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- Scott2, on 07/09/2008, -2/+90Wow, it barely looks different at all.
- Singee15, on 07/09/2008, -1/+74The questions is - will the sleep light be even brighter?
- zosoIV, on 07/10/2008, -0/+59Can't see *****, captain.
- woodenhand, on 07/09/2008, -3/+51Now if they would only bring the 12" model back...
- tossayo, on 07/09/2008, -3/+43I wonder how many angry and starving students will complain after this is released after the Back-to-School promotion?
http://www.apple.com/promo/ - sigalakos, on 07/09/2008, -8/+40As long as they don't use MacBook Air's keyboard, this should be a modest and good redesign. The current MacBook Pro design is perfect by the way. The only things missing would be a larger trackpad for multitouch gestures and a magnetic latch.
And if they make it easy to replace the hard drive as the memory, that would make a lot of people happier!
I am one of those that bought a Penryn MacBook Pro recently, fearing that the new redesign would bring hardware failures as well. Apple has a bad history with Rev.A products and I don't see why I should pay a premium to be their Beta-tester. As long as we're talking about a modest redesign, the current MacBook Pro is fine thank-you-very-much! :-) - fissionignition, on 07/10/2008, -1/+32It's really not that hard to take apart... Something like 12 screws? Voids your warranty, sure, but any Digger worth his Diggs shouldn't give a *****.
- ttfadia, on 07/10/2008, -0/+24Haha, that thing can be blinding at night.
- drgruney, on 07/10/2008, -2/+22Dugg for "Digger worth his Diggs."
- c010rb1indusa, on 07/10/2008, -3/+20I love the Macbook Air keyboard. It's very responsive and I find I make less errors when typing,
- vinod1978, on 07/09/2008, -6/+22I'm honestly completely satisfied with my Mac book Air (SSD Version) - even though I have a slightly older Mac Book Pro as well - I never really use it. Since I've had my mac book air - I've used it on only 2 separate occasions and I got the Air the same week it came out. I recommend people that use the air use Xslimmer which will save you gigs of wasted space from most software (it removes all the languages, and PPC capabilities, etc...), so I'm not going to buy a new laptop for at least another 2 years. I'm thinking to just increase the size of my SSD later on.
- Kanidia, on 07/09/2008, -4/+19Apple, please release this before the back-to-school promo ends! =(
- dyranios2, on 07/09/2008, -4/+17good luck with the whole "increase the size of my SSD" thing
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -3/+15Yawn
- AquaOSX, on 07/10/2008, -1/+13Don't get me wrong, I think it's one of the better laptop enclosures in the business, but there is room for improvement.
Mine looked nice at one point in time. But now it's lost a number of it's little rubber feet and screen protectors. The palm wrest has begun to oxidize because my hands apparently do that to aluminum. My screen no longer pops up when I hit the latch button. Ohh, and I have dents (because, well, AI can dent). I use my laptop for work, and I use it a lot. But for a pro machine, it feels like something I need to handle like a baby.
Moreover, the HDD is damn near impossible to access. I'd love to clean out what's under my keyboard and speaker holes, but Apple has turned that into a tedious mini alan wrench chore. And to beat a dead horse... WiFi reception is somewhat questionable with the AI enclosure.
I await my negative diggs. - MikeCerm, on 07/10/2008, -5/+14The MBP is far from perfect. Aesthetically, sure, it's fine. Now, what they really need to do is figure out how to integrate WLAN, an SDHC card reader, and for the love of god, make it smaller! I don't care how slim it is, 15.4" is too large. They really need a 12", 13", or at least a 14" model.
My 2-year old Dell XPS m1210 has all the same features of the MacBook Pro of its day, plus WLAN, a card reader, and even a better keyboard than the MBP, and managed to fit it all into an ultra-portable-sized frame. Why can't Apple do the same? Why is the crippled Air the best that Mac users can get?
For all the power-users out there, Apple should really come out with something more portable. Fast processors, 4GB of RAM, Express Card slot, large/fast 2.5" hard drive, WLAN, and swappable battery, in a ultra-portable. Like Dell made 2 years ago, but with MBP styling. That would be perfect. - Kazaki, on 07/10/2008, -4/+13The last I checked, MacBook Pro's had Wireless-N built into all models.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -2/+10My God Jim, vagina cysts. Apple does it again.
- dagamer34, on 07/10/2008, -1/+8I really wish they would switch to a magnetic latch.. BUT still keep the light. That'd be awesome!
- EllimistX, on 07/10/2008, -0/+7There's a settings page, dumbass... use it.
- ophello, on 07/10/2008, -0/+7you care so little that you...read the story and bothered to comment.
obviously you DO care. You care enough -- so much, in fact -- that you went out of your way to scroll to the bottom, type your opinion into your keyboard, hit "save reply", and hope your comment gets dug up.
you're pathetic. - Aadain, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6Because that is where the lighted element of the apple logo connects.
