So what's a MBP 13.3" gonna cost?

[Tshapi]

HAH! Completely ignorant. How about, instead of associating the word "Pro" in marketing with a commercial professional consider that the MacBook Pro is simply a cool looking, high performance laptop used by likely most purchasers to surf the web and watch movies.

Apple is a corporation. Every computer they develop is all about "marketing" MACBOOK was created, not to be "cool" but to take the place of the Ibook, which was there last consumer model.

The MBP is the PB with an intel chip, this isn't designed to be "cool" it's designed with style to be powerful for photographers and video editors.

you may call me ignorant, but i am thinking like a business man.

if someone wants to simply surf the web and watch movies, they can buy a macbook, thats why the macbook exists.

 

[slowpoke]

HAH! Completely ignorant. How about, instead of associating the word "Pro" in marketing with a commercial professional consider that the MacBook Pro is simply a cool looking, high performance laptop used by likely most purchasers to surf the web and watch movies.

If my school is any indication of the outside world, most MBP owners are teenage girls who wanted a silver laptop with a cool logo.

 

[solvs]

If my school is any indication of the outside world, most MBP owners are teenage girls who wanted a silver laptop with a cool logo.

Or all of our graphics and corporate users, and some IT, myself included.

 

[blaklaybul]

I dont understand the point of a smaller MBP.

The MBP is for people who like to use apps like Photoshop, Aperture, Flash, etc.

Would smaller screen real-estate really benefit these people?

The only sense I could make out of it would be a more portable desktop replacement that would be used in the home with an external monitor and on-the-go for simpler use.

 

[masse]

I have a friend at art school and another at film school. Both are required to have macbook pro's.

Almost everyone I've met with one here (Georgia Tech) does not know anything about their computer and has absolutely 0 reason to have a pro rather than a macbook.

Of course there are a few exceptions..

I just want to know if the 13.3" will have dedicated graphics...not counting on it though.

 

[jelloyacket]

I dont understand the point of a smaller MBP.

The MBP is for people who like to use apps like Photoshop, Aperture, Flash, etc.

Would smaller screen real-estate really benefit these people?

The only sense I could make out of it would be a more portable desktop replacement that would be used in the home with an external monitor and on-the-go for simpler use.

A smaller MBP makes sense for people like me I've got a 20-inch monitor, so my 12" PB becomes much more usable at home. But it would be even more usable if it would run newer programs efficiently (Aperture, etc.).

 

[sk8ordie]

If its a MBP I would *hope* under $2K, if so I would be very tempted.

Or...it could be a new slimmer alum MB...which would be cool too.

 

[joegomolski]

So what's a MBP 13.3" gonna cost?

It's, my prediction, going to be a MacBook Pro, 13.3".

Apple hired Sony engineers, and unless I'm mistaken sometime ago there was a report that Apple had involved Intel, in the design of an ultraportable.

Many people have been waiting for a replacement of the Powerbook G4 12".
Check out the used prices for 12" PB.

I take that to mean a lot of pent up demand, for a smaller MB Pro.

The PB 12" was in the professional line of Apple laptops.

But, we have been speculating about the immanent release of a UP, for 2 years. It hasn't shown up yet.

Has it Steve?