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
This one goes out to Jack (or should I say Jerk fanboy)
Jack I don't see one iota of proof on your comments that Mac is better than PC, yet you rabidly attack PC people for knocking your precious little Crapple products.
Several things you liked to point out which aren't exactly true.
Cross platform softwares, though there are many softwares on Mac that will not run on Win there are just as many Windows clones or bench mark softwares which do the exact same thing as those softwares, just because Mac has a proprietary software which does something or another doesn't mean PC can't do it, it just means you have to use some other named software to do it, this invalidates your claims here.
Laptop/net book/portable PC/note book battery lives do vary but the fact is if you read the instruction manuals for all of them (PC or Mac) it clearly stipulates to get the most out of the battery the device should never be ran without the power supply plugged in because it'll reduce the life of the battery. Modern batteries on laptops and the like are more a UPS device than anything else, to get those 8-12 hours run times without recharging you have to turn down one thing or another, if not turn off them, to prevent drainage of the battery, this goes for Mac too.
You're a blatant attacker of other users and give Mac users all a bad name with your ranting. Face it, Apple has lost its class, it is a company with no other insight other than to make money now. They over charge for their under powered computers and their entire business hinges on the success of portable devices which have a very small area of usefulness, no matter how faddish or fun they may seem. They are forcing customers to buy items from their i-stores, and then they force developers to develop and distribute through their proprietary programing system, face it for all of Apple's recent profits the company is floundering when it comes to real innovations, they claim the iPad is innovating, but in fact there are better tablets coming out at around the same price, and they rushed theirs into production just to be first, ignoring the fact they were technically second in the market. Apple is now in the business of suing competition too because they don't want to have to put out an innovative and decent product to com peat either.
People should be disappointed in Apple the company hasn't really came up with anything people need since the ipod, and even then the only reason why people needed it was because they needed a handy way to transport music. Apple isn't a company or product to envy it should be pitied. Why you might ask, because their primary form of business is to attack the competitors with things like the Mac/PC commercials, Adobe vs HTML5 BS; which is not true HTML5 is not even technically live yet, and Adobe isn't going to developing for HTML5 until the W3C approves it, or suing over patents they didn't even come up with in the first place, they just took from other people and made it look pretty for the patent agency. The company needs fresh blood and needs to get off its high horse, the best advice I could give them is get out of the computer market and just sell the OS, because their computers are 12+ month behind in the market with a premium being charged for the newest models. Stop proprietary softwaring their products and actually allow competition to happen like they claim to support. Stop making slight modifications to their product lines and then call it innovating, thats just sad there. And sell your stuff for what its worth, not what you think its worth.
@3dpenguin
Where did I say Macs were better than PCs? See, right from the very first line, your post is completely flawed. If you're not going to actually read what I'm saying, then why are you bothering to respond?
If you had been paying attention, you would have seen that I was responding to another idiot Apple hater who said there isn't anything OS X can do that Windows can't. To reiterate, I didn't say anything like that. Somebody else did.
That is clearly false because there are a LOT of things you can do in OS X that you can't do in Windows 7. Want a simple one? Unix command line. Done, argument over. You disagree? Then you're a fucking idiot. If not, then you agree with me and you have no point.
As far as batteries, the point is that the new battery in the Macbook is better than any of the batteries in other laptops, like the ones that claim 8 hours, regardless of what the real battery life is. a PC laptop going full out will get 2 hours, the Macbook also going full out will get 3. That's the point.
I don't give other Mac users jack shit, and it's extremely stupid of you to associate what I say on this board with a Mac-using straw man. I only "attack" people who say extremely stupid things. No really, go and check.
Your insights on Apple would be hilarious if they weren't so sad. I'm not sure how it's possible to be as wrong as you are when the truth is right in front of you, but people who hate Apple tend to ignore reality. Hey, did you hear Apple just came out with a 10 hour battery for their Macbook? And the iPad lasts not just the claimed 10 hours, but even longer? But oh yeah, they don't "innovate" any more. Silly me. I guess innovation is sticking with those old 6-8 hour batteries, right?
And of course you bring up the Apple lawsuits, and how many lawsuits has Apple actually brought to other companies? Oh right. One. Because you appear to be somewhat dense, allow me to remind you that Apple is being sued by a lot of OTHER companies right now. Apple is responding in the form of COUNTER-SUITS. A countersuit is not the same thing as suing somebody. Obviously. Well it's obvious to anybody with common sense.
And yes, I'm sure the iPad doesn't qualify as "anything" in your mind, but millions of sales sort of prove you wrong there. And the iPhone, of course, I mean that's only sold over 50 million or so and it's clearly not innovative at all. Why people bought that instead of whatever piece of shit smartphones were on the market at the time is beyond me since the iPhone has absolutely no innovation at all.
Oh wait, you're a moron. That's right. I like how you try to explain away Apple's success by saying people are stupid. That's so naive it's precious.
And of course you top it off with this gem: they should just get out of the computer business.
If that isn't an indication of the severity of your stupidity, I can't think of what else could be. You know, Dell said Apple should get out of the computer business too, and what happened? Oh right, now Apple is worth 8 times more than Dell. You are about as good at predicting the market as Michael Dell is. Are you even aware that Apple is going to surpass Microsoft to become the largest company in the US soon?
