if this is true this will pretty much suck :( i"m curently having 2 hdd"s in my macbook pro at the expence of the optical drive i need the hard drive space for more vids and music

probably mans no firewire either... let's hope thunderbolt makes some progress as a standard connection for external drives

Thunderbolt better become standard fast. and cost on TB HD's needs to come down cause that laice is ridiculous

Whoaa...damn thing looks like a toothpick. Good luck doing video with that thing that shit's gonna get hot. Pass...

This piece from Gizmodo is a bit more positive. I really can't image Apple scrimping on the graphics with the macbook pro range.

gizmodo.com

If I'm honest, I hardly ever use the optical drive anymore, I think it's had the same disk in it for the last couple of months, still useful to have once in a while though.

When firewire came out, I thought it was amazing, but with the amount of data we shift about nowadays, it seems painfully slow, I hope thunderbolt is a big improvement.

i dont think any of us use the optical any more. I know im going to remove mine for a second HD

I highly doubt it. Apple will never get rid of the macbook pro, if they do they'd be stupid to.

The pro is just that a pro, they might have macbook pro type airs, but not just that.

Mine will last for several years so I'm all good if they change.

No the pro as we know it is going away... it will only ever be one kind of Mac Pro. that just apples way of doing things. And i wouldnt doubt that apple is gong to goto all SSD drives and they will all be like the Macbook air drives, with Thunderbolt being so fast and a direct connection to the PCI bus on the mother board TB HD will be just as fast as HD are now.

I'll wait to see what apple does. I'd be more inclined to believe that they'll have a macbook pro without an OD.

Are you sure?

;)

BTW, here is another link to macrumours.com, with some interesting and valid comments:

www.macrumors.com

Another interesting article:

gizmodo.com

i have been worried that this was the last year for mbp for awhile now and planning on picking one up very soon.

I doubt they'll only have airs.
I'd rather see them drop mac pros than macbook pros.

remove optical drive and I'll be happy.

I don't want to pay apples top dollar for a 256GB SSD.
I can almost guarantee they won't just make macbook airs

is ME compatible on it?

=P

HaHaHa...

Ugh.. Apple just announced Mountain Lion, OSX 10.8.

techland.time.com

I thought the name was a joke, for some reason mountain lion just sounds funny.

Brokeback Mountain Lion?

hahaha

HaHaHa...

ROFL