I am planning to buy an MBP15 but have been trying to get clear info to time purchase for maximum benefit. Not accustomed to the total control Apple has on their products and the resulting secrecy and impending doom environment of upgrades.
Concluded that I would wait until Oct/Nov to get it with the Leopard.
Any other enhancements by that time would be great. Configuration question though:
I usually get the most power I can afford to extend max product lifetime (hopefully 4-5 years). I know I can add the RAM myself for less $ so my question is this –
Is the diff between 2.2 and 2.4 significant?
Will the 7,200 rpm hard drive be more responsive?
No-one ever seems to tell the truth or give stats to back them up. The std. response I almost always get when asking about performance options is “Only professional developers and Gamers would ever see/feel a performance difference.
Help/answers/ advice appreciated.

I’m an RA at a college. I’ve seen a bagillion new MacBook Pros in the dorms, so that’s probably where they all went.

Intel is supposed to be releasing the T7800 2.6GHz part soon (in fact the rumour sites were saying it would be released yesterday, but no sign so far). An MBP refresh will be waiting for that.

I think that shortage is because of higher cost price of LCD screens that force Apple order by demand occasionally against qualified orders instead of buy in bulk as they are expecting further price drops if its not a necessarily real production shortage.

This would make sense if I could received my MBP in several phase of 7-10 days. But Turkish IMC still waiting for a supply. They are out of stock for a exceptionable of time. Sure, this may be because of their impractical administration or any other marketing decision which is very bad customer experience as a result.

I believe that, there will be no refreshed Mac without Leopard installed. So, you all should keep waiting until October, maybe more. You can easily do that if you remember the customers from this part of the world who must wait even extra one month at least.

They’ll do it in October again like they did last year and then do the MB’s a couple of weeks later. They have to update them sometime this fall because the Macbooks also need refreshed (they’re older than the MBPs) and they can’t refresh the Macbooks without refreshing the MBPs first because they’re already at neck and neck clock speeds. My guess is they’ll ship a new MBP the same day they launch Leopard.

IF at all, the Macbook is due for a good updage now the student sales are over…

90 days… what about the quad core Mac Pros that haven’t seen a single update in over 365 days!