RUMOR: New Apple MacBook tomorrow?

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“According to sources, the wheels are in motion for Apple to deliver new MacBook updates as early as this Tuesday. While an exact date has been hard to determine, MacBook updates are expected within the next week, with evidence pointing to Tuesday,” arn reports for Mac Rumors.

“This confirms previous rumors from ThinkSecret that Apple would introduce a new MacBook by ‘the first half of November,'” arn reports.

Full article here.

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  5. Personally, I think it will be a waste to even invest in a MacBook at this point if the only updated is a new chipset and upgraded graphics. The two largest problems with MacBooks right now are the monitor lighting/flickering issues as well as cracking of the casing. If tomorrow will bring the brushed aluminum casing along with the updated chipset, great. Hopefully Apple has been working to square away the display issue as well. I can tell you as a MacBook owner who works full time on it, the brushed aluminum sturdiness is well worth the extra money when your case starts to take a beating and it cracks (not to mention the display).

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  8. I doubt the rumor. Especially since it didn’t come from a drunken high level executive from a chinese multinational.

    If you want a really good Apple rumor, you have to hang out at karaoke bars in Singapore during coin beer night…

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  9. Screw the MacBooks, they are slow and have annoying glossy screens which are just about useless to use.

    Now I have been using a MacBook Pro with matte screen for a few months, my Dual 2 Processor G5 PowerMac was in storage.

    Well I just got to fire up my Dual 2 Processor PowerMac G5 with a boot RAID 0 pair of Raptor 10,000 RPM drives and 30″ Display yesterday.

    HOLY FSCKING SHEET IS IT FAST!!!

    It make my new MacBook Pro with Intel Duo Core processors SLOW AS HELL in comparision. The Dual 2 G5 even boots faster, the entire Finder is loaded in mere seconds!!!

    Ok, understandably it is the RAID 0 as a boot drive and not upgrading the OS that has kept this machine fast as lightning.

    But also the fact that the Dual 2 G5 processor has a VERY LARGE BUS PER PROCESSOR. Unlike the Intel Processors which each core has to share a slow bus.

    Now for CPU intensive tasks the Intel Cores may due a better job on large jobs, but to get data in and out of processors fast, to hard drives and graphic cards, to run multiple 3D games at once, you can’t beat a large bus on seperate processors.

    Now I have tried the new Mac Pro’s, with a RAID 0 as boot as well, intensly multitasking the machine. It just doesn’t do it, programs crash and freeze up. It’s because the data is trapped in the cores behind a slow bus on the Intel Processors.

    So let this be a message to those going to spend the big bucks and tweak out their MacPro’s and 3D game with it.

    You better off 3D gaming with a PS3, that’s the honest truth. It’s designed for 3D gaming and has a extrememly powerful 9 core processor. A hell of a lot cheaper too, and you can hook it up to a large HDTV to ge the big screen experience.

    Meanwhile I’m not upgrading the OS or anything on my Dual 2 G5, not hooking it to the internet as I got a laptop for that. This will keep the G5, and all the programs I need, running as fast as possible for a long time, until the hardware gives out.

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