*** The new MacBook/MacBook Pro thread, all info in here ***

schoey said:
mine is:D
ordered it last tuesday,just checked and its shipped, yay!!
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mine hasnt

Prepared for Shipment
Estimated Shipping: 7 business days
Estimated Delivery: 29 Oct, 2008 - 30 Oct, 2008

what time on the 14th did you order your's and when you originally ordered what was the estimate date?
 
MacMiniBoy said:
mine hasnt

Prepared for Shipment
Estimated Shipping: 7 business days
Estimated Delivery: 29 Oct, 2008 - 30 Oct, 2008

what time on the 14th did you order your's and when you originally ordered what was the estimate date?
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i ordered about an hour after the announcement thingy !!!
estimated shipping: 7 business days
estimated delivery: 31st oct - 3rd nov
 
not all of us live close to an Apple Store though.

Can you get mini DisplayPort -> proper DisplayPort cables? On the apple site all I see is DP to DVI - but my Dell has a Display Port on it.
 
fanger said:
Care to expand on that?
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To be fair I agree with him.

With the greatest of respect speaking as someone who has owned a MBP for over a year and iPhone for about 3 months (so not anti-Apple) I try and distance myself from the "typical Apple user" crowd as much as possible. For reasons I've never been able to explain a lot of people seem to treat Apple and their kit as "lifestyle choices" rather than just bits of pretty technology.

For starters Apple isn't a philanthropic company, the prices they charge are considerably higher than its competition, and they don't appear to really give a crap about their userbase (e.g. removing key features from new kit for no practical reason, charging a premium for less, obsoleting technology overnight with little warning, etc) - I'd say like most companies their primary interest is profit-making. Yet despite all of this people still tie their flag to them and defend them like they would a family member. It defies logic for the most part, and it's frustrating when you see people defend things that - had a product happened to be made by another company - would never get the same treatment.

I admire Apple not for their "radical life-changing products" but for the mere fact that they are the master puppeteers. How many other companies can you think of where the customer base whips itself up into a frenzy over keynote speeches and random "scraps off the table" news updates? I can't think of another company that when you strip away the veneer is basically "just another Microsoft" in terms of capitalist greed and agenda, yet they have a fanbase that treats them like a deity. It's fascinating to analyse, but also faintly embarrassing to be a part of said community.
 
At the end of the day, they're a company, they want as much profit as possible and to compete with any other company's in the same market. Its just the way they've marketed themselves over the years very cleverly that makes some people think that by owning such an item makes them cool and above other users, and in turn this rubs off on their friends etc and they want to be "cool".
Its very clever the way they've done it but with everything in this world you get the fanboys, obsessed and can't see any wrong and see themselves as perfect/better. You can even take this into completely different areas of the world with cars, clothes, music. Its how people want to be seen, and Apple have capitilised on it very well and are making a lot of moeny from it.

I know I've overpaid on a macbook pro and 3G iPhone, not to be seen by others as a mac user/lifestyle etc, but because I enjoy using their products. They do have faults and I do get annoyed with my phone a good bit, but the pro's outweigh the con's for myself, especially with their computers.
 
this is bull :( ordered first thing last wednesday morning via the phone and still nothing. unless its based in the spec.

You gues who's just had there shipping status changed, what did you actually buy ?
 
Got my MBP ordered.
Went for:
2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1066Mz DDR3 SDRM-2x2GB
320GB Serial ATA @ 7200

In the end I went for the 2.53 because of heat issues. The extra 10watts of heat is very significant when going from 25w to 35w TDP.
Also only went for the 320gb 7200rpm rather than the 128gb SSD because they wanted 350 quid extra (plus the cost of the standard drive) and it takes around 30 seconds to remove the drives in the new MBP so I will buy my own 250gb SSD and put it in once the fast Intel drives come out. Plus I already have Leopard on DVD from upgrading my old Gen1 MBP.

Got to wait a bit longer for mine though as I want US keyboard layout.
 
oh well canceled my order through the store and going to pick one it at the local apple store insted as theve apparently got stock at the moment.

heres hoping they've still got some by the time I get down there.
 
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