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Apple Store is back up with slightly faster Mac Book Pros
That was quick! The Apple Store is back up, and that's not all that is up. Apple has bumped up the available
processors speeds on the Mac Book Pro. You can now upgrade the Mac Book to a 2.16GHz Core Duo, but only on the pricier
version. The upgrade will cost you $300.I guess Intel delivered faster processors sooner than they thought they could. See? This is why Apple is using Intel, however, if I had ordered a Mac Book Pro earlier I would be a little ticked off.
Thanks to all the commenters who saw this!
Update: It seems in the all the excitement I didn't notice that all models of the MacBook Pro got a speed bump. The 1.67 GHz is now sportin' a 1.83 GHz chip and the 1.83 GHz is now starting at 2.0 GHz. According to Apple, all orders will reflect the new speeds.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
David Barrett said 8:55AM on 2-14-2006
I think the more important news is that the MacBook Pros now come in 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz standard models, with an upgrade to 2.16GHz optional on the 2.0GHz model.
This may mean that those who ordered a 1.67GHz will get a 1.83GHz machine, and the same with the old 1.83GHz / new 2.0GHz laptops.
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Kyle Rove said 8:59AM on 2-14-2006
All orders have been upgraded for free.
1.67 GHz -> 1.83 GHz
1.83 GHz -> 2.0 GHz
All MacBook Pro customers should receive an email reflecting this, according to the Apple Store phone menu prompt.
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stevej said 8:59AM on 2-14-2006
Now if only they would post the battery life for the laptop. We probably won't know what the battery life is like until users finally start receiving their orders and reports trickle in.
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Malfoy Roark said 9:04AM on 2-14-2006
Did anyone notice if you order a 2.0 ghz model it takes 3-4 weeks, but if you upgrade to a 2.16 it takes 1-3 days?
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Aron T said 9:11AM on 2-14-2006
I suppose this means Mac users too are going to have to deal with being obsolete within weeks of every computer purchase...
=aron=
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yinyang said 9:17AM on 2-14-2006
the announcement about the free upgrades for those already ordered is official....
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/feb/14macbookpro.html
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Marco F. said 9:29AM on 2-14-2006
Hmm... I wonder...
physical new CPUs or just fiddling with clockspeeds et al?
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henryaj said 9:29AM on 2-14-2006
Presumably this will apply to all MacBook Pro orders, not just to those in the US...?
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CraHan said 9:53AM on 2-14-2006
Yup, I just called the belgian Apple Store and they confirmed that my order would ship with the new CPU (1.83 instead of the 1.67GHz I initially ordered). Quite excited about that.
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djSyndrome said 9:55AM on 2-14-2006
Does this mark the first time Apple has upgraded a product before it's actually shipped?
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Christian Koster said 9:55AM on 2-14-2006
" I suppose this means Mac users too are going to have to deal with being obsolete within weeks of every computer purchase..."
160 mhz for 300 bucks more... DEAR GOD IT'S SO OBSOLETE. Friggin idiot.
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Samuel McConnell said 9:58AM on 2-14-2006
This is a very nice announcement. (Mainly because I was bragging to my friends that I was getting a 1.83 when all I had ordered was a 1.67!)
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iFelix said 10:00AM on 2-14-2006
Apple don't seem to have upgraded the UK store...
Looks like they probably will...
eventually...
Or, we in the UK will be stuck with the slower MacBooks that nobody else wants...
It's all so depressing...
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amjb said 10:01AM on 2-14-2006
UK site still showing 1.67 and 1.83 with no upgrade options at all.
Hope this is temporary!
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Carvalhinho said 10:05AM on 2-14-2006
This can mean that the Macbook non-pro are almost ready and will have a higher than expected speed... So this change is due to product differentiation and to help the logisitics of managing the processors... now macbook pros are "on par" with iMacs... and the Macbooks with the mini?!
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icerabbit said 10:12AM on 2-14-2006
Good for the MacBook customers.
Knowing the Intel market a little bit, I kind of "feared" that this would mean very frequent but just as incrimental clock speed upgrades.
The high frequency at which Intel releases CPUs accelerates devaluaton of hardware and confuses the product line. Not a month goes by or there's a new CPU speed throughout the offerings and every n months you're looking at a new processor. Ouch.
The fact that new processors are available a mere month after the initial announcement of a product which has not even shipped yet, proves this.
Sure IBM & Motorola had issues and were too slow to be good. But now that we're embarking with intel and the pendulum is swinging to the other end of the spectrum ... it'll be interesting to see where this all leads.
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David Chartier said 10:26AM on 2-14-2006
The fact that there STILL is nothing about the MacBook Pro's battery life is honestly starting to worry me. I can't think of another portable on the market, bleeding-edge or not, that doesn't have at least SOME kind of a rating, even if it's only two hours.
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Ryan said 11:20AM on 2-14-2006
For the first time in years (or ever?) the Pro-laptop is more powerful then the consumer-desktop! This is WHY they switched to intel. At least I'm assuming the 2.16 Ghz MacBook Pro should strut it stuff in comparison to the 2.0 GHZ iMac. Yeah? Still very worried about the battery life as that as still not been updated... Also does anyone know if the 1.83 would get better battery life then the 2.16 and by how much? :/
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Jacob Varghese said 11:44AM on 2-14-2006
Hopefully, the ibook/Macbook (pro-less) will also have a dual core chip. Is there a slower dual core processor than 1.67 - dual 1.5ghz?
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Mark (UK) said 11:48AM on 2-14-2006
So does this mean that the 1.83GHz model I ordered on the day of release, but not yet delivered, is already out of date? Or do I get a 2GHz model? Btw my order status is still showing delivery for this Friday! Roll on Friday.
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