New MacBook Pros Released today??

[sdmiddleton]

I do hope so - the stores are currently all down for maintenance!!1

http://www.macrumors.com/

[SubFunk]

well, i hope it's true, i was in a apple retailer today in berlin and there was no sign or hint whatsoever...

i am most curious if the express slots are back in the 15 inch pro, though.

[timothyallan]

They're out in the australian store, my buddy already bought one

[sdmiddleton]

Yes they are out now!!! Woo Hoo!!!

[glitchrock-buddha]

wow, nice! i5 and i7 quad core macbook pros finally! Now if I can just figure out the difference...

[timothyallan]

whoa nelly, they're not quad cores.

[glitchrock-buddha]

whoa nelly, they're not quad cores.

uhh, oh. I thought that's what i5 and i7's were... no?

[glitchrock-buddha]

ah crap, I just tread the site more carefully. Indeed they refer to them as dual cores. Damn, I thought all i5 and i7 processors were quad. Oh well, as you were...

[Cryptic UK]

Yeah no quad core, no money for Apple.

[siliconarc]

£/$100 price hike on the base 15" model too. OOF!

[glitchrock-buddha]

And here I was thinking I'd be able to use lots of instances of Alchemy and Aether reverbs on a track basis, never having to freeze anything....

[SubFunk]

besides the disappointment of not being quad core anyone knows how good in comparison (how much faster) the i5/i7 duo to the old cored2duo chips actually are???

that would be interesting.

i don't care about quad or octo or whatever as long as they are simply significantly faster...

[Hidden Driveways]

HOO LA La la?

I don get it mon. What is this dual core?

What is this virtual cores? Me don want virtual cores mon!

Still though... I want this new computer! Looks badass.

SubFu... here's a link to a chart about the iSeries:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/newsLe ... essors.jsp

I still don't really get it yet.

[Tarekith]

It's a 50-70% increase in CPU over the last versions, not too bad for basically the same money. Very happy, might be off to the Aple store today

[SubFunk]

It's a 50-70% increase in CPU over the last versions, not too bad for basically the same money. Very happy, might be off to the Aple store today

sounds not to bad indeed

@ thanks HD for the link... might be in for a new one soon myself... let's see what the first real reviews reveal... my biggest concern is the express card slot which i depend on very heavily, might be a 17" then next...???