On machines with multiple ports, they are still on the same bus so the only advantage of those additional ports is convenience, not performance. Adding an extra port would give no performance increase over daisy chaining or using a FW hub.
And is it really impossible to do video editing with a FW hub or daisy chained?
It isn't impossible but it costs me more money, and takes more time which is something I would prefer not to do after spending $2000 +.
What did they remove on the 15 besides the expresscard slot?
They removed the 9600 GT card to make it cheaper. Instead of making it more awsome and keeping the price.
Quote:
Originally Posted by minderbinder
And the 13 gained firewire and SD slot, now up to 8 gigs max ram, longer battery life, and cheaper. And faster is faster, not "more or less same".
Well a bump from 2.4 to 2.8 GHz in 9 months is hardly an event. Extra battery, and extra RAM limit is ok, but also hardly worth to mention. The fact is that today you can have DOUBLE or TRIPPLE as fast a machine for 3D applications and games by replacing the graphics card. Therefore it is the most important spec, even more important than the processor. Because it actually makes a difference.
It all seems like PC marketing to me. It is almost like you can feel Jobs has been away. Gone is the good old Apple "no-compromises and clear Line-ups"
Hello to a "dell" style webpage
(try for example to go to the store and customize a mac book pro 13": They are now hiding the graphics card!! WTF happened to clarity?
The MB now has a higher quality display (didn?t say higher resolution).
The MB now has a 2.26 or 2.53Ghz CPU over the previous 2.0 or 2.4Ghz options.
The MB now has 4GB as default in upper tier 13? model.
The MB now has a much longer battery life which allows it to have a FW800 port (though at the risk of losing the user-accessible battery and HDD).
The MB prices are now $100 less for their respective tiers.
Why does Apple always insist on taking important things away every time they add a feature that every other notebook at half the price already has?
These new models have some great features that I and and a lot of others have been crying for. If all they did was add these features in, things would be great. That they dropped the price is even better. But, lo and behold, it's always a bait and switch with Apple. They have to take things away.
Dropping a swappable battery and the expresscard slot on the 15" Macbook Pro turned what easily could have been a huge win into an epic fail.
They removed the 9600 GT card to make it cheaper. Instead of making it more awsome and keeping the price.
Read the specs again. Only the cheapest configuration loses that card, the other configs all still have it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by xyz001
Well a bump from 2.4 to 2.8 GHz in 9 months is hardly an event. Extra battery, and extra RAM limit is ok, but also hardly worth to mention. The fact is that today you can have DOUBLE or TRIPPLE as fast a machine for 3D applications and games by replacing the graphics card. Therefore it is the most important spec, even more important than the processor. Because it actually makes a difference.
Well, at least now you're being honest and admitting the improvements exist. It just sounds like all you care about is the video card. See above, the 9600 is still there.
Why does Apple always insist on taking important things away every time they add a feature that every other notebook at half the price already has?
These new models have some great features that I and and a lot of others have been crying for. If all they did was add these features in, things would be great. That they dropped the price is even better. But, lo and behold, it's always a bait and switch with Apple. They have to take things away.
Dropping a swappable battery and the expresscard slot on the 15" Macbook Pro turned what easily could have been a huge win into an epic fail.
It's an epic fail for anyone who needed to swap the battery: very few people relatively speaking.
While the ExpressCard slot had obvious uses for pro hardware - the motivation may have been looking at the market and seeing that most 3G antennae are USB sticks anyway -- which was another minor customer base consideration.
The MB now has a higher quality display (didn?t say higher resolution).
The MB now has a 2.26 or 2.53Ghz CPU over the previous 2.0 or 2.4Ghz options.
The MB now has 4GB as default in upper tier 13? model.
The MB now has a much longer battery life which allows it to have a FW800 port.
The MB prices are now $100 less for their respective tiers.
AMEN! This was the 13" MB I wanted the first time around. I placed my order for a 13" MBP as soon as the Apple Online Store opened. I have never done this before, ever. I've always bought refurb Macs or previous models, this is the first time I'm buying a brand spanking new machine and paying full pop (ok, close to full pop, I'm paying education price).
The big thing for me was the lack of Firewire, now that the MBP 13" has it, I can use my Apogee Duet audio interface (I'm a musician).
The improved screen is also nice, considering that I was never happy with my BlackBook's screen but loved the MacBook Air's.
And, all those who are exulting in this forum about these changes must be uninformed morons?
It is pretty arrogant on your part to think that your personal preferences should apply to all. (According to Phil Schiller, 99% of Apple users don't use the expresscard slot!).
