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- bmeckel, on 10/11/2007, -28/+271darn, my macbook, which used to be the fastest and most expensive, is now the cheapest, and least expensive. Worst. Day. Ever
- Thud, on 10/11/2007, -19/+188What? Still no updates to the Mac Mini?
Well slap my ass and call me Susan. - firepowered, on 10/11/2007, -10/+173Nothing major..... just bumping up the specs to stay competitive.
do'h. wheres teh MBPs!!! - GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+131The cheapest *AND* the least expensive?
Well it looks like a deal to me! What's the catch? - drlha, on 10/11/2007, -8/+110WTF?
Should I complain to Honda as well because they outdated my 2004 Civic? - ementis, on 10/11/2007, -12/+108Still no dedicated graphics card :(
- MAdaXe42, on 10/11/2007, -6/+80Yeah, I'm furious too - I bought myself a Model T ford, and they've done nothing but release new cars since! I think we should start a class action suit, for free upgrades of everything for life for everyone!
- SeBBBe, on 10/11/2007, -2/+67The only thing that needed a bump was the graphics chip. It didnt get one.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/11/2007, -14/+79I'm thinking there's some Leopard motivation behind having more RAM standard. We know how much OS X eats RAM. Guess nothing is changing. Odd the homepage and product specs have updated but not the store.
I was really hoping to buy something today. There's hardly a performance gain. I have a Black Macbook with 2 Gigs. What we need is a way to allocate more RAM to video RAM. - bdxphoenix, on 10/11/2007, -3/+65Thanks crammaz!
I know I'm getting dugg down, but for those who care Apple sent an e-mail saying they would automatically upgrade at no cost since it hadn't shipped yet.
I'm starting to like this company. - mbradbury, on 10/11/2007, -2/+518x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Writes DVD+R DL (double layer) discs at up to 4x speed
* Writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed
* Writes DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs at up to 4x speed
* Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
* Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed
* Writes CD-RW discs at up to 10x speed
* Reads CDs at up to 24x speed - zzyzy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+50What's a SuperDrive, then?
- crammaz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+44Apple has a two week grace period, you can still upgrade.
- rebelyell2k5, on 10/11/2007, -6/+42Dude. You are the idiot of the day. Congrats.
- dignick, on 10/11/2007, -5/+41The only real difference now between mb and mbp is screen size and graphics card. Hell, it even has a 8x superdrive compared to the 6x in the mbp, and wireless n enabled by default.
I have my fingers crossed very tightly for a mbp update at or around wwdc. - rdoger6424, on 10/11/2007, -4/+39triple chin?
- NightStryke, on 10/11/2007, -2/+35"A professional needs at least a 15" monitor."
There are a lot of different 'professionals' out there. Some need portability over screen size. - allaboutdatiki, on 10/11/2007, -5/+38Incremental update, yeah, but I'm glad I waited a few weeks before plunking down my cash.
- crammaz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34Yeah you can... Apple has a two week grace period to change models if a newer model is released.
Lucky bastard - RealityCheque, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34Educational pricing for the entry level Macbook is now $999; that is fifty dollars cheaper than it used to be.
- longofest, on 10/11/2007, -5/+35Is it as big of an update as some may have wanted? Probably not. But getting a faster processor and 1 GB of RAM standard (which is really important with the integrated graphics) makes for a nice refresher in my opinion, not to mention larger hard drives.
- ricksite, on 10/11/2007, -9/+38Yeah, that is redundant to have the exact same name.
-ricksite1 - inkswamp, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33@ebfoxbat: "We know how much OS X eats RAM. Guess nothing is changing."
I see people make these kinds of comments all the time about OS X being a resource hog and yet I see no evidence for it. I have Tiger running on a 600MHz iBook G3 with 384MB of RAM and it works fine. It's no speed demon, but there are no bottlenecks or weird lock ups and in general, I can get work done (can even VPN in to work and do things over remote desktop connections without any issue.) It runs pretty smoothly overall. I don't understand the complaint that OS X eats RAM. It really doesn't. - edebolt, on 10/11/2007, -6/+33tiny violins play in the distance... oh the injustice
- wordmunger, on 10/11/2007, -5/+31My guess is that 20 people submitted simultaneously. Everyone was hitting refresh at Macrumors and then rushing to post. No one had finalized the post so they all went through.
- retral, on 10/11/2007, -11/+37About time macbooks are competitive again.
I wonder if this time around they'll offer the black macbook without making the color change cost some 100+ dollars. - trylleklovn, on 10/11/2007, -5/+31"I'm starting to like this company."
Fanboy!
*pets his macbook - unloud, on 10/11/2007, -11/+36ricksite, I refuse to play along with that game again
-unloud - johnhummel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28They have a 2 week "send it back if we issue new macbooks" policy.
