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The new MacBook Pro and the future of Mac laptops

On Thursday Apple released for sale its new line of MacBook Pro, which is a minor update to previous models that the introduction of innovative products more than you expected. Spoiled or probably anxious to see something new and unique in its kind, the list of characteristics of the new MacBooks left me with little flavor. Something completely subjective, I must clarify. Whether the ratings are good, there is much to complain ("Unless the price, perhaps?). It's just that I would have liked a redesign apparently will not see until 2012, and that the most important innovation was a scream as loudly weeks before having any official data. In any case, the question to be answered is: Why is the update was not higher?

Before starting the questions, would like to review the characteristics of the new MacBook Pro is partly because although it is very likely that anyone reading this entry has information about the product, you never know who may be aware for the first time, and secondly also because I like the idea that the blog is complete, so that anyone who requires information on the latest Apple products, you can find it here. Explanations, here we go:

As you can see, this time choose to skip the explanation and directly use the summary Apple provides. I think it's a much faster read the news and meet specifications. Especially when there's not much to say about it.

features if I should stress, are: FaceTime

HD: thanks to a camera that has "three times higher resolution than before, now you can make video calls via FaceTime at 720p. Obviously, it is a feature that is best used for calls between Macs, but it is also compatible with iPhone video calls and the latest generation iPod Touch. The really unexpected part is that FaceTime application for Mac is not free but is available on the Mac Appstore a little less than a dollar. Honestly, I understand that just are not charging a fortune, and this may be good to make the user must go to buy a Mac Appstore application is attractive as a matter of quantity of sales (not little chance that once in the Store, the user gets to see applications and ended up buying several more.) But FaceTime? Free preinstalled in the iPhone and iPod Touch 4, does not really seem an application that must be paid for, for as low as the price.

Thunderbolt: in words as textual Miguél Michán, Thunderbolt is a trading name of Peak Light technology developed by Intel and commissioning market in technical collaboration with Apple, which combines the Mini DisplayPort to connect PCI Express to offer a new set of input / output speed. It is capable of reaching speeds of 10 Gbps (1.25 GB / s) bidirectional simultaneously (ie, 10 Gbps of reading and writing at the same time), double the new USB 3.0, 12 times more than FireWire 800 and even 20 times faster than current USB 2.0.

But speed is not the only strong point of Thunderbolt, but also its versatility. The new interface is capable of transmitting audio eight channel high definition video and a huge amount of data simultaneously through a single cable. Also allows us to connect up to six devices in chain without a negative effect on performance. This means that you can connect to a compatible screen MacBook Pro, this hard drive and the other peripheral and use all the same speed as the last of which was directly connected to the laptop.

Until here, everything sounds great. In fact, there are still a few things to say (which can be read at this link ), but I think the important thing now is to point out something: there are not yet compatible devices with this technology, so that for a time not going to be much the utility can be given. Unless all Apple products are updated as of this date have a port Thunderbolt, and I mean not just the Mac but iOS teams. But honestly I see it difficult. Especially considering that Thunderbolt port technology is based on PCI Express architecture that is absent in iOS teams.

On the other hand, I think it is worth to note that the MacBook Pro now comes with the option of using the iPhone's 3G connection 4 (in case the user has one) but the site does not explain how this feature work .

They also have the option to buy the MacBook Pro 15 "and 17" with an anti-reflective panel, for those who really annoying reflections in bright light than their default MacBook.

On the left, the model with bright display. On the right, the model with anti-glare screen.

already done a review of the characteristics presented, now if I return to the original question: Why Apple gave us a product like this?:

not think we'll see a MacBook so dark, but personally I loved the design as it is

Beyond the color that the designer gave him thinking how would a MacBook Pro made with Liquidmetal, the truth is Many expected a slimmer design style of the new Air, with all that that implies: flash storage, instant-on, battery life and mobility. However, as we know, the new MacBook Pro does not have those characteristics. Is it because they found an efficient way to carry these features to the Pro family, or is simply not that what you have planned? In his article for Applesfera , Miguel López believes that:

"What more has been heard has been, not only in the store but in the whole network, has been the fact that the display of the new MacBook Pro 13 "still retains the 1280 × 800 pixels when the screen size of the MacBook Air has 1440 × 900 pixels, and also the lack of some legacies of the ultraportable. Many are hoping for a MacBook Pro by adopting a simple philosophy, no optical drive player with an on-board SSD and boot the instantaneous rest ... if you said the new Air was the future laptops, why this new generation of MacBook Pro has not followed the steps?

