Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices

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by newacc • 17 years ago

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axod2• 17 years ago

The addition of an SD slot is awesome. Much more useful than the current expansion flap thing which I don't even know what you plug in there :/

pavlov2• 17 years ago

Of course the SD slot is not a very welcome change to people who have stuff that plugs in that "flap thing", because now the MacBook Pro apparently doesn't have any means of internal expansion. (Why is it called Pro again?)

DLWormwood5• 17 years ago

The top of the line 17" still has the ExpressCard slot. Apparently, SD's the new floppy after all, instead of USB thumb drives.

GHFigs4• 17 years ago

According to the keynote, Apple found that only 1% of users were using the ExpressCard slot.

DenisM• 17 years ago

It costs only $25 to add an SD card reader into your express card slot: http://www.xpcgear.com/proexp7.html Apple probably did it so save costs and save space for the bigger battery.

These look like fine machines for someone who is buying a new mac, but offer hardly a reason to upgrade from any recent model.

agocke2• 17 years ago

In fact, it looks worse. Previously, Apple had high end portable machines for the true power users among us. I've had two generations of Apple Intel laptops because I wanted an easy to maintain Unix system. This announcement makes me very disappointed as it appears that Apple is unifying the two sectors in order to cut costs. The hardware quality is still probably superior to most competitors, but this isn't the bleeding edge kind of stuff I expect from top of the line Apple hardware.

whacked_new• 17 years ago

This, after 6 years of waiting since I started disregarding any laptop that cannot accommodate an internal SD slot, finally gives me a reason to look at the 13"! What took them so long?

johnnybgoode5• 17 years ago

The Apple site hasn't been updated with these and the online store is down. Doesn't Apple usually make sure the site has all of the new products right when they're announced?

DLWormwood5• 17 years ago

No. This is Apple's standard operating procedure; the site goes down for a few hours while the presentation is being done. (So that the site doesn't "scoop" the presenters.) The site should be back up soon after the show's over.

johnnybgoode5• 17 years ago

Thanks for the info.

nicara• 17 years ago

Slightly OT, but new iPhone (as mentioned in the OP article) as well.

For those who feel like following the liveblog, http://live.gizmodo.com/

johnnybgoode5• 17 years ago

Now that the online store is back up, I see what they've done with the MacBooks. I thought they were going to discontinue the old white MacBook soon, but instead they've renamed the new one to make it a Pro. And now there's a 15" Pro with integrated graphics only, like the regular MacBooks.

trjordan• 17 years ago

"Apple also introduced a handy new feature called "Find My iPhone," designed to help iPhone owners who have misplaced their device. Lose the device under the sofa, and users will now be able to send the phone a message ordering it to make a sound. If the device has been stolen, it will now be possible to send an iPhone a command to erase its memory, so that sensitive information is not compromised. "

I smell a security risk.

DLWormwood5• 17 years ago

Which is the bigger risk? To have somebody else steal your information without you being able to stop them? Or to have somebody destroy information on your own device, which you've likely had to load onto that device via a machine under your control anyways?

dfranke2• 17 years ago

Apple also introduced a handy new feature called "Find My iPhone," designed to help iPhone owners who have misplaced their device. Lose the device under the sofa, and users will now be able to send the phone a message ordering it to make a sound.

What? Is this a parody?

GHFigs4• 17 years ago

It is a tie-in to Apple's $99/yr. MobileMe service. You can locate the phone on a map and remotely display a message or play a sound.

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/whats-new/

ZeroGravitas• 17 years ago

The key missing element is that it will make noise even if in silent mode. Obviously just ringing a lost phone has been a standard "feature" since the first mobile was released.

Timothee• 17 years ago

Big drop in price for the MacBook Air too, especially for SSD: $1,799 with 128GB SSD which was the previous price with a regular hard-drive.

johnnybgoode5• 17 years ago

There was a rumor about new Air models at lower prices. Does anyone know if there are actually new models planned, or if this is what they should've said - same model, lower prices?

Glide• 17 years ago

Aren't the processor speeds different now?

dchest• 17 years ago

"Does anyone know if there are actually new models planned"

Aren't we talking about Apple? :)

Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices

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