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Apple has totally self-generating hype from the community.
Don't you think Linux advocates jump for joy at each new Ubunut Alpha?
I think it's fair, because Dell could only wish for a strong community of excited users, regardless if I, or you like said equipment or not.

Why don't they do more HW refreshes? I think stories like this would soon get boring if the press reported an update every 2 weeks. Also, maybe Apple are worried about "Osborning" their sales. ATM it seems they do a refresh about every 6 months. That's long enough for potential customers to put the thought of waiting for something marginally more powerful out of their minds. Why buy V1 when V1.1 is "just round the corner"?

Give me a TrackPoint any day. I'd give my left arm for something like the Thinkpad X series, where the trackpad was left off entirely.

All hail the red dot!

I agree with this. I have been a loyal ThinkPad user for years, but I am heavily leaning toward an Apple this time. The main thing I will miss is the TrackPoint, which is a major feature for me.

Alas, it looks like I will have to get used to the touchpad.

The lack of a TrackPoint and overall durability issues are the only things that keep me away from Macs (and addicted to Thinkpads). I've been looking longingly at the OSx86 project to merge my two loves.

Until I can get that working satisfactorily, though, it's Linux on the Thinkpad for me.

I made that jump nearly 2 years ago. It took awhile to get accustomed to the touchpad. But, Apple's is so well integrated with their software that it was a very easy transition. Further, Apple's build quality, IMHO, rivals that of the old thinkpads (IBM) and their customer service has been first-rate, like IBM in my experience. The whole experience has been the best computer experience I have ever had. I have been converted and only regret that I do not have more funds for Apple acquisition. Unfortunately, I am quickly becoming a zealot.

Well, I have a original Macbook with a 250 GB hard drive and 2 GB RAM and those new macs look appealing to me. Why? Faster processor and better video chip. That and the fact that my Macbook is looking slightly worn after nearly 2 years of being used 12+ hours a day and having to run throughout the night.

But I might wait for the next revision before upgrading or I'll save and get a Macbook Pro.

Ahh nevermind. Looks like these new ones (Penryn) also have the CPU whine problems.

That's very disappointing. The CPU whine is something that I find rather annoying with my first gen Macbook. I thought they'd have sorted it out by now.

Anyone know if there is anything they can do? Or is it specific to the Intel chips (i.e. other laptops with the Penryn processor whine too)?

Try: "Apple suck", they would never be able to do shit like that in a non monopolic market ;/

What monolopic market? You can buy any other laptop you want from any vendor. And people who require Mac OS X, can complain to Apple directly, it's Apple's 'loss' not IBM's or Dell's or anybody else's.

Monopolistic? They have less than 10% of the market. How can you possibly call that a monopoly?

Some people are not bothered about burning dvd's with a macbook anyway, so much wasted battery life for one dvd, it's overrated. I'd rather wirelessly transfer stuff than, dvd burning is so yesterday

agreed, all I would like it a new mini, bigger hard drive, new processor, but most importantly, and HDMI output

A merge of the Apple TV + mini with 1080p output.

That would be nice.

Blu-ray/shmu-ray - Apple has made it clear that their chips are resting on no more physical media.

There WILL be Blu-ray on high end Macs soon, I'd wager, but Blu-ray is not they way they want to go for delivering consumer media.

Edit: Here's proof that Apple is pushing a "zero media" initiative -> http://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/26/itunes-is-number-2-music-retail...

Edited 2008-02-26 18:29 UTC

Yeah, because everybody like to download/stream content on their PC.

I still prefer to own a physical media, with everything on it, full 1080p, TrueHD sound and all the extra.

Hmm, let's see...

"Another GNOME-Mono Discussion"..No, not OS news. Fail.

"New Macbooks, Macbooks Revealed"..Not this one either. Fail.

"IE8 Beta 1 Coming to Testers Soon, to Public Afterwards".. Nope. Fail again.

"Preload: the Linux Superfetch/PreBinding Equivalent".. No, fail.

And so on..Wouldn't really be much to read here. If it's only Mac-related stuff you're complaining about..Hmm, they seem to be rather popular, atleast looking at the number of comments. And there are lots of news about Microsoft related stuff and Linux related stuff so why not about Apple related ones too? Should they just boycott Apple related news just because you think OSNews is Apple Hype News?

As you can see, atleast I clearly disagree with you.

All of those except Apple hardware news are about important pieces of operating systems - major desktop environment for *nix systems, default Windows web browser and inner workings of Linux.
I am sick of news about minor upgrades to some hardware company computers. Why don't we get to read about Dell, HP, Fujitsu-Siemens etc?

Maybe you should get a Mac, and see what all the fuzz is about. Seriously though, Apple have a very small product line, that are extremely popular. Any update in these is welcome, and very interesting to Mac people.

If you don't understand that this is different from other vendors like Dell that have a big jungle of models then I don't know what to say. Apple updates their product line maybe once every six months or so, and a lot of people want to read about it.

"major desktop environment for *nix systems". Are you kidding me? A quick search on "KDE" in the search field reveals "KDE 3.5.9 Released". That's right, an incremental update in a desktop environment I think totally blows, completely uninteresting to anybody else. Yet I don't complain about it, because I have the choice not to read it. But I do understand it might be interesting to others.

If you have nothing better to do than bitch about articles you don't find interesting, you should seriously consider getting out more.

Again, this is OSnews. And I have used Macs and OSX. Nice and good looking computers but so are Sony Vaios, for example.

Hmm, they seem to be rather popular, atleast looking at the number of comments.

Yes by the number of comments, but if you look at the market share world wide, it is rather tiny.

Thats why i called it hyped, actually over hyped.

Of the about 10 people i know who has a Apple computer, only 1, yes only 1 is using it for OSX, the rest of them use it only for Windows XP or Windows Vista. Why, simply because OSX is to weird for them, the lack of needed software. So why buy a Mac ? they think it looks nice.

To them it is only a piece of expensive hardware that looks nice, the OS the simply throw away, but they still need to pay for it.

Heh, anecdotal evidence ftw.

No one I know who has a Mac has anything other than Mac OS X installed. And that's upwards of 20 people.

I've never had a problem burning DVDs with my Macbook. Perhaps there is something else that's an issue here? Posting on a Mac users' forum like macosx.com/forums would get you a lot better results than posting at the end of a new item on OSNews.