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It's kind of funny how people are simultaneously complaining that the SuperDrive is still included while complaining that a teeny, tiny adapter might need to be used to connect USB to the Thunderbolt port.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jonamac The comments on this article are an embarrassment to the forums. It's like reading 5 preteens hurl abuse at each other in the YouTube comments of a Rihanna video. IF the coincidence of the MbP refresh and St…
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The floppy was about a year away from being dead when Apple dropped the floppy drive. Though clearly being used less and less, I don't see any way that we'll consider DVDs or CDs to be totally obsolete one year hence (especially outside the U.S., a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by NeilM The chipset provides a total of six SATA ports, of which four are potentially affected by this problem. That leaves two that are good, and MBPs only use two SATA ports: one each for the hard drive and the interna…
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Excellent news. I just hope that between the design and the Sandy Bridge issues, the new MBPs are a mostly bug-free release (unlike last year's MBP release with all of the freezing issues). I usually don't jump to buy a new revision, but I'm way, wa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You may claim to be a Mac user since the 1980's, but your question and concerns sound like a recent switcher who is totally unfamiliar Apple, its philosophies, and its practices. Fear that Lion will obsolete cur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me In your most fearful and paranoid imagination, what are your concerns about what you cannot do with a current Mac and a future OS? At the risk of going in circles, my main question/concern is that I'd buy the…
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Mr. Me -- I guess several different versions of English are being spoken on this board, because I quite clearly asked for people's input based on what is already known about Lion and what is already known about the current-gen hardware and current-g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jsk173 For example, Lion is described as bringing current-gen iOS features "back to the Mac." In that vein, is the current-gen multi-touch trackpad capable of doing everything the current-gen iOS does/requires? If so, g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Most. Rhetorical. Thread. Ever. In what possible way could it be a good time to buy 8 month old hardware at the brand new price just as the replacement is coming? Presumably you are hoping that someone has…
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Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. Thanks to "sequitur" and "Aquatic" for the comments above, with which I agree. I understand that some people are annoyed by these threads, but it seems like some respondents are being deliberately combat…
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This forum is weird. What's the point of having a "Future Hardware" forum if simple questions about future hardware are met with such juvenile replies? (My thanks to the people above who actually tried to answer the question.)
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Look at this ways there are multiple "things" that Apple can deliver in Lion that might impact what hardware is ideal. While not mentioned much resolution independence is one example. All the tweekiness ab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 You can't possibly believe that anybody that knows would answer your question. ... In any event your question is in actuality just another "new" MBP thread. Threads aren't bad, but when the same in answer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 I reckon all the next MacBook Pros ... No optical drive, external SuperDrive as option. USB3 ports, no LightPeak, Sandy Bridge across the line. ... I hardly ever use my optical drive on my 17-inch, but…