October 9, 2008 9:17 AM PDT
It's official: Apple to talk laptops on October 14
The official invite just popped up in our mailboxes for Apple's long-rumored October 14 press event in Cupertino, Calif. The big picture of a laptop and the headline, "The spotlight turns to notebooks," leaves us with a pretty clear idea of what Steve Jobs and company will be talking about. Not mentioned here is the most persistent rumor--that at least one of the new systems will hit a meltdown-friendly price of $800.
Here's the invite itself, for the curiosity seekers out there.
Apple's most cryptic invite ever...
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I've been waiting so long for the 13" Macbook
Can't wait to write my blog (www.yellol.net) with the new Macbook!
The only laptop I could see them adding that functionality to is their Pro series.
And yes, Keegan, 64 bit windows does handle 8GB but 64-bit windows isn't nearly as stable as 32-bit windows and if he's going to be running it on a notebook on the rare occasion the app isn't available on the Mac side (read: games) he probably doesn't need 8GB of RAM - he'd just need a good video card (read: MBP).
(I routinely play with Dell R900 servers that carry 128GB of RAM, and yes we can use it all, thanks much :) ).
An alluminum macbook would be great though though and at that price I think Apple could see a big gain in market share.
At least I can say I got the last ever plastic model (white penryn).
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ahhhh, how can I put this.
The trackpad can handle it, and you can use either a wireless, or connected mouse. I use a secondary button all day on my trackpad. A very close friend of mine plays World of Warcraft on an seven (7) year old iBook. She reached level 70, and does arenas with me ... without a mouse, just using the trackpad.
An $800 macbook would be consistent with the "product transition" comment from the last conference call. Why buy a $3000 Macbook Pro if you can get 90% of that in an $800 MacBook?
I'm looking forward to a new 17" MB Pro with an updated trackpad - I'll hand over my current one to one of my employees! We'll both be happy - it's good to be the boss!
You can't look at it any other way. It will always happen this way and we expect them to do this, we want newer and better. But for now our two MacBook's along with the iMac 24 is just perfect.
I'll still be anxious to see what Apple comes up with.
Atom or PowerPc...?
I just saw a bulletin on the TV, from the local mental asylum. They are looking for you. Please return to your mental unit ASAP.
ok im ready to pay you, build me a laptop at 4.8 ghz laptop for $1000 with 512 mb of graphic memory. That would be twice the computer for half the price.
Oh wait maybe you only build desktops. Lets exclude the imac because its an all in one. So tell me when can you build a 16 core at 2.8 ghz each, with 4 gbs of ram for 1,300 and 1 gb of dedicated graphic memory. So, you're not the only one thats been at frys. Ok wait lets look at the minimum configuration of the mac pro.
Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon ?Harpertown? processors
2GB memory (800MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics with 256MB memory
320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
16x double-layer SuperDrive
$2799
no pc can even handle that proccessing power. Now lets see what it maxs out at.
Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon proccesors
32GB (8x4GB) of ram
Mac Pro RAID Card
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB
Two 16x SuperDrives
Face it, you cant even build a computer of that raw power. for any amount of money right now.
also windows cant support that much power.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049
Just because its a mac does not mean theres not overclocking tools. (Tho who would want to overclock a macbook is beyond me, this one only controls fan speed.)
It does not bug me. I guess I am just used to my hp...
And it won't have blu-ray, they are still battery hogs and I don't think Apple is willing to kill the battery life just for BD.
Sorry to hear that, you could get a pair of these installed http://www.neuticles.com
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by Miouzikal
October 9, 2008 7:45 PM PDT
- Would be great if it has BD support, better graphics and gestures on 13". All that at a better price "AWESOME"
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by meowser007
October 12, 2008 9:34 PM PDT
- Then again when apple introduced the imac G4, they included the three most loudest request. (If you had seen it on youtube). If enough people ask apple for the blu-ray drive then its only a matter of time. Blu-ray has been popular for like 2 1/2 years now. It'll be foolish for apple to postpone it longer.
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See all 58 Comments >>Maybe im too demanding.
Bought my macbook a couple months ago and im really willing to see if the new lines will be worth buying.
Mac definitely are excellent products.
still love mine but will pass it over to my sister if im getting one of these.
Since Sony invented blu-ray, that may mean they won't let apple manufacture blue ray players. Apple does the same thing with the click wheel.