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Ultra-Portable MacBook Likely at Macworld San Francisco 2008?

holy crap a 13" black aluminum slim MBP would be sex.

Still a little iffy about the NAND, since it's still a fairly expensive affair, but if Apple can pull off at least 80GB NAND I'm sold. The battery life would be amazing, and a lot of external drives can be powered via USB, so any extra storage I could carry in my backpack. Why is January so far away :(
 
Everyone needs to stop hanging onto this "ultra portable" monicker. It's just gonna be a 13" MBP, and it'll be as thin and as light as can be allowed.
 
will it be multi-touch screen like iPhone?

will it be multi-touch screen like iPhone?
does anyone know?
one size?
 
I was just about to say the same :D

I think there are quite many people looking for a 10-12" 50% lighter than MBP laptop as a second computer. I have a 24" iMac and a MBP...often when working I hook the MBP up to an external monitor anyway. But the MB is not small enough and slim enough - it's too close to the MBP.

Much Ado said:
I want one already.
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The Street?!

sjo said:
And what does the financial community think of this Munster fellow?



http://www.thestreet.com/s/the-five...-this-week/newsanalysis/dumbest/10392262.html

Why do anyone pay any attention to him, really?
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Why would anyone pay attention to THE STREET? A complete box of rocks from top to bottom. Their predictions are what you invest against. They're just predictably wrong. It wasn't too long ago that Jim Cramer appeared on TV and said to absolutely "sell Apple"---and Apple went on a three month long upward ride. Great minds at The Street.
 
Apple's pricing schemes are pretty consistent, so if this is a replacement for the 12" PB... that machine was priced from $1500 to 1800

Sounds about right to me.
 
Happy Birthday!

Well, I have a 12'' iBook, exactly 4 years old today (Happy Birthday!) and I was giving a lesson on creating PowerPoint presentations (yes, I know) and said I'd soon be getting rid of the aforementioned 12" iBook - and my student said, yes, I'll buy it now. As in, right now. So, erm, right, no-one wants 12" Mac notebooks. No market for that form factor at all. And that's a 4-year-old iBook - can you even begin to imagine the specs?
 
people get so crabby about this.... everyone needs it to have the perfect specs to match what every single person needs....

too bad nobody needs the exact same thing, then apple could just come out with a single computer. or, everybody could stop complaining if one thing is not exactly what they wanted....
 
Yawn:(

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80G? Are you kidding?

NAND is way too expensive. That would add about $1000 to the ticket price. If this thing is NAND, don't expect anything bigger than 32G on the base unit with a 64G BTO. And the 64G is a stretch.
 
Let's jump to the minutes after the Keynote...

"It's too expensive"
"This thing will never sell"
"It's too big"
"It's too small"
"What? No bluetooth?"
"What? No optical drive?"
"I can get a Dell for..."
"What? A mechanical keyboard?"
"What? A multi-touch keyboard?"
"I can't do Photoshop/Final Cut with THIS"
"It's completely useless unless..."
"Apple's being greedy"
"It's crippled! It only has....."
"The battery only lasts.....hours"
"Not enough RAM"
"You can get a terrabyte drive for only..."

Sigh. Have I missed any? I think most of the market for this small format Mac consists of posters to MacRumors. Has anybody REALLY succeeded with this type of unit? Maybe if it's something never seen before. It'll be interesting.
 
Apple's subnotebooks have always been excellent (c.f. the Duo series and the 12" PB). If Apple builds it I will want one, though the near certain inclusion of an integrated GPU will be a drawback (though not a deal breaker in this segment).
 
krye said:
80G? Are you kidding?

NAND is way too expensive. That would add about $1000 to the ticket price. If this thing is NAND, don't expect anything bigger than 32G on the base unit with a 64G BTO. And the 64G is a stretch.
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If this thing exsists and they're planning on using an SSD, it will most likely be a BTO.
 
mrsebastian said:
if the rumors are true and steve doesn't blow it, by pricing the damn thing too high as usual, i'll take at least one and maybe two... heck you can bundle two of 'em with an airport (apple tv?/needs streaming hd video) and sell it as a family entertainment bundle.
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Oh stop frontin', you'll buy it any price. You'll just complain first like many and then go buy the damn thing, come to MR and post how much you love it. ;)
BTW SJ doesn't blow anything by the pricing, people like you still buy anyway.
 
since 32gb is priced at around 500 and 64gb is around 1000. the next logical form would be 96gb and that'll cost about 1500. i don't think you'll see more that a 64gb option.

if NAND is an option, i'd like to see a dual HD configuration. that way the NAND drive would only hold the OS and essential programs for a faster boot time.
 
