“Apple on Tuesday introduced its next-generation 13-inch MacBooks and 15-inch MacBook Pros but was unable to ramp production of its new 17-inch model, which is now expected to make an appearance by early next year,” AppleInsider reports.
There has been “some form of delay affecting the new 17-inch models, which would have ideally made their debut this week had matters played out differently. Those people reported sightings of the larger model undergoing tests in Apple’s labs, and as would be expected, they resemble a slightly larger version of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro,” AppleInsider reports.
“As avid readers may recall, this isn’t the first time that a 17-inch MacBook Pro missed the first boat out of China,” AppleInsider reports. “The situation was nearly identical back in 2006 when Apple introduced its first ever MacBook Pro at the Macworld Expo in January… About three months after the 15-inch MacBook Pro made its debut, Apple introduced the first 17-inch MacBook Pro.”
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MacDailyNews Take: To those of you who are stuck waiting for the 17-inch MacBook Pro, we commiserate; we’re waiting for that one, too.
Okay, people… all of you saying that what’s the big deal, there’s FW800 on the MBP:
They’re referring to there being NONE on the new regular MacBook (not Pro).
I’m not commenting on the situation, just clarifying for those of you who still don’t understand.
@Predrag
Precisely correct. I’m glad you said so. I’m an Apple Developer and I’ve never used FireWire on my MacBook in its life. And I have dozens of peripherals. So there.
It’s amazing to me how you think you know everything and have no problem telling everybody else how stupid they are.
You’re nice and brave in an anonymous forum, in person you’re probably a worm.
FW is no longer available in the new MacBook, leaving everyone who has FW based peripherals out in the cold unless they spend $2000 on a laptop. It was a deliberate decision and it’s left many Apple fans frustrated. If Apple wanted to drive adoption of the newer, faster standard they should have included FW800. Because they didn’t the obvious conclusion is that they are simply attempting to drive sales of the 15″ model, not move the industry up to FW800.
More to the point here, the fact that you seem to think that yours is the only perspective and everyone else is a fool only makes you look foolish. You’re entitled to your opinion, but to discount everyone else’s view as dim-witted ignorance makes you a prat.
The prat’s where it’s at.
…before that it became completely useless.
Like your English.
MW: school
As in, go back to.
http://www.zooatlanta.org/animals_willieb.htm
The removal of FireWire is Apple’s sh*ttiest marketing move yet.
I’m totally with U on the ugliness of the new machines. Perhaps we should do something like this:
OPEN LETTER TO JONATHAN IVE
Dear Jonathan Ive,
Put the new MacBook Pro next to a “classic” PowerBook G4, and be honest with yourself for a moment. Do you really think this new machine is an aesthetic improvement over the original design?
I, and many Mac users with me, don’t think so.
Many Apple products are rightly seen as important steps forward in the history of industrial design. The new MacBooks, however, are a significant step backward!
Given your track record, we firmly believe that you could have come up with something much better. And we hope that you will do so in the near future.
Sincerely.
(Anyone has got Ive’s address?)
Firewire is a god send for me.
The company I work for purchased a MacBook Pro for me to use at my request. The catch this is a company computer and not for personal use. So with the aid of FW 800 and a 1TB external HD I Boot to what is essentially a free Mac for use at home without corporate IT having to know a thing about it.
Jeff,
You said:
“Firewire is a god send for me.
The company I work for purchased a MacBook Pro for me to use at my request. The catch this is a company computer and not for personal use. So with the aid of FW 800 and a 1TB external HD I Boot to what is essentially a free Mac for use at home without corporate IT having to know a thing about it.”
Smart you are!
– Doga
Bollocks!
where on earth is the new 17-inch unibody macbook pro?