Apple updates MacBook Pro with industry's first LED-backlit displays, faster processors, more

Mac Daily News ^ | 06/05/2007

[rmlew]

Sweet.
I can't wait to put XP, Vista, and SLED on a 15.4 inch model.

[Constitution Day]

Breathtaking! Thank you.

[dighton]

Neat pic.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You're just waiting for Leopard, credit card in hand.

The new Macbooks are out, and iPhone debuts June 29.

So when does Leopard come out? Will the new Macbooks include certificates for upgrade to Leopard?

[George W. Bush]

Leopard and probably iLife 2008 are targeted for October. It's better to wait if you can.

Leopard's secret features (beyond the ones already known like Time Machine, ZFS, UNIX 2003™ certification) will be revealed at WWDC 2007 next week. I expect some exciting new announcements then.

I think we're going to see new chinless redesigned iMacs, maybe the end of the 17" iMac and possibly the Mini (displaced by AppleTV perhaps). Everyone is still hoping Apple will finally produce a mini-tower without monitor.

[ShorelineMike]

Did you notice that OpenOffice for the Mac appeared today (alpha release)?

Actually, that Slashdot headline is a bit misleading.

OpenOffice has already been released for Mac OS X, but it required X11.

This is announcing an alpha release of an Aqua (i.e., non-X11) version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X.

Still, I look forward to being able to run OpenOffice natively.

[George W. Bush]

Me too.

[Bookwoman]

I’m buying one too...

[ears_to_hear]

You are right, my I Mac is almost 2 years old. An eternity in the computer world :)

[N3WBI3]

Now now my mac is three and a half years old and works fine ;)

[George W. Bush]

My iMac is almost 2 years old. An eternity in the computer world :)

I don't know how you've managed to suffer so nobly.

Have courage. October isn't that far away.

[BlazingArizona]

29 years married...that’s the silicon anniversary, isn’t it?

[ears_to_hear]

Ahhh but if you were adopted by a new family that wanted to buy you a new one you would not mind right? :)

[ears_to_hear]

LOL , I want a laptop. But the new phone might suffice :) Christmas is coming

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

better to wait if you can.

Oh, I can wait.

In fact, with no real mission aside from FReeping, I can't really justify an upgrade from Panther for my trusty 800MHz G4 - let alone a shiny new laptop. Broadband is actually a bit extravagant.

Mostly I'm just rooting for the AAPL stock I bought. If AAPL goes to $200 I might feel like splurging, and I think that's realistic in a year or two if Vista falls on its backside and/or the iPhone is at least a modest success. There's room for Apple to succeed wildly in those markets, before even making a really serious dent in anyone else's market share.

[George W. Bush]

iPhone, eh? Your kids will hate you after Hip Granny starts showing off her iPhone in front of those grandkids. They'll all be pestering their parents to death to buy them a phone like Grandma's.

Sounds like a chance for some real fun with the kids and grandkids.

[Terpfen]

Great update for the MacBook Pro line, but I still refuse to shell out until Apple starts using Intel’s Robson flash caching technology.

[Terpfen]

Leopard and probably iLife 2008 are targeted for October.

I actually think the new version of iLife will debut with the iPhone, because I think Apple is adapting iLife to the iPhone. Yeah, I said it.

[George W. Bush]

You might be right. And it would make some sense.

They intro'ed the new MacBooks today, only a week ahead of WWDC. Now Apple has shifted away from announcing updated models at their main trade shows but, even so, you'd think they would have held it a week to create more buzz. Unless they had another big announcement for WWDC.

It's being touted as a developer's conference. It might be that they will intro iLife '07 and it will support many new Leopard features for the developers to integrate in their own Leopard products.

Or maybe they're finally going to offer us the mini-tower machine so many have wanted.

I think iPhone won't make much splash at WWDC except the details on third-party apps. That's not very much excitement. And Jobs is acting squirrelly, like he's got something up his sleeve again.

That Jobs is a real showman, as shameless as P.T. Barnum. Nobody, but nobody, sits around obsessing over what Michael Dell may say next or announce at a trade show.

[johniegrad]

This is the first Apple product I bought since I was in the Navy in 1983. Whatever I can to avoid Microsoft in the future, I will do.