New MacBook Pros coming out Thursday

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Originally Posted by sobi

no one does, but the reason it's expected is because every single other manufacturer puts out at least 3 USBs in their laptops. I'd say that's conservative too, as I've never seen a non apple laptop in the past few years that had less than 4.

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Originally Posted by itskindahot

seriously this argument is so stupid. it's just like the vinyl guys saying "technical limitations inspire creativity." tsss, apple fainbois.

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gulity im a fan boi.

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Originally Posted by b3nz0n8

lol :D Victoria Secret Tech Support

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she can fix my hard drive anytime :P

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Originally Posted by Jester.NZ

3 ports on the last one *whistle*

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Hahaha!

Attachment 4727It's very simple...... :D

The new specs:

Thunderbolt: First things first. Intel's Light Peak technology (which Apple had a hand in implementing) has been renamed Thunderbolt, according to an industry source familiar with Apple's MacBook Pro rollout. In short, Thunderbolt is the official brand for the technology that had been codenamed Light Peak. This manifests itself in the form of a Thunderbolt connector on the new MacBooks.

Thunderbolt is a new interface that will let consumers connect peripheral devices that need to move a lot of data quickly, such as an array of disk drives, or an external device that requires very high-speed connections. Needless to say, it offers higher throughput than USB or FireWire. :)(Following CNET's report on Saturday about the adoption of Light Peak by Apple, the news about the new naming scheme was reported today by AppleInsider.) More details on this new high-speed connection tech here.

Sandy Bridge across the board: Intel's latest 32-nanometer Core i series processor makes it into all models. That's good news for consumers, of course. These Core i3, i5, and i7 processors offer both improved power efficiency and better performance. A mainstream dual-core Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor, for example, runs at a speed of 2.3GHz but can jump to a higher speed, when necessary, of close to 3GHz.

13-MacBook Pro/Intel graphics chip only: Apple has gone with graphics silicon built directly onto the Sandy Bridge processor for the 13-inch MacBook Pro, as CNET reported last year. Nvidia, and its chipset based on GeForce 320M graphics, is out. This likely presages changes to new MacBook AIr models expected later this year.

15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro/AMD graphics: AMD (formerly ATI) "discrete" graphics silicon is now offered in the larger, more powerful MBPs. As in previous MacBook Pros, the discrete graphics chip is only fired up when heavy lifting is needed. When power savings is paramount or high-end graphics processing is not necessary, the system defaults to Intel's graphics.

Apple store is down....hopefully they'll go on sale before the Intel newser at 10 am PST

http://store.apple.com/

any word on prices yet?

Delish news

-17" 1920x1200 Display. 2.2Ghz Quad i7. 4GB RAM. 750GB HD. AMD 6750M 1GB. $2499
-15" 1440x900 (1680 option) Display. 2.2GHz Quad i7. 750GB HD. AMD 6750M 1GB. $2199.
-15" 1440x900 (1680 option) Display. 2.0GHz Quad i7. 4GB RAM. 500GB HD. AMD 6490M 256MB. $1799
-13" 1280x800 Display. 2.7GHz Dual i7. 4GB RAM. 500GB HD. Intel HD Graphics. $1499
-13" 1280x800 Display. 2.3GHz Dual i5. 4GB RAM. 320GB HD. Intel HD Graphics. $1199

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/...cpus-amd-gpus/

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

Ahhhhh I want UK Prices!