Those who follow me on twitter or talk to me with Gtalk will know that I want to buy a new laptop and surely it will have an Apple logo in its cover. As it will replace my current desktop computer and become my main tool of work I need it to be a powerful machine so, this means I would have to choose between the high-end Macbook or even the base Macbook Pro.
At first this post was titled “Still waiting” because this past Tuesday update didn’t convinced me at all at first sight. I was waiting for a brand new Macbook Pro with a little work of redesign that included a bigger multi-touch trackpad, LED backlit display, Penryn processors and such awaited specs… While the majority of them have been accomplished in the last update, the most important feature for me now haven’t and it was the design (a redesign, indeed). I know that MBP design is a very polished piece of work, almost perfect; but it’s been there since the not-so-old Powerbooks.
The mock-up of SPICU that I would had loved to come true.
In the other hand it is the black Macbook, with many resemblances between his big brother, with similar power due to the last speed-bump, and a bit cheaper; but lacking the backlit keyboard, LED screen, multi-touch trackpad and some more things that I will find in the MBP. So, in the case I finally bought an Apple laptop I’m not definitely sure about which of both them I would choose in the end.
In addition the new Montevina chipset based family of Macbooks and Macbook Pros are rumored to hit the streets soon in June [1] [2], with all that means in terms of a probable Macbook Pro redesign or even a new brushed-metal case Macbook that would make me fall in love with it once and for all.
A wide range of options to consider. Buy now or not? And as important as that, which one? By now, as the saying goes “Buy if you need it, wait if you can“. Frankly my C2D desktop computer still runs fast and I won’t need a laptop computer until the next University semester when I’m moving to Valencia. Meanwhile, what is your opinion?
P.S: I was able to toy around with the Macbook Air yesterday and it’s not my cup of tea so, it’s not even an option. So much thin…
UPDATE: It seems that the Macbook Pro models include some significant changes to the keyboard, as David Pogue predicted and then Ars Technica gathered. More evolution than revolution, but I still want my black Air-style black keyboard.
New Macbook Pro keyboard layout.
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I have a MacBook and it’s a great laptop, i think that a great laptop is a small one, so MacBook with 13″ it’s great for me…but wait till new design…who knows?
In that case I think I would be short with only 13″ as my main computer’s screen. Anyway I’d like to be able to plug a bigger screen to the laptop at a decent resolution. If I’m not wrong plugging an external monitor using the optional VGA-adapter does provide pretty poor resolutions on the Macbook.
Compra como un cabrón, que es lo que yo haría si tuviese ahora mismo la pasta.
Estás en la misma situación que yo: esperando un cambio en la gama Pro, un poco al estilo del Air. (Lo cierto es que todos los portátiles necesitan un rediseño.) Por mi trabajo, necesito que sea un Pro; necesito las pulgadas. El prototipo que muestras (que ya conocía) me parece también una pasada. Ojalá lo cambien prontoooo!! son mucho meses esperando!!!
Estoy en tu misma situación.
Llevo desde Octubre queriendo retirar mi portatil y pasarme a MAC, y ya puestos quería hacerlo a lo grande, con un Macbook Pro… pero empezaron los rumores de restyling, llegó la Keynote de principios de año y nada, llegó la WWDC y nada… y sigo esperando.
Pensé que la jugada más lógica sería sacar en Septiembre los MBP con los nuevos Montevina (que se han atrasado hasta agosto) y así aprovechar el tirón del nuevo curso… pero esa idea parece que ya no está entre los rumores, y el otro día leí algo de que Apple apuesta por el nuevo procesador de Intel, el Nehalem (Quad Core para último cuatrimestre del 2008) pero claro, de ser así… el nuevo MBP saldría en 2009… y yo ya llevaría 1 AÑO esperando >.< (me siento un poco tonto).
Me he puesto la fecha límite de Septiembre, pero claro, si en Septiembre vuelven los rumores de actualización y restyling, que si fuera actualización interna me da igual, pero el restyling no.
Así que, aquí me ves, contándome mi vida a raiz de un post tuyo xDDD
Por cierto, me ha gustado mucho tu blog, añadido a mi GReader está.
Un Saludo.