yet another Tuesday is approaching.. New MacBooks?

[sn00pie]

If Apple releases on this Tuesday, they would easily be able to be in time for the back to school season. Laptops are going to be flying off shelves like no tommorow in the next few weeks, and with the absolute shortage of Mac notebooks in retailer stocks, they have to release a new product, or somehow supply us with more stock in the next week or two.

4 MacBooks for back to school season at a significent retailer doesn't really make sense from a business standpoint, now does it?

If you ask me its either this week or next week if Apple wants to capitilize.

 

[Drumjim85]

4 MacBooks for back to school season at a significent retailer doesn't really make sense from a business standpoint, now does it?

what store only has 4 MBs?

 

[sn00pie]

My local Best Buy. Stock numbers are very low across the board, which is one of the reasons why a update very soon is possible.

 

[iOrlando]

September 30 annoucement...On sale October 7 or 14.

Dont forget..we are still in Iphone release time...apple wont release macbooks with that still going on. and there is 0 reasons to release macbooks before the college promo ends. Why should anyone get a free ipod and brand new updated, probably price reduced macbook?

 

[iOrlando]

My local Best Buy. Stock numbers are very low across the board, which is one of the reasons why a update very soon is possible.

That best buy is clueless then. Apple told retailers last week to get at least 5 weeks of their best selling products.

 

[ajohnson253]

or......we can just wait till they actually come out

 

[kabunaru]

I predict something is going to happen on August 26th.

 

[Admonitor]

That best buy is clueless then. Apple told retailers last week to get at least 5 weeks of their best selling products.

Really? On the 30th/31st retailers were told to buy 3 weeks of Macbooks/Pros, and 4 weeks of iPods, was this a different update or something?

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...of_mac_and_ipod_drought_says_load_up_now.html

 

[countrykid333]

Not this tuesday but maybe "next tuesday" lol

is it just me or is it always next tuesday

 

[sn00pie]

Really? On the 30th/31st retailers were told to buy 3 weeks of Macbooks/Pros, and 4 weeks of iPods, was this a different update or something?

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...of_mac_and_ipod_drought_says_load_up_now.html

Yep I think most of the factors do point at a release in the next week or two at the maximum.

 

[*Sandy*]

Yep I think most of the factors do point at a release in the next week or two at the maximum.

From your mouth to Steves ear!!!!!

 

[jjahshik32]

Next tuesday times infinity...

I guess its another lotto drawing tonight around 9-10pm and see if the apple store has that infamous we'll be back...

 

[Insulin Junkie]

Whatever. I believe it when I see it, or when / if apple releases the dates.

 

[jjahshik32]

Whatever. I believe it when I see it, or when / if apple releases the dates.

Lol its not like were waiting for some miracle to happen. It will happen sometime this month or sometime in september but pretty much its 100% that it will happen in those months. Also apple never releases the dates they just come out with it out of the blue.

I cant wait to get the aluminum + led backlit screen macbooks and if the rumors are true cheaper price cuts too!! Maybe $200-$300 cheaper.

 

[Drumjim85]

Lol its not like were waiting for some miracle to happen. It will happen sometime this month or sometime in september but pretty much its 100% that it will happen in those months.

wouldn't pretty much %100 be equal to %95?? or something else less than 100.

 

[Insulin Junkie]

I cant wait to get the aluminum + led backlit screen macbooks and if the rumors are true cheaper price cuts too!! Maybe $200-$300 cheaper.

I'm with you on the backlit keyboard thing. It'd be awesome if you could choose to add the option of getting the color of the backlit keyboard to change to different colors... something tells me that's not going to happen though. It'd be good enough if they introduced the backlit keyboard to the MB's, I'd be happy enough with that.

Aluminium... hmm.. I'm still a fan of the black / white idea. Though maybe seeing aluminium macbooks will change my mind on it.

 

[jjahshik32]

I'm with you on the backlit keyboard thing. It'd be awesome if you could choose to add the option of getting the color of the backlit keyboard to change to different colors... something tells me that's not going to happen though. It'd be good enough if they introduced the backlit keyboard to the MB's, I'd be happy enough with that.

