In March, I made a list of things I want in my new MacBook / MacBook Pro. Let's review that list as we enter a new year.
1. BD-RE Drive. Not Yet.
2. New Design / Chassis. Yup.
3. 4 USB 2.0 Ports. Not getting it, But I don't need it, so this is removed.
4. Wireless USB. Nah. It's not really necessary anyway.
5. Lower Heat: much better.
6. Comparative Speed improvement of 450% over the 2.16GHz Core Duo that I'm using, and 500% over my underclocked ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. [by Moore's Law, this should occur by 2009] I asked for too much. Core i7 and Nvidia 9400m would be enough.
7. Battery life rating of 5.5hrs Close enough.
8. eSATA slot. It's faster for External HDDs to connect over eSATA than USB or FireWire.
9. new keyboard: more like the MacBook, MacBook air, and the wired / wireless keyboards: more spaces between keys! YES!
10. larger trackpad, smaller [Much larger] left-click button. YES!
11. Touchscreen.
12. DDR3 RAM support, and hopefully a cap increase up to 8GB of RAM.
13. OS X 10.6 Lynx Snow Leopard. Not Yet.
14. iLife '09 Not Yet.
15. 500GB 5400rpm HDD. Not Yet.
16. upgraded speakers. Not needed anymore.
17. REDUCED: Thickness of the dream MacBook Pros: flat 2cm or 0.78". That's "MacBook Air-ish". Nah. .95" is good enough.
18. 1920x1080 native resolution screen. It's currently 1440x900. what's another 480x180? Not needed.
19. Hookless magnetic latch. I think mine's damaged. YUP!
20. an upgraded iSight camera. Not important, ...
Ok, so, what's lacking:
Blu-ray
8GB RAM
iLife '09
OS X 10.6
500GB.
Apple, or maybe Schiller and Ive, I hope you guys are (still) listening.
Sent from Mail.app in OS X 10.5.
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