“With Intel’s new Arrandale mobile processors now shipping in volume, Apple is expected to make an upgrade,” Oliver reports. “Wu said Apple could use the opportunity to further differentiate the low-end, $999 MacBook from the premium MacBook Pro line. ‘Benefits of the new mobile architecture, helped in part by its new 32 nanometer process (vs. previous 45 nanometer), include much better performance through hyper-threading and turbo mode, battery life, and weight characteristics, which we believe give AAPL engineers more room to further differentiate the MacBook Pro,’ Wu wrote in a note to investors Wednesday.”
Oliver reports, “Wu said he feels the entry-level $1,199 MacBook Pro has some overlap with the $999 MacBook, which was updated last October. He said a new processor could add more than the aluminum casing, SD slot and FireWire that currently give the higher-end systems their ‘pro’ distinction.”
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USB 3.0
If this is true my son is gonna crap a brick. He just bought a MBP.
Firewire 1600
don’t forget IR sensor for remote control, but it does seem that that the specs are very similar and this would push people to buy the cheaper option instead
Give us back the ExpressCard slot!
@Jim – TIV,
If your son is the type that’s gonna crap a brick because a new machine comes out, he should have been waiting for brand new hardware to be released instead of buying an aging model. There’s nothing wrong with it, of course – it’s an excellent machine – but, the current generation machine is more than a year old!
I’m waiting right now to buy my new office machine, in fact. My 3+ year old 2.33ghz C2D MBP is still working wonderfully while I wait… Hurry up, Apple – I’m excited to order a spanky-new MBP and take my current machine home!
full Zune compatibility, just plug in and rock
@ ecrabb
@ Jim – TIV
Well, waiting for new stuff to come out at some indefinite point in time is tough. The current MBP is awesome.
Uhm, everyone should have realized new MBPs are due. The new Intel chips came out last month, so they were due any day.
“Everyone should have”?
About 6.9999999 billions people don’t have a clue when the next MBP is going to be for sale.
I’m just sayin’…
@GregoriusM
I hear 93.56999% of all numbers like yours are made up on the spot
You know, 4 out of 3 people have trouble with fractions.
Give us back the floppy drive!
I’ve always played the “waiting game” too, when I could, but the flip side is that any tech buff that gets upset every time their new toys are superseded by something better, will have a very, very miserable and disappointed life.
Techno-lust aside, if your semi-new laptop is doing the job, why replace it? Yeah. I know. I said “techno-lust aside”. And techno-lust can be a powerful force.
And … don’t you just feel SO cheap! carrying a white plastic computer down the street? Oh. Wait. It’s still a Mac. Never mind.
I can hardly wait for the 4th generation iPad.
But will it handle floppies?
Less expensive ipads will come in colors. Just like the nano. They is gonna sell a quazillion batrilion of em. After dealing with an android phone for a month, it is clear that no one will EVER match the quality of experience that iPhone delivers. The ipad is going to be the IT product of 2010 and most probably the decade. People will speak of Steve Jobs in generations to come as our generation speaks of people like Thomas Edison and Alex Bell.
It will be featured in movies and TV shows because it is so cool.
There WILL be lines on introduction day! They will quickly dwindle to a steady flow for the first few days. If they are available worldwide then they will break iPhone initial sales units.
This is the beginning of a whole line of touch devices based around the ipad. This is the product that many of us have dreamed about for years. The functionality of the ipad is going to create a market from scratch. Unlike the iPhone / iPod touch combo, the ipad is going to be relavant not just as a casual ebook reader. It will be used across the cultural scale from new infants to experienced senior citizens. The capabilities that it shows already are fantastic, there are uses that are yet to be imagined. I can’t frigging wait.
“You know, 4 out of 3 people have trouble with fractions.”
And there are only 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
FireWire 3200
ExpressCard/32
Glossy Screen $50 Option
@ Jim – TIV & GregoriusM…
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
@Pete Gozinia…
Your lack of enthusiasm is truly disturbing.
Finally Full-on Flash? iPhone, iPad don’t give us the complete web. Flash with the rest of the Apple family of products is sub-optimal. Perhaps the new Macs will permit unrestricted access to the internet.
Enough about Flash. Let it go. Move on.
@Pete Gozinia
Better go camp out in front of an Apple store now. You don’t want to miss out do you.