[Macworld]

Post your comments for Live Update: Apple?s Notebook Event here

[ForumShark]

I have been guessing about this event since mid-Summer. I always had a felling it was going to be around the 14th. I think tomorrow will bring a price drop in Macbooks, and perhaps aluminum computers. They may be changed into one line as opposed to MB/MBP, but nothing is for sure.

[mewantmac]

With everything left to speculation the internet is a buzz from spy photos, to a thought on whether the MB/MBP line would become one line, to whether or not the new notebooks will be aluminum or if they will have chicklet keys- One thing is for certain, all of our questions will be answered in less than 24 hours. Lets hope Apple has a nice suprise for us!

[Tapiwaiztaps]

I've been looking forward to today for the last few days. A price drop on the macbooks would be nice seeing as how I'm on the lookout for a new notebook. I was about to get one of those Aspire one netbooks but decided to see what happens with todays Apple news.

[danviento]

Let me be the first to say (or naysay, as it were) give us a new Mac Pro! Yes, I know Apple's newest trojan horse into carving out bits of PC world are its notebooks, and that is also were the growth in machine sales currently is, and that this area is where the "newsworthy" breakthroughs are going to be found, and that here is where Apple's impressive engineering is going to have the rest of the pack chasing its taillights, but I'm going to take the narcissistic route and ask for the workhorse machine I've been looking for. Realistically, maybe we'll see something in January... or June...

That being said, props to Apple if they actually switch to using a carved chassis/case instead of a formed/bent thin one. The peecee case-makers were just starting to pick up on using aluminum, and this kind of change would blow them out of the water in terms of build quality.

Now if they can only figure out how to stop the glare on that rumored glassy screen...

[jonas24]

Today finally marks the end of the wait. I just learned that both the MB and MBP have experienced the longest wait between updates. A whopping 229 days.
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[macless]

I agree , there will be a price drop on the mb, but also an addition of a netbook, and a lower priced macbook air.1099.00
mb will sell for about 599.00

[ArtenzaMuhammad]

No way Apple will sale the MacBook for $599! Are you kidding me! That would be nice but a ver dumb move. Macs are not low end computers and no way does Apple want to be seen as such. $599 is a PC price!! LOL PC=Piece of crap!!

[Tapiwaiztaps]

Agreed! I don't think a price drop like that will be happening, but if it did that would be very nice.

[cgrscott]

If Apple could just sell a consumor laptop with a dedicted moble graphics GPU from ATI or Nvidia, with 256 MB, or more, of imbeded video memrory, I'b be good. They just need to sell it for less than $899.
$1000 for Mac laptop with just an Intel integrated GMA graphics unit was a joke.

Rob

[icerabbit]

While I love the innovative features and the stronger casing on the new MBP ... I think I will be holding on to my current hardware for a few more seasons.

Glass screen on the MBP. No right side USB (I'm right handed always using a USB mouse or trackball) Chick-let keyboard. Two-tone black / alu reminds me of our HP notebooks, though I'm sure Apple's seamless aluminum case runs numbers around it. I just found the monochrome PB & MBP far more pleasing. Can't understand why they returned to the old school black keyboard from a style aspect.

Glass screen on the 24" Cinema display ... lacking firewire ports. Ouch. I may have to invest in a current 23" one.

Let's see if may they come out with a MacBook mini.

[gcole]

Ruh-roh. FireWire 400 has also been removed from the MBP! FireWire 800 is there, but those nice SmartDisk "FireLite" FireWire drives are useless with the new MBP. Bummer.

www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

Update: I understand now that an adapter is available for FW800 to FW400. Workable, but still a bummer.

[vengfulr3ap3r]

Does anyone know if the ram compartment is still user accessible on the new MB/MBP ?

-D

[dominiquejames]

Congratulations to Mr. Jason Snell for the very detailed live coverage.