RSSJust the facts, please: Apple announces a Mac notebook event
By Tim Conneally | Published October 9, 2008, 8:30 PM
Apple and wildly speculative rumors about the company are practically inseparable. Today, the company emailed invitations to an October 14 event in its hometown of Cupertino, CA.
As usual, it needs to say very little to get the public talking a lot. The ad shows the ubiquitous, titanium aluminum notebook lid with the glowing white Apple trademark and the epigraph: "The spotlight turns to notebooks."
Unlike the iPod refresh that took place in September, the company's pattern of updating its line of notebooks has been a little less regular. Typically, however, it is an annual occurrence, with functionality upgrades (such as those made to the CPU) taking place with no overt regularity.
I see you all finally stopped taking the bait from our resident Apple dork who hasn't got a piece of a** since the last time his finger poked through the toilet paper.
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|This is Hollywood's idea of getting laid:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ab_1185757344
No thank you. I'll leave that to you. :)
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|I didn't mention a single name, how did you know who i was talking about?
At least you know who you are.
By the way, that is me in the video.
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|Come to the apple store and have a Apple Genuises assigned to you. These how are these stores not a drag on the company yet??
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|Considering some of the articles on Apple's new manufacturing process alluding to laser/water jet on billet/brick aluminum, it's a bit strange to say the new notebooks will be titanium, which Apple hasn't used since the end of the PowerPC PowerBook models. Nevertheless, it will be exciting to see the engineering on the new models afforded to them by a change in manufacturing technology.
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|Cosmetic updates housing overpriced hardware...revolutionary!
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|Just because you can't afford one does not mean you should be critical. Just save up. I'm sure one of these years you'll finally be able to get a beloved Mac.
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|I can afford one, still thinking the same.
The design is awesome, OS X is great but the hardware is overpriced.
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|another photo, email, music, and word processer gadget.. When will apple have it's updated accepted applications list for this one?
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|YEAH BAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After this major announcement the whole world will have a Mac! A sub $1000 notebook is finally here. Not to mention it will be the most feature rich and advanced sub $1000 notebook in the world and it's made by Apple!!!!!
Guys, nows the time to get a Mac. I can't wait to get this new notebook. I may get a new iMac first or get this new notebook then get the iMac.
Good heavens I love Steve Jobs and Apple!
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|:/ so sad.
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|pookie put the pipe down
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|Macs are for losers.
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|no kidding.
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|I think there must be a propane leak or something in his basement lol....
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|OK. As a reply to some of the other post, perhaps the author of this story was referring to "titanium" as the color and not the material it is made of. Although for what a Macbook costs it should be made of titanium. And as for dvferret's comment, I agree...this is a pointless story.
Now, before any of you Mac lovers start bashing me for the comment I made about the cost of a Mac, I own a 17" Macbook Pro and I love it. But come on....for the $3600 price tag I could have bought three Windows based laptops that would have been just as good.
P.S. Vista sucks... no matter what flavor.
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|"But come on....for the $3600 price tag I could have bought three Windows based laptops that would have been just as good."
So why didn't you?
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|P.S. Vista sucks... no matter what flavor.
*laughs*
Oh! Flamebait!
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|Agree with the first 2 paragraphs. :P
Disagree with the last sentence.
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|Yeah, and just throw in a flavor of Hackintosh on it!
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|Vista x64 is a treat, 32 bit is junk!
As an aside, love my cake cutter, and running Vista x64 Business on the bootcamp partition, works very well indeed.
Got to give Apple credit for the quality of their driver disk, in that those not already included in the aforementioned Vista, were covered in theirs, saved much time & grief.
Running several notebooks, 2 with XP Pro, one of which came with Vista as a downgrade option.
The others that came with Vista preinstalled (one of which is a Dell XPS M1530), have since purchased academic upgrade disks & then paid the price of postage (AUD16.40) for x64 disks from MSFT.
As far as the MBA goes, I look upon it as training wheels (hey Taxman subsidises it).
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|zzzzzz
huh? did you say somethin?
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|lol
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|Of course they release new MacBooks right after I buy a new one. Oh Apple, I love you but why do you torture me?!
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|Not to worry, just buy the new one like I am. My MacBook is less than one year old and I will definitely get this new titanium MacBook and a new iMac. I wish I could give my whole paycheck to Apple.
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|Try looking up when the new ones are due to be released next time:
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
October 14th has been known for at least a month. It's usually pretty acurate.
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|Your more than welcome to give your paycheck to me. :)
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|Free money?? Send it this way!
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|You think this twat has a paycheck?
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|I can't give you my paycheck but I will help you get a Mac. I'll help anybody that TRULY wants to dump Windoze and get a beloved Mac. :)
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|It's worth noting that, currently, only the MacBook Pros are aluminum. (Let's pretend the article didn't say "titanium," which Apple has not used in quite a while.) The regular MacBooks are currently made of white or black plastic, but this is widely expected to change with the refresh, and this invitation *may* confirm this, as the notebook appears to be the 13-in form factor of the current MacBooks.
Plus, the MacBooks have gone longer than average without an update, so this should be quite exciting when they finally come. :)
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|Ok? That was a pointless story.
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|No it's not pointless. Anything Apple does should be on the front page of any news outlet. Apple is the greatest company on earth that is led by the greatest CEO on earth. If the great and wise Steve Jobs sneezes I want to know about it!
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|Man your love affair with everything apple is enough to make a person toss their cookies.
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|You don't understand. It's like the Matrix, I took the red pill, woke up and was no longer under the control of the machines (Microsoft). :)
SGD, you've got to visit your nearest Apple store and take the red pill by switching. Give it 3 days and a massive light will go off in your head which means you are no longer under the control of the machines, Microsoft.
Woohoo, you will be free!!!
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|I'm pretty sure the Macbook Pro cover is Aluminum, not titanium.
Try getting the basic facts correct first!
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|That ended up being a very ironic typo. yay!
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|Ummm... Ok. Sure doesn't take much to get y'all excited.
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