Inventory screenshot from Microcenter shows imminent MacBook Pro updates

Good to hear. I'd really like to see i5/i7 MBPs sometime soon. I need a new mac for school, so I'm hoping for a solid update sometime between now and August.

The school I'm going to has a laptop program where I can get a Lenovo Thinkpad that would probably have an i7 in it... I'm hoping Apple's new ones will be able to match or exceed the school's laptop specs....

Dear Apple, don't forget to upgrade the Mini!!!!!!

I just got myself a macbook pro month ago..what should i do ? i can't return it obviosly so should i sell it quickly on craiglist before it drops more?

What really bothers me is that Apple still sells the macbook pros online and in stores for full price right up until the new ones come out. At least discount them or something or if you buy one and a new model comes out within 30 days then give an Apple rebate or store gift card. I was in an Apple store checking out the Ipad when i witnessed someone buying a 17" MBP i wanted to say something like you should wait there are updates coming, and of course if you ask an employee they play dumb. I understand that its Apples policy and how they work. But think about it if they discounted the old ones a little maybe it would bring more people over to Apple. There will still be people like me who will buy the more expensive i5 and i7s but for people who dont really want it discount the Core Duos and bring more people over to the Apple. Just a thought that has probably been thought a million times, anyway I can't wait for the updates.

Being in the market for a new Macbook Pro, I hope this refresh hits very soon; I can't see myself shelling out ~$2k for a Core 2 Duo when Core i5/i7 laptops have been out for a while now.

I have been desperately waiting for new MBP's and even bought a new 2.8 17" hoping it would be worth the upgrade from my 2.6. With the plethora of $1000 i5/i7 notebooks showing. I bought a Dell Studio XPS16 for an employee and have been loading it up to send to her and have run some tests against my MBP using Parallels 5.0. Our main application is a single threaded app and my 2.8 is still faster than the i5-430 in this application. This revelation caught me a bit by surprise. I thought the i5/i7 brought more than multiple cores to the table and were much faster clock for clock than the C2D, but that is not what I am seeing.

BTW, This Dell at $999 is a very nice machine. Apple desperately needs to step up their game. I have been a fanboy for a long time, but the PC with Windows 7 is a huge step up on the PC side and is becoming very tempting. The iPad actually makes it very tempting to go back to a PC laptop for work and just stay with my Mac Pro/iPad/AppleTV setup at home.

IF Apple pulls a "3rd Gen iPod Touch" update on the MacBook Pros and upgrades the 15" and 17" ONLY and just rebrands the 13" as a "new model with same specs as last gen" i'm going to be pissed.
I've been waiting since December for these to be updated and I don't have the money for a 15", let alone a 17".

I hope Apple upgrades them across the line completely. If not, it's Apple refurb store for me.

MacBook Pro's could definitely use a refresh.

No Macbook Air?

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