[...] The reasons are easy to find: the MacBook Air is cheaper, lighter, has a display with incredible resolution, the graphics are NVIDIA and some prefer it before the Intel 3000 ... has shortcomings such as lack of Superdrive or FireWire 800, but are consequences of road that is taking Apple into the future. The slogan "The future of portable" was not random, and perhaps we're waiting for the rest of the notebook range take the form and concept of the Macbook Air when it might end up happening is that sales of the MacBook Air make it become the biggest selling laptop company.

If that happens, the MacBook Air will end up being the favorite Apple laptop despite its shortcomings. Will the new MacBook, and the current target model will no longer make sense. "

Certainly his words have much meaning. Especially if we look at how Apple manages its line of desktop Macs, while the iMac line is the one with the style and popularity, the Mac Pro are sacrificing the hype that they could pursue an attractive design to hold power and gain followers in a very specific (and small) market. It would no wonder that Apple intends to do the same with the MacBook line.

In fact, this update of the MacBook Pro took direct aim at the power of the computer. So much so that the MacBook Pro 2011 lower capacity is on par with the MacBook Pro 2010 for greater capacity, and the MacBook Pro 2011 larger capacity by 80% than the previous generation. The benchmark to prove it is:

Highlights

the newly announced color. Graphic via Primate Labs

worth noting that the testing was done with the tool Geekbench 2 , which is limited to assessing the performance of the processor and memory, so these results would be even better if the equation metiese new AMD Radeon GPUs that are three times higher than previous models. And, as noted in Applesfera , the new MacBook Pro will not only exceed their processors to previous generations, but also also outperform desktop Macs such as the iMac 27 "last year or the Mac Pro in 2008 ( and even the base model last year). The magic of SandyBridge of Intel processors is definitely impressive.

However, despite the strength shown is the line Air which has a better letter of presentation: not only was presented in a Keynote by Steve Jobs, but also the time chosen to show the progress of MacOS X Lion. Even to its section in the Apple site highlights have a different design from the rest of the MacBooks. Clearly, the idea is to make it stand out.

site screenshot of the MacBook Pro

site screenshot of the MacBook Air. Far, far more striking.

Perhaps the question then is: What about the MacBook "White"? To which my response would differ from that Miguel Lopez. And personally I think that either White MacBook line becomes the equivalent of the Mac Mini (keeping the current design), or inherit the design of the MacBook Air to catch up and keep on being intermediate between the Air and Pro which is likely also to be increased in size, increasing the total to 15-inch models.

I say this because if we think the Air 11-inch has the same price as the White. So if people decide they prefer to pay a thousand dollars for a smaller MacBook, less power and less capacity storage than its pair of polycarbonate, it's likely that Apple consider allowing the MacBook Air occupies the post of "cheap Notebook" and come up the ante with White line trying to keep their current specifications but in a thinner aluminum body (and bigger, for sure). Otherwise, the Cupertino would have to seek a way to lower the price of White line, which obviously would not be desired by them.

Finally, I can only say that while it is uncertain the future of the MacBook Pro, I think it is realistic to assume that the Air will have a 3G model, with Thunderbolt and a slight improvement Specifications for this year. More than anything to build on the media boom will surely reach with the launch of Mac OS X Lion. If you have not already done, can take a look at the news of the upcoming Mac OS on the official website of Apple , besides watching the video that I leave them below.

Mac OS X Lion

A look at

characteristics (in English)

Personally, I recommend watching the video in 1080p full screen. It's almost like watching a demo in your own pc. It would also be good to let the video carrying all before him, thing to pass quietly if they do long. Going to see that Apple's next OS comes with everything, and as I was saying, looks set to be the MacBook Air the team responsible for bringing Mac OS X Lion to the masses.

