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No blueray at all matey.
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No blueray at all matey.
Yeah just seen you can order them already.
They look awesome.
Watch the introduction video http://www.apple.com/macbook/the-new-macbook/watch.html#large
The amount of work in the case is crazy. Nothing else is like it.
Going to get one from the US next month for sure with the 2.8ghz and SSD drive.
My Gen 1 MBP is bent and both the fans have died, it still works but needs replacing. Just a shame to miss out on Blu-Ray. Not that I need it but just feels like it should have it.
Just looks so good!
The hoohaa is you shouldn't need to buy one at all!
If they can't have something every other notebook maker (big or small) has it's odd wouldn't you say? VGA is a dead standard some might say but it's still prevalent on 99% of notebooks, why?
Displayport tech is good but it's being forced into the PC market at a time when HDMI take-up in the pc world is beginning to reach mass market. There's still another year or two before Displayport reaches that penetration.... and who want's to buy a dongle after spending over a grand on a MB/MBP. Cheeky buggers it should be in the box, they even took out the apple remote!
The hoohaa is you shouldn't need to buy one at all!
If they can't have something every other notebook maker (big or small) has it's odd wouldn't you say? VGA is a dead standard some might say but it's still prevalent on 99% of notebooks, why?
Displayport tech is good but it's being forced into the PC market at a time when HDMI take-up in the pc world is beginning to reach mass market. There's still another year or two before Displayport reaches that penetration.... and who want's to buy a dongle after spending over a grand on a MB/MBP. Cheeky buggers it should be in the box, they even took out the apple remote!
Exactly. If it came with a converter, no-one would mind. But, they are again trying to dictate the direction of the market when they control so little of it.
Your MBP is bent ? Which part of it is bent? I've been using a MBP (not sure if its Gen 1 - its C2D 2.4Ghz) for over a year and have had no problems with it.
A laptop being bent sounds like a huge problem to me?As for the new design - being a bit elitist I don't like the way the cheaper (though still ungodly expensive) Macbooks have the same design as the MBP, I'm sure Apple could've found a way of differentiating between the two tiers and still making both appealing in their own right without making them visually identical bar the screen size (outgoing MBs come in white & black, for example).
I'm personally non-plussed by the DisplayPort thing because I'm a relatively casual user of my MBP, however I do know people that plug their laptops - both Apple and non-Apple - into displays, certainly graphic designers need to be able to do this to do final proofs of their work. Mind you it's not like graphic designers could use the new ones anyway with the glossy-only screen.
As a design I'm not particularly enamoured with it either - the older MB/MBPs had a striking appearance to them that was different to everything else on the market. If the new ones didn't have an Apple logo on I could quite easily expect a similar design, colours, etc from another high-end laptop maker, it just doesn't scream "Apple" to me.
The biggest problem though is the price - I don't buy the rhetoric from Apple fanboys about how the manufacturing process is "like nothing we've ever seen before" or crap like that - did Apple invent milling then? What they're doing on the green side of things is a step in the right direction but shouldn't translate to such massive price hikes, certainly they would already have been making a healthy profit on them as it is. It boggles the mind that people seek to explain this away on their behalf and actually defend the prices.
As an objective Apple-kit user I have to applaud Apple really - they really know their market, you can't buy the sort of fanbase who will pay a good 200% of the going rate for a hardware design, OSX and less functionality than not only rivals but also the previous gen. How many other companies can release new products with less features at a higher price point than the previous model and still get legions of people defending them like their lives depended on it. It really boggles the mind.
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The keyboard cover part.
Made a big mistake when I took it apart the first time to replace the hdd and both the fans (such bad fan bearings always die after 6 month or so). I left a screw in at the inside front under the touchpad and when 'yanking' the top off I put a massive bend in the case. I have bent it back but it does not fit right and not paying a few hundred quid to buy a replacement.
I am also with you on the elitist part. Sucks that they made the normal Macbook look the same. Why cant it be ipod plastic look!
I got USD burning a hole in my Bank of America account that I got at over 2 to the pound so Core i7 and new MBP comming back with me next trip
But yeah, slap me about a bit for bending my MBP in the first place
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Caved in and bought a Macbook !
Ah right I assumed you meant it bent due to a known problem with them or something, not that it was user errorThe keyboard cover part.
Made a big mistake when I took it apart the first time to replace the hdd and both the fans (such bad fan bearings always die after 6 month or so). I left a screw in at the inside front under the touchpad and when 'yanking' the top off I put a massive bend in the case. I have bent it back but it does not fit right and not paying a few hundred quid to buy a replacement.
I am also with you on the elitist part. Sucks that they made the normal Macbook look the same. Why cant it be ipod plastic look!
I got USD burning a hole in my Bank of America account that I got at over 2 to the pound so Core i7 and new MBP comming back with me next trip
But yeah, slap me about a bit for bending my MBP in the first place
I've just been quoted £80 to get a HDD changed in my MBP by an Apple-authorised service center. On the positive side at least the new MBPs have gone back to user-replaceable HDDs.
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sorry if this has been asked/said before but I c.b.a'd to look through the whole 17 pages of this thread.
So what's the max amount of RAM these little beauties will take?
Have a very Gen1 (week 28) MBP that's had a hard life and now would be a good time to replace...Just don't want to be stuck with 4Gb of RAM.
So what's the max amount of RAM these little beauties will take?
Have a very Gen1 (week 28) MBP that's had a hard life and now would be a good time to replace...Just don't want to be stuck with 4Gb of RAM.
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See, being a Manchester toe-rag with cash and fresh food hard to come by this particular point is fine by me.
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You had a grand just burning a hole in your pocket!?
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Something like that.
Aaargh.
I have £750 to spend.
a) Dell XPS M1330
b) Macbook Intel GMA graphics (with change to spare)
c) Macbook Aluminium Model
Option (c) involves dipping into my savings to bring it up to the required level.
Decisions decisions...
I have £750 to spend.
a) Dell XPS M1330
b) Macbook Intel GMA graphics (with change to spare)
c) Macbook Aluminium Model
Option (c) involves dipping into my savings to bring it up to the required level.
Decisions decisions...
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Has anyone posted any pictures yet?