New Macbook Pro quad core monsters & Lion

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Apple have launched a new range of Macbook Pros :) LINK

It really wasn't much of a secret :)

Well I know what £2139 of my money is heading for when I get my tax rebate (minus student discount :))

2.2GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, 4Gb Ram (I'll grade it myself)
Anti glare screen
500Gb HD 7200rpm

This is a seriously nice machine
 
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A student with more money than sense ;) :D
 
They are indeed a little sekshy as my Dutch uncle would say :love:

Shame my two are still working seamlessly otherwise I'd be able to justify ordering a new one! :lol:
 
Simmotino said:
They are indeed a little sekshy as my Dutch uncle would say :love:

Shame my two are still working seamlessly otherwise I'd be able to justify ordering a new one! :lol:
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I am going to sell the studio iMac and replace it with my current 17" MBP
 
anywone wanna donate £2k to me...? I can pay the rest! :)
 
Getting seriously tempted by these but ditching my Win CS5 licence and buying a new Mac one takes the edge off a bit.
 
HOW MUCH????????
for that money I would get brill laptop that would run everything and still have enough change to buy another PC lol
 
cowasaki said:
Who is a student :lol:
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You're the one who mentioned student discount ;)

I'm with the others on price though. Although not portable, I've just built a 4.4GHz/16G desktop for £850....
 
bastic said:
HOW MUCH????????
for that money I would get brill laptop that would run everything and still have enough change to buy another PC lol
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Why? With a laptop like that you don't need another PC !

I have a Quad Xeon Mac Pro with 10Gb Ram and 4 HDs but I still spend most of my time on the laptop. I have a 2.6GHz Core2Duo 17" 1920x1200 Macbook pro now and it is fast enough BUT I need to replace the studio machine anyway so move them along, claim back VAT and against TAX means that the £2000 (after discount and plus ram) becomes about £1200
 
arad85 said:
You're the one who mentioned student discount ;)

I'm with the others on price though. Although not portable, I've just built a 4.4GHz/16G desktop for £850....
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I said student discount not student ;)

I already have a monster desktop that does everything I want pretty much instantly so no probs there :)
 
DonnaM said:
Getting seriously tempted by these but ditching my Win CS5 licence and buying a new Mac one takes the edge off a bit.
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You can swap a windows and mac CS5 licence in one direction once so no cost there :)
 
Oh and check out the new seriously quick 10Gb Thunderbolt port ...... FAST :)
 
DonnaM said:
Thanks for that Darren but how? e-mail Adobe I presume as you need new media.
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No you can download the trial version and then contact customer support. They void your current serial number which puts your windows version into trial mode and give you a new serial number for the mac. Then just type that into the trial version and away you go :)
 
My quad core desktop only cost £300 more. Will you really make the most of all the cores?
Capture One is the only one on my machine that utilises all 8 cores..but if you've got the money....:):)
 
cowasaki said:
No you can download the trial version and then contact customer support. They void your current serial number which puts your windows version into trial mode and give you a new serial number for the mac. Then just type that into the trial version and away you go :)
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Sounds good to me. Now which MBP to go for and go find some glue to mend the cracks in my "plastic":D.
 
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£2100 ? Got to laugh at that really. I could write an infinite list of things that would be better than spending 2k on an inferior, over priced product with an Apple logo. :)
 
cowasaki said:
Oh and check out the new seriously quick 10Gb Thunderbolt port ...... FAST :)
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LOL @ 10gbps gimmick. Yeah we all need to write quicker than gigabit ethernet. Damn that pesky data that needs to be written to faster than Gigabit ethernet.....in my server room @ work using a 50k SAN.
 
clicktor said:
on an inferior, over priced product with an Apple logo. :)
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Inferior! Hmmm hardly! It will cost me £1200 after VAT and TAX rebate etc whist my current 17" MBP will go to the studio. I use ALL three main OSes and prefer MacOS. I want as big a screen as possible on a laptop whilst running MacOS so nothing is better.
 
clicktor said:
LOL @ 10gbps gimmick. Yeah we all need to write quicker than gigabit ethernet. Damn that pesky data that needs to be written to faster than Gigabit ethernet.....in my server room @ work using a 50k SAN.
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Its hardly a gimmick. I use FW800 now as a backup so that would be an improvement. I use dual Gb Ethernet between my Proliant server and the Mac Pro myself.
 
cowasaki said:
Inferior! Hmmm hardly! It will cost me £1200 after VAT and TAX rebate etc whist my current 17" MBP will go to the studio. I use ALL three main OSes and prefer MacOS. I want as big a screen as possible on a laptop whilst running MacOS so nothing is better.
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What's your argument as to why it is a better product then? because it does not use Windows OS? You'd rather pay for a Mac to not have Windows? Fair enough that's your choice but there are cheaper methods aka Linux. Anyway, surely the discounted rate you can get it for is largely irrelevant, as to the average Joe it would still be much more costly.
 
