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Well new 15" Macbook Pro, with built in battery, and SD card slot rather than express card slot! Who used the card slot anyway?
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Dark Cat of the Sith
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Nice price! $1,699.
EDIT: but they knocked off the 9600 graphics chip option. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Sneaky Punk
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The $1699 model only has integrated graphics, lame, some "Pro" machine.
The card slot is still on the 17" model, which is a lot cheaper now. |
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Less than Stellar Member
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I thought you were making a prediction. Damn you and your European ways of writing dates!
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Sneaky Punk
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Umm, I'm not European...
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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feeling my oats
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gah, guess i could have waited to get my daughter a new macbook...that 13" macbook pro is a sweet little machine...good price too
still she should be fine with the updated white macbook she just got....which had an even nicer price... g crazy is not a rare human condition everything is food if you chew hard enough |
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Sneaky Punk
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Yup, the 17" still has it, starting at $2499
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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What about the rest of us? Exchanging a hugely versatile ExpressCard slot for a friggin' SD card slot that literally nobody needs and only some slightly want?
However, the new 15-inch display sounds brilliant! And FireWire 800 on the 13-inch MacBook, and those prices finally coming down to irresistible levels. Great stuff. |
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Still, now that Apple added the FW800 port to the aluminium MB, I can take it off my embargoed list. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Siloam Springs, AR
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Oh, come on Apple!? Getting rid of the express card slot on the 15"? I was so excited 'till I saw this. How else will I run my future Apogee Rosetta? Of course the 17" is cheaper now and retains the express card slot, but I think I would prefer the form factor of the 15. Otherwise I think the updates are great, and firewire 800 on the 13" is wonderful.
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Sneaky Punk
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The card slot is clearly a minor issue, Apple stated that from their checks, a grand total 1% of users even use the card slot.
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Banging the Bottom End
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I'm just glad they went and brought the Pro level back down to the 13" level.
My next computer will definitely be either a 13" or 15" MBP when i decide to upgrade from my MBA in about a year. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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To get a summary of specs on (hopefully) the first page:
13" MBP (replaces unibody MB) 2.26 GHz C2D 2 GB RAM 9400M GPU 160GB HDD SD card slot new battery illuminated keyboard standard $1199 2.53 GHz 4GB RAM 9400M GPU 250GB HDD SD card slot new battery $1,499 15-inch MBP All models: 4GB RAM, new battery, new screen, SD card slot 2.53 GHz 250 GB HDD 9400M GPU $1,699 2.66 GHz 320 GB HDD 9400M + 9600M GT GPUs $1,999 2.8 GHz 500 GB HDD 9400M + 9600M GT GPUs $2,299 17" MBP 2.8 GHz 500GB HDD 9400M +9600M GT GPUs Keeps ExpressCard slot $2,499 and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Siloam Springs, AR
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick
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I'm somewhat mixed on the loss of the ExpressCard slot, but I guess I was one of the 99% of people who don't use or it, or even know or remember it's there. I was actually seriously considering getting an ExpressssCard SSD to put in that, or a card reader - bassplayinMacFiend noted, there are lots of ExpressCard card readers out there; many of them are designed to fit flush with the edge of the 'Book so you'd hardly notice it was there. "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi |
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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Pro photographers use CompactFlash and have high-speed FireWire readers for multiple cards, etc. Most casual photographers just plug the camera into a USB port with a cable, leaving the card in the camera. And half the SD cards on the market seem to come with a USB reader anyway. Anyway, I personally didn't need ExpressCard, though that's also pretty standard on Windows laptops other than the cheapest ones. What I needed was a high-speed port of one kind or another, and FireWire 800 satisfies that nicely. The 13-inch MacBook (Pro!) now looks very appealing to me. Let's see what the display is like. (I thought I read that was new too, but you didn't mention it in your specs, Roboman?) The 9400M graphics are great. Fast enough for most things except the latest games, and very power-efficient. A good choice for any laptop, Pro or otherwise, in my opinion. |
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Sneaky Punk
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Looks good, might go for one of those 13" models, it is about time to retired the old 15" 2nd Gen MBP. I hook my MBP up to a screen most of the time anyway, so screen size doesn't matter, and I play games on my PC so the GPU doesn't matter.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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All of them apparently use new displays. E-IPS maybe? Could go along with the $300 price drops?
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Is 13" enough for those that wanted 12"? Will the 13" pro use better screens than non pros?
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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E-IPS isn't cheaper than TN, which is used in laptops; it's only cheaper than previous IPS panels, which were insanely expensive (hence their relatively scarcity). The new screens definitely aren't E-IPS or Apple would have made a hell of a fuss about it (seeing as only one or two notebooks on the entire market have IPS panels, and they sell for a king's ransom).
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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I was under the impression that the 15 and 17" MBPs used IPS(or PMVA?) panels before?
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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Nah, they were TN like everything else on the market. Half-decent TN, but TN nevertheless. The last mainstream notebook with an IPS panel was a 14-inch ThinkPad from like five years ago, if I recall correctly. |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Guess what I have in my Expresscard slot? An SD card reader.
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