Our distributors (I work at an Apple Specialist) are telling us to make sure we report inventory by Tuesday, which means (99% of the time) there's an update.
Hope this topic will be moved to current hardware during the day
To be honest, I'm hoping not.
It's been said that screen resolutions will be increased with leopard due to resolution independence. ssd's are still expensive, as are led-screens. An update now will likely be minor and intermediate until the time the good stuff can happen.
That means a minor update now would serve making us wait longer for the real update later.
If there is no update now, there will be more pressure to push out the real update sooner
EDIT: then again, major update would be sweet, then all I'd need would be a leopard coupon.
I hope you're right, because it will cost us a lot more...and as far as I'm concerned, I'm okey with the standard 4,7 GB DVD, for what 24 or 50 GB?
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Originally Posted by sennen
yes, i doubt they'll put in a blue-laser drive until DVDSP fully supports either/both HiDef DVD formats.
The reason you shouldn't expect Blu-ray in a Macbook Pro anytime soon is because it will probably make it's debut in the Mac Pro. Since there is a format war where both could be clear losers, and there is no clear winner (I'd personally be behind Blu-ray) anyone that needs either of those drives that badly can buy an external one. Since the Mac Pro is targeted to the professional market, including the professional video market, it wouldn't be a problem to slap an external drive on.
For the Macbook Pro, it would be expensive and not needed as much at all.
Because the distributors for the Apple Specialist I work at have been hounding us to report inventory. That usually means an update is imminent. Not to mention, both the MacBook Pros and iMacs are about 3 months beyond their usual update schedule, and today was a Tuesday, and it's not a good idea for Apple to leave their low-end laptops with bigger hard drives and faster superdrives than the next step up, the $1999 MacBook Pro.
Because the distributors for the Apple Specialist I work at have been hounding us to report inventory. That usually means an update is imminent. Not to mention, both the MacBook Pros and iMacs are about 3 months beyond their usual update schedule, and today was a Tuesday, and it's not a good idea for Apple to leave their low-end laptops with bigger hard drives and faster superdrives than the next step up, the $1999 MacBook Pro.
That sounds reasonable. Let's just hope we hear of something very soon so that it can ship before this fall (September).
It seems pretty obvious a major MacBook Pro update is coming at WWDC. Otherwise Apple would have released the consumer version *after* the Pro version as they have done for quite some time.
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Our distributors (I work at an Apple Specialist) are telling us to make sure we report inventory by Tuesday, which means (99% of the time) there's an update.
Waaaaa...I'm checking apple.com every 10 minutes
Hope this topic will be moved to current hardware during the day
To be honest, I'm hoping not.
It's been said that screen resolutions will be increased with leopard due to resolution independence. ssd's are still expensive, as are led-screens. An update now will likely be minor and intermediate until the time the good stuff can happen.
That means a minor update now would serve making us wait longer for the real update later.
If there is no update now, there will be more pressure to push out the real update sooner
EDIT: then again, major update would be sweet, then all I'd need would be a leopard coupon.
I hope you're right, because it will cost us a lot more...and as far as I'm concerned, I'm okey with the standard 4,7 GB DVD, for what 24 or 50 GB?
yes, i doubt they'll put in a blue-laser drive until DVDSP fully supports either/both HiDef DVD formats.
The reason you shouldn't expect Blu-ray in a Macbook Pro anytime soon is because it will probably make it's debut in the Mac Pro. Since there is a format war where both could be clear losers, and there is no clear winner (I'd personally be behind Blu-ray) anyone that needs either of those drives that badly can buy an external one. Since the Mac Pro is targeted to the professional market, including the professional video market, it wouldn't be a problem to slap an external drive on.
For the Macbook Pro, it would be expensive and not needed as much at all.
Sebastian
Well, there's egg on my face. No update yet.
Why are we expecting an update today?
Why are we expecting an update today?
Because the distributors for the Apple Specialist I work at have been hounding us to report inventory. That usually means an update is imminent. Not to mention, both the MacBook Pros and iMacs are about 3 months beyond their usual update schedule, and today was a Tuesday, and it's not a good idea for Apple to leave their low-end laptops with bigger hard drives and faster superdrives than the next step up, the $1999 MacBook Pro.
Because the distributors for the Apple Specialist I work at have been hounding us to report inventory. That usually means an update is imminent.
Think it could come tomorrow, since they wanted inventory by today?
Because the distributors for the Apple Specialist I work at have been hounding us to report inventory. That usually means an update is imminent. Not to mention, both the MacBook Pros and iMacs are about 3 months beyond their usual update schedule, and today was a Tuesday, and it's not a good idea for Apple to leave their low-end laptops with bigger hard drives and faster superdrives than the next step up, the $1999 MacBook Pro.
That sounds reasonable. Let's just hope we hear of something very soon so that it can ship before this fall (September).