Comments on: Photos of new MacBook Pro leaked?

Ahead of Apple's laptop event Tuesday, Engadget posts a blurry photo of what appears to be the rumored Apple MacBook Pro laptop.

[trd1282]

This is one fanboy that would be very happy...

[gkeramidas]

so what!

[coryschulz]

A lot of people will complain about the glossy screen, but with my iMac and iPhone I have had no problem with the glass screen and actually prefer it. Either way, I can't afford something like this right now. I just got an iMac about 2 months ago and am very happy with it. I will, however, be upgrading to the iPhone 3G when the new headphones come out.

[albailey27]

WEll it's a nice MBP. But I'm very disapointed if they dont do a cheaper 'netboot type laptop, and I gurantee that Apples sales figures will be hit if they dont produce something cheaper soon as people are grabbing eee pc's and the like instead of the once popular Macbook. Times are getting tough and working people (in general) wont want to be spending over a thousand dollars on a laptop when there are much cheaper alternatives. I work for an Apple reseller and I've seen the figures for Macbooks drop drastically recently. They have till tonight to prove me wrong otherwise I'm gonna buy an eee pc 1000 and put Ubuntu on it...

[albailey27]

Well Apple..... U blew it :-( And yes it was true no firewire on the Macbook. Makes it next to useless for video and music artists.

A sad day. Just about to order my eee pc 1000 and I'll stick with my current MBP for Mac stuff.

Time you came down from your ivory tower Apple.

[caswell1515]

i agree.

i would love to see what a mac netbook could do. i would probably buy it immediately if the price was right (599 AUD) or less seeing as though thats the standard price in australia for them atm.

[jaypaneseninja]

I like how any kind of leaked photos I have ever seen are always blurry.

[supoman]

They're blurry because the person snapping the picture wasn't supposed to be. He/she prob pulled his phone and snapped really quick and put it back in his pocket.

[gopnick]

I think it's ugly... and I'm a Mac guy.

[delf76]

new laptops are released all the time. Who cares?

[Dleon84]

I think it looks gorgeous... I was dying for a black keyboard... a return to the original Powerbooks and the keys stand out in very bright situations. Happiness!

As for people complaining about Apple: We don't complain whenever a PC maker releases some hideous clunky piece of junk, don't rain on our parade.

[pjhenry1216]

When Apple releases something new, they hold press conferences as if its the next coming of Jesus Christ. Whenever a PC maker releases something... you have to read a press release or something else because they don't make that big of a deal out of it. Apple overhypes things. It used to not be "over" hyped, but lately, they're not making as big a shock to the world as they used to. If they keep doing these special conferences and what not every single time they update something, its going to be like the boy who cried wolf. They're now coasting on loyalists, but not really impressing anybody else as much as they used to. I've always been relatively impressed, but never considered buying a Mac until relatively recently (sometime within the past year... just don't have the money to right now though). They better make a splash with this one because they're going to start annoying people if they keep making a big deal about nothing.

[0DRK0]

The screen looks like the iPod touch 1st gen, with the chrome. Perhaps it was photoshopped?

[blueshoe40]

I'm with jaypaneseninja... Why is it, in a well lit room, that someone can't take a clear photo!!! We know there is a light because its glaring back off the screen!

Propaganda! Loves it.

[mssoot]

BFD who cares, just another overpriced laptop, just what everybody needs right now
If you fan boys love them some much how many have 100% of your stock in Apple?

[Dalkorian]

Way to prove your ignorance to the world. Since I'm totally into people learning not to be idiots, I'll just throw one word out there for you to ponder - diversify.

[mssoot]

B/F/D who cares, just another overpriced laptop, just what everybody needs right now
If you fan boys love them some much how many have 100% of your stock in Apple?

[pjhenry1216]

I agree that Apple products are indeed overpriced (unless you make the argument that if people are willing to pay, then its not overpriced, but thats a different discussion), but I don't agree that having 100% of one's stocks being in Apple has anything to do with... well, anything. If they owned stock, that could show they believe in Apple... if they refuse to purchase Apple stock... well, thats curious... but if they buy stock other than Apple? That means nothing... unless its Microsoft =P

[sythara]

Blurry, probably taken with an iphone.

In all seriousness, who gives a rat's a$$? We're not talking about a ground breaking technology here, just another laptop with a "pro" sticket on it thats designed to make you feel less guilty abount dishing out two grand on a piece of technology that isnt all that great.

What's next? Leaked photos of new Gateway's laptop?

[masonx]

Wow, same crappy, cramped, carpel tunnel promoting, anti-ergonomic keyboard and pad layout and a glossy screen that makes even less adaptable to ambient light conditions. "Dying for a black keyboard." reminds me of what my daughter said when I asked her what her favorite car was - "A pink one." Of course she was 6 at the time.

I switched to a Mac Pro six months ago from a PC existence that went back to the stone age. I have a friend to is Ph.D. level Apple programmer and computer science guru who thinks Apple is the be-all and do-all of the computing world and after years of listening to him technically describe why PC's are such design crap - when the MS extortion plan called Vista came out, I switched to Apple.

Now it's been almost a yeare - my conclusion is that Apple has equal or greater problems than the much lower priced PCs in both hardware and particularly software. Apple Mail has to rank as the all time worst email program that I have ever used - it's single attractive feature is it's ability to auto scale photos into an email. Apple has moments of brilliant insights in some of their graphics efforts, only to loose that value on extremely inconsistent software design processes like the use of inconsistent icons for basic tasks from program to program. I find just as many lock ups as I ever had with XP and my constantly over-heated Mac Book Pro hardware is no better - even though it cost twice as much - and is supposedly state of the art at the time of purchase isn't faster than my five year old Toshiba Satelite running XP Pro. The satin Mac Book Pro 17" screen is superior to other laptops I have had. However, because Apple's limited screen setting functions, I havel replaced its use with a much larger desk top HD monitor. The Mac Book Pro keyboard design, ranks with the absolute lowest rung of computer keyboard designs that I have experienced in the past 25 years - and so I use a wireless ergonomic keyboard. Now I have almost four times the cost of my old Toshiba invested in my Mac Book Pro problem resolution center and my basic performance ability or potential hasn't been markedly improved.

The idea that Apple software is some how more intuitive than XP was the biggest let down of all. If I didn't have two life time Mac people close to me, my transition would have been a total disaster instead of just extremely painful frustration. My perception and expectation that the Apple was somehow a less problematic and a superior problem resolutions system has been totally wrong. Now that I know more about the Mac and have more constant interaction with Mac users, I see that their problems are just a prevalent as PC users - just in different areas. To make matters worse for certain types of problems, I still have to go back to my old PC to resolve them - particularly involving financial software that doesn't have an Apple equivalent - an no I'm not going to use Parallels so I can use my Mac as a PC.

My general conclusion is that Apple is a religion with the appropriate blind faith followers, not a superior technology. At best my transition from the PC world to the Mac world has been a very expensive (time and money) wash - now I have an entirely different set of problems to deal with, but no real gains in problem resolution ability.

[sanjayb]

I know some people are saying what is the big deal. Apple knows how to generate hype and put on an event. Plus their products usually live up to the hype.

And don't forget we lick it all up like the dogs that we are!! WOOF!!