Digitalclips said:
I wonder why SJ doesn't announce such a beast if it exists pre Christmas? I'd have thought new goodies pre Christmas makes more sense than when everyone is trying to find the money to pay for their holiday excesses.

I know Mac World isn't run by Apple but even the organizers of MW should consider why they hold this event in january every year ... or am I missing some major reason why it has to be in January?
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You kidding?
If they annonce it now lots of people wont purchase the current laptops and Apple would miss all expectations and have a lousy quarter.
 
Leaving out the optical drive to save space is not a new trick. I wonder if it is as pivotal of an issue for me as it is for others though? I can personally deal with smaller hard drives, less RAM, less processor (to some extent), and a smaller screen- but for some reason the lack of an optical drive always makes me think the laptop will be less useful. However, perhaps I should reconsider given the age of USB keychains and so forth.

I think the biggest hit for me would be the ability to stick in a DVD and watch it. But then I ask myself, how often do I actually do that?
 
farmboy said:
"It's too expensive"
"This thing will never sell"
"It's too big"
"It's too small"
"What? No bluetooth?"
"What? No optical drive?"
"I can get a Dell for..."
"What? A mechanical keyboard?"
"What? A multi-touch keyboard?"
"I can't do Photoshop/Final Cut with THIS"
"It's completely useless unless..."
"Apple's being greedy"
"It's crippled! It only has....."
"The battery only lasts.....hours"
"Not enough RAM"
"You can get a terrabyte drive for only..."

Sigh. Have I missed any? I think most of the market for this small format Mac consists of posters to MacRumors. Has anybody REALLY succeeded with this type of unit? Maybe if it's something never seen before. It'll be interesting.
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Haha, that was priceless. I think it will just be a 12" Macbook Pro, no less, no more. Superdrive and normal 2.5" HDD. LED-backlighted display and no keyboard backlight. No expresscard slot. Spec wise a Macbook, just smaller and aluminum. Core 2 Duo Processor with low speed, one slot for RAM.
 
dude i'm in.

january could be expensive. ultraportable/subnotebook/slimmacbook/mactablet/iphoneXL . . . whathave you. i'm in the market for something like this. can't wait. wahtever it will be, will be cutting edge i'm sure and will be the new standard for products of its class, and while i generally avoid doing so, i'll more than likely be an early adopter. here's hoping for my $100 gift card . . .

:D:D:apple::D:apple::D:D
 
Macrumors said:
Munster bases this prediction on circulating rumors about the ultraportable MacBook that have been making the rounds amongst Mac rumor sites over the past few months.
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That's funny. Rumour sites like this are the foundation for why he believes it's going to happen, and then it goes full circle and we use his prediction as further evidence for it!?
 
irun5k said:
Leaving out the optical drive to save space is not a new trick. I wonder if it is as pivotal of an issue for me as it is for others though? I can personally deal with smaller hard drives, less RAM, less processor (to some extent), and a smaller screen- but for some reason the lack of an optical drive always makes me think the laptop will be less useful. However, perhaps I should reconsider given the age of USB keychains and so forth.

I think the biggest hit for me would be the ability to stick in a DVD and watch it. But then I ask myself, how often do I actually do that?
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Imagine an Apple Wireless Superdrive (Draft N)? Pop in a disc and it gets mounted on your Mac via Bonjour. After a quick pairing à la bluetooth phone pairing you're good to go. I can picture a Mac Mini shaped, slot loaded burning station to put under an Airport Extreme or Mac Mini. Got a network printer? Now you got a network DVD drive. Also great: Wireless BlueRay/HDDVD drive: Watch high definition movies on every Mac via frontrow.

...damn I should patent this or something :)
 
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