Apple refresh the Macbook Pro

mohler · Post by **mohler** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:57 pm

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

& probably the best features for our community......

3 USB ports! (but only on the 17"er)

& built in Lemur (only kidding, multi touch pad!)

skeet · Post by **skeet** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:07 pm

...and now with bigger hd! hmm.. but i'm still not sure to buy it now.
What about the "Montevina" Chipset or so calles Centrino 2?
Should I wait or not, damn!
Any thoughts guys?

Another question: which hd capacy would you prefer? 5.400 or 7.200?
How about loudness? But 7.200 better for samples, he!?

Thanks alot!

yoshitosser · Post by **yoshitosser** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:15 pm

Wonder what FW chipset it's got.

Winston · Post by **Winston** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:32 pm

that's gotta be the weakest macbook pro update yet.

(And the 17" always had 3 usb ports).

sarrass · Post by **sarrass** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:46 pm

Winston wrote:that's gotta be the weakest macbook pro update yet.

(And the 17" always had 3 usb ports).

totally agree here!

the biggest joke is the '100mhz more for 220 euro' update...

does someone know whether the batteries from a 1.86ghz mbp (the ones without fw800) fit in the new 15"? same capacity?

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:50 pm

Winston wrote:that's gotta be the weakest macbook pro update yet.

< "Give me free built-in Lemur, or give me death!"

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:50 pm

The rumors were correct about the upgrade happening today.

The base model got a speed bump for the same price. But the top model is still the same speed (2.6ghz) and still the same price.

Do I have my facts straight? I wonder if I'm missing something...

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:58 pm

No, you got 'em straight. WEAK update. You could have had a 2.6 GHz 17" a heck of a long time ago. And you still have to pay to upgrade to it!

LED screens. Video upgrade. Who gives a fuck about the hard drive because you can get a 200GB 7200 drive and stick it in there yourself for $170 and use the 250 that comes with it as an external.

Who gives a crap about spinning your pictures in a fucking circle! What is this, the Microsoft Coffee Table?

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:25 pm

sparklepuff wrote:Who gives a fuck about the hard drive because you can get a 200GB 7200 drive and stick it in there yourself for $170 and use the 250 that comes with it as an external.

Who gives a crap about spinning your pictures in a fucking circle! What is this, the Microsoft Coffee Table?

+1
though i'm sure that, in time, some very interesting uses will be found for the multi-touch pad.

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:34 pm

Whoa, down boy! Sparky's getting rabid. Someone throw some meat at him.

sparklepuff wrote:No, you got 'em straight. WEAK update.

Hmm, oh well, I've finally reached the point (tired of excessively rendering to disk) where I really need to upgrade. Now it's just a matter of picking which one.

sparklepuff wrote:LED screens.

I know they're better for the environment, but are there any other advantages, like longer battery life or sharper graphics appearance?

sparklepuff wrote: Who gives a crap about spinning your pictures in a fucking circle! What is this, the Microsoft Coffee Table?

Yeah, I guess it would be safe to say for most musicians, it's not a feature that currently has any use for music production programs, like Live. By the time music software could support these gestures for something useful, it will be time for a new laptop anyway.

babkubwa · Post by **babkubwa** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:43 pm

better battery performance apparently.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:55 pm

Personally I think this is great news. I can't afford a new laptop right now so it's good to know I am not missing out on anything.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:55 pm

Wasn't the fsb speed bumped as well... and cache sizes went up I believe. Not sure what else the Penryn 45nm move entails... power management I s'pose.

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:09 pm

Hopefully the new Penryn chip and/or recent Leopard updates have addressed the santa rosa macbook performance mayhem (and the need for 3rd party coolbook fix) we've been hearing about.

mohler · Post by **mohler** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:15 pm

sparklepuff wrote:No, you got 'em straight. WEAK update.

LED screens.

The LCD screens arrived on the 15" last update. I have 1 sitting on my lap. So we can't exactly call that. They are very bright and I'm happy with my battery life.

As for WEAK update. I guess this is going to be the way forward from now on. It's not like the pre-Intel days where Apple sat round waiting for motorola and IBM to develop chips so they could update every couple of years and have a ton of time for innovation and to implement designs.

Intel offer a much more fluid and dynamic upgrade route so I guess, when a product is a refined as the MBP (since it's been about the longest of the portables) it will be further and further between all the major upgrades.