The rumored NEW MacBook!
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In Nov 2008 we had our house broken into and both our laptops stolen (amongst other stuff
) My wife's was a Sony 17" and mine was a MacBook Pro, The insurance replaced both.Can you guess which one is still going and looking as if its brand new and which one went in the bin many many moons ago?
I run Parallels on my iMac and at the instance of my wife installed it on the Macbook Pro last week (loves the mac, hates OSX
), now apart from the fact the the MBP has only 4Gb ram and therefore I've only allocated 2Gb to the Win7 VM it runs perfectly.A quick look at ebay and 2008 15" MBP's are going for £550 - £750, try investing £1400 in a Windows laptop and getting that after 1 year let alone 3 1/2.
Oh yea, I nearly forgot, about 2 months ago the aluminium cover came unstuck in one corner from the screen/lid, I booked an appointment at the Apple store and took it in, now remember its 3 1/2 years old and out of warranty.
They looked at it and their response was "Oh, that's not good, what time would be good for you to pick it up?"
They replaced the entire lid/screen without so much as a tut or sucking of teeth, I had an almost identical experience with a iPad smart cover this weekend.Yea, they cost more but you damn well get a hell of a lot more for the money
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I recommend installing "undercover" from orbicule to all Mac users I run into.
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Looks like apps will have a bit of catching up to do!
http://gizmodo.com/5917651/some-third+party-apps-look-crappy-on-the-new-mbp-retina-display
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I was hoping for a more significant Mac pro update.
mine is six years old now.. nothing wrong with it and I wouldn't say I NeED a new desktop but im itching to get something with 12 cores for rendering.
I can't believe they still have those old ati cards in there
the rumor mill has the macpro shrinking into something more like the macminis except stackable.. that would be awesome.. maybe that's what Tim cook was alluding to in his latest email to a user? (no link now.. I'll put it up later)
but I can definitely wait another year. (except that messes with my laptop upgrade system.. I'll be due for a new laptop late next year.. I don't think I can update both at the same time) -
Glad I grabbed a 17" when I did.
I'd love a retina display - but I'd be curious to see what quadrupling the pixel count does to the graphics, even with the faster chips.Looks slick though. The retina screen is awesome on my iPhone. Wish I had waited for the iPad3, as I use it for presentations. (not that the 2 is bad...)
2 years in when I save some pennies again they'll likely have all the bugs worked out... then I'll buy.
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I think its now looking like retina on the new MBP might be premature! While Apple have updated their core apps, it will be some time before 3rd party vendors catch up. I imagine its not a 10 minutes job!
I see Chrome has taken a lead in this area but they have Google behind them. What surprises me is that they did not have it done already!
On the other hand this could be a move by Apple to get users to start using Safari .... could be clever or not, time will tell.
I won't be making the move until all the apps I use are retina optimised. I think I may just swap out my HD for an SSD in the meantime.
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@mike lucey said:
I won't be making the move until all the apps I use are retina optimised. I think I may just swap out my HD for an SSD in the meantime.
I'll be doing that next year on my 17".
And likely pulling the optical drive, using this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDAMBS0GB/And moving to 16g of RAM (currently have
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@unknownuser said:
If you could design your dream laptop, how would you describe it?
Superfast. Superthin. Superlight. Superlong battery life. Immense storage. Enough memory to keep lots of programs open at once. Stunning screen, comfortable keyboard, terrific sound. Fast start-up, rugged body, gorgeous looks.
And, of course, inexpensive.
The new Apple laptop that went on sale Monday hits an impressive number of those high notes in one radical swoop. As you might guess, the one it misses by the biggest margin is “inexpensive.”
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@unknownuser said:
“Applications must support the Retina Display with suitably high-resolution graphics, and if they don’t it’s a recipe for visual disaster. Apple’s own Mail, Calendar, Address Book, Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Aperture and Final Cut Pro are all Retina-optimized, but most third-party apps aren’t, and the difference between them is brutally obvious.
This would be a major reason for not purchasing. Why pay such a price to only frown at the screen each time your unoptimized app is running.
A non-retina version should be available also. I fear that websites will hurry to get retina-ready to only slow load time on web pages.
I recently looked at the retina on the iPad and it's incredible but is the web ready for it?
Also are 17" MacBook Pros upgradeable to 8gb RAM?
