Weird, but there it is, the
leaked MacBook refresh is now official, on Tuesday, just as we thought. The 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo refresh with NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics and longer 10-hour battery life (up from 7 hours) is sitting up, nice and pretty on Apple's very own store in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, and a few other sites. It's still $999 making it a better deal for the moment than the similarly spec'd 13-inch MacBook Pro listing for $1,199. Expect it to go global shortly. A few more screengrabs after the break as Apple gets its house in order.
Update: It's
live for purchase in the US, as well as the
US education store (starts at $950). Ships within 24 hours, too.
[Thanks, Jose and Peter]
posted May 18th 2010 4:19AM
The US Apple online store haven't even updated the MacBook yet..
@hahajose. I am disappointed with their apparent lack of progress
@hahajose
Enjoy,
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook?mco=OTY2ODEwOQ
Guess Vietnam is the place to be.
@hahajose. Either the Rebels are distorting my broadband systems or the tech specs are still unchanged
@hahajose
I love the title of the web page on Apple's site:
"MacBook - The $999 notebook"
Is that something to brag about?
@hahajose
core 2 duo? that was outdated 3 years ago. Theyre trying to profit big time with thiis underperforming system. i dont care if the battery lasts 20 hours, its slow junk with OSX to boot, wow have fun with no games and no right click
@hahajose
for the same price, you can get a quite powerful HP laptop with the newest and best tech:
HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition series
* Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
* Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-720QM Quad Core processor (1.6GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 2.8 GHz
* 3GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* 320GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
* 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 320M - For i7 Processors
@hahajose
The reason they dont upgrade the hardware is because their target market, girls and non-tech savvy people attempting to be trendy, do not care about the hardware. they care about the glowing apple in the back and only want people to know they have a mac.
Mac buyers do not understand what technology is. Therefore apple will please their shareholders by using the oldest processors, not update the RAM, and profit big time from people looking for "a mac" to show off the fact they are technologically clueless and dont know that windows 7 obliterates osx.
@account5 Ignorant ass, Macs have had right-click since 2001. The Magic Mouse that ships with all new macs makes your dusty old scroll-wheel mouse seem like an abacus.
@futurerheza
i have an adapter for that, i wont be with my comp somewhere for more than 3 hours where there isnt an outlet. Ive never had a battery issue
@hahajose
How the hell is Apple going to sell the MacBook Pro 13"?
Because it's aluminum?
@Lexis
they dont need to advertise anything, the fanboys will buy it if it was made of dog crap
@account5 For the same amount money, I might / might not buy the mac, but I will definitely stay away from HP. All the HP users I know claimed that they will never ever buy an HP again.
@account5 Hum 13" vs. 15.6" ? No bluetooth on the HP, shit chassis and considering how many similar HP notebook I have seem I would touch this with a 10 foot pole. Yes the specs are nice but that's about where all the nice things end ...
@account5
Your comment was outdated nine years ago.
@SlappySquirrel
Magic Mouse is shit. I have used that mouse. Apple has never been known to produce a good mouse. Stop being a candy fanboy.
@Darkroom
I'm a fool because a MBP suit my basic needs.
-No bulky design
-Lot of hours of continuing use on battery and at the same time a very decent cpu. This means a netbook fails here.
-Backlighted keyboard
- Very responsive embedded mouse.
A computer engineer that doesn't know about computers and modern acceptable consumer specs.
Yeahhh Right !!!
Only a fool will post things like that without anything else valid but hate. :tsk:tsk:
@SlappySquirrel
A friend of mine had one of the original 12 inch graphite Ibook SE with the handle on the back running OS 9 along with a two button third party mouse. That right click context menu was popping up all the time.
@account5
So based on your non-issue with batteries (which is rare honesty round this place) you can't see the issue with non-removable batteries?
And the comparison to a HP would have meant something before they were poisoned by compaq. Nowadays an appropriate compare would be a Sony.
@account5
I used to be there with you, but then your friend gets a Mac and you realise he never ever had to deal with viruses, defragging, random crashes, crappy windows maintenance. and you see how many days of his life he saves by not having to put up with the rough side of Windows.
Then you actually get a Mac, and you quickly realise it is by far the best engineered portable computer the world has seen, and everything has a function, and it feels good to use every day and never lets you down.
The measure of a computer is more than just Ghz and GB, when you use it day in day out you dont want to have put up with that stupidly designed glossy plastic track pad thats half the size it should be.
I could go on...
@hahajose I guess its just about time. Seeing their email advertisement promises a full 10 hour battery. Opinions. http://j.mp/macbook-core-series-view
I like the Magic mouse a lot.
Definitely one of the best mice currently on the market.
Took me a few days to get used to it though.
Maybe you just need a bit more time to get used to the way it works.
needs moar cheap.
@hahajose
Here's hoping for a MBP upgrade, even if it's just a processor bump
@hahajose
I needed a laptop a few weeks back and ended up landing on the 13" MBP. I didn't really want to get an Apple product (since almost everyone at uni has one) but there are few laptops out there which can match performance, battery life and a reasonable price (in Australia at least).
