“Additional sources have confirmed the MacBook’s announcement this Tuesday. Further, sources report that the MacBook will be thinner than current iBooks, will be available in both black and white configurations, and will likely cost slightly more than previous iBook models—not unlike the price increase Apple’s Mac mini saw with its transition to Intel processors,” Think Secret briefly mentions.
In addition, Think Secret reports that 17-inch MacBook Pro units will hit users’ hot little hands this week and we can confirm that tracking reports of our 17-inch MacBook Pro order and several other MacDailyNews readers’ all show delivery dates of May 10th.
Full article here.
[UPDATE: 5/8, 1:30pm: Added the apostrophe.]
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Big Al: Good call! But you were probably educated outside the USA. Not fair!
All laptops should have dual head vid cards as standard.
I hope Apples puts that in the MacBook.
Wonder what the performance specs will be on it, compared to the macbook pro’s?
Will it have a integrated graphics like the mini to keep power users buying the pros? Or will the difference be more narrow, as in the last generation g4 powerbooks and ibooks?
The pricing of this product may be precipitious; it may be difficult to hit a price/performance ‘sweet spot’ between the mac mini and the 17″ imac.
If it’s $1100, there will be a lot of people killing themselves to get this model assuming that they don’t dumb it down too much.
Bless his heart, poor Dub,s got bad grammar, y’all. He sounds like Dubya.
Regarding the integrated graphics in the Intel minis, everything I’ve read said that they are superior to the dedicated graphics chips that the G4 minis had. We need to get away from the old ideas of what things were, and look at how they are. Just like the switch to Intel. When SJ first announced that they were going to Intel chips, everyone said, “Ewww! I don’t want a Pentium in my Mac!”, but we didn’t get Pentiums, we got Cores which are much better. The new integrated graphics are not like we’ve known them in the cheap PCs of yesterday. Give it a chance.
CHECK THIS OUT:
http://www.seminars.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ASPRegistration.woa/wa/eventDetails?eventId=45540&s=300
Apple sponsoring a seminar on Wednesday on “new” iBooks. Notice they didn’t use MacBook yet, to try to avoid releasing too much info.
If you’re crazy enough to buy the first machines falling off the end of the assembly line, you’ve got more money than brains.
Let’s not get our knickers in a twist about this integrated graphics thing until we see the results of Apple making such a move. Make sure to max out your RAM in any case.
I am sure the MacBook is going to provide better performance than the currently shipping top-end iBook and PowerBook 12″ models are now.
It’s going to be sad to say goodbye to the PowerBook 12″. It is a great little workhorse!
Suicidal: Thanks for the link. Did you notice on that page the text that reads:
Overview
Hear about the most affordable iBook ever.
That makes me doubt all the rumors that are saying “oh noes! It’s going to cost $2000 for sure!”
Joop.
You’re right. Let’s hope for a real competitive price point for the new MacBook.
Or else the seminar will be: “Let me tell you about the most affordable iBook ever. The one we just discontinued!!”
You’re a lousy grammar Nazi. It’s an apostrophe that’s missing, not a comma.
You need periods before the elipses because the sentences end. This means four dots, not three. As well, in each sentence there should be a space between the period and the first elipsis dot, and between each of the following elipsis dots. I could go on, but. . . .
The depths to which America’s education systems have fallen are beyond measure.
Remember the talk before the switch to Intel that by switching to Intel the price of the computers would go down, due to supply?
Whatta joke.
Dear Dub, the grammar freak…
… good to see someone at least trying to guard the bastions of our language.
I doubt that US schools are much worse than UK ones. It’s hardly the teachers’ fault though: they get their sights changed continually by interfering politicians.
Hey ho! I do hope to see a black MacBook; it’ll go with my iPod video.
“The depths to which America’s education systems have fallen are beyond measure.”
I do not know that the American “education system” is particularly bad. What I do know is that @dub has a problem both with spelling and word meaning. The first dub correctly pointed out a grammar error, but apparently did not know the word “apostrophe.” @dub does not know the meaning of the word “grammar.” He correctly pints out the misuse of the word “comma,” but then goes on to criticize some typographical misdeeds, thinking that grammar and typography are the same. To top it off, he (she?) consistently misspells “ellipsis.”
“Remember the talk before the switch to Intel that by switching to Intel the price of the computers would go down, due to supply?”
Actually, I recall hearing the exact opposite – that Intel chips cost more than the PowerPC chips across the board.
Ich beende Rechtschreibungnazin
@dub, the grammar freak,
You put an extra period before you elipses. Unless you end your sentances with “but”.
not that i care . . ..
Is grammar an adequate substitute for sex?
black? hmmm I don;t know. The black iPods are hideous- imagine a 12-14 inch notebook?? How is that supposed to stand out with all the other competitors black notebooks?
“Is grammar an adequate substitute for sex?”
Definitely not. It is just that for some of us it is the best we can hope for.
“the change to intel should not increase mac prices,”
Not if they are duel core chips. Also keep in mind that Apple is replacing G4 chips, not G5’s. G4’s should be extra extra cheep this late in the game.
So, will this run Aperture?
http://www.seminars.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ASPRegistration.woa/wa/eventDetails?eventId=45540&s=300
It’s definitely coming…
Ozzy, you know what will make those black iBooks stand out? That glowing Apple on the lid. Should look awesome surrounded in black.
Not that such things matter, of course. Just an observation.
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Michael
“Is grammar an adequate substitute for sex?”
Only if you’re not doing it right.
Now I’m waiting for the grammar nazis:
“I think you meant to say ‘Only if you’re not doing it correctly‘ “.