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The New Macbooks

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 8, 2009, 3:40 PM

So, Apple has released a whole new set of Macbooks. All the unibody (aluminum) Macbooks are now ALL Macbook Pros, even the 13". The lowest end model will even have the higher end LED screens, as well as the backlit keyboards, and, most of all, the internal battery giving it about ~7 hours of battery life. Oh, and they added back that FireWire ports (surprise).

This brings me to wonder a few things, now, i'm not bitter that I bought my normal unibody (discontinued) Macbook 6 months ago, but I do wonder, is Apple going to keep to its user base and continue to manufacturer the internal removal batteries for people who bought their unibody Macbooks in the past 12 months? If Apple stops supplying them and mine dies out, which likely it will someday, I swear on my life I will never buy another Apple product ever. Because that would just be dirty, and I think maybe it might hold enough water to be true, because i'm somewhat worried it's something Apple Corporate would do.

What is your take? Did you just buy a Macbook like a month ago to see the new ones come out? Or are you afraid that they will be missing specific pieces down the line? Let me hear your thoughts, write a comment!

Ps. Why at WWDC '09 did everyone cheer when they reintroduced Firewire? That would be like them removing the screen and next year giving you a screen back and everyone is like, "OMG APPLE ADDED A SCREEN, THAT'S AMAZING!". Sometimes I wonder. Also, add an SD slot is also nothing to cheer about. Hasn't that been on every computer for the past 4 years? Welcome to 2009, indeed.

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$liquisoft Jun 8, 2009, 3:53:16 PM

Of course they'll continue manufacturing user-replaceable batteries. They'll probably continue doing it for 5 more years.

Overall, the new lineup looks great. They just forgot one thing: Fucking matte screens.
I hate the gloss, and I hate that only the 17" models have the "anti-glare" option. It's ridiculous.

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`elusive Jun 8, 2009, 4:12:38 PM

Yeah that is pretty lame. I'm surprised with the refresh it's not an option for all of them, bit of a slip on their part, but if the fact that they brought back Firewire is any indication, perhaps it'll be an addition they'll tack on later down the line.

Do you have a unibody or one of the previous matte Macbook pros? I pretty much want to cut myself designing on the gloss Macbook, as my matte desktop monitors do the trick.

~GFXNode Jun 8, 2009, 4:24:27 PM

_{i wouldn't go back to macs unless i had a lot of money kicking around to be able throw money out every year or two. really though, i really do want to stick to pcs now. right after i bought my mac the new one came out, and unlike you i felt a little raw about it. not only did it plumet the worth of my hardware, it just wasn't as cool!!}

$liquisoft Jun 8, 2009, 5:14:06 PM

I've still got a 15" MBP from before the unibody and gloss screens came about.
I guess by now it's a bit over 2 years old, but it still works quite well and isn't slow or anything.

I swear, the screen is literally the only thing stopping me from upgrading.

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=badboythemer Jun 8, 2009, 5:22:20 PM

...... should make an excellent door stop

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`elusive Jun 8, 2009, 5:29:08 PM

Hopefully with the Pro moniker on all the unibody line they'll do the matte option in the next 3 months. I can't see why they would do that, but then again who knows. My unibody runs great, I have to say I enjoy it, mostly.

^snowmask Jun 8, 2009, 5:53:55 PM

So it's 7 hours of actual usage, or having it just sit there?

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~rachapunk Jun 8, 2009, 7:04:49 PM

I've been waiting (impatiently) for this very day before buying my macbook pro

Only thing that really bothers me at all is the continued lack of blu ray support. But other than that.. super. All the other minor improvements I was hoping for occurred. And of course apple can't be held responsible for intel being slow with their nehalem laptop processors... ah well

Can't wait a few more months... this computer is 7 years old and practically gasping for breath. Oh-- and it's got 24 MB of space left on the hard drive, and I'm running out of things to delete and shuffle around

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~rachapunk Jun 8, 2009, 7:05:48 PM

One thing I do have to wonder about though...
The cheapest 15" pro... the thing is $1700 and has no dedicated graphics card. That's just wrong

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=adrenn Jun 8, 2009, 7:31:04 PM

"2.53GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed; or 2.8GHz or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache"

A new line, but near is going to be a new line with quads and then with i7, so the people buy them just to see them get old in a few months.

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