Mac Pro, Mac Book, Displays…

Before we get into it, we gotta address a comment that we got via email after the last post: “bippy? beautifulness?? my dog can write better than you!!”.

We don’t doubt it…but we say if making up words is good enough for the president, it’s good enough for us!! And, what’s wrong with having a little fun with your Apple recon and rumors? We aren’t a bunch of stuffed shirts here (now stuffed pants, that’s another thing altogether).

Enough screwing around, let’s talk about the good stuff!!

Mac Pro – quad core, do more? this seems like an easy one to predict, one thing that you won’t read at the other sites is that we think that it’s time for there to be a Mac Pro that is less than the current “cheap” $2499. We will get back to the days of $1999 (single dual core CPU), $2499 (single quad core CPU), and $2999 (dual quad core CPUs). The reason for this is Apple will want to get as good of a discount as they can on the quad core chips, and so they will buy more of them from Intel and use them in more machines. Other specs will remain largely the same, 1GB RAM standard, 250GB SATA drives standard, SuperDrives, etc. Probably a slightly better graphics card (7600 GT standard, perhaps?). We should see this at an Apple special event in February, where the 10.5, iWork and iLife will be shown and their ship date (3/24/07) will be announced.

Mac Book Pro – Sadly, we’ll probably have to wait another generation for quad-core in the MBP…but that day is coming. Next Mac Book Pro will have bigger drives, slightly faster CPUs (2.33GHz and 2.5Ghz), and faster graphics. That’s about it, sorry to say…except a longshot chance of a GPS option! Probably won’t see this guy until NAB in April, though…

Mac Book – Now we’re getting excited, 2.0 and 2.16GHz, considerably better graphics and storage options, and according to our rumors, a $100 PRICE DROP across the board! If we see the GPS option to the Mac Book Pro, we’ll probably see it here, too.

More after the jump…