New macbooks and macbook pro

Voodu Child

Surprised nobody's posted about this, but there looks to be new ones on the site. The MB Pro has multi-touch, and they seem to have Penryn all round.

QuadLeo

It's just been anounced a few minutes ago. I'm delighted they updated. I've been waiting for ages to buy a mbp.

Kid Nothing

I was hoping for a bit of a slimmed down job but oh well...

Sad Professor

Here are the specs:

€999. Macbook 13" 2.1GHz / 1GB / 120GB / Combo / White
€1199. Macbook 13" 2.4GHz / 2GB / 160GB / Super / White
€1399. Macbook 13" 2.4GHz / 2GB / 250GB / Super / Black

€1799. Macbook Pro 15" 2.4GHz / 2GB / 200GB 5400RPM / 256MB Vram
€2199. Macbook Pro 15" 2.5GHz / 2GB / 250GB 5400RPM / 512MB Vram
€2499. Macbook Pro 17" 2.5GHz / 2GB / 250GB 5400RPM / 512MB Vram

aidan_walsh

/me prepares the cloth to wipe 440MHz's tears

Basq

What's this I hear about having to pay $19 for the FrontRow remote on the new MacBook and MacBook Pro's?



EDIT: Yep.. odd decision it must be said!



Maybe I'll sell my spare one!

jtsuited

bigger hard drive is really the only difference i can see.

Basq

It's a bit of a let-down to be honest!

EDIT: What's going on?!

US Apple Store:
2.4GHz model MBP comes with "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB"
2.5GHz model MBP's comes with "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB"

UK Apple Store:
2.4GHz MBP come with "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM"
2.5GHz MBP's comes with "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 256MB SDRAM"

cornbb

Have they cut the price of the basic 15" MBP by 100 euros? Oh hawt. I want one.

Edit: the remote control thing is a bit stupid alright but then again many people don't want/need them, there's half a dozen of them floating around my office unused except for when we want to piss someone at the other side of the room off.

Elessar

Lame update. The only time I'll ever consider swapping my 2.16GHz MBP is when they incorporate a blu-ray player, increase the 15" resolution and give it a good graphics card.

BanzaiBk

Hmm, middle of the range MBP for me.

conor2007

i feel so robbed

first they dont tell me leopard is coming out very very soon
then they update the macbook - twice the mem and 40 gb of storage for
i had 2.1 ghz now its 2.4

ah well

QuadLeo

I think it's a decent update. Not worth all the hype and rumors though. The mbp was due a performance boost. I would like to see blu-ray and higher res screens eventually but I'd say apple will wait another few years. Maybe until the release the successor to the mbp.

jtsuited

i can't really think of what it would take for me to upgrade from my 2.4 ghz mbp. it does everything i want (and i push it pretty hard) perfectly.
think it might be a long time before i upgrade.

i've jinxed myself now. Apple will probably release some new megamac next year and i'll feel oh so inadequate without it.

Actually I like the term Megamac.

QuadLeo

jtsuited wrote: »

Actually I like the term Megamac.

Sounds like a burger! Em.... burgers.....

K.O.Kiki

I am so glad I held off on buying that refurb Blackbook for 1269

cornbb

QuadLeo wrote: »

Sounds like a burger! Em.... burgers.....

No, you're thinking of the McBook.

I'll get me coat...

fiacha

LOL - if i had known about this i wouldn't have ordered my blackbook on Friday !
It shipped yesterday.

The extra disk space would have been nice. not pushed about the processor upgrade.

japasca

Very dissapointed with the lack of multitouch on the macbook. Thought they would have been slimmer, silver with a backlit keyboard but no deal.
Looks like my quest to buy a new iMac goes on.......

aidan_walsh

fiacha wrote: »

LOL - if i had known about this i wouldn't have ordered my blackbook on Friday !
It shipped yesterday.

The extra disk space would have been nice. not pushed about the processor upgrade.

There is still a chance you may receive the new model rather than the old, unless it has shipped already.

Ham'nd'egger

cornbb wrote: »

No, you're thinking of the McBook.

I'll get me coat...

A Mcbook would need to have two Intels inside; then it would come with "chips"

jtsuited

and what with the inevitable overheating of new macs we'd all eventually have fries.

i too will get my coat.

440Hz

aidan_walsh wrote: »

/me prepares the cloth to wipe 440MHz's tears

hehe!! Nice!

On another note, id like to complain, cos im only just noticing this now, that i cant see what im typing as my keyboard backlight has decided to go on holidays and i cant be bothered to put the light on. meh! I wonder why its being so stupid

Now... back on topic

Creamy Goodness

couldn't apple just do a firmware update for the touch pad on the macbook to make it multi-touch?

i'm certain it would be software only managing the multi-touch would it not?

cornbb

Cremo wrote: »

couldn't apple just do a firmware update for the touch pad on the macbook to make it multi-touch?

i'm certain it would be software only managing the multi-touch would it not?

Nope, it has its own Broadcom hardware controller. Future software updates should allow improvements/refinements to users with multi touch touchpads though.

Simon201

They really need to let that 'Combo' version go...

r3nu4l

Bastards!

I bought an MBP in New York last Thursday, asked about the impending release of an updated version and was told "We know nothing about any upcoming updated versions of the MBP".

That said, I'm very happy with my MBP, the extra hard drive space, processor speed and video memory as well as the multi-touch pad on this newer version don't really do anything for me tbh.

aidan_walsh

r3nu4l wrote:

I bought an MBP in New York last Thursday, asked about the impending release of an updated version and was told "We know nothing about any upcoming updated versions of the MBP".

To be fair to the guy, he most likely wasn't.

r3nu4l

aidan_walsh wrote: »

To be fair to the guy, he most likely wasn't.

Oh I realise that, the ground staff are always the last to know

Sad Professor

AI is saying the next notebook refresh could be as early as June.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/27/next_apple_notebook_refresh_rumored_for_june.html