Does anyone know if Thunderbolt will support multiple displays? If I hear a yes, I'm off to the Apple store.
New MacBook Pro series
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#32I remember when Apple used to have events for their notebook releases. Sigh.
They never had events for speed bumps.
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#33Color 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…
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 modules use 16 DRAM chips.
The move from Core2Duo to Core i* alone should bag you a substantial improvement in processing power, at least; the lack of a quad-core model is presumably a battery life and cooling system trade-off.
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#34No BluRay combo drive.. I was very much expecting it to be present in the series update.
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#35Color 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…
I was really hoping the stock models would ditch hard drives entirely (for SSDs) like the MB Air.
The only reason I wasn't hoping for that is because I intend to stuff a 512 GB aftermarket SSD into my next MBP and I'd rather not pay through the nose for Apple's upgrade option.
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#36Interesting 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)?
newer SSDs (Vertex 3 Pro) actually perform worse after a TRIM
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#37Why is this on HN?
Because it's a device that a large number of HN users will probably end up owning and using to do their jobs.
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#38No BluRay combo drive.. I was very much expecting it to be present in the series update.
porn industry killed the bluray
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#39Why 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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#40I was about to post something to the effect of "I'm disappointed that the 13-inch model replaced the Nvidia GPU with an Intel one", but it seems to be decently better: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...
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