evilt00l
join:2003-03-20
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clubs: | Where are all the NoteBooke release rumors?
Or are leaked so far to the point now that no one cares? |
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wxboss
This is like Deja vu all over again.
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October 13th, @04:10PM
| Mr. Steve always keeps a tight lock on upcoming event details. It's all speculation until it's officially revealed. |
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evilt00l
join:2003-03-20
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October 13th, @04:12PM
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I agree however I had some pretty solid speculation to throw on the fire...
I happen to work for Apple as a contractor doing sales. |
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The Dv8or
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clubs: | reply to evilt00l
Also, the improvements are so unimportant that no one gives a shit. Nothing mindblowing is coming out, unless this dock connector thing is true.
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evilt00l
join:2003-03-20
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| No I have not product information... Only able to confirm that something will happen as my hours for the time period during the "event" have been removed as the site will be down. So just confirming that something is happening no info about what. Thats why I was just going to add it what I thought would be an already going "rumor" thread. |
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DavisPhotog
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What dock connector thing are you talking about?
I think the redesign is going to be fairly significant. I'm thinking about replacing my 1.5 year old Macbook Pro with one of the new MBs if 1) It comes with Firewire 800 2) A Blu-Ray disc drive, and 3) is available with a 200+ GB hard drive. |
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The Dv8or
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| What are the chances theyre going to give the MacBook a Blu-Ray drive before the MBP gets one? Also, the MacBooks historically havent had FW800 because it's considered a "Pro" style port.
Some of the rumor sites show a covered port toward the front of the side port plate that some speculate could be part of this new iMac style dock where you slide the whole laptop right behind the screen.
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DavisPhotog
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| Interesting. I saw the covered port in the images, but I didn't know what it might be for.
Do you not think that they're going to release both the MB and the MBP updates on Tuesday? It seems like they'd keep some people waiting for updates if they only released one at a time. They'll see a buying frenzy if they do it all at once. Plus, they don't hold events very often.... |
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The Dv8or
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| said by DavisPhotog  :Plus, they don't hold events very often.... I disagree. Since the phaseout of the east coast Macworlds, these events seem to be increasing, and the announcements seem to be less and less significant, while the announcements at MWSF seem to have a lot of pressure to be more and more groundbreaking. Sometimes you get a significant announcement at a standard event or even a non-event (iBook G4 is a good example, which officially phased out sales of any G3s), but a lot of these events are being made out to be much more than they are.
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HiVolt
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clubs: | What the MacBooks need is a native eSATA port, for fast, native external storage.
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nu2this
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Hallandale, FL
| reply to evilt00l
Apple will be holding a special media event on Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM Pacific in Cupertino, California.
Apple has made it clear that the event will focus on notebook computers. In addition, a leaked Apple support document confirms that "late 2008" MacBooks and MacBook Pros will be amongst the products announced. While there's been no definite word about MacBook Air updates, it seems reasonable to expect that MacBook Airs could also be updated to latest Intel processors.
The October 14th date was first reported by DaringFireball's John Gruber.
MacBooks and MacBook Pros
Apple last updated both the MacBooks and MacBook Pros in February of this year. The MacBook update was a bit of a surprise as the product line had just been refreshed 5 months prior. Rumors suggested that this represented an interim update to keep the MacBook in line with the current Intel processors and that more substantial updates would come later in the year.
AppleInsider first reported in April that the new notebooks would see "major design changes" to bring it closer to the MacBook Air and iMac designs.
Case Leaks
There have been a surprising number of case photo leaks from Taiwanese and Chinese sites over the past few months. The first leak from Apple.pro in July claimed to show a tapered MacBook Pro bottom and top. Though we were initially skeptical of the leak, AppleInsider has confirmed that it is legitimate. Apple.pro later posted photos of the top and bottom of the MacBook cases as well as a a video, though the authenticity of these images are still in doubt.
The most convincing leak came just days ago from MacX.cn. Case images of both MacBook and MacBook Pro were detailed from many different angles and are believed to be real. The images suggest that the MacBook will not include a Firewire port.
Brick, Glass, Two Tone
9to5Mac seems to be standing alone with these rumors, which have not been corroborated by any other sources. After weeks of speculation about the "brick" codename, 9to5Mac believes that this refers to the manufacturing process for the new notebooks. Other claims have included the use of a glass trackpad and the use of both plastic and aluminum to produce a two-tone appearance in the MacBook.
While 9to5Mac has had accuracy with iPod rumors in the past, they were somewhat misguided in their Rainbow iPod rumor.
NVIDIA
Perhaps one of the most welcome changes to the Apple MacBook will be the rumored inclusion of NVIDIA chipsets and GPUs. The NVIDIA chipsets are said to provide a smaller footprint and significantly better graphics performance when compared to Intel's offerings. |
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DavisPhotog
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said by HiVolt :What the MacBooks need is a native eSATA port, for fast, native external storage. I'd settle for that, too. I couldn't stand to use my 1TB drive (or smaller ones) with anything but FW800 or eSATA. |
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GoD of KaOs
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Chatsworth, CA | reply to evilt00l
I found this on Digg...
»www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/mr-b···p-model/ |
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DavisPhotog
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clubs: | Gah, that gloss screen covering is a huge turnoff. I don't have a huge preference one way or another for the screen itself being glossy or matte (I've had both), but the way they make the whole front glossy is weird. |
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DavisPhotog
Flyingphotog
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clubs: | In any case, I'll have a good reason to lighten my workload between 11 and 1 tomorrow (yes, 10 and 12 local in CA). |
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HiVolt
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clubs: | reply to DavisPhotog
WTF, if the MBP's are all glass fronts and therefore glossy, that's gonna piss off a lot of potential buyers.
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The Dv8or
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clubs: | I'll say it now... if Apple offers glossy only MBPs, my next laptop is a Pee Cee.
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DavisPhotog
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clubs: | If you read a ways down in that thread, you'll see the reasons why that image might have been a 'shop. |
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rexbinary
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·Verizon FIOS
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said by The Dv8or :I'll say it now... if Apple offers glossy only MBPs, my next laptop is a Pee Cee. I'm with you on that. |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
Ingersoll, ON
| reply to HiVolt
said by HiVolt :WTF, if the MBP's are all glass fronts and therefore glossy, that's gonna piss off a lot of potential buyers. Yeah me too. All the other glossy screens on the other Macs have different colour reproduction compared to the matte ones. Although the laptop LCD isn't exactly good to do serious colour matching work on, it's still better than the previous glossy ones.
I've also heard rumors about dual NVidia GPUs which would be awesome. |
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