Comments on: MacBook Pro 2012 amps up with SSD and battery

By: tswiftfangurl

tswiftfangurl — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:46:00 +0000

I totally agree!
Why are they making the Macbook Pro into a Macbook Air? If I wanted an Air, I would just buy that. This makes me sad. :(

By: NoahDropkin

NoahDropkin — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000

I like the random “text” in the bottom left corner

By: Miceblue

Miceblue — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:45:00 +0000

@ Sundeep S

Then I wish you the best of luck trying to get a lossless version of your favorite songs without a CD player, because stores like AmazonMP3 or iTunes will not have it.
CD quality > those stores’ music files

I also wish you luck when trying to play your favorite songs in your car’s speaker system because a headphone-out to car speaker connection sounds terrible compared to a CD player to car speaker setup.
Car’s internal DAC/amplifier > portable ‘everyday’ external DAC/amplifier

And yes, you are quite right. Your flash drive could never do what an optical drive does.

By: Sa

Sa — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:29:00 +0000

why put 2 full size hdd, while you can use msata like macbook air?

By: Pauldixon1986

Pauldixon1986 — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:46:00 +0000

This is the most half-assed mock up of an idea that is completely stupid…if apple were to have a dedicated boot drive they would not encase it like in the picture – the boot drive could be a single chip mounted on the motherboard… and apple will have been working to boost battery power but maintaining its size or making it smaller – they dont want a huge battery!!!
For a long time people have been wanting wanting bluray – especially with HD movies and home editing – so i very much doubt they’ll drop the disc drive…
there is also the rumour of a new keyboard that takes up less space and to make a bigger track pad with better recognition!
The person who made this picture should be shot for wasting peoples time!

By: Sundeep S

Sundeep S — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:25:00 +0000

YEA! bring back the floppy disk too. they’re so much more portable and hold so much data! my flash drive could never do that…

By: Mr_happy_16

Mr_happy_16 — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:04:00 +0000

I dont see them having a full SSD drive for a boot drive why not use flash storage like the iPhone/ipad/macbook air it is small and can be on bourd, low power usage and you only need about 30GB for boot that way you keep the disk drive and have a quicker OS and Apple can use there tricks to slim the Pro down

By: Lloyd McFarlin

Lloyd McFarlin — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:04:00 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I inserted a disc into a computer. I’d rather have an external reader for that 1-2 times a year that I need to read a disc so that I can leave it at the office the rest of the time.

By: SEO Singapore

SEO Singapore — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:18:00 +0000

I strongly agree with the new Macbook Pro concept, we rarely use optical drive in the entire year, however we using HD and battery everyday, thus it is more important to sacrifice the space for optical drive to replace with more important usage like HD and battery.

Even some people use the optical often, it is qute easy to use Share Disc or attach USB drive.

By: thesprintingact

thesprintingact — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:32:00 +0000

This would not be a two hdd drive component. One would be a SSD drive, just like the one housed/encased in an iphone. For faster booting, processing, It would be used just for the soul purpose of the OS. The other drive is HDD, for storage.

By: thesprintingact

thesprintingact — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:32:00 +0000

By: thesprintingact

thesprintingact — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:27:00 +0000

An Optical drive takes the processing and boot times long periods of wait and substantial work on the processors, and motherboards on the laptop itself. It creates lagtimes, and constant overuse. Will SSD will allow for quick and more responsive essentially, Apple is looking to load the OS on one drive, and have the other for storage. this method makes the laptop itself increase speed substantially. As stated in the artlce the battery charge time will increase due to the increase in battery size, but we might also see an increaee in battery due to less energy being used to run apps, and use the laptop itself, from the SSD and Hard itself being two different units.

The downfall being a loss of a disk drive. Is it much though? I would say to say the least, to buy a external drive, for about 20-60 dollars, would make it worth it? Carrying a small drive, won’t harm you much, also notice technology has offered many avenues, for downloadable content, and Updates ect, to be found on the web via apple, or other sites. Disks will eventually become obsolete.
-Itunes (downloadable music,movies, books, cast, tv shows)
-Must External unit plugins/extensions can be found on the web, via software sites, or even the company site for free!

The biggest factor we see in apple is pricing, and this will only help those who intend to purchase one of there products at such high costs. As of right now, a 13inch Pro standard, with no feature upgrades, is $1100. By inovating this technology into the laptop, apple is allowing the sales to increase by price droping. The laptop itself becomes cheaper to make, and more flexible in its unit.

If it is true that Apple intends to use liquid technology on these new laptops, then we will find longer lasting physical durability! Less screens will be unproportionally closed when closing laptops, hinges will last longer, and metals will be more durable. Internal and external metals will be more capable of handeling the movement, and everyday use. After all how often do you close your laptop?

This laptop will only become better even after the update this year.

By: thesprintingact

thesprintingact — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:27:00 +0000

This laptop will only become better even after the update this year.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:21:00 +0000

You cannot put 2 hdd in the place of the optical drive. It can only fit one. I did this on my current macbook pro. I think this article is just your imagination :)

By: Gaa

Gaa — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:56:00 +0000

dumbass

By: $8290949

$8290949 — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:36:00 +0000

It’s a good thing he isn’t a journalist, huh?

By: $8290949

$8290949 — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Perhaps a free SuperDrive.