I don?t think anyone guessed that but it was expected. The headphone jack on my late 2008 unibody MB also worked flawlessly with my Apple in-earphones. Not just the speaker and mic, but the cord controls, too. In retrospect, I guess it was a matter of time.
Now we get here about how people?s current mic and phone set won?t work anymore. I doubt a simple adapter will fix that.
I bought the first intel Macbook Pro, no Firewire 800 - added in the revision after.
I bought the first unibody Macbook, no Firewire - added in the revision after.
I feel like a real asshole right now, apple stop slapping me in the face!
And all those people I argued with where I said the Macbook should have it, and you told me I was crazy, dumb, a a whiner, too cheap, asking for the impossible, just trying to stir shit up, an Apple hater, holding onto old dead technology, etc. - Please line up to give me your apologies.
Now I've got to sell my unibody Macbook and get the new one. *sigh*
It's funny - the distinction that I really drew with the Pro line was that there were TWO graphics cards. Even if you don't run graphics-intensive software, having the discrete card would have tremendous implications for OpenCL, right? Or am I missing something?
I totally agree. The 'pro' line up was originally aimed at the pro graphic designers and gamers. a macbook pro meant that you had a discrete graphics card, everything else (metal casing, luminated keyboard, gestures) were just extras. screen size was also diff but the graphics card was the overall distinguishing factor. i feel that adding 'pro' to the $1199 model is an advertising ploy.
i'm only complaining about the use of the 'pro' name. As far as the lower prices and improved system specs, i'm really happy about that.
i'm even more psyched about the $29 leopard to snow leopard upgrade, this will almost guarantee that all leopard users will buy the upgrade and very very very few will get pirated copies.
Comments
In a capitalism-based society, nothing is over-priced if an acceptable percentage of the market will pay that price.
This could be too savvy - and too dense - for some of the folks here who can never seem to understand free-market capitalism 101.
On machines with multiple ports, they are still on the same bus so the only advantage of those additional ports is convenience, not performance. Adding an extra port would give no performance increase over daisy chaining or using a FW hub.
And is it really impossible to do video editing with a FW hub or daisy chained?
It isn't impossible but it costs me more money, and takes more time which is something I would prefer not to do after spending $2000 +.
That's a pretty skewed perspective.
What did they remove on the 15 besides the expresscard slot?
They removed the 9600 GT card to make it cheaper. Instead of making it more awsome and keeping the price.
And the 13 gained firewire and SD slot, now up to 8 gigs max ram, longer battery life, and cheaper. And faster is faster, not "more or less same".
Well a bump from 2.4 to 2.8 GHz in 9 months is hardly an event. Extra battery, and extra RAM limit is ok, but also hardly worth to mention. The fact is that today you can have DOUBLE or TRIPPLE as fast a machine for 3D applications and games by replacing the graphics card. Therefore it is the most important spec, even more important than the processor. Because it actually makes a difference.
Same speeds,
same display resolutions,
same RAM (almost noone needs 8 GB),
only worse options, not better,
less money for a worse product.
It all seems like PC marketing to me. It is almost like you can feel Jobs has been away. Gone is the good old Apple "no-compromises and clear Line-ups"
Hello to a "dell" style webpage
(try for example to go to the store and customize a mac book pro 13": They are now hiding the graphics card!! WTF happened to clarity?
The MB now has a higher quality display (didn?t say higher resolution).
The MB now has a 2.26 or 2.53Ghz CPU over the previous 2.0 or 2.4Ghz options.
The MB now has 4GB as default in upper tier 13? model.
The MB now has a much longer battery life which allows it to have a FW800 port (though at the risk of losing the user-accessible battery and HDD).
The MB prices are now $100 less for their respective tiers.
image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2480/...80cff5c3_o.png
These new models have some great features that I and and a lot of others have been crying for. If all they did was add these features in, things would be great. That they dropped the price is even better. But, lo and behold, it's always a bait and switch with Apple. They have to take things away.
Dropping a swappable battery and the expresscard slot on the 15" Macbook Pro turned what easily could have been a huge win into an epic fail.
They removed the 9600 GT card to make it cheaper. Instead of making it more awsome and keeping the price.
Read the specs again. Only the cheapest configuration loses that card, the other configs all still have it.
Well a bump from 2.4 to 2.8 GHz in 9 months is hardly an event. Extra battery, and extra RAM limit is ok, but also hardly worth to mention. The fact is that today you can have DOUBLE or TRIPPLE as fast a machine for 3D applications and games by replacing the graphics card. Therefore it is the most important spec, even more important than the processor. Because it actually makes a difference.
