“An effort on the part of Apple Inc. to develop an ultra-thin and lightweight notebook with next-generation technologies such as on-board NAND flash may take a bit more time than initially reported,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“Evidence suggested the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, which invades San Francisco in June, could have served as an ideal venue for company chief executive Steve Jobs to first flaunt the device. That’s now unlikely to be the case,” Jade reports.
Jade reports, “Citing a maturing timeline, people familiar with the initiative now have the chic notebook tracking for the latter half of the year, with a contingency plan in place to transition the device into a Macworld 2008 product should engineers require the additional time.”
“The compact portable is expected to draw on software support from the Leopard OS, now slated for October, for managing features such as onboard NAND flash,” Jade reports. “The addition of the solid state memory to the notebook’s motherboard should improve power efficiency — and thus better battery life — as well as facilitate near instantaneous boot times.”
Full article here.
Hum…
delays, delays and………. more delays !!!
Toss the battery and throw in a direct methanol fuel cell and that’s some real news.
nand flash memory, lightweight, ultraportable, ultra thin hmm…. perfect for a tablet mac
maczealot” “Toss the battery and throw in a direct methanol fuel cell and that’s some real news.”
Sure, never have to plug it into the wall again… Instead, just carry around cans of alcohol, and in a pinch, it can run off cheap vodka!
I am sure this asinine idea will fly really well with the TSA at airport security checkpoints.
I think it safe to declare your idea to be the “STUPIDEST… IDEA… EVER” and that’s with the Zune and Microsoft Bob still in the running…
Just give me my MacBook Pro with Blue-ray and 1TB HD… i’ll be a happy shopper.
Keith Moon: “delays, delays and………. more delays !!!”
Yeah, don’t you just hate it when unannounced products are not delivered “on time”???
Is it just me, or is the state of being “on-time” a moot one when it come to unannounced products that may never actually come to pass.
So…. We have a RUMORED DELAY on a RUMORED DEVICE on a RUMORED original launch time frame…..
Riiiiiiight…..While we are at it ill throw this is:
THIS JUST IN….APPLE will DELAY the launch of future OS version OSXII…..Due to a broken flux capacitor, the time traveling Steve Jobs from the future will not be able to come back in time and speed up production for a Fall 2020 release!
@Man
turn on the sarcasm meter bro and re-read maczealot’s post, and chill. It’s saturday morning.
MDN word is Matter, as in does what people say on a blog matter so much that you have an aneurysm this early in the morning?
@Jim-TIV
It was a stupid idea, and even if it was meant to be sarcasm, all Man did was call him out on it being stupid. Both, and you, are entitled to say stupid shit… it’s a free country, and it’s not like MDN commenters are known for any intelligence.
Damn, I guess hangovers are a bitch.
And the bitches are hungover…..
wow
hangovers can cause people to type stuff
anyway,
we all know this is coming and when it does … it will be a major factor in continued growth for the company
I will buy one for sure
lol towertone!!!
( we had the same reaction )
Nooooooooo!!!! It’s delayed!!!!
Sorry. Had to do it. I really don’t care about this ultraportable but wanted to beat someone to the “nooooooo” punch.
This thread is HILARIOUS!!
What a great Saturday morning!
Hello, my name’s MacBook Pro and I’m an alcoholic.
Hi, MacBook Pro.
Perhaps an oversized iPhone style design with multitouch? Sounds delicious.
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iPhone with 10″ screen?? Lets wait till we first get that ultraportable with 3.5″ screen and mobile phone capabilities in June.
Man: I can’t see!
Doctor: Remove your head from your ass.
I’ll believe it when I see it. I trust nothing regarding deadlines when it comes to Apple anymore. I don’t they trust themselves either.
re: maczealot’s thread.
i’ll toss in the suggestion to skip the methane fuel cell and proceed directly to a toroidial boron matter fusion reactor. never refuel and when you get home, you can plug it into the grid sand run your meter backwards.
mw: force… may it be with you
How can it be delayed if it has not even been formally announced yet? It’s just a rumor atm.
Man
I don’t know exactly why but I think that you are young enough to see the day when what you thought was he stupidest idea, will be a reality… i’ll be here to remind you of your unkind remakrs
“…it’s not like MDN commenters are known for any intelligence.”
Oi resent dat Man. Oim very intullijant.
An’ it’s Sunday morning ‘ere Jim-TIV.
