Comments on: Observations on the New MacBooks

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:54:59 +0000

Almost forgot. There’s gonna be a USB-> firewire 400 adapter for the MacBook coming out soon for about $100.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:50:41 +0000

Nice round up. I was going to get a MBP on October 13th (my birthday) but decided to wait for the update. I’ve ordered a 2.53Ghz MBP ahortly after the launch and I still have to wait 2 more weeks But I think the new MBPs are worth waiting

By: Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:32:27 +0000

Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:11:17 +0000

Henning: The nice thing about them transitioning all their Macs over to DisplayPort is that (hopefully) you will only have to buy these adapters once, and they will work with all future Macs.

I’m going to take the next year and transition myself from FW400 to 800 so I don’t need an adapter when I pick up a new MBP sometime next year before university.

By: Henning Stedtnitz

Henning Stedtnitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:24 +0000

Very nice post, thanks for rounding up all the info. Lots of things I didn’t know in there.
At first, I had mixed feelings about the new laptops, but by now, they’ve grown on me a lot. The DisplayPort thingy could be nice in the future, but I hate how Apple always make you buy 20$ adaptors for basically every connection out there. Sad news about FireWire 400 as well, but I’ll get over it. FW800, here I come!

By: rmaspero

rmaspero — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:37:19 +0000

some really cool stuff there that i had not noticed and the headphone jack stuff sounds kind of cool.

By: Kestral

Kestral — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:32:11 +0000

No Firewire = Not Pro

By: NichM

NichM — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:53:41 +0000

Great roundup of the whole keynote, haven’t watched it myself, but probably won’t after reading this. My thoughts from reading Apple’s product page:’

- $999??? 1000 dollars is a mental barrier that they needed to break, and 999 just doesn’t quite cut it. And they’re advertising them at $1299, so what’s the deal with it?

“MacBook

The next generation of notebooks starts at $1299.”

Ugh. Like sure the technology is stunning an amazing to us geeks who are tech savy, but most consumers who Apple needs to gain marketshare from don’t care at 9600 M GT graphics card or a 8600 M GT. Sure I do, but its just numbers to most people. If I were Apple, I would cut the MacBook or MacBook Air and create a mix of the two. Long comment, but basically I was hoping for greater price cuts, not that I’m struggling to afford one, but the general ecnomy would adopt to this wonderful world of computing faster.

By: John Rust

John Rust — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:52:13 +0000

Very interesting about the iPhone headset. I wonder if Apple will ever support the integrated headset remote as well?

I find the GPU switch setting to be somewhat confusing – “higher performace” vs. “better battery life”? It’s very nondescriptive for even pro users. And the fact that Apple turns the 9600 off by default probably isn’t a good idea for a pro notebook.

But they’re still amazing.