New line of Macbook and Macbook Pros

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<p>Mac just released their new line of Macbook and Macbook Pros, mainly changing just the chip (to a faster and more energy efficient Intel Peryn). Also, they have upped the graphics cards in the Pros.</p>

<p>Discuss in general and...</p>

<p>Anyone have more incentive to buy a Mac laptop because of this?</p>

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<p>Do you know if they will be making anymore changes before August?</p>

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<p>well considering they didn;t drop the price and you can still get so much more for that price, still not even considering it. I could get a laptop that would compare favorably to the MCP for around...oh lets say $1500, thats including upgrading the hard drive to a 320GB 5400 RPM or 200GB 7200 RPM drive...</p>

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<p>They're going to change it soon, this is a minor hardware revision. Hard drive capacity is nice, but the rest is kind of mediocre.</p>

<p>I'd personally wait until August or September personally...I'm more of a PC guy, but this hardware upgrade isn't really competitive.</p>

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<p>Apple tends to refresh the Macbooks roughly every 6 months...so it'll be upgraded again before next school year. I believe last year it was upgraded to 8600M GT (and some other things) in July? and the Pros got Santa Rosa whenever it came out.</p>

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<p>The next revision of the MacBook/Pro series will likely be in June.</p>

<p>See: DailyTech</a> - Intel Roadmaps Outline Centrino 2 Platform This June</p>

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<p>why do they release a little bit of new and then a big change later? I'm anxious to get a computer, but I'll wait until the end of summer to buy a macbook. I don't want to regret my purchase if they make a big change a month or so later..</p>

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<p>I agree that new hardware is due. The current designs are 4 years old. While there is nothing particularly wrong, the design is a bit "stale" for Apple, and I'd imagine that a new design is coming up very soon, especially with the extremely minor update now.</p>

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<p>So people think there will be a new macbook before August for sure?</p>

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<p>The projection for June is entirely speculation based on the supposed arrival of the Montevina chip. Furthermore, many people think that June is when all the computer companies announce their upgrades; however Apple is known to not announce their product until it is ready to ship.</p>

<p>In all likelihood, the lineup will come later than June, maybe by a month or two. But again, most of this is speculation without definite answers. Who knows. An Intel problem could back up all of the new lineups for months.</p>

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<p>no, it's because Apple has been updating its hardware roughly every 6 months. the new chip is just additional.</p>

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no, it's because Apple has been updating its hardware roughly every 6 months. the new chip is just additional.

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<p>that's also the time period where new products are released by the majority of computer companies...</p>

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<p>An early summer hardware revision lessesns your opportunity to offload the old stock on parents buying graduation gifts and college laptops (some figure you should have it for the whole summer, might as well, etc.)...the summer is also how they dump old iPods too. Why do you think they offer new iPods for free with the laptops to students and then announce new ones in september/october?</p>

<p>We'll see what happens. June seems early to me...but summer doesn't seem entirely unreasonable.</p>

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<p>True, but technically that would be just 4 months past the latest update (this past Tuesday). I doubt Apple would release a new lineup without the new chip.</p>