@MDJCM WOW, religion and mac actually...
@Michael Scrip
"MacBook - The $999 notebook"
Might as well turn that upside down and see the true deal
@MDJCM
That's exactly how I feel about my PC. No random crashes, no defragging, no maintenance, no viruses. Just pure performance. It's old by computer standards (3 yrs) but really reliable.
@Michael Scrip haha!! Ok. Show me a netbook with 10 Hour battery, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics, Glass Multi trackpad, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, Unibody Enclosure...for less than $999 and I'll stop short of saying your comments are from an uniformed idiot!
@MDJCM I'm so tired of this Macs never crash BS. I haven't had a Windows machine crash on me since XP, yet my Mac "crashes" ALL the time - just about every other day. I got so frustrated over the weekend I broke my mousepad. Firefox stutters and crashes almost EVERY day.
If I'm syncing from iTunes to one of my iDevices it'll just randomly pick a file (usually a legally purchased iTunes thing) to just crap out on and give me read/write error messages. Sometimes when I try to back up files to my external drive it throws back Read/Write errors, my iMovie no longer syncs with YouTube.... The list goes on and on.
My Macbook is an overpriced clown computer.
@malexandria1 Although the point about Malware is definitely true. I was playing with my crappy Dell computer a few weeks ago and just a 1/2 hour back into the Windows World I got infected with a bad piece of Malware that would have destroyed my Dell if I didn't figure out how to remove it.
The other thing I hate about Windows is the CONSTANT updating. If I don't use one of my Windows machines for a few months, I'll end up spending literally hours installing 40 or 50 updates. It's out of control. Other than that, I do find I'm more productive in a Windows environment.
@malexandria1 You should take it to an Apple Store Genius Bar, they'll help you out...
@hahajose Tinhte is officially the Apple bullier..
@futurerheza you just destroyed his dream laptop, LOL ! , "you forgot 2 hours battery" , LOL ! genius.
@account5 I have that same exact computer, and I have had no problems with it. It's got an awesome graphics card and all the power I really need to do anything I want.
So why the hell are you guys down ranking him? Your all stupid apple fanboys, so go back to your "magical" devices and try to even run a proper program on it.
@Lexis why the hell do people buy Lexus cars?
@MDJCM
it's pretty easy to avoid viruses, you don't click the free iPod shit. I haven't run AV in 6 years in 9 pcs - no infections. Windows 7 defeats itself. And my installs never degrade - yet again, avoided by no installing junk software. Just because no one develops as much for the mac, you won't see it as often. Macs die behind your back, everything is hidden like cars for morons, you pop the hood and everythig is covered in plastic. It takes some degree of know how to own a PC, which I don't know why apples made "know how" a bad thing, but essentially 95% of it's issue is user error. Apples solution? Lock down the user.
By the way, PCs pretty much always benchmark faster on identical hardware. Suck it up, little man.
@account5 I'll just download Steam to it and some games.
@Unverified User
The apple aluminum body is overrated. All it offers is an overpriced pakcage to suck up dents. Have you ever seen ANY laptop the broke in half? Being an HP hater myself, after handling an HP elitebook I almost crapped. It makes the 17 mbp feel like a floppy piece of crap with poor space utilization (all that free space around the keyboard).
@Failbait Usually it's easy, but sometimes you have no control when it installs in the background from a website you visit everyday because they end up with a bad 3rd party advertiser. That's what happened to me a few months ago. But yeah, when I have full control, I never get viruses.
@account5 That approach seemed to work with Vista.
@Failbait Yeah, i'm pretty sure having instant access to a UNIX command-line shell makes an OS X user "locked down"... /s
@SlappySquirrel
Account5 is engadget's most successful troll.
@MacArtStyle
"haha!! Ok. Show me a netbook with 10 Hour battery, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics, Glass Multi trackpad, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, Unibody Enclosure...for less than $999 and I'll stop short of saying your comments are from an uniformed idiot! "
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/asus-eee-pc-1215-with-ion-receives-optimus-and-usb-3-0-augmentat/
Is that good enough?
@Mike V WTF does that have to do with this topic
@MDJCM please dont fan boy, we get it. Well to bad mac can only do 90% of what people need.
@Massive Poop I own a MBP an spend about equal time in windows 7 and Snow Leopard. There are strong points to both OS's which is why I have both nativley installed and fully supported, not to mention ubuntu. Triple booting is why I have a mac. I know it's possible with PCs but I prefer a completley legit and supported ecosystem that is possible with macs.
@Lexis
They're going to sell it because it's still aluminum over polycarbonate. The MBP still has back-lit keys, firewire port and an SD card slot built in. The pro is also upgradeable to 8gb of RAM. I think those differences warrant a couple hundred bucks if you use them personally.
If you need to update hardware, you blew it.