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So, my last post was about wishing for a new MacBook Pro. When the new MBP was announced last week, I was traveling for business (in Silicon Valley, none the less), and I was all ready to head back home and buy one, however after being able to let it sink in and read up on the rumor sites some more, I find that the performance on the new MBP is about even with the last update, and in some cases slightly worse. That wasn’t that horrible, since the battery life is supposed to get an improvement and I would still consider buying one… that is, if it weren’t for the fact that now the rumor sites are saying there will be another update in June!

It looks like the current update of the MBP was forced upon Apple, due to Intel trying to phase out the last generation of notebook processors and bring in the new ones, which I guess aren’t all ready for prime time. So, the next update in June is supposed to sport some new Montevina chipset, along with some other improvements.

What does this mean for me? Back in the perpetual state of waiting. It was a mixed blessing though… since the money I had put aside for the MBP now has another couple months to grow, I withdrew some and picked up a PS3. Originally, I had planned to get a Blu Ray player, since HD-DVD is now officially dead (glad I waited out the format war), but given they are priced within $50 of a PS3 with extras, I figured why not get a full gaming system and Blu Ray player, complete with remote control and Spiderman 3 (which is sitting in my garbage can).

So, while on that note, this news gave me the opportunity to re-organize my TV watching apparatus into a more efficient machine. I had my Slingbox IR blaster cables precariously placed atop my TV, such that the slightest gust of wind or earthquake would send them to the ground, rendering the Slingbox mostly useless. I didn’t want to use the crummy double sided tape they provided, so instead I picked up some Elmer’s “Tac ‘N Stik” Reusable Adhesive (how’s that for product placement!) for 95 cents. I stuck some of the clay-like substance to the bottom of my IR blaster pieces as well as to the bottom of my Wii sensor bar and squished it down onto the top of my TV, and it sticks like glue… removable and readjustable glue. It’s likely the best 95 cents I’ve ever spent.

Here’s what it looks like

Everybody loves to speculate about Apple product releases and damn it I want to speculate too…

Well… I’m not going to speculate… I’m just going to flat out say what I want in my next notebook, and hope it magically comes into existence. If it doesn’t, I’ll be in the area in a few weeks, so I’ll pay Steve Jobs a visit and give him a piece of my mind… or maybe a piece of some cake, if I happen to have some on my person. I like cake… especially yellow cake. I know, I know… it’s cheap and low class, but it tastes so good, especially the Entenmann’s chocolate covered yellow cake. Man, that stuff is good.

So anyway, I’ve read quite a number of articles suggesting that Apple will soon be coming out with a new MacBook Pro. Since I’m looking to upgrade my current 1st gen MacBook and I will never ever ever get my small form factor MacBook Pro, I may as well go for whatever new 15″ is coming out, and here is what I want:

• A video card capable of handling Unreal Tournament 3. Every other game I would want to play would require no where near the performance of the aforementioned, so ya.
• New processors. Give us some of that lower power usage and higher clock speed love the MacBook Air got, even though it doesn’t deserve it
• Hybrid hard drives. SSD is overpriced and pointless… unless you happen to run highly concurrent databases on your laptop computer, and require amazing random seek performance. HOWEVER, I read about some drives proposed a while ago that would have a few gigs of flash and many gigs of platter, that would let you live off flash when you don’t need to access anything that requires spinning, and any time you need to dump the flash to platter, power up for a few seconds to do that, then go back to sleep. Good idea and I want that.
• Who cares about multi-touch? I don’t think it’s really a big deal on a laptop, but if Apple wants to throw it in, I’d be glad to disable it in my System Preferences.

That’s it, I guess. I hope whatever is coming out, comes out soon, since I want to spend spend spend. No saving! Just spending!