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HP "Ahead of Apple's plans? The future of iPhone

On Wednesday HP introduced its new range of mobile devices, giving you that speak to the media specialist for the innovations presented. A Smartphone with a Dual-Core 1.4Ghz, a midrange version of it, and a tablet able to make video calls, which communicates with the other two mobile computers wirelessly to share content and brand printers to print documents without connecting cables. In other words, did not sell a product, sold an ecosystem. And they did the best Apple style.

not get me wrong, in fact, I feel quite bad imitation. Apple certainly grew a lot at first because of ideas that were not originally theirs, let alone Microsoft. The problem arises when (talking about Microsoft) the imitation is poor. Is it the case of HP? In some of their products if, in others to be seen.
what Leaving was the presentation yesterday, and taking into account other HP products, an example of shoddy imitation is the HP TouchSmart 610. PC all-in-one iMac style, which fails for three basic things:

1 - The design is aesthetically clean, while the iMac seems just a screen, the TouchSmart actually denotes that it is a CPU behind a screen. And the "backpack" is wrong. Very.

2 - Building materials: cheap plastic. Is horrible, has no comparison with the finish of the iMac.

3 - Operating system: Windows 7. Not that I have anything against the latter Microsoft OS (although there are many people who do), but they sell a PC with the same operating system as have many others in the competition, some cheaper, others perhaps more powerful, and probably even the same PC that has the "old "the prospective buyer intends to replace, will pull the product off. Apple sells a different experience from hardware to software, HP provides a PC instead touch to otherwise use "the same OS as usual."

The HP TouchSmart 610: thick plastic

Obviously, one can say that the point for HP is selling a touchscreen PC, while Apple (Why now?) Sells PC's whose interaction remains Keyboard and Mouse (or Trackpad). However, although it is HP who has them on sale, Apple was the first company that was developing in the table the idea of \u200b\u200ba PC with a stand capable of adopting a landscape approach to be more comfortable using the screen Touch. In fact I've written an entry about in this blog, in August last year.

licensed by Apple Patent last year

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HP Product submitted by the 8 / 2 this year

then, HP already had a range of all-in -one to the iMac, Windows 7 and touch screen. But it seems that the few sales, along with Jobs said the discomfort in front of functioning with a vertical touch screen, HP brought in to mend, not without taking its solution provided by Apple.

But what is really striking is that HP does not copy Apple products as it did with PCs All-in-one, or its range of notebooks Envy (The irony!), But it actually begins to anticipate what is rumored to be the future plans of Cupertino. A good example is the PC Touch with tilt of which I spoke earlier. But another, even better, is precisely the range of devices announced by HP this past Wednesday .

Left, the Right MacBook Pro its clone, the HP Envy 13

From e-mail client whose interface is identical to iOS client, to the promotional images for the best Apple style, the presentation and the products were very similar to what Apple came by so far, and even similar to what is expected to do in the future, which leaves room for doubt about how legal sources are informants HP. In sum, the similarities were:

Keynote: obviously I'm starting with the most mild. Apple does not have exclusivity on the idea of \u200b\u200ba conference to present a new product, but since HP copied therefore believe that at least could have sought another way to conduct your presentation.

Images Promotional: minimal with the product name and a phrase marketers, that is ... 100% Apple. A good example is the first image that illustrates this post: anyone familiar with the apple must have felt, minimally, that sounded like that on the other hand .

Website design: go to the website of Palm , Clik any of its products, and you will see how to present their features has a very to Apple. I think it definitely could have done differently, given almost embarrassed.

Website screenshot

Palm

Apple Website screenshot

Ecosystem: while other companies sell products, Apple has a good time selling an ecosystem. The new iPhone and iPod Touch for example, allow users to communicate with them via FaceTime. These two, plus the iPad, and Macs, multimedia content can be sent to each other and to a TV equipped with Apple TV wirelessly. Also iTunes manages the transfer of files between computers and iPods iOS to a computer or vice versa. In sum, the full range of Apple computers has features that enrich the user experience with features allowing them to communicate with each other.

Since Apple is a company that from the beginning is devoted to information technology, was always at an advantage over others by having their own computers (and programs) with which to reconcile their other products. I agree that, although there are a lot of notebook and tablet that threatens to change the paradigm of computing and the PC out of the environment, today's desktop computers are still necessary, if only as a major stockholder of data (documents, files multimedia, etc). HP, however, another company dedicated to the computer, decided to go long in the business of smartphones, and now that of the tablets. Not without inspiration from Apple and offer a wide range of products compatible with each other: HP veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad. But as if that were not enough, he also dared to proclaim WebOS printers and computers, among which obviously is expected compatibility.

