New Macbook Pros

[Synaesthesia]

Well it will probably come it at pretty much the price of the current 160gb. Intel keep making their flash engraving process smaller. Currently it's at 34nm and later this year it will be 22nm, which is double the density hence the price drop

Oh and don't buy an SSD until you've read Anandtech.

 

[Pooky]

Macbooks are so expensive! But I want one sooo much!

 

[koffiejunkie]

Will wait a while, but it looks as if an SSD will extend the lifetime of my current laptop.

I'm thinking the same thing. Provided 6GB RAM (officially not supported on my early 2008 MBP, but reported to work), adding an SSD should give me at least another two years.

 

[d0b33]

I plan on geting a new macbook when 10.7 is released, my macbook has a strange problem where the "~" key is super sensitive, slightest touch and it acts like it's pressed. I need to replace the optical drive and get a new keyboard/top case but will sell it instead for cheap.

 

[Madhawk]

Apple store in SA has updated their website with the new MBP.

http://www.zastore.co.za/macbookpro.php

I want the 15inch, but R19000 is steep, ouch!

 

[icyrus]

They don't have anything but the default configs?

They never do.

 

[phiber]

Apple store in SA has updated their website with the new MBP.

http://www.zastore.co.za/macbookpro.php

I want the 15inch, but R19000 is steep, ouch!

Grills me that the i5 macbook which is more expensive in the states by 200 dollars is 3000 rand cheaper than the i5 iMac. This makes no sense at ALL

Edit: I see the i7 is 21 999, still 1000 bucks more for something thats 200 dollars less.

 

[burn]

Madhawk: FYI www.zastore.co.za are useless, I have had much better service at www.digicape.co.za if you are interested and just using ZAStore as a pricing reference... Zastore have forgetten to send both items I have ordered from them. There I was sitting at home waiting eagerly for my brand new MBP to arrive only to find out a week later, when I called them, that it had not even been sent ;( They had simply forgotten... This happened again a few years later wth another item. Plus it is straight from Core. Core = bad

 

[Madhawk]

^^^ Thanks for the info.

I won't buy from zastore.

I once sent an email with a simple question to them and still today I've never received a reply.

My brother has bought from Digicape before, so I'm happy to go with them rather.

 

[Synaesthesia]

zastore = core = fail

 

[Peder]

in a way i wish i had waited another month for my macbook... would've been nice to have a bigger harddrive, but let bygones be bygones...

 

[BobJones]

MacBook Pro stock reaches SA

Looks like there is stock of the newly released MacBook Pro's in SA. Saw a 15" i5 on display at Clearwater iStore and DigiCape apparently have 10 that have all been allocated to pre-order sales.

Best you call up the stores if you have a pre-order and get your hardware before it gets allocated to someone else.

 

[Madhawk]

Saw a 15" i5 on display at Clearwater

Thanks for the info, I definitely want to pop in and check it out before I make my decision.

 

[titeroper]

Which 2010 MacBook pro for iPhone dev?

Need your advice everyone: is the base 13 inch MacBook pro sufficient for iPhone/ iPad app development? Or would I see a significant increase in productivity by going with the base 15 inch i5 model?
I would use the laptop for work-so mixed ms docs etc.
Then I would bring home and develop apps, watch various media and perhaps dabble in some photo/movies for family.

Thanks in advance

 

[koffiejunkie]

Need your advice everyone: is the base 13 inch MacBook pro sufficient for iPhone/ iPad app development? Or would I see a significant increase in productivity by going with the base 15 inch i5 model?

Any Mac on the market today (or in the last two years, for that matter) is sufficient. Your only real possible concern is the screen size, but I don't expect the 13" to have any limitations in that regard.

 

[Synaesthesia]

Yeah even a Mac Mini is fine.

 

[AfricanTech]

I believe that you can fry an egg on it!!

 

[Synaesthesia]

I believe that you can fry an egg on it!!

Yummy!

But no. Basically one computer magazine reported temperatures of up to 100 degrees celcius when performing benchmarks. All the other reviews I've read say it's cooler than the previous generation. Anyway, frying an egg will be impossible since the egg will conduct and absorb all the heat away too quickly, and it won't be replaced with heat rapidly enough, ie not enough power.

And that's why you can't fry an egg on a MBP.

 

[phiber]

Need your advice everyone: is the base 13 inch MacBook pro sufficient for iPhone/ iPad app development? Or would I see a significant increase in productivity by going with the base 15 inch i5 model?
I would use the laptop for work-so mixed ms docs etc.
Then I would bring home and develop apps, watch various media and perhaps dabble in some photo/movies for family.

Thanks in advance

If you going to carry it around a lot go 13" unless the screen size really bothers u. I love my 13" does everything i need and more. More than enough for iphone dev as well

 

[koffiejunkie]

But no. Basically one computer magazine reported temperatures of up to 100 degrees celcius when performing benchmarks. All the other reviews I've read say it's cooler than the previous generation.

People have been complaining about the heat since the first generations MacBook Pros came out. But it's not really a fair comparison to other brands, since Apple is one of the few that actually has a metal chassis. Metal conducts heat - plastic isolates it. And even so, some of the plastic laptops I've dealt with before (highly respected brands too) have gotten way hotter than my MBP ever does. One in particular sticks in my mind, it was an ASUS that got so hot when you run CPU intensive stuff, that even they keys became too hot to touch type comfortably.