New Apple Lust Objects

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I didn’t find John Gruber to be completely embarrassing till I found out that being a “technology pundit” was his full time job.

Let’s just say it up front: the iPhone is the greatest piece of consumer electronics that has ever been made.

is there a tech improvement here or just a different price point?

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is there a tech improvement here or just a different price point?

rumors:
- new housing
- new chipset
- new price spread
- glossy screen only (boo)
- chiclet keyboard (boo)

This will be my new computer whatever it turns out to be so it better be good.

I know new Mac Pros are expected 1st quarter of 2009 but my old-school G5 had a meltdown and I couldn't wait, so now I've got a 2.8 8 Core Mac Pro with 6 gigs of ram.

I've had a week of troubleshooting and working out issues as I've reinstalled software and whatnot, and there's still some stuff going on that may not be kosher, but you know what?

It's really really fast.

Boo on the chiclet keyboard? Man, these things feel great! I agree with the glossy screen though, seems like a bad idea for a portable.

gruber is angry

Anticipate away:

http://www.macrumors.com/

if gruber is saying it that means Apple OKd the leaks. Which hopefully means there's something interesting coming. Not yet another aluminium warmup. Be cool if the touchpad had a screen in it too, but actually I'd settle for a battery life that approached, yknow, life.

Be cool if the touchpad had a screen in it too

that would heave.

photos:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/mr-blurrycam-reveals-the-updated-macbook-pro-899-laptop-model/

Want: multitouch gestures, battery life, graphics in the macbook to make it a serious option, a pony
might want: docking station, 8 inch tablet
do not want: screen on the trackpad

Never gonna get the hate for touchscreens. You could do awesome shit with a touchscreen there, all sorts of custom controls.

i just think there's a point at which ease of input becomes overly fiddly nonsense.

Would be opposite of fiddly: eg photoshop could show you a 100% zoom of whatever you're working on as you go.

can't it do that anyway, in a separate window? (i don't use photoshop, so i don't know. i'd assume it could.) which would strike me as more useful because it'd be in roughly the same visual field, and you wouldn't have to be staring down at -- eew -- the bottom of your keyboard all the time.

lotsa people staring at their keyboards all the time anyway! And you can do it in a window, but point is instant feedback a la iPhone.

A very nice looking mockup based on the above spy photos.

So is Gruber connected to Apple in some way, apart from blogging about them?

I would get a job if the new laptop had a glass touchscreen trackpad

the blurrycam photos on engadget are hott

this looks like any other macbook to me. surprisingly cheap though. i thought macbooks ran in the 2K-3K range

reports that the mooted $899 inventory might be an LED screen?!

don't like those chiclet keyboards, but otherwise the design is nice. intrigued by the glass touchpad, annoyed that gestures aren't something that current MBPs can be updated to unerstand

GLASS TRACKPAD!

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http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/macbookevent2008/macvent0092WTMK.JPG

i want to snap that over my knee

$2k, $2.4 k.

new display!

1:32PM Engadget:
This will also be the first MBP that we offer SSD on, and you can access the drives from underneath the battery." Nice! That's a nice touch.

:D :D

I just do not understand the move to high-gloss glass screens.

regular macbook dropped to $999. bah.

why do ppl hate the glossy so much?

fingerprinty

fuck 999$? that's CRAP

they should've done away with the entry level macbook; or at least made it a metal enclosure too and kept it at that price

it will look silly next to the family of macs

I think that is the point an easy upsell/something for schools.

there is a new macbook with metal enclosure, they are talking about now.

$1299

yeah, I know, akm

but the entry level one is still that shitty white

I can't use glossy MBs/MBPs or the new iMacs because of glare and short of being in a completely dark room, I've never found a situation where glare wasn't an issue.

right.

$1599 for the one with a readable screen

they really needed to get the prices down on these things. fucking hell, there is a massive recession and everyone is broke, these are about $200-$400 too much for me.

they cost a lot to make. the mark up is much lower than most consumer electronics.

hmm, apple have traditionally had the best margins in the business.

The manufacturing photos are cool.

dude I'm getting a dellintosh

bellyachers in bellyaching shocka!!

count me in

dellintosh will be all kinds of butthurt

I didn't think I would be torn between the MB and MBP, but I am.