Mondeo ST220
Same here! It's a lot of money. I'd love one but finding it really hard to justify the price.
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New MBP's Soon.
- Thread starter Tom
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Same here! It's a lot of money. I'd love one but finding it really hard to justify the price.
Yep, buying online through the education store online effectively gives you Applecare minus the telephone support for free.
Super meh! For some reason I was half expecting NEW models. Maybe a design change or something. Perhaps some more glass. Super HD panels. Maybe like a giant clamshell iPhone 4. Anything to make me part with two large and replace my 17".
I only use it for CS and p**n, so I shall skip these and wait for the next models. Apart from slightly shiny keys (I bash them hard remember), mine still looks brand new anyway. Not a mark anywhere on it. f**k paying £2k for a better graphics card and processor that don't get used. The general OS speed limitation for most users these days is the HDD, and considering the SSD option is nearly £900...FRO! Also PMSL at £200 for an extra 100Mhz from an already blazing processor. That would be £3k for a machine that looks and performs (for what I use it for) exactly the same.
NEIN! This update clearly isn't aimed at upgraders. More at adopters IMO. I'm waiting for the 17" clamshell iPhone 4 style machines with Retina 2, next year.
I only use it for CS and p**n, so I shall skip these and wait for the next models. Apart from slightly shiny keys (I bash them hard remember), mine still looks brand new anyway. Not a mark anywhere on it. f**k paying £2k for a better graphics card and processor that don't get used. The general OS speed limitation for most users these days is the HDD, and considering the SSD option is nearly £900...FRO! Also PMSL at £200 for an extra 100Mhz from an already blazing processor. That would be £3k for a machine that looks and performs (for what I use it for) exactly the same.
NEIN! This update clearly isn't aimed at upgraders. More at adopters IMO. I'm waiting for the 17" clamshell iPhone 4 style machines with Retina 2, next year.
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
I'm paranoid about the shiny keyboard issue... 
Tom
ClioSport Club Member
EV (s)
I'm paranoid about the shiny keyboard issue...
http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/photo-app-keyboards/
http://www.editorskeys.com/Photoshop_MacBook_/_Air_/_Pro_Cover.html
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Ordered.
Thanks mate!
Thanks mate!
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Rav4
A silver one
He's had a bargain there. The price has gone up to £1549 now.
£1300 is better than education discount.
Is it worth upgrading to the new MBP.
Reason I ask is that I had mine delivered on the 14th, called Apple today as I was pretty miffed that they have upgraded so soon after mine being ordered, and they said I can have a free upgrade and until to Wednesday to decide! Which is very nice of them. I currently have basic spec i5 MPB, only extra is High Res screen. So basically is it worth it? I think so myself, but wanted to ask on here as there are a lot of Mac experts who would say whether to or not.
Reason I ask is that I had mine delivered on the 14th, called Apple today as I was pretty miffed that they have upgraded so soon after mine being ordered, and they said I can have a free upgrade and until to Wednesday to decide! Which is very nice of them. I currently have basic spec i5 MPB, only extra is High Res screen. So basically is it worth it? I think so myself, but wanted to ask on here as there are a lot of Mac experts who would say whether to or not.
WTF. I could have sworn I saw 1440x900 on the spec list?
EDIT: 1280x800. WTF. Really not good enough IMO.
R26
Thunderbolt is s**t. The new processors are quite handy from what I've read.
R26
It's already caught on as it's really just PCI express with some fancy external interface technology.
Hardware vendors producing PCI express hardware need only to add the thunderbolt interface chip to their existing hardware and boom, it's already supported. No other changes, no extra drivers, no extra royalties.
Hardware vendors producing PCI express hardware need only to add the thunderbolt interface chip to their existing hardware and boom, it's already supported. No other changes, no extra drivers, no extra royalties.
yeah, because spinny disks are just that fast
The interface is also there to replace display port, SSD's can already outperform SATA3. You can pick up PCIe based SSD drives that can top 1.4GBps, can't integrate them into a regular drive as there is nothing other than PCIe that can handle that kind of bandwidth really. The fact is, a faster bus is needed in the professional market.
whats wrong with the current display port?
and SSDs are too expensive for anything other than small boot disks at the moment, its just ahead of its time i guess at the moment. Which is better than having the devices but with nothing to connect them to....
Its like fabric manufacturers, they brought out 8gb fibre channel 2 years ago, and 2 years later sans are still running at 4gb/s as they can't saturate the bandwidth anyway, 16gb FC is around the corner but theres nothing actually there to use it.
and SSDs are too expensive for anything other than small boot disks at the moment, its just ahead of its time i guess at the moment. Which is better than having the devices but with nothing to connect them to....
Its like fabric manufacturers, they brought out 8gb fibre channel 2 years ago, and 2 years later sans are still running at 4gb/s as they can't saturate the bandwidth anyway, 16gb FC is around the corner but theres nothing actually there to use it.
