New Macbooks

WotDa · 15 May 2007 at 17:06

Justin said:
They are certainly due for an update though, I don't think it will be anything major, but they may well bring out the Santa Rosa chipsets very soon. I think any big changes will happen along with Leopard being released.

Same here. I'm tempted to wait until Leopard, sell my PC and either get a HDTV to hook my MBP to or a Mac Mini.

But yea, I'm pretty sure it would be a better business plan to release the LED backlights etc in line with Leopard and just update a the chipsets and that for now.

J1234 · 15 May 2007 at 17:09

WotDa said:
Same here. I'm tempted to wait until Leopard, sell my PC and either get a HDTV to hook my MBP to or a Mac Mini.

But yea, I'm pretty sure it would be a better business plan to release the LED backlights etc in line with Leopard and just update a the chipsets and that for now.

Yeah they may not even reduce they chipsets until the Leopard release, but Apple is pretty unpredictable.

Also, I wander how many people have fallen for this http://www.appie.dk/macbookpro/

WotDa · 15 May 2007 at 17:17

Justin said:
Yeah they may not even reduce they chipsets until the Leopard release, but Apple is pretty unpredictable.

Also, I wander how many people have fallen for this http://www.appie.dk/macbookpro/

Mobile Xeon? Yes please!

Time to flip my laptop over and fry some eggs on it!

Tbh though, can Apple really wait until October to release Santa Rosa?

J1234 · 15 May 2007 at 17:19

WotDa said:
Mobile Xeon? Yes please!

Time to flip my laptop over and fry some eggs on it!

Tbh though, can Apple really wait until October to release Santa Rosa?

I doubt they will, they will probably bring it out very soon (hopefully) So I can buy a MBP in June

fail at the internets · 15 May 2007 at 17:20

Rossmac said:
£713 if you are a student for that spec Hornchurch.

So who wants a Core Duo 2.0ghz MacBook then?

This where being a student actually pays off

V For Vendetta · 15 May 2007 at 18:35

well now I have calmed down, when you think about it for Apple to release Santa Rosa in the low end Mac Book today would hurt MBP sales, I went and bought the top end BlackBook.

The way I see it I have got 166mhz more CPU, free N + 40GB extra HD space and all for 50 quid less then people were paying last week.

+a 3% quidy saving

subxero · 15 May 2007 at 19:55

Does anybody have any idea if or when they will be doing the same to the Mac Minis?

JonB · 15 May 2007 at 20:11

Hopefully. I think most of the updates will be at WWDC.

arty · 15 May 2007 at 21:00

JonB said:
Hopefully. I think most of the updates will be at WWDC.

...which is still about 4 weeks away

I was hoping to hear some news on the update to the Pro range today so I can better judge whether to go for a straight Macbook or a Pro. I'm particularly interested in seeing whether anything will differentiate the two ranges more than they are now, seeing as they are even closer since this update

arty

subxero · 15 May 2007 at 21:09

arty said:
...which is still about 4 weeks away I was hoping to hear some news on the update to the Pro range today so I can better judge whether to go for a straight Macbook or a Pro. I'm particularly interested in seeing whether anything will differentiate the two ranges more than they are now, seeing as they are even closer since this update

arty

My thoughts exactly, although I really don't like the look of the MacBooks, but the Pros are nice

I think I will hold out for the update to the minis, it must only be a matter of time now

J1234 · 15 May 2007 at 21:10

arty said:
...which is still about 4 weeks away I was hoping to hear some news on the update to the Pro range today so I can better judge whether to go for a straight Macbook or a Pro. I'm particularly interested in seeing whether anything will differentiate the two ranges more than they are now, seeing as they are even closer since this update

arty

I'm sure the MacBook Pro will be upgraded very shortly, if not definatley at the WWDC.

WotDa · 15 May 2007 at 21:14

arty said:
...which is still about 4 weeks away I was hoping to hear some news on the update to the Pro range today so I can better judge whether to go for a straight Macbook or a Pro. I'm particularly interested in seeing whether anything will differentiate the two ranges more than they are now, seeing as they are even closer since this update

arty

"Wow, 60 frames per second with all that action going on"

Other things;

Backlit keyboard (Winrar)
Motion sensor, for some reason, anyone?
Shiney aluminium-ness
Big ass display
Slightly faster cpu's.
Firewire 800

And that's about it, iirc, but it depends what you want from a laptop.

V For Vendetta · 15 May 2007 at 21:38

subxero said:
My thoughts exactly, although I really don't like the look of the MacBooks, but the Pros are nice

I think I will hold out for the update to the minis, it must only be a matter of time now

you really cant do much more with the mini then bump its specs a little ala macbook at the price apple are selling.

WotDa · 15 May 2007 at 21:42

V For Vendetta said:
you really cant do much more with the mini then bump its specs a little ala macbook at the price apple are selling.

Quiet desktop machine = win win.

I love my MBP, I also enjoy doing things on a slightly bigger monitor, what I hate is the noise my PC makes.

gumbald · 15 May 2007 at 22:54

I'm looking at getting a Macbook for myself for next uni year and a Mini for my parents. Intending to wait until the Leopard release though, no rush for either of them. Guessing that's the spec of Macbook that will be available to me in October then...

J1234 · 15 May 2007 at 22:55

gumbald said:
I'm looking at getting a Macbook for myself for next uni year and a Mini for my parents. Intending to wait until the Leopard release though, no rush for either of them. Guessing that's the spec of Macbook that will be available to me in October then...

Should be, maybe more. Who knows? Apple is always full of surprises.

gumbald · 15 May 2007 at 23:07

Justin said:
Should be, maybe more. Who knows? Apple is always full of surprises.

True, that's the only certainty I suppose. They don't put prices up or downgrade either so I'll get at least that specification.

Hoping for a decent upgrade on the Mini though, they seem to have forgotten about them recently...

NickK · 15 May 2007 at 23:10

I like the form factor of the 15" MBP but I was put off with the original issues (heat, battery etc).

Maybe in October I'll switch from my desktop to a 15" MBP then just use the PC for BF2142, once that's EoL then give up gaming..

An update to the mobile R600-based graphics card would also be a boon, add solidstate 120GB drive, efficient effective cooling, good battery life and HDMI - that will do thankyou

V For Vendetta · 15 May 2007 at 23:41

WotDa said:
Quiet desktop machine = win win.

I love my MBP, I also enjoy doing things on a slightly bigger monitor, what I hate is the noise my PC makes.

IMHO apple need to bring out a MAC midi which is double the size of the Mini, the extra space should be used for a High end mobile GFX card, express card slot, FW800 and esata ports plus a HDMI

bigredshark · 15 May 2007 at 23:52

V For Vendetta said:
IMHO apple need to bring out a MAC midi which is double the size of the Mini, the extra space should be used for a High end mobile GFX card, express card slot, FW800 and esata ports plus a HDMI

it's not a new idea really, but I don't think there's a market for it. As a desktop it eats too far into the imac space, as a media center it competes with the appletv too much. Don't get me wrong, I wish they would produce it and I'd buy it, but I think apple have their strategy laid out and this isn't part of it.

while we may consider it stupid, if we had that much insight, we'd be getting paid what steve jobs does...