Confused About New Macbook Pro's

[loop]

nice! you're right!

found this N53 and it's available for purchase even in Europe.

[dafe]

just curious about SB and the recall issues - are the same issues likely to be prevalent in the new macs?

[StephanV]

No, there will be no MBP recalls because of this. The SB issues only occur in computers using 3 SATA ports, MBP uses only 2: 1 for the HDD and 1 for the Superdrive.

[tombruton69]

Macs are over priced. However they are differnt. The operating system is not as well written as windows however it needs to support about 100 differnt hardware configs. Where as windows needs to support probly close to a million

This means apples job is alot easier and produces a more reliable operating system. they are a complete rip off and for any1 not using there computer for live performance I would say avoid them.

However that addded stability matters with live performance. If only NI made Traktor compatible with linux it wouldnt be a massive job either as they allready write for OSX.

[Rukks]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE CONFIRM SANDY BRIDGE WITH EITHER A CHIP PHOTO OR A SPEC SHEET. i7 does not automatically mean sandybridge...there is a huge difference, i haven't looked REALLY hard but i can't find a cpu chip id anywhere.

[StephanV]

I really can't be bothered to find a specs sheet right now, but yes they really are Sandy Bridge. It's been announced basically everywhere that the new MBP's are SB.

[Rukks]

Well where is everywhere that is "official".....the only indication that I have seen so far is that apple advertises the logo with the same picture as the box for sandy bridge.

Im sure they are sandy bridge but honestly apple makes it pretty tough to get any idea of what hardware they are running, everything is custom apple this or that.

I just want the hardware models that they use in their computers on their spec sheet.

Not just i7/i5 and a speed.

//edit

This is the CPU
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43560

Can't believe apple is that sly with their marketing...doesn't even have 4 physical cores.

Honestly that just made me not buy a mac, just flat out lies if the one review I read is correct.

[loop]

Macs are over priced. However they are differnt. The operating system is not as well written as windows however it needs to support about 100 differnt hardware configs. Where as windows needs to support probly close to a million

This means apples job is alot easier and produces a more reliable operating system. they are a complete rip off and for any1 not using there computer for live performance I would say avoid them.

However that addded stability matters with live performance. If only NI made Traktor compatible with linux it wouldnt be a massive job either as they allready write for OSX.

I can't agree with the most part of this post.

Firstly, OS X is better than Windows. It's the FreeBSD kernel inside, which is superior for sure. It's better than both Linux & Windows in fact ...

Linux for Audio processing seems not a great option IMO. what would it use - ALSA? or Jack, or what - there's was some new audio architecture ... or maybe OSS. It's a mess on linux, there's not that good Audio I/O facility for audio processing as CoreAudio & ASIO.

I do agree about the hardware support, though. It's soooo difficult for MS, and so relatively easy for apple.

[loop]

Well where is everywhere that is "official".....the only indication that I have seen so far is that apple advertises the logo with the same picture as the box for sandy bridge.

Im sure they are sandy bridge but honestly apple makes it pretty tough to get any idea of what hardware they are running, everything is custom apple this or that.

I just want the hardware models that they use in their computers on their spec sheet.

Not just i7/i5 and a speed.

//edit

This is the CPU
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43560

Can't believe apple is that sly with their marketing...doesn't even have 4 physical cores.

Honestly that just made me not buy a mac, just flat out lies if the one review I read is correct.

Rukks, it has quad cores, dude. they are on the 15 & the 17 though. That what you link is the i7 on the 13" - it's dual core, yes.

the exact CPU models for all MBP models can be seen here:
http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2011/...ks-early-2011/


Here are the internals of the 15 inch model
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBo...eardown/4990/1

[dual citizen]

Traktor isn't too resource intensive but I noticed songs analyze and auto beat grid a lot faster with my new MBP.