The prices on the 13in models have dropped back down to pre-vat rise prices too, not a huge saving, but given the increased computing power, makes a significant power to pound ratio difference. I can't comment on the 15/17 inch models, I have never been brave enough to look closely at the prices knowing I am unlikely to get one :lol:
 
you have to remember for storage youll be limited to the interface speed of the hard drive.. so even if you have a thunderbolt connection to an array with sata drives the bottleneck will be the 3Gbps disks.
 
cowasaki said:
Its hardly a gimmick. I use FW800 now as a backup so that would be an improvement. I use dual Gb Ethernet between my Proliant server and the Mac Pro myself.
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I'm saying people like yourself will be in a minority. I don't know anyone that would require faster than Gigabit ethernet for home use regardless of any multitude of streaming/backup tasks simultaneously. It's just overkill for the majority of people. Yes some people will have servers capable of fast writes using Raid arrays, but I'd like to hear justification for the requirment of 10gbps.
 
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you have to remember for storage youll be limited to the interface speed of the hard drive.. so even if you have a thunderbolt connection to an array with sata drives the bottleneck will be the 3Gbps disks.
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That's pretty much what I am getting at yeah. Ok so some people will have SSDs on Sata3 mobos reading/writing to/from a very fast RAID5 array on a server, but even then, genuinely requiring 10gbps in the home is frankly laughable when even businesses are yet to adopt it. I mean it's hardly a selling point and not something to boast of even "future proofing". It's a few years too early for that.
 
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clicktor said:
I'm saying people like yourself will be in a minority. I don't know anyone that would require faster than Gigabit ethernet for home use regardless of any multitude of streaming/backup tasks simultaneously. It's just overkill for the majority of people. Yes some people will have servers capable of fast writes using Raid arrays, but I'd like to hear justification for the requirment of 10gbps.
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im sure the same thing was said X years ago about SATA.. ;)
 
clicktor said:
That's pretty much what I am getting at yeah. Ok so some people will have SSDs on Sata3 mobos reading/writing to/from a very fast RAID5 array on a server, but even then, genuinely requiring 10gbps in the home is frankly laughable when even businesses are yet to adopt it. I mean it's hardly a selling point and not something to boast of even "future proofing". It's a few years too early for that.
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youre assuming people are average "home user". but as i said faster transfer is always nice to have.
 
I currently use an external drive array with FW800. Faster is always better if you're not paying any more for it and I would buy this whether it had that new interface or not so it is not costing me any more. I am not a typical home user and the previous model was selling like hot cakes even without this refresh so clearly lots of people are happy to pay the amount. A quad drive array can get close to hitting the limits of FW800 :) Plus I have the interface for future upgrades.... Oh and I am buying the 13" version for Mrs C so inter-computer transfers should be VERY quick (so long as that is an option!)

EDIT: Also you could use it for other things that you might currently require a PCI-E interface for.

I take it you drive a cheap family car? People will pay more for a better car for the extras they get and I feel that way about my laptop which I spend A LOT of time using. I tend to buy a new one every 2-3 years so saving £800 would only work out at 60-80p a day and I can live with that. The resale value of an Apple laptop is seriously better too. I bought my current laptop for £1600 after discounts (17" 2.6GHz core2duo 1920x1200) and it is still worth about £800-1000 as it is in perfect condition. How much would a typical Windows laptop that is 30 months old be worth now? It is all about personal choice and I feel that it is worth that amount to me. I have had dozens of laptops over the years and none of them work as well as the Apple machines I have owned. They are reliable and Apple is very good with warranties etc often replacing stuff that is just out of warranty etc. I was designing computer equipment 20 years ago so I have some experience of a host of equipment and I just prefer MacOS to Windows. I also prefer Linux to Windows but I run all three all the time.
 
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Yv said:
The prices on the 13in models have dropped back down to pre-vat rise prices too, not a huge saving, but given the increased computing power, makes a significant power to pound ratio difference. I can't comment on the 15/17 inch models, I have never been brave enough to look closely at the prices knowing I am unlikely to get one :lol:
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Go on, you know you want to. Your wages as a mod from TP PLC must be able to pay for one :lol:
 
Check out one of the new features of Lion:

Full screen apps: Lion brings the full screen experience that iPad users love to the Mac. With one click, your application window goes full screen, taking advantage of your Mac’s brilliant display....

Hmmmm, Windows 95 anyone :lol:

EDIT: Can't remember 3.11 too well now but it might have had that too :thinking:
 
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Oh and this one too:

Auto Save, which automatically saves your documents as you work;

DOS anyone :lol:

PLUS

The all new FileVault, that provides high performance full disk encryption for local and external drives

Eh? We've got that now!
 
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