Is this the new MacBookPro?!
August 25, 2008 · Filed Under Apple stuff, Cars
I wish it was, but it isn’t, but you never know! It is in fact a very nice mock up from someone over on MacRumours.
I’m going to be in the market for a new Apple laptop in the next 6 months. My first gen MBP is pretty slow now, has AWFUL battery life (and that is even with a supposed extra capacity battery), and is going to be used to show photos off at weddings (so risking people touching the screen) 
I must say that this mock up looks superb – but I am still lusting after the Air, as long as it has a +2.0 chip.
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Aha! Successful posting, well done sir!
I’m not sure what will come next for the pro line of Apple portables… the design has evolved quite nicely since the days of the Aluminium PowerBook G4, through to the MacBook Pro that I’m tapping away on now. Would like it to be tougher, but I can bear the weight, and as much as I bang on about my old 12″ PowerBook I really like the 15″ screen (the 12″ moved to SWMBO because I missed the 15″ screen of my TiBook).
For many the air is overpriced and underpowered, with features missing from a professional computer. For me a professional notebook needs to be full featured, portable (sub 5lbs) and have a good enough keyboard and screen to work 10 hours a day and still want to play in the evening. If its battery is weak, if it gets too hot, if the case looks rough after use or is badly engineered, if the ports are in dumb places… all bad things.
The focus on subnotes and the design exercise of the air is refreshing and they’re certainly more fun to carry, but when a customer (or worse… your MD) hands you a DVD and you look blankly at your one USB port in confusion and horror… oh oh!
Apple should spend some quality time in its own museum, take some sandwiches and make a day of it. Especially they could remind themselves of the durability, flexibility and adaptive nature of the G3 series of PowerBooks. The Pismo remains for me the definitive Macintosh portable, expansion bays, raw horsepower, tough plastic and rubber… mine only fell out of use when the logic board gave up the ghost, but fair play as it had given me almost seven years of hard daily use and spanned OS 9 through to OS 10.4! SEVEN YEARS!!!!
Final wishlist item for the next MBP? A screen with lasers that zap approaching greasy fingers
Finger zapping built in? Perfect feature and one I would pay a premium for
I quite liked my 12″ PB, but found it very slow (possibly due to the very small amount of RAM in it).
The G3 PBs I have seen do look pretty nice, and certainly better built than my MBP now. 7 years is seriously impressive for a laptop).
I don’t need a CD/DVD drive. I do need portability, battery life and power. And finger zapping.
PS And a kick ass design and build quality. We don’t want much eh?!