By: JohnnySmith0

JohnnySmith0 — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:11:00 +0000

What? you make no sense.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:59:00 +0000

I just had a conversation with a friend about a month and a half ago and predicted the same thing. The results would be great! Considerably longer battery life and increased performance on all levels. If this happens, it’s the MBP I should’ve waited for.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:02:00 +0000

Look into thunderbolt attached external GPUs.

By: Miceblue

Miceblue — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:00:00 +0000

Yes I’m aware that I can get them from outside sources, and that is exactly what I do because it’s the only way really.

The purpose of the Mac App Store was to be a place where you could get
any software you want, digitally, as is the case for iTunes and their
music/video/podcast/radio/book selections. Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper
feature only allows downloads from the App Store since they are
considered safe and is on by default (I believe). You can turn it on/off
as you wish, but If Apple continues to go with the Gatekeeper ideals,
app developers have a long way to go to get their apps approved.

As mentioned in a previous post, yes the external CD/DVD/Bluray dongle
would be a valid option, but many users still want it built-in.

By: Miceblue

Miceblue — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:59:00 +0000

-double post-

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:46:00 +0000

To add to Season’s comments, Apple knows what they are doing. With the flash memory attached directly to the board using Anobits custom controller its much faster and more power efficient than a SATA attached SDD.

By: tweeterwoofer

tweeterwoofer — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:38:00 +0000

Ditto here.

By: Wapple

Wapple — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Wapple mole tip: Wapple is working with Microhard to create a communist paradise by defeating the imperialist forces of Hoogle. Wacbook pro 2012 is merely a ruse to keep the masses in line with imperialism as the peasant power rises to take over.

By: Jaybizworld10

Jaybizworld10 — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:27:00 +0000

Apple sell an “All in one” Desktop but not an “All in one” MacBook Pro?? = FAIL.

By: Miceblue

Miceblue — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:41:00 +0000

Although I would like to agree with you, and it is true that that’s an option, I usually want what I pay for. A $1500+ ‘power’ laptop with no optical drive is unacceptable for my purposes and how often I use it. I don’t like to carry around extra dongles for things that I want done with a laptop. A similar concept can be applied for a laptop with no hard drive slot. Why carry around an extra dongle if it should be built-in? Lots of people use the hard drive as many still use an optical drive.

If I wanted a ‘thin and light’ laptop, that’s what an ultrabook is for.

By: Kunikita

Kunikita — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:16:00 +0000

So buy a portable external optical drive. They are better quality anyway. And if they break you can simply replace them without throwing out the mac book.

By: Aric Dowling

Aric Dowling — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:02:00 +0000

You DO realize that those things, like (old version) of Growl and and any other programs you want NOT on the App store are still available as downloads from those vendors online right? There is NO need for optical drive unless you want to burn a CD or DVD. I still do those things a lot and read discs a lot but I agree it could go away. I would probably buy the new Samsung super slim optical drive for when I needed it and call it good. Not a big deal really and especially if they add more battery / solid state boot drive with like 15 hour run time or even the nice high def screen.

By: sawyer

sawyer — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:59:00 +0000

Very cool, I was misinformed. This does make the Air style SSD a great choice for the Pro line, maybe even space for a few of them.

By: Proph3T

Proph3T — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:45:00 +0000

Macs can be dual booted with Win7 you know… Of course if you’re really into gaming I don’t understand why you would ever choose a laptop over a desktop

By: Proph3T

Proph3T — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:43:00 +0000

Already ditched the optical drive in my 17″ 2011 MBP. Couldn’t be happier. Vertex 3 Max IOPS for Win 7 boot and standard Apple SSD for Mac OS X.

Only time I would need to use my CD drive is to burn CDs because my car has aux in/iPod connector.

By: Wictorwictor

Wictorwictor — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:53:00 +0000

lol wat

By: Haris Radzi

Haris Radzi — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:06:00 +0000

You dont get it do you? i was being sarcastic that it doesnt matter how good gfx card it have cause it is a MAC. BTW, based on your argument, you played it on what settings? No AF?No AA?No vsync?played at resolution no more than 1600×900?medium settings?

By: Samma

Samma — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:49:00 +0000

I use my optical drive ALL THE TIME and I know tons of others that do too. Students with MacBooks still own and watch DVDs. Most students I know use their computers instead of owning DVD players. sure, it’s not technologically cutting edge, but it is what is commonly happening. I hate that they’re getting rid of these. As someone who watches DVDs and has to make DVDs and CDs for professional reasons, I really don’t want to have an extra component that I need to carry around all the time. Maybe I’ll get an old macbook instead of the new one.

By: Miceblue

Miceblue — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:20:00 +0000

I haven’t used the Mac App Store once. The apps available in the Store are severely limited, and some of them cost money now (e.g. Growl). None of the apps I use are in the Store except for Growl. I mean, not even the most popular multi-protocol chat program Adium is on it, nor is VLC. I really hope Apple doesn’t switch to only App Store downloads in a future release of OS X, as Mountain Lion is already suggesting it with the Gatekeeper.

By: Miceblue

Miceblue — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:13:00 +0000

I totally agree! I use my optical drive all the time for creating lossless digital backups of my music. I don’t need iTunes’ 256kbps lossy junk files.

By: Turt

Turt — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:53:00 +0000

My macbook pro is turning 5 this year. I’ve used the optical drive once.

By: iNexusberryphone8

iNexusberryphone8 — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:18:00 +0000

No optical drives? Maybe in 5 years but this is doomed to fail today

By: Yourguide

Yourguide — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:43:00 +0000

No way… too many people want to create Video and Burn it to DVD for them to ditch the drive.