These products, the ecosystem still exists. However, HP did well to announce it, because like anyone who buys an Apple product, who buys a computer with WebOS feel like you are doing more than simply buy a gadget:'re buying support, access to extra features from several other teams the same brand. In my opinion, if HP does things right, spent Wednesday that it could be the first major step in a worthy competitor to Apple (I mean, not even Android ecosystem can offer such equipment). And competition is always good.

UI OS: WebOS we agree that much has to do with IOS, especially the user interface. It was ever thus, is not entirely the fault of HP. Even WebOS many refer to as "an interesting mix of IOS and Android." However, the similarity was carried a step further by redesigning the mail client of the way they did. Personally I would not look bad, in fact, make those who are still waiting for the miracle in Ios (the decent reporting system) to see that this is possible without losing the ease of use that characterizes the Apple OS. Naturally, it becomes a good option for those who want a harmonious and interesting mixture between the two most successful mobile OS market. (Note that WebOS is more than that, I will detail later in this post * ).

apologize for the quality of the image, I got one that best illustrates the UI of mail clients t

Air Print: HP promised functionality that would enable the TouchPad send files to print wirelessly to the printer models from the brand that support this function. No way, Apple implemented this feature less than a year ago.

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HP proposal. Below, the Apple.

Tablet Design: not the same, but much like the iPad. Other distinguished learned enough in the design, Xoom and Motorola, although it is one of the most similar, is distinguished from the iPad to have a horizontal design. You can not say the same about HP TouchPad. Again, I see that this is necessarily bad. IPad design I like, and if I could change anything it would be just the start button (today today, it would remove). See the HP tablet is almost like seeing the iPad 2 that it was rumored, might not have that button. Although I sorry? That is not the only aspect in which the TouchPad is about the rumors of what would be the next tablet from Apple.

Up here, the points at which HP imitate what was done by Apple until today, both in their new products WebOS as everything is concerned them. What follows is the advancement made by HP, the features and products presented that seem taken directly from the plans Apple and practiced before them.

NFC: explained what is the NFC in [ this post ] happened so long and I'll explain what is important. As I mentioned earlier in the post linked to, there are rumors that the next iPhone might have an NFC chip to communicate with other Apple hardware. Clearly, HP is ahead with its characteristic "Touch and Share", which makes use of NFC for exchanging content between the TouchPad and the Pre 3. See the video feature automatically made me think what could have been the NFC between 2 and iPhone iPad 5. Also this case is not strictly a step towards Apple as well as other companies like Google and Nokia are experimenting with NFC chips.

Veer: this is the most doubtful, which led me to put the title of the post and that, if confirmed, practically demonstrate that information from HP about Apple's plans did not come from simple "leakage." I agree that, at least to my knowledge, rumors of Apple working on a version of "mini" of the iPhone, began to circulate after HP introduced its new range of products. This indicates that if they were actually those of developing Cupertino midrange version of its flagship product to expand and compete in another segment of the mobile market, Apple minimally anyone in selling information to competitors.

Too? In September 2009 Nokia introduced the N97, a slightly smaller and cheaper than its big brother the N97. A few months later, Sony Ericsson introduced the Xperia X10 Mini, a pocket version inspired by the X10 model. Contrary to what may seem, the rumors said it was Nokia who really took the idea of \u200b\u200bSE and hastened to present earlier. Which makes sense: no one can be to develop a cell phone and have it ready in two to three months. So if in June Apple iPhone mini, we know that HP is not playing fair. One would say that nobody cares. Happen but I do not think Jobs is left with his arms crossed .

Beyond what, for now I'll take the liberty to discuss that is what HP would have to incorporate the philosophy of Apple in my opinion, and vice versa. After all, if they are to engage in Cupertino emulate, at least do it right right?

Construction materials: no comparison between the metal finish iPad, and bright plastic TouchPad. Should give more importance to building materials. Xoom Even Motorola seems to have a better quality finish that HP tablet .

