17-inch MacBook Pro delayed two weeks
By Nilay Patel 
posted Feb 4th 2009 5:19PM
posted Feb 4th 2009 5:19PM
[Thanks, Roy]
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To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Thank you again for your order!
Wrapping up the new 17-inch MacBook Pro is taking a few days longer
than we projected.
As a result, we will be unable to ship your 17-inch MacBook Pro
until February 19, 2009.
If you don't want to wait, you may cancel your order and receive a
prompt refund by calling our toll-free customer service number at
800-676-2775 or by visiting our online order status website at
http://www.apple.com/orderstatus.
If we do not hear from you before we ship the 17-inch MacBook Pro to
you, we will assume that you have agreed to this shipment delay. In
that event, a shipment notification with tracking information will be
emailed to you as soon as your order is shipped.
Again, there is no need to contact us unless you wish to cancel
your order.
We appreciate your business and apologize for any inconvenience this
delay may have caused you.
Thank you for shopping at the Apple Online Store!
Sincerely,
The Apple Online Store
Allah is the Greatest!!!
17 inchers are a bag of hurt.
Valentines day is RUINED!!!
ah well, I guess the demand just went up a notch..
gotta delay for the big screen transition. people need to get their vouchers before they can buy just like DTV
I want. Hopefully soon I will have.
Why don't the 17' Pros have a numerical keypad built in?
Because numpads are a bag of hurt.
to save money since the 15.4" and 17" uses the same keyboard
Because they're not meant for real work (see: glossy-only screen.)
Its a feature. If any apple customer had a numerical keypad the could work out how much apple try to overcharge.
/j
Actually the new 17 Inch has a Matte display option.
Mac users have no need for math.
@Leindurstit 17" MBP's have an anti-glare display upgrade. Just FYI.
Because macbook pro users don't use numbers. They're too cool for numbers. They're also way too cool for how cramped that aluminum is gonna be with a num-pad on it.
They're busy doing indie things like uploading pictures of them at the latest Of Montreal concert or listening to the Decemberists, or doing some Deviantart, or iTunes, or Last.fm, or... Catch my drift?
17-inch mbp does have a matte finish option mate!
Wow, missed that (you know, cared so much.) Still, it costs $50 more.
Because Apple knows their customer. I have never seen a Macbook operated by someone that would know what to do with these keys. Art students, spoiled brats and fan boys alike buy these because they believe they need it for iTunes, didn't you know?
Because 17' (
Every Mac laptop has a keypad. You hit the proper function key, and a group of keys, a bit right from center, become the keypad. And it's market. Not as easy for muscle memory as a keypad to the right, but then if you really want something like that,you can buy a USB keypad and be done with simulations and laptop keyboards.
The rest of the commenters on this topic can now sit in the Vista corner of shame with their pointy little hats, knowing they are in a bag of hurt for being so ignorant.
Have you ever tried writing on a laptop with a numeric keypad? I already tried, and it's awful.
The keyboard is not centered with the screen, so you're always a bit on the left, hitting the wrong letters when you want to go back to the center.
Eric- My point (and I suspect you know this) is that most 17" laptops take advantage of the extra space and include a separate keypad to the right of the normal keyboard. Yes, I know that you can hit a function key to reassign the letter keys and them as number keys. Every laptop I've ever seen has that near-useless capability.
Because I wouldn't buy it if it had a numpad. I never use a numpad, I don't need 20 (?) extra keys on my keyboard that I never use, it's ugly, and the keyboard would be off-center.
As it is, I am buying it. Money talks.
Actually the real reason behind this is cooling... The spaces on beth sides intake the air for the fans and cooling, they also have the speakers and light sensors under there.
Apple was the first one with a 17" laptop on the market, so the question should be:
Why do all of the 17" PC Laptops have fugly @ss keypads?
"Mac users have no need for math"
Brian Cox - Theoretical Particle Physicist - http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/briancox/
"“When you look around a physics conference now, you see more Macs than anything else,” says Cox. “I think that's because they're essentially UNIX, and that makes it very easy for everybody who's used UNIX in particle physics for the past 20 or 30 years."
"“The 17-inch MacBook Pro is my main computer, but I've got the MacBook Air as well, which is fantastic. "
OH. MY. GAWD!!!!!
