I dunno, but they aren't looking too attractive. Thinking of just buying an SSD and a new battery and sticking out another year. They are due a major upgrade, hopefully next year.
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I dunno, but they aren't looking too attractive. Thinking of just buying an SSD and a new battery and sticking out another year. They are due a major upgrade, hopefully next year.
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
They went from dual core i5 to quad core i7 - what do you expect from a "major upgrade"?
USB 3? Blu ray? SSD standard?? Higher res standard??? They stripped the discrete graphics on the 13" and i bet you that Sandy Bridge on board chip is going to come in lower than the 320M it used to have!
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
USB3 - fair enough.
Blu-ray - we all know that's not going to happen. Blu-ray support would be nice though.
SSD as standard? How expensive do you want them to be? You can choose it on order anyway.
Higher resolution? I don't want that - things are small enough already, and it's available as an option.
Blu-ray - we all know that's not going to happen. Blu-ray support would be nice though.
SSD as standard? How expensive do you want them to be? You can choose it on order anyway.
Higher resolution? I don't want that - things are small enough already, and it's available as an option.
Could have done with more USB ports as well, SSD's should be standard in laptops that cost over 20 000, and for 20k I would think they would give you 8 gigs of ram standard.
Their RAM upgrade prices are just sick, and even worse here, i have been quoted 16 000 for 2 x 4 gig chips at the Melrose Arch store! So ridiculous the dude was laughing when he told me!
Was really keen for some major new hardware, obviously didnt come. the MBP used to always be comparable with the best of the best, now its just the Gfx that is comparable.
Anyways, will be sticking to mine, just get a SSD and new battery. Pooky, i suggest you do the same or sell me yours, cheap
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Could have done with more USB ports as well, SSD's should be standard in laptops that cost over 20 000, and for 20k I would think they would give you 8 gigs of ram standard.
Their RAM upgrade prices are just sick, and even worse here, i have been quoted 16 000 for 2 x 4 gig chips at the Melrose Arch store! So ridiculous the dude was laughing when he told me!
Was really keen for some major new hardware, obviously didnt come. the MBP used to always be comparable with the best of the best, now its just the Gfx that is comparable.
Anyways, will be sticking to mine, just get a SSD and new battery. Pooky, i suggest you do the same or sell me yours, cheap
It's not just the new specs, it's the size, I really want a smaller one.
xera
Expert Member
What size SSD would you get phiber? I also really want an SSD... for portability reasons mainly, but also speed would be a huge bonus
Looking at 256, but its quite pricey. Someone mentioned he can get the intels for 2500, trying to see if he still can. I might take one of those.
wab512
Well-Known Member
I visited the Applestore @ Vodaworld and they said next week.
SDDs are still too small and too expensive to be standard on their pro machines. I've got a 500gb drive in mine and I'm forever having to relocate data to reclaim space.
I put my macbook serial number in on Apple's website and it said this:
Registered
Your registration lets Apple quickly find your product and provide the help you need.
Telephone Technical Support: Active
Your product is eligible for telephone technical support under the AppleCare Protection Plan.
Estimated Expiration Date: November 17, 2013
More about AppleCare Protection Plan
Contact Apple Support
Repairs and Service Coverage: Active
Your product is covered for eligible hardware repairs and service under the AppleCare Protection Plan.
Estimated Expiration Date: November 17, 2013
Learn about Apple's coverage information for your product.
Set Up a Repair
Covered by the AppleCare Protection Plan
The AppleCare Protection Plan is a unique service and support solution that extends the complimentary coverage of your Apple product.
Does that mean that my macbook has the 3 year protection plan?>
Registered
Your registration lets Apple quickly find your product and provide the help you need.
Telephone Technical Support: Active
Your product is eligible for telephone technical support under the AppleCare Protection Plan.
Estimated Expiration Date: November 17, 2013
More about AppleCare Protection Plan
Contact Apple Support
Repairs and Service Coverage: Active
Your product is covered for eligible hardware repairs and service under the AppleCare Protection Plan.
Estimated Expiration Date: November 17, 2013
Learn about Apple's coverage information for your product.
Set Up a Repair
Covered by the AppleCare Protection Plan
The AppleCare Protection Plan is a unique service and support solution that extends the complimentary coverage of your Apple product.
Does that mean that my macbook has the 3 year protection plan?>
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
Seems whomever purchased it got AppleCare at the same time.
Fairly easy for me since the bulk of my drive space is taken up by aperture. I just create a new library when I'm done with the project and move it to external drives.I'm about to start having to do that too.
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koffiejunkie
Executive Member
If photos were my work, then I would do that easily. But all mine are personal
I have thought of getting an optibay to replace my DVD drive with a second hard drive. But my MBP is old enough to have an IDE DVD drive, so that limits my options. Ideal would have been two 500GB drives.
I'm not getting the distinction.If photos were my work, then I would do that easily. But all mine are personal
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
Lifestyle difference I guess. I travel a fair bit, see friends, see family. I like to have all my pics with me. Travel is incidentally also almost the only time that I get to spends some time sorting and processing images. Aperture shows that I have just over 3000 images a year, so I should be able to accomodate that on an internal drive at the speed they're getting bigger.
My biggest issue at the moment is that speed really is the biggest bottleneck. SSD is the obvious solution, but to date I haven't found one that implements hardware encryption (even though the widely used Sandforce controllers have the feature).
As do I which is why I use a script to convert the RAWs to smaller JPGs after I've copied off the library. Huge space saving.
I have a brand new quad core Macbook pro 15" for sale, that I picked up on my recent trip to the USA. It is the latest version. Where is the best place to list this? The classifieds on here are only for uber members so somewhat worthless for me. I have it up on bid or buy and gumtree but would really like to get it listed as many places as possible. I am going back to the USA in two weeks and want to pick up another one, so need to sell this one.
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Just noticed the ZAStore already has prices for the new MBSs listed... from R11,999.00 for the i5 13" to R23,499.00 for the quad core i7 17"... http://www.zastore.co.za/macbookpro.php