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Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by flomo » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:58 PM UTC

Corrado wrote: post #53

philthy wrote: post #46

sucks i bought a MBP two months ago...

Yea, I just ordered 4 Henge Docks for the current (last?) generation MacBook Pro lineup. Crap! I have a support question out to Henge to see if the ports line up or not. BTW: I'm not affiliated with Henge in any way, just a satisfied customer. If you need a dock for your MBP, the Henge is it!

I'm excited about "Thunderbolt" because someone will finally be able to build a real Mac laptop dock/port replicator.

Henge looks nice, but having a bunch of plugs sticking out from a piece of plastic seems like such a kludge.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by cjeane » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:59 PM UTC

beaumartinez wrote: post #83

xuki wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple will never include a Bluray drive. Period.

Why?

Two reasons. Apple is deeply invested in physical media being a thing of the past, and they aren't going to sacrifice any of their profit margin to add hardware that is seen as unnecessary. I'll be very surprised if next year's MBP has an internal DVD drive at all.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by steven_h » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

emilepetrone wrote: post #82

Ask HN: Get an old 13in MBP or new 13in MBP? The battery is more important to me than Thunderbolt.

The battery life will be similar, they are just using a realistic test on the 13" now. Go for the new one! :)

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by pclark » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:02 PM UTC

wheels wrote: post #18

Color 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…

To add to your list: 3G internet.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by xutopia » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:02 PM UTC

pclark wrote: post #14

ssn wrote: post #4

What's new?

Quad core i7 instead of dual core i7 in 15" and 17" i5 processor in 13" Thunderbolt 10Gbps integrated into DisplayPort connection AMD/ATI Radeon graphics chips

Actually the older generation of core i7 were quad core too but had less cache than this generation.

  L2 Cache (per core):	256 KB
  L3 Cache:	4 MB

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by pclark » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:03 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #105

pclark wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quad core i7 instead of dual core i7 in 15" and 17" i5 processor in 13" Thunderbolt 10Gbps integrated into DisplayPort connection AMD/ATI Radeon graphics chips

Actually the older generation of core i7 were quad core too but had less cache than this generation. L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB

My i7 says 2 cores in Device Profiler but says 4 in Activity Monitor, fwiw.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by bnastic » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:05 PM UTC

siglesias wrote: post #64

wheels wrote: post #18

Color 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.

Well, I do get very close to 8 hours on my 17" MBP (when the cpu is not too stressed). That number will go down if any serious work is done, but light browsing etc. takes it all the way up to 8h.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by jokermatt999 » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:09 PM UTC

xuki wrote: post #93

beaumartinez wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

Apple won't add a new technology to a product for no reason. I can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay. Moving forward, I hope Apple will get rid of the optical drive or offer an option to replace it with a 2nd HDD.

I can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay.

For those of us without excellent internet connections, it's the only feasible way to get HD movies.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by mgrouchy » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

wheels wrote: post #18

Color 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…

The main thing that bothers me in your list that I was really hoping for, was the better resolution on the 13inch. boo.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by KeithMajhor » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 3:13 PM UTC

ugh wrote: post #32

marknutter wrote: post #21

I remember when Apple used to have events for their notebook releases. Sigh.

They never had events for speed bumps.

I've never seen a more beautiful laptop. What can they really do besides include faster components and add features to software?