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Waiting for Haswell MBP Mega Thread

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VanillaCracker said:
No one is saying that they have them in stock or are delaying them only for Mavericks. There is absolutely no way they would be holding them for a month if they were ready. You guys aren't thinking. If apple was going to release them in October, they're not going to have ordered them in September. They'll get them just in time, to minimize Inventory costs.

If there was some sort of hickup in manufacturing (might be the case, since everything else [aside from MP preview] was announced in June) then they may be holding off till those issues are fixed or sorted out, and it might just be that around October is when that would be, so a release alongside Mavericks would be convenient. They mentioned much about Mavericks already in WWDC though, so the event will mostly be for product release.
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Actually some people are suggesting that they will delay it just for Mavericks, thus my post.

And I already stated what you just said: if they come out in October it's because that's how they've already scheduled it (with the supply chain, production, etc). I agree the only other reason to go in October is because they've hit a delay in one of those areas which is pretty much common sense.

Otherwise, Apple has already lined everything to ramp up production in October already as planned months ago.
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Apple has had a habit of typing hardware release to operating system releases, given the lack of fanfare anymore on their operating system releases. The BtS offer ends September 6th.
 
Brian Kendig said:
Here's a thought. What if, in addition to the new Retina MacBook Pro 15" with Iris Pro integrated graphics, they keep the old-style MacBook Pro 15" around - with its large hard drive, its optical drive, and its discrete GPU, which gets upgraded to a GeForce 750m?

Everyone thinks the non-Retina model is doomed, but Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry to kill it off. Simply bumping up the specs on the old model would satisfy the people who want to game on it, or who keep a terabyte hard drive full, or need to burn DVDs and don't want to carry around an external burner.
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I think that the fact that there had been no incremental updates in February might be a sign that the CMBP is the forgotten bastard stepchild and therefore is doomed
 
mcarling said:
It's a good reason to ensure that you have enough RAM, so that you won't be massively swapping to the SSD.
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I think it is possible to use a 64 or 128gb nifty minidrive as a swap disk... only and only if you have 16GB or more RAM... because with low RAM the OS will likely swap frequently and the high latency of the mini drive will be a huge bottleneck..
 
Millionaire2K said:
Exactly. And they don't need another event to do it all again. Just give us the release date for Pro and Mav on Sept 10th.
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yes, they don't need to, but in the past, they have reiterated features of OS X or iOS at events

"We are really excited about iOS 6. It has so many new features in it, and I'd like to demo it here on the iPhone 5." -iPhone 5 announcement, months after WWDC 2012
Maybe they won't do this again though because this fall wil be so packed, but no one can be sure if they are going to talk about stuff a second time (they did the same thing at the 4s event if I remember right)
 
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Well considering how well sales have been for the past year, I would be shocked if they follow 2012's release/announcement strategy in 2013. ;)
 
Man that Lenovo reminds me of the MacBook Air. I guess that's what PC makers have to do these days. And they will still put those silly stickers all over the laptop.
 
Millionaire2K said:
Well considering how well sales have been for the past year, I would be shocked if they follow 2012's release/announcement strategy in 2013. ;)
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I guess you must be right. I guess, if you say so, the decline in Mac sales must be due to 2012's release schedule. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with cannibalization by iPad sales or with the even faster declining PeeCee sales.

Sigh .....
 
mcarling said:
I guess you must be right. I guess, if you say so, the decline in Mac sales must be due to 2012's release schedule. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with cannibalization by iPad sales or with the even faster declining PeeCee sales.

Sigh .....
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Lol love it
 
mcarling said:
I guess you must be right. I guess, if you say so, the decline in Mac sales must be due to 2012's release schedule. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with cannibalization by iPad sales or with the even faster declining PeeCee sales.

Sigh .....
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Yeah don't forget that to. :)
 
mattshort said:
What about the 37W 4702HQ? The current 13" i7 uses a 35W part, which is 37.5mm x 37.5mm x {no thickness given} vs. the 4702HQ at 37.5 x 32 x 1.6.

Yes, it has HD4600 instead of the HD5100 with the U parts, but that's a tradeoff I'd gladly take for a quad in the 13" form factor.
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There will be 28W CPUs in the 13-inch. No quad-core, at least not this year.
 
Watabou said:
Man that Lenovo reminds me of the MacBook Air. I guess that's what PC makers have to do these days. And they will still put those silly stickers all over the laptop.
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looks like a lenovo ideapad to me, and i own an air. didn't see any stickers on it also.
 
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