THIS IS A TRAGEDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY LIFE WILL BE COMPLETELY AFFECTED BY THIS!!!!!!
In other news, linux was not delayed, because it isn't a computer.
What...
linux makes laptops?
If Apples slogan is Think Different; why do they have only 2 laptops to choose from?
Because those two options are so radically different from one another.
Because you're already so indie, hip, and coooooool just by owning one.
Don't ask questions. This kind of behavior is frowned upon by apple. ::sad mac face::
Not counting the different tiers of each, I count three: MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air.
by 2 you mean 4 (sort of 5) right?
Macbook air
Macbook (white)
Machook
Macbook Pro 15 inch
Macbook Pro 17 inch
"Machook"
OMG LEAK LEAK LEAK HURRY GET ON THE PRESSES, APPLE IS GONNA RELEASE THE Machook OMG OMG OMG
Pffft...
Damn it, Apple really should release a "Machoke". The number of people (read: hookers) I need to choke just keeps on rising every year. I'm prepared to buy a stand-alone device to take care of all my choking needs. APPLE ARE YOU LISTENING?
"Machoke"? Is this the start of the best Nintendo-Apple partnership ever? MUST iCATCH THEM ALL?
I ordered one a month ago... WHY WHY WHY is this happening to me?
Because you didn't pay attention...
you can't always get what you want
but if you try sometimes you might find
you get what you need
If I could afford one, then I would be worried.
It's funny. In the times of the crisis, I'm relaxed. On my current job, I was (over)working for past two years in emergency mode. I had to have a hard awakening that there is a crisis and my company fires people. Yet, they still keep me busy (or rather I allow myself to be kept busy) and crisis simply goes unnoticed by me.
Upshot: due to amount of work I totally had no time to spend my increased wages over past year or so. First time in my life, looking down on $3k lappie I can calmly say "Hey, I can afford that."
Dude. What the fuck.
not a mac fan, and I don't keep up with it, and i kno ima get all kinds of hate but here it goes...
...Every new one looks exactly the same as the previous, with what to gain? extra minute in battery life or something. just like a new ipod every year for the most part, like you really need a new nano each fall, o wow, new colors, and o look this one has a wide fat screen on this years. fucking christ
Obviously you don't keep up with it, as they were all redesigned in the last update.
It's because Apple innovates, not duplicates!
It's going to be probably slimmest out of all 17" lappies. They also improved screen protection (the rubber thing on the rim - like in the 15")
Also likely to have longest battery life. (Unless of course benchmarkers will not forget to close iTunes playing in background.)
Frankly, I'm looking for desktop replacement - with optional portability - and 17" fits my bill. And is quite portable.
Yes, it's overpriced. But Apple - unlike many other producers - my trust in them.
P.S. And heck, it comes with bash and Perl5 preinstalled!! What's more a *nix guy like me can ask for?!
There is nothing I hate more on the internet right now, than people using the faux-word 'ima'. Ima punch you in the face, ya feels me?
i almost ordered one yesterday, but I went with 15" instead. now i'm glad.
advice to all:
buy a 15" MacBook Pro instead... got one this week and they are tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! The trackpad is sooooo smooth... the battery is so removable!
If it had 8 hours battery life, I would....
Perfection takes time
Sock it to em Apple.
@ the dynamic duo:
STFU
awww.. fail for me.. let's try this again...
Because JR.. 17' (foot) Pro's don't exist yet.
//I know what you meant, but it got me thinking... Can you imagine trying to carry that around?
Whats with the small keyboard and all that empty space?
it's not a small keyboard, its a full size keyboard. It's just a HUGE computer seriously, it's ginormous .
How big of a keyboard do you need? It's already plenty big.
The extra space on the sides is for the speakers, of which the 17" has twice as many as the 15".
The latest 15" has great speakers, so I imagine the new 17" will be even nicer.
I am not Ieye
The apple haters will not silence me. No downrank in the world will change the fact that the best phone IN THE WORLD is the iPhone and the best MUSIC PLAYER IN THE WORLD is iPod.
While I have to go by HP laptops instead of macbooks, Macs still are made better than 90% of the crap on the market.
Engadget...You and I both serve the Apple. STAND WITH ME.
