New MacBook and MacBook Pros now available

My Dad is excited to get the new MBP. I'll tag along with him when he visits the Apple Store and hope to score some accessories for myself charged to his card...he he

Awesome! This is great, Apple upgrades the MacBook right before I buy one :)

What about less L2 Cache in Penryn?

Anyone upgrading from the first generation MBP? 'Cause I'm really tempted! I'm still using my 2Ghz Core Duo with 7200rpm drive (upgraded to 2GB RAM).

Just wondering if I'll notice a significant performance increase, especially as I am now messing around with high-def video from my camcorder.

Thanks in advance!

I can honestly say Im glad I didnt wait to buy my MBP.
I bought my MBP in September 2007...15" LED Backlit, 160GB HD, 2.4GHz C2D, GeForce 8600 256MB......

hardly enough difference between the new ones and mine. I suppose i'll be waiting for the next round of big updates to swap laptops.

I'm confused. Are the new Macbooks Penryn or still Santa Rosa?

Sigh, i know the updates are minor. But for those who JUST bought a macbook within the past 2 weeks, should go and exchange. I myself find it pointless not to exchange and NOT save 100$ while upgrading my machine = Not logical.
BTW, does anyone custom install OS X after opening the MB box to free HD space? I took out imovie and lanugages and drivers. and other things too

Oh well. I guess I'll pass on buying myself a new MBP and will wait for the redesigned version. It won't happened in the next 6-7 month though. :(
This "new" version still based on Santa Rosa chipset and all the updated things are minor. I understand that Apple can't jump over its head and use those components to build their machines which are available on the market today. I'll wait till Intel comes out with the new chipset (Centrino 2 that is) and new CPUs. I predict that in 6-7 months we'll see a totally new design of the MBPs (MB though will see new redesign sooner, probably they'll go all aluminum plus minor cosmetic changes), the new MBPs will have more USB 2.0 ports, will get rid of FireWire 400 and stay with FW 800 instead (with an adapter for FW400 users in the box), the DVI port will be replaced by a micro-DVI port (like the one in MBAs, but with HDCP support), also the new Super-Drives will appear with Blu-Ray. The screen will stay the same though. We won't see any dramatical change in the screen technology until later in 2009 which will bring us OLED displays. The CPUs will be up to 3Ghz and probably with a quad-core as an option. There might be DDR3, but they might decide to stay on DDR2 with a higher bus (800 or 1066) though.
Anyway these are all my predictions, I hope they'll come tru this year. Right now I skip buying myself a MBP.

MacBook Pro update is pretty pathetic. I guess thats good since I bought mine (17 inch) in Jan 07 and my laptop is still within 5% of the performance of the top of the line system.

With Dell, Toshiba, and all Apple's competitors slashing prices, Apple has a brass set of balls to give us basically a nothing upgrade and still charge the same amount for it. But thats why we love em right?

Dang. I bought a MB 2.2Ghz about 5 weeks ago. Wish I'd have known, but no biggie. I'm very happy with my MB.