Im going to be buying a MacBook Pro during the Back-to-School Promotion. Will we see an upgrade? i dont know if I should buy now....
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Will we see an upgrade for the MacBook Pro within the next few months?
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We don't know if the Penryns in the MacBook family, iMac, and Mac Mini will be updated at all, so it is doubtful that an update will happen.
About two months from now or so we'll see some Penryns being updated. Not all though, so we may not see some Mac updates.
I do not follow tech news this days so I can't give you informative advise. No major breakthroughs I'm aware of are going to happen in coming months.
All I can say that waiting for possible upgrades is silly. Some people are in to it (especially those who keen comparing Macs vs. PC) but generally as notebooks goes, brand has more bearing than innards. CPUs are far too fast for what most people use them now. GPUs on notebooks ... well make sure you have GPU and dedicated GRAM, not shared. RAM ... some applications can eat lots of it, but generally, I hardly ever see my MBP use more than 1GB despite my MBP17 having 4GB.
Essentially, with MBPs you are covered well for most of the task. Just keep cool and do not buy into the cheap race for bleeding edge. Even if upgrade happens next month, that would be only few percent improvement - not more - and that's it.
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This post is sorrow's textual incarnate. Really though with any piece of technology, but especially with Apple, you have to buy a product with the full knowledge that in some all-too-soon future, from the heavens will descend a glowing, shimmering visage with some vague resemblance to the pile of compacted trash you purchased for the same price. Then someone you know intimately will unconsciously strain their relationship with you by putting their Ferrari next to your sick, aging donkey so they can fully appreciate the exponential leap in technology in "such a short time." Perhaps with this knowledge the pain can be dulled, perhaps not. My sympathies, your grief is warranted despite the meek rationalizations of these forum members.
This post is sorrow's textual incarnate. Really though with any piece of technology, but especially with Apple, you have to buy a product with the full knowledge that in some all-too-soon future, from the heavens will descend a glowing, shimmering visage with some vague resemblance to the pile of compacted trash you purchased for the same price. Then someone you know intimately will unconsciously strain their relationship with you by putting their Ferrari next to your sick, aging donkey so they can fully appreciate the exponential leap in technology in "such a short time." Perhaps with this knowledge the pain can be dulled, perhaps not. My sympathies, your grief is warranted despite the meek rationalizations of these forum members.
What may be worth waiting a few months for would be the Snow Leopard release. Other than that processors are due for a major upgrade at the end of this year / beginning of next year.
I'm not sure if it's a sign of impending upgrades or simply a sign of the current financial "crisis", but two of the local chain stores here in New Zealand have been offering discounts on Apple computers recently, which rarely happens and usually coincides with upgrade stories on MacRumors and AppleInsider.
Noel Leemings had an "up to 20% off" sale last weekend. Dick Smith is currently offering NZ$100 off the MacBook Pro 13" (and maybe other models, but I haven't checked) and saying they have "limited stock" at most of their branches.
Noel Leemings had an "up to 20% off" sale last weekend. Dick Smith is currently offering NZ$100 off the MacBook Pro 13" (and maybe other models, but I haven't checked) and saying they have "limited stock" at most of their branches.
