One more thing…
June 11, 2007
My Powerbook is now well into its fifth year of flawless service, and the only thing keeping me from buying a new MacBook is Leopard’s release date. October seems so close, and yet so far away, and I’m betting on one more hardware upgrade between now and then.
The keynote was as fun as always. Impressively, unlike MacWorld earlier this year, most of the keynote was about Leopard, Safari and other news for the Macintosh line, instead of the iPhone, which I have roughly zero interest in.
June 11th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Apart from the Leopard issue, it’s also worth waiting for the MacBook to be fitted with an LED-backlit screen and maybe to incorporate a later Intel chipset — which makes the machine somewhat more enviro-friendly, extends battery life, and maybe will improve performance of the integrated graphics.
June 11th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Those are pretty much the upgrades I’m looking for, which doesn’t seem like too much to ask, since they are already shipping in the MacBook Pro line.
The Santa Rosa chipset is turning in some impressive benchmarks (even 667 MHz on the FSB seems like heaven compared to the G4), and the LED-backlit screens are mercury-free, which is a Good Thing. I’ve heard conflicting reports about power consumption — when operating at full brightness, the LEDs are no better than the old CCFLs, and sometimes worse.
An upgraded video chipset would be icing on the cake, and would have an easier time passing the all-important Civ4 test.