new MacBook and MacBook Pro on Tuesday, October 14th

arafel · Post by **arafel** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:11 pm

Once Again... It pays (or you save big-time) to be behind the 'Beta' curve

I picked up a discounted-to-clear G4 PPC lappy cheap cheap when the first intel macbooks were introduced - Still pounds out Live, Adobe, and anything else I need it to do.

IMHO Firewire & Ethernet ports are essential - shat even my G4 lappy from 1998 has them (and I still use it everyday!)

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:13 pm

If they dropped firewire and ethernet I still might be interested in a Macbook if they lower the price enough. I'm hoping for a price drop.

And damnit, I wish they would go back to putting all the ports on the back of the computer.

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:14 pm

what's all this talk about the new NVIDIA chipset? Apparently it's much better for graphics but I haven't seen anywhere whether or not it would be much faster of a cpu. Are there rumours it may be quadcore or anything?

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:20 pm

beats me wrote: And damnit, I wish they would go back to putting all the ports on the back of the computer.

+1 because i'm pretty sure i have a bit of cable ocd.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:27 pm

aburgener wrote:
beats me wrote: And damnit, I wish they would go back to putting all the ports on the back of the computer.
+1 because i'm pretty sure i have a bit of cable ocd.

I lose so much desk real estate from all the wire crap coming out of the sides of my MBP. The express card slot is the worst but I don't think that has ever been on the rear of any computer. One can dream.

condra · Post by **condra** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:28 pm

Well there we go

Glass Trackpad, better graphics. yawn..

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:35 pm

condra wrote:yawn..

I've been *yawning* for years...

condra · Post by **condra** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:46 pm

OOh. Just saw the new macbook. Thats a bit more like it.

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:51 pm

where are you getting these pictures? And are they going to have a 15 inch macbook? (As opposed to MB Pro). Still just a dual 2.6 Ghz max cpu speed huh?

condra · Post by **condra** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:55 pm

http://live.gizmodo.com/

condra · Post by **condra** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:00 pm

dbl post

chrisedmo · Post by **chrisedmo** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:04 pm

condra wrote:OOh. Just saw the new macbook. Thats a bit more like it.

Thats what i thought - till i saw this:

NO F*CKING FIREWIRE!!!!! WTF ?

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:04 pm

Only glossy screens though, ghey.

evilxsystems · Post by **evilxsystems** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:05 pm

yeah I saw the firewire drop coming, but I always figured the camcorder market would force them to keep it...but it looks like my next lappy will have to be a pro instead of a mac book.....nice while it lasted I guess.....

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:08 pm

Macbook has option for 128gb solid state drive.