New Macbook Pros today with first use of Thunderbolt (Light Peak) connector.

More interesting to me though is that with the developer release of OSX Lion, they've discovered a whole bunch of support of resolution independence which is paving the way for retina-display level pixel-density monitors. [link]

Monitors like that may be a year or more away but that's just dandy by me. I just need mine to last until they're released.

paving the way for retina-display level pixel-density monitors.

I can't wait!

Or maybe I can, until the MacBook Pro has one of those high pixel-density displays.

I would imagine the MacBook will see it before I get mine. They're talking about retina displays for the iPad (though #2 or #3 is a source of debate) so the leap in size from an iPad to a Macbook isn't that bad.

I, on the other hand, await a 23"+ retina display. I may have a bit of a wait.

This seems like a good place to ask... for my Mobile Apps class I need temporary use of a Mac that will run the latest version of OSX -- my 6yo iBook, which is fine for most things, won't run the Apple SDK for the iPhone apps portion of the curriculum.

Ideally, I'd love to borrow a more modern Mac laptop of any kind whatsoever for about two months. I'd treat it obsessively well, guard it with my LIFE, and sing it to sleep each night, and only install the SDK IDE for my actual class work. I could pay for safe shipping both ways, which has to be an order of magnitude less expensive than buying a new and/or used one.

Help with work laptop. Seems a lot of disk permissions are out of whack, so trying to boot from install DVD. I hear the drive spin up, the screen is grey with the dark grey apple logo. Then it just sits there. The DVD drive stops spinning. Screen remains. I've tried holding down C on boot. I booted to the internal, and changed pref to boot from DVD. Same result. Ack! Any thoughts?

I'm in the market for a laptop right now, but I'm a pc girl, so it'll probably be another Sony. Only I'm a little cranked because their trade in program means I'll be without a laptop for a few weeks, maybe more. Well, okay, not without a laptop since I have four others in the house. But you know what I mean! It would be an inconvenience to migrate! Except that, you know, I have a terabyte of external storage, and automatic backups, and actually, it'll probably be fine.

Hmph.

I guess I should just do it.

Ideally, I'd love to borrow a more modern Mac laptop of any kind whatsoever for about two months. I'd treat it obsessively well, guard it with my LIFE, and sing it to sleep each night, and only install the SDK IDE for my actual class work. I could pay for safe shipping both ways, which has to be an order of magnitude less expensive than buying a new and/or used one

I'm out at sea until Sunday night, but let me check what my rental inventory is for the next few months. I may be able to help you out.

Theo, how soon do you need the laptop? I have a MacBook with a broken screen I could repair, but obviously that's gonna take at least a few days. Plus the battery isn't in great shape, so if ND comes through I'd take him up on it instead.

update:

One of the students came by right after I posted. We connected his laptop to mine, put mine in disk mode, and did the disk utility and disk warrior thing. The laptop passed all the hardware tests. But it still won't boot from the optical drive. Most interesting. We noticed when booting in verbose mode, that there is a line in the firmware from the university. Couldn't tell what it was, but I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

I mentioned to IT about the no boot from optical. We shall see what they say. And I'll see how it behaves, now that the directory is all cleaned up. I'm wondering if it's due to putting it to sleep so much, and rarely shutting down. So I will endeavor to shut down at nights instead of sleeping it.

If I buy a laptop with a 1080p screen but no blu-ray drive, or a blu-ray drive but no 1080p screen, those are both kinda pointless to me, right?