Mark my Words: 11 inch Macbook. I called it months ago.
@ mackle:
I was hoping for a cherry red MacBook Pro with racing stripes, flux capacitor, and interlooped dilithium crystal turbo-charged warp drive for true Time Machine potential and multidimensional excursions. Heck, I might even treat Man to an cosmic trip on an intergalactic wave.
nand one more thing! Rumour 2. Coming 3rd Q of 2007. Apple’s Ultra Ultra light, Ultra Ultra portable, Ultra Ultra-thin you could almost roll it up Battery less MacBook delayed to Q4 as Fuel cell manufacturers await a break through on Methane activated panels. (MAP’s) in short are panels packed in a cell containing upto 10 Billion panels (equivalent to a Quad core chip) Methane passing across the panels create a chain reaction in which electricity is the by product. Similar to a solar panel but a million times more efficient. Rumours suggest that owners will be able to charge their Macbooks placing them in bed where it is expected Methane discharged by the owners overnight will provide upto 12 hours standby time, 8 Hrs Computing time & 4 Hrs intense graphic or multimedia usage.
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Solid State Memory? Isn’t that what we have now? Or do they mean Solid State Storage?
@Crabapple
Very very funny!
Well done.
Thank You 7over! What a joyious Day!!
Perfect device to bring the multi-touch (glide, flip, pinch, zoom) interface to the portable world.
mac_amigo. The perfect device is nigh, they calleth it THE iPHONE.
Buy one, use one, recieve several software upgrades free of charge, then ask yourself what made you come up with that remark in the first place. (as if a tablet mac could fit in your pocket!) 😐
Sounds like the Newton meets iPhone . . .
I don’t care if it’s legit or not – or how long it takes to get here
I WANT ONE!!!
mw: these – as in THESE pretzels are making ME thirsty!!
@Macjeep and anyone else who cares.
It pains me to say it – but Dull have had a flash drive lappy out for a little while now, in their (P)Latitude range. I believe that they are expensive.
Of course they are rubbish … well the OS is anyway.
SKY LARK
“Yeah, don’t you just hate it when unannounced products are not delivered “on time”???”
The easiest way to never miss a scheduled ship date is never to publish any. Just like the way to never publicly delete features from a new product is to claim that they’re all “Secret”.
That doesnt stop the fact that a project may be delayed or reduced in scope compared to internal time lines and objectives.
“they are expensive.”
$450 more for 32GB solid state drive vs 60GB conventional drive.
A nonscientific review of current storage media prices reveals,
High capacity thumb drive = $13 to 17 per GB
Solid state HD = $8 to 10 per GB
Typical mechanical HD = $0.20 to 0.25 per GB
How do you compare read/write latency, reliability, flexibility, data recovery post failure, data security, weight, and functionality with respect to price?
“How do you compare read/write latency, reliability, flexibility, data recovery post failure, data security, weight, and functionality with respect to price?”
I don’t, but feel free to. All I’m saying is that the SSD equipped notebook retails for $450 more.
Your decision to buy a notebook is apparently based only on price. Surely, anyone seeking to buy a new notebook would notice a difference in price between comparable machines with the exception that one has a solid state HD and one does not have a solid state HD. That’s not too difficult. If price is your only concern, your ultimate decision is based on simple mathematics. Be happy by spending less.
Obviously, certain factors in notebook design could be important to other people. All I’m saying is that to make a fully informed decision one has to consider the advantages and disadvantages of solid state versus mechanical HDs. That doesn’t make someone right and someone else wrong. Purchasing a notebook does not usually involve a moral or ethical conflict.
“Your decision to buy a notebook is apparently based only on price.”
You seem to have somehow come up with the idea from my posts that I wouldn’t spend the $450. All I’m stating is that’s about the price difference you will pay today for the solid state disk.
Feel free to keep discussing the merits of SSD technology.
I thought it was bad enough that every type of data storage device has to be called a ‘drive’ (the origin of the usage was due to the mechanism that would ‘drive’ a medium such as a disk or tape).
But now according to “Comment from: @ Prancer” above, a solid state storage device is being called a “solid state HD”! HD of course stand for Hard Drive, referring to a hard disk as the storage meidum. So, we now have a solid state hard disk. I would really like to see a hard disk made of a gas or liquid!
Amazing what the world of personal computers has done to our vocabularies. It is as though dictionaries and intelligence have been tossed out the window in favor of mindless babble.