Ironically, I like HP lappies. Good hw/build quality. If only they had better sales/support over here in Germany (where am I atm)...
It's just Apple, with its worldwide support and sales, is much much easier to shop for.
HP tech support is hands down far and away the worst I've ever dealt with. ASUS is a close 2nd, but CHRIST, HP...
I am not an apple hater...I plan on buying a 15" MPB for college in a few months. However, I you still need to STFU! No one wants to hear all this crap about how Apple is so amazing and that includes people who love Apple!
A numpad pushes the keyboard over to the left side, making for an off-center and uncomfortable typing experience for many. How many of you have actually used a numpad-laptop?
....or be killed by an exploding iPod...?
The black keys look so fugly!!!
Really? The MBP/MBA keypad is one of the best I've seen, especially when you have it lit up. Makes typing in the dark a hell of a lot easier.
I can only guess they're great for typing and maybe they even look great if lit up, but the white keys looked so much better during at daytime.
They were never white, unless you're talking about the MacBook. The Alu PowerBook and MacBook Pro had aluminium keys.
And I'm not sure about the look of the 17" MBP, but it's not because of the keyboard. The sheer size of the laptop makes everything look wrong.
You mean you prefer the silver-painted-plastic look? I certainly don't. The black keys are finally a material that's in line with the quality aluminium chassis. I mean, come on, *painted* keys? That's just cheap. The other problem with paint is that it comes off, as happened to my 'A' key. Now it's not looking so hot.
Anyway, black keys FTW.
Argh, right, the MBPs hat painted keys, guly indeed. What I had in mind were the white keys on the apple wireless keyboard. Why couldn't they have used those for the new MBPs?
Damn those incompetent wrapper-uppers.
test
failed
"fancy new sealed battery tech"
I still chuckle at this after b a mac owner told me this was a wonderful "innovation".
Wow, Engadget what a utterly useless piece of journalism (if you even fit into that category)... When it comes out Apple will let you know, won't they? http://www.atomicsub.net
17 inches... and still no numpad. Why so much acreage around the keyboard Apple?
To all you Apple haters;
Apple may charge a premium for their swag but at least they can roll without being pimped by them fuckers MS!
And as far as a commenter pointing out about Apple not meant for REAL work, spare me your juvenile POV.That argument is so fucking tired!!!! You sound like a goddamn fool.
Apple doesn't have $28.1 billion in the bank for making shit. The have that cash b/c they make incredible stuff.
All the pcs on the market are running MS cause they don't have the money and or the desire to generate their own OS. Now Apple will be making their own micro chips. Boo-ya! And I heard whispers of a new proprietary programming language.
Apple is so many steps ahead of MS and their legion of crack hoe licensees its a crime.
Wow, I didn't know Christian Bale was on Engadget.
"I heard whispers of a new proprietary programming language.
Apple is so many steps ahead of MS and their legion of crack hoe licensees its a crime."
@Terry: You're kidding right? Since when was a proprietary programming language something innovative?
PS: Sorry for missing your obvious sarcasm!
PPS: .net ring a bell?
I still have an old 17in 2.16GHZ MBP first generation, i love it, had no problems and use it for around 4 hours a day on average. Does everything i would ever need a laptop to do, including running windows (not that i bother much) . My reasons for not buying the new one arent that i cant afford one, or that i dont want one, just that im so happy with the one i already have. I couldn't care what badge it wears, it works as well as i could reasonably expect it to. OSX isnt perfect, but its by far the best thing out there. For me that is. I also have a 4 year old G4 powerbook that my GF uses, she loves it and wont let me buy her a newer macbook because she likes what she has. No problems in 4 years. couldnt ask for more. Previously i had PC laptops, vaios etc, usually the 17in top of the range desktop replacements, they usualy lasted about 1 frustrating year before they were needing to be reformatted and wiped clean or replaced. The pc's Cost way more in the long run, And they were crap by comparison.
Oh yes, are you sure, you not gona be pimped? Well i hope so. Actually apple is willing the users to pay for a faulty GDU Graphicschip 9600M GT witch has bad bumps, NVIDIA confirmed. Apple doesn't take care to his customers and does not change the faulty GDU to a clean and unfaulty one! And apple makes you pay 3000 euro for a erronious machine:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1767221
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1882489