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Core 2 Duo MacBooks Tomorrow?

While hardly definitive, MacRumors has received a few reports that may indicate the long-awaited Core 2 Duo (Merom) MacBook revision could arrive as early as tomorrow.

None of the reports that we have received includes a "smoking gun", however at least one customer has seen his AppleCare MacBook replacement order stalled until Nov 1st, and another has seen pressure from Apple's financial department to make their purchase by today.

In addition, supplies of the current Core Duo MacBooks appear to be running thin. Earlier in the month it seemed as though Apple had achieved a supply/demand balance of the hot selling notebook. While the U.S. Apple Store still shows a turnaround of 24 hours for each current model as of this writing, some European online stores are beginning to have shipping times slip to 3 days for one or more model.

AppleInsider has previously stated that the Core 2 Duo revision was complete and a release was expected before the holiday season officially starts at the end of November.

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69 months ago
I sure as hell hope so, but they prolly wont!
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69 months ago
Simple answer:

No. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not next month. Next year.
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69 months ago
While this won't necessarily happen tomorrow, I'd say this along with AppleInsider's previous reports allows us to say with reasonable certainty that the MacBooks will indeed be bumped in time for the holidays.
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69 months ago
There are additional reports that I can't necessarily publish, but just so you know that we aren't just going on 2 reports and delayed Apple Store timings :)

This is, however, page 2. Don't get your hopes up. We just figure yall should have a heads up that it may happen tomorrow.

Simple answer:

No. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not next month. Next year.


Optimistic, aren't we?
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69 months ago
That would be nice, but I don't think that would happen.
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69 months ago

Simple answer:

No. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not next month. Next year.


This could be true and since stores like Best Buy have 1/3 of the MacBooks sold out. IMHO, I say next week rather than tomorrow but the earlier the better.
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69 months ago
Man I would love for them to be updated, but I really don't see it happening quite yet. If you look at the time difference between the original intel Macbook Pro and the Macbook, it leads me to believe that they will give the Macbook Pro some time to get some sales before launching.

I'm thinking sometime in November.

Needless to say, I'd still love to see an update soon. This horrible Pentium 3 is almost shedding tears it sucks soo much.
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69 months ago

Simple answer:

No. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not next month. Next year.


and steve jobs told you this when? :rolleyes:

my thought is that they won't be much differnt tho. I'd guess core 2 duo and larger hard drives, everything else the same.
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69 months ago
^ next Tuesday lol :P
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69 months ago
If true, and it likely is soon, it is supportive of several principals:

- Updates "as available", not by some large scheme.
- 64 bit everywhere by MWSF-07 and Tiger
- iBook is more of a "form factor" differentiation than a featuritis one as compared to MBP. Yes MBP has dedicated graphics and a few more ports, but in relative speed the difference will be less than ever.

Interesting.

We will be buying 4 C2D MBs for each MBP we buy. No desktops. A first for us. Might buy a (one) refurb MP and add a Clovertown aftermarket next year.

Rocketman
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