GIve them a call, and they should be able to get you hooked up. - psilanthropist, on 10/11/2007, -9/+31until i get a graphics card option, mavbooks are off the list
- Roger, on 10/11/2007, -12/+31But that -=| thing is kinda cool.
-=|roger - itsme92, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18@retral
A quick trip to the online Apple Store shows that you can get a white Macbook with the black one's specs for $125 less than the black one. Last rev it was a $50 difference, rev before it was a $150 difference.
Damn. they made the price difference even more than before. Not that it matters to me, as I am typing this on a now-outdated whitebook, because that's what I prefer, it just seems wrong that they charge so much for a color. - ncaauwe, on 10/11/2007, -6/+21"I have run OSX on a core duo mac mini with 512mb of ram which is significantly faster than yours and it was painful. iphoto was an absolute dog."
Well that's iPhoto, not the operating system. I've seen Vista eat up several gig of ram while sitting there and doing absolutely nothing. And I've also seen it not have the ability to run Premiere and watch an AVI at the same time, whereas on my MacBook Pro with the stock 2GB of ram, I'll run Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects under Rosetta, Shake 4.1, plus iTunes, Adium, and Safari on a second monitor and I tend to forget what's all running unless I'm doing a Shake render, which maxes out everything...which I want, because I want the fastest render possible. - bdxphoenix, on 10/11/2007, -6/+20D'oh, I knew I shouldn't have ordered a new MacBook Sunday night. Ah well, maybe I can call and get the newer model....
- ExSlashdotter, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19Thats my experience too. We issue macbooks as standard equipment at our office, and 512MB with MS Office under Rosetta was just not fun. 1GB is just where it really needed to be. And god help our marketing dept with intel macs and adobe cs2 (until a few days ago)...
At least now I wont have to be buying RAM by the buckets to add to each new machine.
Now, :::rolling die::: come on! daddy needs a new intel native ms office!! - PAJK, on 10/11/2007, -8/+22I wonder what the UK prices are? If the US price is $1099 (£550), surely the UK price cannot still be £750? That's a £200 ($400) difference.
EDIT: http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook/macbook.html
Yep, £750. I'm confused. I may as well just buy from the US store... - Swamphhh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Still with the GMA950? I understand using integrated graphics on the MB but at this point there are better options to that old chip. And for that matter, the x1600 is getting pretty long in the tooth in the other models as well. Why does apple drag its feet for so long in graphics tech?
- mesmeriffic, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19Gasp! Are you saying newer operating systems require newer hardware? Blasphemy.
- jjk5, on 10/11/2007, -6/+19The base model still comes with a combo drive. I think that's what he's referring to.
- rakesh2141, on 10/11/2007, -10/+23Lucky me..
Apple rocks..
i placed my order for a new macbook on saturday..
and now they have upgraded it.. i was scared have they shipped it...
but i was wrong...
they are configuring it and i will get the latest laptop..
wow..
that is cool...
apple rocks..
Roses are red. Violets are blue. Apple rocks. That is why it is for you. - DCstewieG, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13These do NOT have Santa Rosa. That will hopefully appear on the MB Pros at WWDC.
- helical, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16calm down dear, its only a minor speed bump
- Zippo, on 10/11/2007, -7/+18Sure, it won't run amazingly well, but Leopard is able to run on a G4. Tiger runs very smoothly on my 500MHz Power Mac G4.
Let's see you run Vista on a Pentium III. - Ireland, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15"I just bought mine a few weeks ago... I wish they would give some advance notice."
I wouldn't hesitate to call them, I got my way with that before. - rages4calm, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15@cyrax
Dead brain cells?? - FierceGrape, on 10/11/2007, -18/+28Why is this story submitted 20 times. What the ***** is wrong with the people that use this website that they dont see that its already there.
- sv650touring, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I think it will be that way untill Apple can do more to differentiate the MB from the MBP. Otherwise, what do you get for the extra money?
Bigger screen - and the bigger form factor that brings
FW800 - not a big percentage of users care
card slot - more useful than FW800, but still not many people want to use this either
better looks - IMO, but not everyones
some small spec increases, and nice touches like the lighted keyboard
The graphics card is the big difference since with OSX or Vista, you are talking about something that will improve speed and responsiveness all the time.
Macs can be a hard sell to people who look mainly at specs/performance. MacBook Pros are the extreme end of that problem, and without the grpahics card, I think 80% of them would be sold (over the MB) on screen size alone. - digiguy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11"I think im moving back to microsoft, at least their notebooks rock."
Microsoft does not make computers - inkswamp, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12> Well that's iPhoto, not the operating system.
Agreed. iPhoto is a good program but it can be a slug at times and it's not accurate to blame that on the OS. No idea why people are digging you down for pointing it out. - dirtyfratboy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Unfortunately, it's not a two week grace period. I ordered on May 4th and I just called in. They declined to send out an upgrade, because my Macbook was customized. Although, I did get a $50 credit.
If your order hasn't shipped yet, you'll prolly get the upgrade. -
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