Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] New MacBooks, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- From: Peter Link <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:17:45 -0800
I was thinking about the iPhone update so I mistakenly compared the
MBP trackpad to the iPhone instead of the MBP-air. Thanks for
politely correcting me.
I use a MBP for work and still have a lampshade iMac at home. I'm
trying to slip in a Mac Pro but a Mac Plus/Midi/half-size would be
just fine. As for cannibalizing MacPro sales, a half-size MacPro
would be perfect for government, commercial, and educational settings
where a "supercomputer" can't be cost justified. The ability to
remove the disks, optical drive, and any wireless transmission
devices without trashing the computer (like with a MBP) would be
extremely beneficial for those government agencies having to run
diskless.
At 3:04 PM -0700 2/26/08, Bryan William Jones wrote:
On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Peter Link wrote:
It's an incremental upgrade. Faster CPU, touchpad the same as
iPhone, stuff like that. If I were in the market for a laptop, I
wouldn't hesitate buying one.
Indeed. Though I will say that the larger trackpad on the MacBook
Air is awesome and it does not appear to be on the new MacBooks or
MacBook Pros.
Now, if they would announce a half-size Mac Pro desktop, then I'd
be very excited. Something along the lines of a single quad-core
CPU, good video card, 4 memory slots, 2 hard drive slots, single
SuperDrive/BluRay, 2 spare PCI Express slots, 1 FW800, 1FW400, few
USB, and an eSATA port, all in a box half the size (and weight) of
the current Mac Pro. An iMac is nice but I'd really like two of
them tied together.
This is something I can absolutely get behind. Two hard drive slots
should be available somewhere in Apple's lineup especially given
Time Machine. A single quad-core setup would allow most of the
multi-core computing that folks would be doing (as well as making a
nice Photoshop/Aperture machine). 4 memory slots would still allow
for 16GB or RAM, but more commonly 8GB with current chip sizes. A
single superdrive/BluRay is good along with 3 PCI Express slots, one
double wide for GPUs would be important along with your other
suggestions.
My guess is that they would sell like crazy, possibly cannibalizing
some MacPro sales, but I'd buy a smaller "Mac Plus" if you will for
home use to complement my 8-core MacPro in the office. There are a
fair number of folks that I know would do the same, not to mention a
ton of photographers who would like something smaller than a MacPro
in their offices.
Bryan
http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/
Bryan William Jones, Ph.D.
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Salt Lake City, Utah 84132
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