The New Macbooks – October 14 2008

The MB13″ lost it’s firewire and didn’t even get a new USB. Apple hates perfipherals… or more likely Jobs hates cables and mac users pay tthe price for this irrationality. FFS Asus crams 3 USBs into its eeepcs but apple can’t put 3 on a damn 13″ laptop?

Oh and the MBP now has 2 graphics cards but users currently need to logoff to switch between them. Logging off? That’s almost as bad as rebooting… you don’t reboot a mac… the uptime on my MB is usually around 30d, closing applications and opening them again is boring. This is seriously un-appleish.

I’m not a fan of glossy displays but wth I’ll see how these new ones deal with direct sunlight.

Now for the good part: thank god (well, probably just Steve Jobs) they got rid of the extremely bad intel graphics. The new keyboard is a huge improvement for the MBPs and overall the new body looks cooler.