MacWorld 2008 Drama: Was Steve Job’s Speech Leaked? This As I Shop For a New Mac
I’m agonizing over Steve Job’s Keynote tomorrow at MacWorld. What are the chances that the Mac Book Pro will get updated, and if not should I buy a MacBook Pro anyway or buy a Mac Pro? I hate to buy a new computer at the end of its life cycle! So I feel as though I have a bet riding on this one.
On Twitter today, Christopher Penn posted a link to a rummer about what’s Steve Jobs’s presentation will look like. The story goes that Steve Job’s Keynote Script was leaked today to Wikipedia, and the above link is to a version of said script. As Chris himself said on Twitter “I’m sure there’s plenty of falsehood. Still, it’s fun reading while we wait for the real keynote.”
No Chris, its not fun at all! According to the leak there will be no MacBook Pro released, though there will be a new Mac MacBook. The new MacBook is to be completely redesigned, and if the leaked script is to be believed, it’s pretty amazing: 13″ screen, .8″ thin, iSight HD (720p) Intel GMA X3100 graphics, and the drive can be maxed out at 320 GB.
Does this really make sense? Well, this would make the consumer level MacBook in some ways more powerful then the top of the current top of the like MacBook Pro.. ($1119 as compared to upwards of $3000) Examples of how the consumer laptop would be more powerful include the iSight that would now be in high definition, and that you could get a significantly bigger internal hard drive. This would seem to not make a lot of sense in that, if you’re Apple, you want to give people more reasons to spend more money, not less money. So if Apple where to do this there’s good reason to expect a new MacBook Pro soon.. accept would you put out a significant redesign at a time that wasn’t at a big conference? I suppose they did that with the iMac? But if you do a significant redesign of the consumer level stuff, do you not need to follow that with a significant redesign of the pro stuff?
What is also a bit silly is that the script claims that the Mac Pro will be refreshed.. which of course is terribly unlikely as Apple just refreshed the Mac Pro a couple days ago.
So ok.. I guess Chris is right, this is kinda fun… *sigh*
Matt’s Expectations:
Well the Mac Pro comment sorta discredits the script for me, though I must tell you that whoever wrote the script did a hell of a job making it really feel like a Steve Job’s Keynote.. It’s an accurate depiction of how Steve presents stuff, and sorta pokes fun of Steve in the process.. sorta deconstructs the hype a bit if you like.
I figure the odds of a MacBook Pro update are probably around 50/50. I think if the MacBook gets updated, which is pretty likely, then there’s a pretty good chance that the MacBook Pro will get a little update, if for no other reason then just to make it a little more powerful then the Mac Book, on all fronts.
What shall I ever do?:
I feel as though I have 3 options if the MacBook Pro isn’t updated: #1 Buy the MacBook Pro anyway, #2 Wait for a new MacBook Pro, or #3 Buy a new Mac Pro and too hell with laptops! Well see what I do, more story as it unfolds (I got some more stuff on related subjects in draft form)