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Just the facts, please: Apple announces a Mac notebook event

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

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.

Apple Invitation

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By Hollywood__

edited Oct 11, 2008 - 1:17 AM

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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By internetworld7

edited Oct 11, 2008 - 3:27 AM

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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By Hollywood__

posted Oct 11, 2008 - 1:49 PM

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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By skimore

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 4:11 PM

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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By GeraldS

edited Oct 10, 2008 - 9:21 AM

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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By skapig

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 9:18 AM

Cosmetic updates housing overpriced hardware...revolutionary!

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By internetworld7

posted Oct 11, 2008 - 12:31 AM

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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By jporter

edited Oct 13, 2008 - 7:31 AM

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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By skimore

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 1:49 AM

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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By internetworld7

edited Oct 10, 2008 - 1:00 AM

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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By siryak

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 9:55 PM

I think there must be a propane leak or something in his basement lol....

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By preinterpost

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 9:25 AM

Macs are for losers.

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By SlapShot

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 6:12 AM

pookie put the pipe down

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By tantawi

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 5:08 AM

:/ so sad.

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By dvferret

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 11:16 AM

no kidding.

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By Hdogger

edited Oct 9, 2008 - 11:46 PM

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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By dvferret

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 11:14 AM

Agree with the first 2 paragraphs. :P
Disagree with the last sentence.

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By marrix

edited Oct 11, 2008 - 9:50 AM

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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By PC_Tool

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 9:38 AM

P.S. Vista sucks... no matter what flavor.

*laughs*

Oh! Flamebait!

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By GeraldS

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 9:26 AM

"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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By cap737

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 12:56 PM

Yeah, and just throw in a flavor of Hackintosh on it!

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By tommyt

edited Oct 9, 2008 - 11:34 PM

zzzzzz
huh? did you say somethin?

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By dvferret

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 11:15 AM

lol

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By ajbarber9

edited Oct 9, 2008 - 11:26 PM

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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By Paul Skinner

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 11:05 AM

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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By internetworld7

edited Oct 10, 2008 - 1:56 AM

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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By dvferret

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 11:13 AM

Your more than welcome to give your paycheck to me. :)

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By internetworld7

posted Oct 11, 2008 - 12:36 AM

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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By Paul Skinner

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 3:35 PM

You think this twat has a paycheck?

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By cap737

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 12:58 PM

Free money?? Send it this way!

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By RobertM

posted Oct 9, 2008 - 10:30 PM

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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By dvferret

posted Oct 9, 2008 - 10:14 PM

Ok? That was a pointless story.

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By internetworld7

edited Oct 10, 2008 - 1:08 AM

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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By SGD

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 1:57 PM

Man your love affair with everything apple is enough to make a person toss their cookies.

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By internetworld7

edited Oct 11, 2008 - 12:46 AM

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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By dwpritchard

edited Oct 9, 2008 - 9:20 PM

I'm pretty sure the Macbook Pro cover is Aluminum, not titanium.

Try getting the basic facts correct first!

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By TIM

posted Oct 10, 2008 - 3:55 PM

That ended up being a very ironic typo. yay!

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By jmwarn

edited Oct 9, 2008 - 9:30 PM

Ummm... Ok. Sure doesn't take much to get y'all excited.

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