I’ll bet you’re real fun at parties, too.
Thanks, for the pricing update. I’m sure that your advanced mathematical skills make your parents proud.
What was that? Oh, you just like to state the obvious.
OK then, I retract my previous comment that you do have advanced mathematical skills.
“Martha, go get the Preperation H. The assholes are out….”
“OK then, I retract my previous comment that you do have advanced mathematical skills.”
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
No need to get upset. I’m only curious why you felt so determined to quote the conspicuous, remark upon the evident, and publicly announce the undeniable.
Macaholic wrote “Solid State Memory? Isn’t that what we have now? Or do they mean Solid State Storage?”
Yes, exactly, they mean solid state memory used as long-term storage. It remains to be seen how this technology will be be implemented in a mac laptop, but with the release of the Santa Rosa chipset, It should be possible to have a portable computer with a conventional hard drive, and solid state storage, and load the OS from solid state super freaking fast. Personally, that is what I am hoping for. The ultra-thin thing would be nice, but I think I would be best served by something like the current macbook, with just enough NAND to hold the OS and a conventional HD for user data. I was really hoping that this would see the light of day come June, but given the NAND shortages, I am not holding my breath. I was planning to hold out for my macbook purchase till june, because the intergrated graphics that santa rosa will bring have been touted to be a big advance. I recently learned only one iteration of the new graphics chipset will be a significant upgrade, the Intel GMA X3000. The GMA 3000 will be the standard replacement for the GMA 950, and I am thinking that Apple will use this for the macbook line, because to use the X3000 would make the difference between the macbook and the pro line even slighter than it is now. I am now more conflicted than ever. Buy a proven second gen macbook, or wait for the first gen santa rosa? decisions, decisions. anyone have any thoughts? buy now or wait till june? what do you think? BTW, before anyone jumps down my throat, I have zero connections at Apple, all speculation on my part about hardware is just that: speculation.
Er…, i should add, this is a real point of contention for me, because I have saved my pennies for a YEAR, finally have enough to buy it TOMORROW, but I would feel like a real jackass if I do so and they release the latest greatest in less than two months. Secrecy is nice and all, and makes for amazing keynotes, but at a certain point it becomes ridiculous. The advice I have got from friends with macs has generally been to avoid first gen hardware like the plague, so I think I am leaning towards biting the bullet and making the purchase of a current macbook, probably a black one with applecare (black so it isn’t a BTO when I upgrade the RAM, thus having to ship it if it should require repair, not because I feel paying extra for a color makes me special) and leaving the Santa Rosa one for the bleeding edgers.
Oh yeah, and if it isn’t obvious already, this would be my first Mac purchase. I have a blue and white g3, but I got that as a kickdown when a friend upgraded. Cant use it for work, as i daily use a windows only ap. THANK YOU parallels!!!
DrThunderer,
Why torture yourself with longing anymore? GO OUT AND BUY YOUR BLACK MACBOOK IMMEDIATELY! I absolutely love mine! They are awesome little notebooks. Plus Parallels is great for those minor pesky little windoze aps. Thing is, you could always wait, and something better, newer, and shinier will always be ‘right around the corner.’ Live and enjoy NOW!
“No need to get upset.”
Not upset, it’s clear you’re an immature asshole with no reading comprehension or social skills. Get help before you shoot a bunch of classmates or coworkers.
@ Prancer said “All I’m stating is that’s about the price difference you will pay today for the solid state disk.”
I see Prancer has the same affliction as the other bloke who thinks a solid state data storage device is a disk. Pretty sad.
“same affliction as the other bloke who thinks a solid state data storage device is a disk. “
The name drives from the fact that the hardware presents itself using the same interface as a disk drive, so in fact emulates a disk drive. Hence the fairly logical name “Solid State Disk”.
If you’ve ever worked with NAND flash at the lower level, you’ll also understand that it’s modes of access and limitations are actually more like a disk drive than RAM, which is why you see it used in the same manner as a disk drive, never as main memory on a system board.
And since a LCD (solid state device) does the same thing as a CRT (gaseous state device) then we should just call the LCD a solid state CRT?
You win. Henceforth they shall be known as Solid State Memory Devices Which Have The Same Physical Form Factor, Electrical Interface, And Data Access Protocols As A Disk
You shall refer to them herafter as SSMDWHTSPFFEIADAPAAD’s
This can be shortend up to SSD by those who don’t like the full acronym.