- flammatappa, on 07/10/2008, -2/+8Edited all of my student films on a 12" PowerBook- no problems at all. I kinda regret selling it, but I love my MBP! I really would like to see a small mac, like Asus Eee small, but I'll take a 12", definitely.
- logic6, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6They should make it programmable, different flash patterns for new email, new IMs, download finished...
- eohano, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6...
Use... your... brain... - jacksim, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5The top looks pretty similar to me (except for the more tapered edges). The bottom is different, though, since the new battery will (reportedly) occupy the whole width of the case.
- fissionignition, on 07/10/2008, -5/+10I don't think someone who spends $3000 on a laptop is too worried about spending $1000 on a hard drive at some point in the future.
- DephexTwin, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5When Apple doesn't tell anyone their roadmap for new hardware releases, these kinds of leaks are the only clues people have to go by to find out if something new is imminent.
- iCoty, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Because it's a prototype. It won't be there on the casing that ships.
- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -3/+8Hum.. a true Apple product wouldn't trash the logo with weird dell-like dots.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Hey, the regular ole macbooks are going to be aluminum. ***** yeah!
- KMartSheriff, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5I don't get it either, but a lot of people actually loved the 12" PowerBooks. And for that reason alone, I don't understand why Apple doesn't make a 12" MacBook Pro. They'd make a killing off of them.
- Nosferotu, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6You know, I love Mac, and I've had Mac as long as I've had a computer, but really - a massive internet freak out over seeing the top and bottom case parts, deconstructed, for a Macbook Pro design coming out very soon? Really?
Honestly, who cares. - ocellnuri, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4That's how they've done new model releases for the past couple years. It happened when I got my Intel iMac, and the next year with the iMac redesign (if I'm remembering correctly).
I want a new laptop for school, but I'm going to hold out until the refresh... I think it will be worth losing the iPod Touch rebate. - weareglass, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4I'm mostly just excited at the prospect of a user-serviceable hard drive. It's ridiculous I have to pay someone to replace a hard drive if I don't want to void my warranty.
- dagamer34, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6Pfft, that's like asking God to impeach George W Bush. Some things just weren't meant to happen sadly...
- bigbadgoat, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5No, more like useless.
If I had 3K to spend on a new Laptop, I wouldn't ever consider the Macbook Air.
It's not an ultraportable. Slim != ultraportable. The screen is far too big, and the only dimension they slimmed down is the dimension that really doesn't matter when it comes to portability.
It's slow (vs it's direct competitors)
It's expensive (vs it's direct competitors)
It lacks functionality (vs pretty much every other laptop made in the past five years, including it's direct competitors)
and really, it's not even that slim compared to it's direct competitor's. and dimension wise, most of it's competitors are actually smaller if you look at surface area and/or volume.
The only redeeming quality it has is that it's the only laptop that x inches thick and weights less than y lbs that runs OS X.
I mean I do love my Macbook and OS X, and I'd never want to go back to windows, but only a fool, someone who's filthy rich, or both would buy that thing. - lazyeyesam, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5Jealous?
- ssavoy, on 07/10/2008, -3/+7I see someone had a little too much money to spend on one. It's one of the only Apple products I still (after 6 months?) say "Why would anyone buy this?"
- bigbadgoat, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Small, yet powerful computer with a standalone graphics card that runs OS X?
sign me up.
I find it pretty sad that my macbook can't even run Spore in OS X. Integrated Graphics blows. Never again. - dood, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I was wondering the same thing. It doesn't look significantly different. When this photo was on here before, a lot of people were calling it fake, "no way Apple would make that", etc. But I don't see anything weird or different about it.
- nuveaux, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3The 12" Powerbook is my favorite laptop of all time. Amen brother!
- ColorBlind, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I thought i was going crazy when i saw all the "hype"....but it honestly looks like the same aluminium case.
- nmcphee, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I did the back to school promotion 4 weeks ago. I thought it was safe: I didn't think Leo had bought a computer yet.
- everyonenose, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3The redesign they need to work on is strengthening the MBP's case. A ~$2,700 "mobile professional" notebook should withstand some knocking around -- these things dent like cheap beer cans.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4Two black guys holding giant pick in the desert: "we ain't found *****."
- dullnation, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3It's a regular Macbook Pro chassis without the plastic bits stuck on+a minor photoshop to remove the battery!
People are so ***** stupid. - iofthestorm, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I think he meant WWAN, i.e. using 3G cell phone networks.
- thegodfaza, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4Users doing their own upgrades. What will they think of next.
- Dylson, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I would really like to see a redesign of the MacBook.
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