No, obviously not. I forgot, you're too involved with bashing Apple to pull your head out of your ass for five minutes to look around you. Good luck with that whole "Apple getting out of the computer business" thing, let me know how that works out for you.
@Jack
First your UNIX command line can be done in windows, it just requires separate softwares, also other than a hand full of network administrators and programs UNIX command line is a useless feature to have pre-installed into an operating system. Can't come up with anything better?
A 10 hour battery isn't innovative its licenced or stolen technology, far from innovative.
The i-Touch series has innovation, but the fact is it wasn't that big of a leap, touch screens had been around for years, with far more precision than the i-Touch series has, they didn't invent anything here, they took several technologies which have been well demonstrated and combined them into a unit which looks sleek and hip, then sold it like there was no device out there that was better, I'm here to tell you most devices which features these features are better. The entire purpose for these devices is to sell you crap from the i-stores, now that's innovative. As for device numbers, how many of those are repurchases when it comes to i-phones, its been my experience with i-product supporters they often buy the device multiple times just to keep up with the Jones. The i-pad had been advertised the crap out of and Apple did a very good job at promoting it as a needed item, which it is not, I saw one and went "hey look the super sized the ipod touch" because that's all it is.
Lawsuits...
You sir need to get your head out of your butt here, Apple sues as much as any other company, the difference being often its an attempt to stifle competition in areas they feel they were in first, most often settling out of court. And as for a counter suit... A counter suit is a defencive act in which a litigate being named in a suit names the plaintiff in a suit to either leverage dropping of the initial suit or reduce the potential losses in the suit, just because the initial suit is ended or dismissed for one reason or another doesn't mean the counter suit dies. A suit and a counter suit are exactly the same thing, its just when they are initiated. When Apple gets sued their attorney jump into high gear trying to find something to use against the plaintiffs, call it direct targeting. If Apple went around suing everybody who even slightly tredded into what they think is their property they would be in court 24/7, so what they do is sue people they perceive as a direct threat to their business and then counter sue people who try taking their money away.
As for why people buy Apple products, that is simple, many of them are stupid. They have absolutely no clue to what the differences between Macs and PCs are, let me tell you it comes down to precisely two things... Windows OS vs Macintosh OS. At their core all computers contain the same things, its just different manufactures, one is no more stable than another, all the problems with the PCs (win) in the 90's came down to a handler communication between the OS and BIOS, these communications have been cleaned up for the most part since then, Mac has the same problems. Back before Apple started using Intel you might have had a case, but since then there is nothing special about their computers, thus supporting my claim that they are over priced pieces of junk.
Apple really should get out of the COMPUTER business and focus on selling their OS. You compare Dell, a company that sells Computers and Monitors, to Apple, a company that sells computers, monitors, peripherals, software and media devices, fair comparison there when it comes to company values. Try comparing Apple to Microsoft... oh right you wont, because Apple deals in all that crap, and Microsoft deals mainly in software and rebranded peripherals. Which one is worth more there? It all comes down to comparisons here. When I said Apple should stop selling computers I meant it, their computers are over priced and they don't perform the task of running softwares any better than comparable PCs at a lower price, a PC at the same price range as a Mac is often far superior, and a home built PC can run circles around both Mac and Commercial PCs at a cheaper price, getting rid of the dying limb which is the Mac computer and selling their OS as an alternative to Windows, instead of selling their stuff as an alternative to PC, would actually help the company because they would no longer have to go around selling branded PCs which only has a constant hold of less than 20% of the PC market. Few people know that you can go out and install Mac OS, with questions of legalities, on any PC running an Intel chip.
You are offencive, arrogant, and condescending. You are a Jerk. And you do give Mac supporters a bad name, because I'm certain may would be appalled by the way you go around using words to try to make yourself look and feel better than others.
BTW I reported you, once, because of this and other posts you've made here. There is no call for the way you've been responding to other users.
Can we expect a macbook pro 13 refresh soon, since theres very little reason to buy one now?
What does that make the macbook pro with the same specs?
@jamesyboy 2 extra Gigs of RAM, backlit keyboard, SD slot and Firewire. Also thinner, more durable, and a tiny bit lighter. But, no not a huge difference.
I went to order this MacBook, but after adding the additional 2G RAM, it was 1099, without a backlit keyboard and SD reader. So I went ahead and got the MBP instead.
@KidDynamic also a battery indicator and IR port for the apple remote.
I bought a 13" $999 macbook with a student discount about 3 months ago...
Say what you want. But until you use one, you cant say anything. Ive owned 9 PC's. And then I bought this, end of story...It's a great machine. I take it to class, its durable (not as much as a pro), the battery lasts for a full day of classes, its fast, and OSX is more user friendly than any version of windows Ive ever used.
BTW. Until I used my buddy's MBP for a weekend. I HATED macs. Try one out, then talk.
@cdobsonwv same same - used Dells and Toshibas for 9 years. Switched to MacBook Pro 13". Happy. Never goin back
Why don't they make black macbooks anymore? I thought once they went black, they wouldn't go back.
but they did.