're battery. Even on the current MBP you won't get more than an hour playing a graphic intensive game or converting a DVD using handbrake.
for basic operating system use/browsing the internet you aren't using your GPU and its not very CPU intensive, and therefore shouldn't draw as much power (correct me if I am wrong in this conclusion)
for basic operating system use/browsing the internet you aren't using your GPU and its not very CPU intensive, and therefore shouldn't draw as much power (correct me if I am wrong in this conclusion)
Definitely a fake.
For a start, I don't think Apple would have the gall to call something that looks so much like a hybrid of the Air and the current MBP "all new".
Whatever features mark the difference between the current MBP and the forthcoming MBP, I hope they're more interesting than curved edges and a chiclet keyboard.
Looking forward to 09/09
For a start, I don't think Apple would have the gall to call something that looks so much like a hybrid of the Air and the current MBP "all new".
Whatever features mark the difference between the current MBP and the forthcoming MBP, I hope they're more interesting than curved edges and a chiclet keyboard.
Looking forward to 09/09
Why does everyone want a redesigned Macbook Pro? It already looks beautiful, and the mockups I've seen are ugly in comparison (no offence).
Just refine the current design:
Maglatch (which should also end the warping issue)
User replaceable HDD
Optional chicklet keys
The people who want a new MBP want one just for the sake of it, and I hope the design stays the same for years to come.
Just refine the current design:
Maglatch (which should also end the warping issue)
User replaceable HDD
Optional chicklet keys
The people who want a new MBP want one just for the sake of it, and I hope the design stays the same for years to come.
How exactly do you propose that the keyboard and device layout change (to facilitate accessing the hard drive) without redesigning the case anyway, as those two changes that you ask for would absolutely require a major change to the case design.
You do realise that what you've just said can be summarised as "I don't think that the MacBook Pro design should change... except for the design changes I want, of course".
Your post goes against the design curve of EVERY product in history - thankfully. Imagine us still driving around in Model T's or still using the rotary phone? It might not be this next update, but very soon the current interface and look of the MBP will feel truly dated. The writing is on the iPhone.
As for "years to come" - for someone like you there will always be an antique MBP on sale in the world of eBay so you won't have to be affected as great technological advances are made. There are of course people that still drive around in Model T's and play 78 LP's.
PS If you want to be nostalgic about Apple design, the old (8 years ago) Pismo Powerbook was much more ergonomically shaped than the PB's and MBP's that subsequently replaced it.
I do not fancy the chiclet keys. It makes the Macbook Pro look like a toy rather than a professional computing device.
We won't know that for sure until we see the finished article, will we?
It's worth noting that Sony seem to be going the same way, and they typically build the higher-end Windows machines.
That is correct. And I'd also say that a quad-core would complete a (multi-threaded) task much faster than a dual-core, so although instantaneous power usage is higher, total power usage may actually be lower.
You don't lie. That was a killer design; I still love my Pismo to bits. Sometimes I wish I could take the basic design of it and throw in a widescreen LED display and Intel processor in it.
However, things have to change at some point.
I think that if they took the current MBP, made it about as easy to upgrade as the Pismo, and changed up the design of it enough so that it still had that sleek, classic Apple look but was made more modern and cutting-edge(such as with dark-grey aluminium or something), it would have a damn-near perfect design.