Video of MacBook Pro in action

Exactly, When I worked for Apple TeleSales as a manager they did not show me product stats until about 30 minutes before an announcement and during the Keynote they would hand us the stat sheets right before the product was released and all of my staff had to learn the product in a few minutes

Tim, yes there is a DVI to S-video adapter, sold separately tho.

"The rep is probably clueless because they're not told of the new stuff that's gonna get released that morning until the very last minute."

Very true, and it applies throughout the company. Store employees and AppleCare folks learn about the new announcements the same time as everyone else - during the Keynote.

#2: Funny you ask. I guess they didn't feel like showing any of those because these are new chips from Intel, as I would imagine Apple switched chip companies for new tech, not chips that are half a decade old.

I found that piece, at least as interesting as the MacBook Pro ;-)

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What His Steveness was reporting on stage, IIRC, was performance per watt, or some ratio of that sort. Apple could focus on extending battery life, or they could focus on getting a lot more computing power out of a similar amount of battery life. If they're quoting 4x faster, it's pretty evident which one's receiving their focus.

PowerBook users have been waiting for an update for how long? Apple's making the right choice, here. And if they aren't ready to start production immediately, I'd sure hope they would spend that time by trying to tweak performance for a better battery life, etc.

I'm sure this post would have an Apple engineer crying, we just can't win! We make a machine that's four times faster, but that's completely forgotten because the case is hot and the battery life stat hasn't been released. One thing at a time, people. Sweet heavens.

Interesting...the guy talking about the specs mentions that there is a dvi to s-video adapter. Does he know what he's talking about?

The rep being clueless - they only had what 3 days to learn new stuff (and I doubt that they had 1 comp withnew iLife suite per Apple rep. Its understandable that he doesn't know the specs yet. He still fared a lot better than any Best Buy employee who has the same equipment for months/years.

The MacBook Pro and iMac websites were redisgned and are somewhat different.

Yes Apple is rushing this release (MacBook Pro) a bit, but they'll have battery and heat issues at least somewhat sorted out before sale.

I doubt anybody can tell me that if it weren't for the people speaking you'd think that the video was sped up. True its not for 4-5 times faster, but integer and floating point calculations aren't the only thing a computer does. One thing I gotta hand to Apple is thank you for increasing the bus 3 fold (that is where most of the speed comes from) and frankly I'm willing to sacrifice an hour of the yet-to-be-announced Intel iBooks battery if it means that it's bus will increase in speed (142MHz to 400-500MHz ???)

The rep is probably clueless because they're not told of the new stuff that's gonna get released that morning until the very last minute.

To prevent leaks to lites like macrumors.

I'm shocked by how useless the apple rep is and how little he know about the product. He opens the MacBook page on apple.com when asked about the specs, and even that doesn't go smoothly (he can't find the specs page at first). He didn't know what GPU it had, and when asked about the lack of FW800 he hesitates and then just says 'yes'. Things get dramatically worse when showing off the software. iPhoto encounters a bug, but rather than quit the app and start again he just fluffs around and asks "why is it doing that?". He doesn't know how iWeb handles blogs, or how to use the new templates in iMovie.

Is this really the best apple can do? Steve is always so well prepared for his keynotes, yet his minions are absolutely clueless. Very unprofessional.