Aluminium... hmm.. I'm still a fan of the black / white idea. Though maybe seeing aluminium macbooks will change my mind on it.

I could care less about backlit keyboards... if you read close I said LED backlit screen meaning lcd screens.

And believe me there will definitely be led backlit screens and I'm guessing the current mba's screens will be implemented onto the macbooks that will be freakishly awesome.

 

[Insulin Junkie]

I could care less about backlit keyboards... if you read close I said LED backlit screen meaning lcd screens.

And believe me there will definitely be led backlit screens and I'm guessing the current mba's screens will be implemented onto the macbooks that will be freakishly awesome.

Ah.

I hope there will be. It'd be a shame if the MB was the only laptop in their current line-up without it.

 

[JML42691]

I don't really see them announcing a new MacBook or MacBook Pro design in the immediate future. I see Apple doing the standard iPod lineup update, along with maybe some few new small features with iTunes in September, but nothing more than that. Maybe the typical spec boost that we are used to seeing will happen with the MB and MBP, but I don't see there being a major change with them until MWSF '09 this year. If you think about it, an updated iPod line (if it were to happen on any level) plus a new look for the MB and MBP would be a lot for one event that isn't given all that much press beforehand. That is why I see them updating the MB and MBP majorly during MWSF '09, as that could be the big update for the expo.

 

[jjahshik32]

I don't really see them announcing a new MacBook or MacBook Pro design in the immediate future. I see Apple doing the standard iPod lineup update, along with maybe some few new small features with iTunes in September, but nothing more than that. Maybe the typical spec boost that we are used to seeing will happen with the MB and MBP, but I don't see there being a major change with them until MWSF '09 this year. If you think about it, an updated iPod line (if it were to happen on any level) plus a new look for the MB and MBP would be a lot for one event that isn't given all that much press beforehand. That is why I see them updating the MB and MBP majorly during MWSF '09, as that could be the big update for the expo.

Jan. 09 is wayy to late for an update. Apple has to use the newer specs from what Intel is offering at the moment other wise they'll be completely out of stock since Intel already stopped producing the current chipsets probably a couple months ago.

 

[iMacmatician]

Not until September.

They're not going to release a completely redesigned revision of their best selling computer without significant media coverage.

Apple did redesign the iBook into the MacBook without an event.

September 30 annoucement...On sale October 7 or 14.

Dont forget..we are still in Iphone release time...apple wont release macbooks with that still going on.

Apple released the aluminum iMac 1.5 months after the iPhone. 1.5 months after 11 July is late August.

and there is 0 reasons to release macbooks before the college promo ends. Why should anyone get a free ipod and brand new updated, probably price reduced macbook?

Because the iMacs were updated last year midway through the promotion?

And those saying speed bump soon, no redesign until later… every notebook rumor since April of this year has been saying or hinting at a redesign this quarter.

 

[JML42691]

Jan. 09 is wayy to late for an update. Apple has to use the newer specs from what Intel is offering at the moment other wise they'll be completely out of stock since Intel already stopped producing the current chipsets probably a couple months ago.

I am not meaning to say that we will not see an update between now and then, only that we will not see a major update (new case design, new features). I do suspect that we will see a minor spec boost sometime between now and October, but not this rumored major change. I think that the major change will occur at MWSF '09, and we will see a minor spec boost between now and then.

 

[JDMFSeanP]

I just wanna see the design so bad haha

 

[sn00pie]

The only for sure we have are LED backlit displays, other than that everything is just speculation. I'd be fine buying a white plastic MacBook with a LED backlit display, that's all I'm looking forward to in the new MacBooks.

Either way Apple has me sold on a MacBook. I need it for school and the current MacBook will do the job just fine, it's just who doesn't want the latest and great of technology?

 

[jjahshik32]

The only for sure we have are LED backlit displays, other than that everything is just speculation. I'd be fine buying a white plastic MacBook with a LED backlit display, that's all I'm looking forward to in the new MacBooks.

Either way Apple has me sold on a MacBook. I need it for school and the current MacBook will do the job just fine, it's just who doesn't want the latest and great of technology?

Yea I dont really mind or care if the new macbooks are thinner + aluminum body.. just as long as it has the new led backlit displays + montevina.