I remember when Apple used to have events for their notebook releases. Sigh.
They never had events for speed bumps.
Thunderbolt and FaceTime HD aren't exactly a speed bump.
New MacBook Pro series
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#64Color me disappointed. I was hoping for: • Ditching the optical media for longer battery life • 4 cores in the 13" • Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn't listed ... maybe?) • The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13" that the Macbook Air has Altogether it's a pretty wussy update. Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13" model, which is what I care about) is: • Faster CPU (finally!) • Thunderbolt port (coun…
>>• 3 hours less battery life
The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17'', but who really got even close to that under normal use?
I'm thankful they're taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.
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I don't think the laptop versions of the Core i* have 3 memory channels (neither do the Socket-1155/1156 desktop versions), so 3x4GB of RAM would be a strange/suboptimal configuration. There probably isn't enough physical space in a 13" laptop for more than 2 modules anyway (unless you sacrifice battery or optical drive space). Even soldering them to the motherboard wouldn't save much space - I think all current 4GB…
Wasn't there a problem with some of the core processors? I don't remember which ones, but I'd check very carefully. Also worth checking out is what scale they are made at, I remember some of the core i processors were only being made at the higher nanometers scale (e.g. older less heat efficient technology). It would be ironic if the Core i5 four core model was more battery efficient and produced less heat than the c…
It's the Sandy Bridge series (the affected one), but it was the chipsets that were affected, and that supposedly won't be a problem with these laptops.
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#66Why is this on HN?
Because a lot of people here use a MBP as their main development device, at least from what I've seen in the comments. However, this topic being near the top of the front page does amuse me, because I saw several accusations of HN having a strict anti-Apple bias. That's not to say that there's a strict pro-Apple bias, however, just that the community seems to be genuinely split.
> the community seems to be genuinely split.
Or nuanced, perhaps?
I mean, I am very opposed to everything iOS because of politics, but I am very pleased with my MBP. I don't need to downvote Apple's announcement of new MBPs just because I don't agree with the politics surrounding iOS.
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#67Will you be able to get a MBP with a builtin 3G-adapter yet? No? Ok, I'll just go back to Dell then.
Edit: While my comment may come off trollish, this is a requirement for me when buying any mobile gear. That Apple still doesn't provide this for their top of the line laptops still baffles me.
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#68Why is this on HN?
Because a lot of people here use a MBP as their main development device, at least from what I've seen in the comments. However, this topic being near the top of the front page does amuse me, because I saw several accusations of HN having a strict anti-Apple bias. That's not to say that there's a strict pro-Apple bias, however, just that the community seems to be genuinely split.
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#69Interesting that they are now offering a SSD drive......does this mean they have now added the SSD TRIM command (or planning to add it in Lion)?
Not sure why you were voted down - I really want to see Apple support TRIM, too. Does anyone know whether there's a next-gen interface standard that's being worked on that might supersede SATA, with more elegant support for flash memory (beyond SATA's hacky NCQ+TRIM)?
High-end SSDs may migrate to PCIe with NVMHCI.
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I'm a bit disappointed because I wanted to fool with GPU programming and I think Nvidia is still the standard there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638324/nvidia-vs-amd-gpg... Does anyone have any experience with OpenCL versus Cuda?
you can't program cuda in os x anyway, apple only uses OpenCL. As far as I know, os x doesn't support OpenCL on the intel graphics chips either
I didn't encounter any problems using nVidia's CUDA toolkit on OS X. If you mean that it is not provided out of the box, true.