Well, at least now you're being honest and admitting the improvements exist. It just sounds like all you care about is the video card. See above, the 9600 is still there.
Why does Apple always insist on taking important things away every time they add a feature that every other notebook at half the price already has?
These new models have some great features that I and and a lot of others have been crying for. If all they did was add these features in, things would be great. That they dropped the price is even better. But, lo and behold, it's always a bait and switch with Apple. They have to take things away.
Dropping a swappable battery and the expresscard slot on the 15" Macbook Pro turned what easily could have been a huge win into an epic fail.
It's an epic fail for anyone who needed to swap the battery: very few people relatively speaking.
While the ExpressCard slot had obvious uses for pro hardware - the motivation may have been looking at the market and seeing that most 3G antennae are USB sticks anyway -- which was another minor customer base consideration.
It isn't impossible but it costs me more money, and takes more time which is something I would prefer not to do after spending $2000 +.
How does daisy chaining cost you more money or more time?
The MB now has a higher quality display (didn?t say higher resolution).
The MB now has a 2.26 or 2.53Ghz CPU over the previous 2.0 or 2.4Ghz options.
The MB now has 4GB as default in upper tier 13? model.
The MB now has a much longer battery life which allows it to have a FW800 port.
The MB prices are now $100 less for their respective tiers.
AMEN! This was the 13" MB I wanted the first time around. I placed my order for a 13" MBP as soon as the Apple Online Store opened. I have never done this before, ever. I've always bought refurb Macs or previous models, this is the first time I'm buying a brand spanking new machine and paying full pop (ok, close to full pop, I'm paying education price).
The big thing for me was the lack of Firewire, now that the MBP 13" has it, I can use my Apogee Duet audio interface (I'm a musician).
The improved screen is also nice, considering that I was never happy with my BlackBook's screen but loved the MacBook Air's.
..... huge win into an epic fail.
And, all those who are exulting in this forum about these changes must be uninformed morons?
It is pretty arrogant on your part to think that your personal preferences should apply to all. (According to Phil Schiller, 99% of Apple users don't use the expresscard slot!).
The MB now has a higher quality display (didn’t say higher resolution).
The MB now has a 2.26 or 2.53Ghz CPU over the previous 2.0 or 2.4Ghz options.
The MB now has 4GB as default in upper tier 13” model.
The MB now has a much longer battery life which allows it to have a FW800 port.
The MB prices are now $100 less for their respective tiers.
image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2480/...80cff5c3_o.png
Yeah ok. I guess we will all feel the huge oopmh from the brand new 2.53 GHZ compared to last years 2.4 Ghz.
A new graphics card like a 4570 or similar would have doubled the speed. Thats a fact.
The 13" macbook is now twice as slow as the comparable sony 13" SR. Before it was considerably faster.
Therefore this upgrade is at best hardly noticable, at worst making the macbook subpar.
There is only one audio port on the 13" now. FYI.
I don?t think anyone guessed that but it was expected. The headphone jack on my late 2008 unibody MB also worked flawlessly with my Apple in-earphones. Not just the speaker and mic, but the cord controls, too. In retrospect, I guess it was a matter of time.
Now we get here about how people?s current mic and phone set won?t work anymore. I doubt a simple adapter will fix that.
I bought the first unibody Macbook, no Firewire - added in the revision after.
I feel like a real asshole right now, apple stop slapping me in the face!
And all those people I argued with where I said the Macbook should have it, and you told me I was crazy, dumb, a a whiner, too cheap, asking for the impossible, just trying to stir shit up, an Apple hater, holding onto old dead technology, etc. - Please line up to give me your apologies.
Now I've got to sell my unibody Macbook and get the new one. *sigh*
It's funny - the distinction that I really drew with the Pro line was that there were TWO graphics cards. Even if you don't run graphics-intensive software, having the discrete card would have tremendous implications for OpenCL, right? Or am I missing something?
I totally agree. The 'pro' line up was originally aimed at the pro graphic designers and gamers. a macbook pro meant that you had a discrete graphics card, everything else (metal casing, luminated keyboard, gestures) were just extras. screen size was also diff but the graphics card was the overall distinguishing factor. i feel that adding 'pro' to the $1199 model is an advertising ploy.
i'm only complaining about the use of the 'pro' name. As far as the lower prices and improved system specs, i'm really happy about that.
i'm even more psyched about the $29 leopard to snow leopard upgrade, this will almost guarantee that all leopard users will buy the upgrade and very very very few will get pirated copies.