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plastic finish HP TouchPad. Below the metal finish

Design: emulate Apple but they do badly. Base copied ideas and designs, but do not resolve well the important details. I limit myself here to refer to the products I mentioned: the Envy notebook and the HP TouchSmart. Not only have lower quality materials, but little thin design makes them less points against a team of Apple. I think it's an issue that should be taken more seriously, since much of the success of Jobs and his people is precisely because their products have attractive designs.

On the left, the HP TouchSmart. On the right, an iMac. Clearly the design of the latter is much more accomplished

physical keyboard: I'm sure it's a plus for many, and is a flagship property of Palm. But I think at this point, and not a few who have experience with virtual keyboards, which have Swype customizations and applications that make the user gets used to them more easily. With this in mind, I think it should be encouraged to launch a model without a physical keyboard. Achieved to a smartphone lighter, thinner and likely to take some space to put better parts (and I say this because I noticed that the Pre 3, having a dual core 1.4Ghz processor, having 512MB of RAM just to provision) .

Speakers: placed in the back of the phone is wrong, plain and simple. One team always puts the screen up, so the sound is low on power and even a bit distorted speakers plugged into the surface against which it is supported. Ideally, like Apple (and other companies like Nokia) placed the speakers on the telephone base, as well as on the front above the screen. HP even run with the advantage that they have absolutely no connector on the bottom, so that the speaker may be larger.

Timing: custom Apple has announced a product ready for sale to the public is one of the things that not only HP, but all other companies should take an example. One of the worst cases, speaking of other corporations, was the Nokia N97 which announced in September 2009 but she released only in June-July 2010. HP in this case had the products, but only would be going on sale "during the winter." If you ask me, is a long time that between the announcement and the arrival on the market. And with so many competitors (Motorola, Samsung, BlackBerry, the very Apple ...) I think it would have been better to wait a little longer, polish the product (eg TouchStone not have a final version of the OS) and file a month before its release. After all, products that were released before the announcements of Apple about the iPhone iPad 2 and 5, are likely to remain in the background. Not only because it is expected that in the case of major announcements, but because the time between the announcement and the arrival to the market for Apple products is little.

Up here, the criticism towards HP. However, as I passed * , Apple also has things to learn from the people of Palm (yes, the Palm division within HP) several of which were implemented by Jon Rubinstein long before it was bought.

Touchstone: honestly do not know the charge rate through this device, but being able to charge the battery in a computer without having to connect cables I feel great. The obvious advantage of the Apple docks is that not only charges the battery but also connect to the computer with the computer to share content. But if, say, iTunes had a way wireless synchronization, then would not need the cables and the idea TouchStone to an Apple would make little sense.

Gesture Area: in the previous post, I talked about the rumor that the iPhone could lose his next button start after putting in place a multi-sector with which to expand the area available for gestures. After seeing the implementation that the touch pad has WebOS, I can not stop thinking about how well would something like that to the iPhone. I mean, the new gestures that could be seen in the beta 1 iOS 4.3 (video in previous post ) are interesting for the iPad, but they are a disaster for the iPhone. There is no way they can use four fingers at once to switch between applications without showing ridiculous and uncomfortable. The solution is then that gesture area in which to perform the same movements with one or two fingers are on the screen, but assigning a different function.

Task Manager: this point is coupled to the former. I think it would not hurt a better task manager, one that allows switching between applications, or close the same in a more comfortable than currently provided. Putting aside the grotesque are the gestures, the transition between applications shown in the video I mentioned earlier, it looks much better than the current OS. I think it's a good idea if you find a way to deploy the iPhone (again, here is the link to the previous point). But in case you are not successful, WebOS cards are a great idea that many would appreciate to see implemented.

WebOS

TaskSwitcher * , an app that emulates the task manager

Notifications: iOS What user would not want a decent reporting system? The webOS is a good example to follow, even the Android is good compared with that currently owns the iPhone. And while today there are applications such as Notified (via Cydia) allowing somehow overcome the problem, obviously the ideal would be a notification system like the people integrated into the OS.

Notified

* , an app that manages the notifications of the way, we would like, you do iOS

aside speculation and hope, hope that HP can become a worthy rival to Apple, and competition that innovations emerge as interesting as we have been showing so far.

iPhone Nano, anyone?

* Via Cydia. Jailbreak required
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