Apple Announces MacBook Pro

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by RGrphc2

We all know that apple has been ditching dialup with all their computers (iMac, Mac Mini, G5s) don't come with one anymore, but a lot of travelers still use dialup in hotels. granted more and more hotels are using wireless, but it's not 100% yet.

Well, if someone drops $2000 on a new MacBook and travels a lot, I'm sure a measley $50 more for a modem wouldn't be the end of the world.

[Mikuro]

I don't like that Apple's ditching modems. Even if everyone had broadband (which...uhh...no), modems are still useful for faxing. And yes, people still send faxes!

And Apple's external modem is way too expensive. And naturally cumbersome.

Originally Posted by symphonix

What Mac fans guessed *right* in the pre-keynote rumours:
- Firewire port ditched. I mean, really, this was the one rumour floating around that I never would have believed for a second.

Huh? What? I just checked, and FireWire's still there. You practically gave me a heart attack, man! (I'd never heard this speculation to begin with, so maybe I misunderstood your point.)

I'm a little surprised that there's no FireWire 800, though (the old high-end PowerBook had it), especially since there's nothing else to take its place. I mean, you could argue that you don't need FireWire when you have USB2, but FireWire 800 is by far the fastest thing out there. *shrug* I really wonder what kind of devices I should buy now. Is FireWire 800 simply on its way out? Is Apple going to yank FireWire 400 with the next round of updates? Hrm...

[ora]

Originally Posted by RGrphc2

they didn't ditch firewire completely, they still have the 400 though, i mean who uses firewire 800??? There are only two things that actually use firewire 800 that i am aware of at the time and they are both proffessional RAID harddrives.

Erm, how about all that Lacie triple interface kit? (FW400/FW800/USB2). I have two of them (a 250gb hd and a dvd writer).

[mi5moav]

If you go to this page it seems to say that you don't need a stinking modem in your new macbook or imac http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/faxing/

I called up Apple tech support and they just didn't understand this at all. So, they are sending me a free modem, haha... what a crazy thing. The sadest thing is that I emailed Apple 3 times and even called up tech support a month ago with my isight and told a genius at the Apple store. They just won't change that page??? Makes no sense... are they building in efax or jfax support? Yes, some ISP's may allow faxing through your cable modem but I think Apple better fix that page or a lot of people are going to get free modems, or worse yet another lawsuit.

[MacFreak]

Anyway,

I am very happy how they turn MacBook Pro with duo, 256mb video card. Thats great! Only thing that disappointed me that they dont have DL Dvd. Grr.

[Zammy-Sam]

Doesn't the recent G4 powerbooks superdrive support burning dual-layer DVDs? So, why didn't they use that one? I kinda believe it's supported but not mentioned. What do you think?

[fryke]

mi5moav: The OS supports it. Doesn't mean a modem is included with, what, the OS? ... Only because OS X supports colour printing, you also don't expect you don't need a printer or that you can suddenly print in colour on a black/white laser printer...?

[mw84]

Comment I read in another forum about the new MacBooks which somehow really started to irritate me:

does this means i can run 3dsmax in that mac laptop? do i need osx installed in it or can i just have windows?

sacrilegious !

Another was:

Exactly. All I want is a powerbook-sized XP laptop. So if there's an easy way to setup a "macbook pro" to boot with XP without the hassle, I'll go buy one. If you can even totally wipe OSX out, that's an added plus

Irritating !

EDIT: Just to add this forum is one largely populated by graphic designers/ photographers, the kind of people who will be buying macs.