New Macbooks on Oct 14th.

[emil_brikha]

The brick thing has actually been widely questioned. My guess it's a combination of reduced pieces as well as a new technique to weld, ultimately avoiding a lot of screws and junk.

Multi touchpad should be a definite though. Me and my friends are going to be all nerded out on Thuesday, glued to the computer and following the press meeting.

[Gueen]

I've always had PCs, but I never had a choice cos I couldn't afford a mac. If they drop the price, I'm going to get one. I'm tired of my problem-kid Dell Inspiron.

[JesC]

$300 price drop wow!

why dont they throw in a free 80gb iPod, and free upgrade 4gb ram & 1gb video card and Multi-touch screen for 3000.00...Plus Steve Jobs should personally deliver them too! :eek:

[midian]

I have a multitouch pad, kinda useful for ableton, but you cant use any of the gesture recognition with anything outside OSX, would be awesome to see some intigration of this into other apps, especially stuff like photoshop.

I doubt the touchscreen also, I think it will be largely dropped prices, and the 13" MacBookPro.

The 'Brick' is a pretty awesome innovation, it will make the comp waaaaay stronger, and would be something very very hard for competition to replicate.

[liam.h]

Me and my friends are going to be all nerded out on Thuesday, glued to the computer and following the press meeting.

i'll be glued to it too! stuff.tv will be doing a live blog as the info is unveiled

...sad that I get THIS excited about it isn't it?

[BentoSan]

The 'Brick' is a pretty awesome innovation, it will make the comp waaaaay stronger, and would be something very very hard for competition to replicate.

I agree, certainly would be a good design for gigging

[emil_brikha]

The multitouch is actually already integrated with Photoshop CS4.

[tekki]

Mmm.. might be buying a current model, as that these will be dropped in price considerably.

[jimmymac]

There's good chance judging from the recent image leaks that the new macbooks will no longer have a firewire port, with only the new macbook pros will having it. It could be case of apple implementing the use of Firewire over Ethernet connectors for macbooks but I wouldn't hold my breath.. all will be revealed tomorrow though.

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/13/...t-speculation/

[emil_brikha]

I read that as well, and if that will be the case I will be the first one to give Apple its first minus. In any case...

23 hours, 32 minutes until Apple's Notebook Media Event