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@solo said:
i'm not sure why they're comparing that to a macbook air.. size wise, it's more in the realm of the macbook pros in which case, the mbp is way better..
for reference, here's a picture of an 11" macbook air next to an iPad.. it's not even a laptop, really…
@rich o brien said:
This would be a major reason for not purchasing. Why pay such a price to only frown at the screen each time your unoptimized app is running.
A non-retina version should be available also. I fear that websites will hurry to get retina-ready to only slow load time on web pages.
I recently looked at the retina on the iPad and it's incredible but is the web ready for it?
Also are 17" MacBook Pros upgradeable to 8gb RAM?
yeah, 8gb in the 17s for a couple of years now.. the new ones (mid2012) can take 16.. (but the 17" model has been discontinued as of this week..)
re the resolution.. apple has implemented a sweet scaling scheme into the mix.. (i.e.- different than running the screens as a non-native resolution)
according to anandtech :
@unknownuser said:
Even at the non-integer scaled 1680 x 1050 setting, the Retina Display looks a lot better than last year's high-res panel. It looks like Apple actually renders the screen at twice the selected resolution before scaling it to fit the 2880 x 1800 panel (in other words, at 1920 x 1200 Apple is rendering everything at 3840 x 2400 (!) before scaling - this is likely where the perf impact is seen, but I'm trying to find a way to quantify that now). Everything just looks better. I also appreciate how quick it is to switch between resolutions on OS X. When I'm doing a lot of work I prefer the 1920 x 1200 setting, but if I'm in content consumption mode I find myself happier at 1440 x 900 or 1680 x 1050.
i have the 1680x1050 hi-res (i guess i gotta quit calling this thing hi-res
) 15" and it's amazing.. so the reviewer is saying it looks even better when run at this size so….
it's easy to switch and i assume some little utilities will come out soon which makes it very easy to switch..so that + the ability to go to 2880 ?
(and really, i don't think it will be too long until most things catch up with the resolution.. including other manufacturers.. apple is paving the way on this one)not sure about whether or not the internet can handle it but it's in motion now.. consumers can't stop it from happening so why worry about it
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@rich o brien said:
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A non-retina version should be available also.there is:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro/select
same innards but cheaper (but if you get the ssd in there, the prices will get much closer to one another..)
[edit] actually, the non retina version is more expensive if you upgrade it to the comparable 512ssd which ships standard with the retinas..
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But aren't the non retina version just the older shape?
I'm talking about getting the latest in non retina.
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@rich o brien said:
But aren't the non retina version just the older shape?
I'm talking about getting the latest in non retina.
yeah. it's the old body. (a hard drive still fits in there where as it wont fit in the new form.. it's weird that apple has this going on too.. usually, once they decide to make a change (no cd-rom / ssd) they make a sweeping change with no intermediate models)
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This cleared up a bit of the whole retina concept. Good read.
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@unknownuser said:
@rich o brien said:
But aren't the non retina version just the older shape?
I'm talking about getting the latest in non retina.
yeah. it's the old body. (a hard drive still fits in there where as it wont fit in the new form.. it's weird that apple has this going on too.. usually, once they decide to make a change (no cd-rom / ssd) they make a sweeping change with no intermediate models)
Agree, but I guess that the production is pretty limited on the retina. My bet is that next year the airs and pro line will get it. What was known as the MacBook will fade into those 2 lines.
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re: apple pricing
hmm.. i think it might be time for me to switch to pc.. or at least, do any online travel reservations on a pc
Orbitz Presenting More Expensive Hotels to Mac Users
Travel shopping site Orbitz is offering more expensive hotels to Mac users because the company found Mac users prefer more luxurious rooms, reports...
MacRumors (www.macrumors.com)
@unknownuser said:
Travel shopping site Orbitz is offering more expensive hotels to Mac users because the company found Mac users prefer more luxurious rooms, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Orbitz noted that it was is not showing different prices for the same room to different users, but was presenting pricier hotels more prominently to Mac users than those using Windows. Users can rank hotel options by price and get the same listings no matter what platform they are using.
[EDIT] or sht.. maybe i should just eat my words.. i'm on my way to miami today for a month.. will i be staying at motel6?
nah.. a sweet little villa on the beach
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Nice!
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@rich o brien said:
Nice!
well, the client is paying for it so I don't think it counts towards this orbitz thing..
he uses an iPad for his computer but I think the acct dept is on pcs.
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