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what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here with my apple laptop buying guide I make these videos probably about two to three times per year as we gear up towards Apple updates pc laptops are updated pretty regularly throughout the year Apple if we're lucky we're going to see updates about two times and I think we're heading up to one of those periods one of the questions I get all the time is when is a good time for me to buy my macbook for me to buy a macbook pro well I'm going to go ahead and answer those questions hope you enjoy so I'll be doing another video going over all the desktop lines in Apple's lineup let's go ahead and jump right in with the laptops let me first say that I think we are going to have a redesign completely of the laptop models primarily the macbook in the macbook pro sometime in mid december early january so if you're the kind of person that needs to have the most recent up to date up to design technologies you are going to want to wait to purchase a macbook or macbook pro if you have your eyes set on a new macbook air you're going to be fine those products were just recently updated alright so let's start with the top the entry level math book so in the past we've seen Apple combine their macbook and macbook pro lines and leaving only the plastic model to sort of bear the macbook a name we used to have an all aluminum macbook i think that the plastic model is going to be very very very short for this world unfortunately apples design standards are really going towards that aluminum unibody look we saw it with the heirs we have it now with the macbook pros and as iconic as a plastic look may have been in the past i don't think it aligns with apples design in the future so if your plastic look at something you really want you may want to jump right in and pick one of those up it's been about a hundred ninety five days since the product was less updated and it a verjus about a hundred and ninety five days between updates so we're really blue right now for an update if the plastic macbook does get a stay of execution a logical upgrade would be in the processor standpoint to a newer more powerful core i3 chip that would be sort of the logical upgrade that we'd see there's not much left Apple can do with the plastic design it is sort of plastic unibody but again doesn't follow that all aluminum look we may see an update and RAM to perhaps from to standard 24 standard although that is unlikely if we do see any update for the plastic line I think it's only going to be underneath the hood and we'll just be in the processor as again I do think the plastic body is going to be short-lived so why is that plastic body going to be short-lived well let's go ahead and talk about the macbook pro first according to a macrumors it's been two hundred and thirty days since the last update and an average is about two hundred eight days in between so we're already about 20 ish days late according to apple's average release cycle so i think we're going to see a complete redesign of the macbook pro line think it's going to be more in line with what we see with the current macbook air with the tapered design now that design is going to lead to a few questions first what's going to happen to the ports well we see a 13-inch macbook air with just two USB ports and that's really just about it people go to a macbook pro for the port options and the big question is how Apple is going to use their macbook air design on the macbook pro and still give people that array of ports that they've been used to whether or not it's a card reader I brought back firewire port extra USB ports whatever that technology might be so they we're going to see a bit longer design factor that will comment there's extra ports I think apple is gone with the flip down window we saw on last generation macbook airs so we may see longer ports I don't suspect you're going to see sac USB ports one on top of another that does not make it conducive for using multiple devices so expect a bit longer of a design a very similar with that tapering form factor that we have right now as far as hard drives go what's Apple going to do they want to make these things so thin well there are smaller hard drives 2.5 inch spinning platters a top but of course the market is headed towards solid-state drives and we may be at a point where solid state drives become sort of the affordable option Apple currently on the macbook pro has a 512 gigabyte solid-state drives a bill to order option for thirteen hundred dollars clearly no one's going to jump in at a thirteen hundred dollar bill to order option I think that once that price gets half or a bit more a 512 upgrade could potentially be a possibility I think we're going to see entry-level solid state hard drives of 128 and 256 similar what we have in the 13-inch macbook pro and that's going to be true for the 13 and susie macbook airs and that's going to be true for the 13 15 inch macbook pro models perhaps a cheaper built order option to that larger 512 solid-state drive which hopefully get price in half from that current thirteen hundred dollar price range and again I expect these updates to be in the mid december early January timeframe so again if you love the current design and you want to be able to grab a good deal on what perhaps might be a generation behind technology but still a very capable computer and now would be a time to get your macbook pro if you want the latest and greatest you need to have that and you want to suit the new design they're going to look like to make your decision I definitely wait until after the update if you do decide that the current hardware is what you want you still may want to wait until that update as often times in the Apple refurbished or there will be severe discounts on the outgoing model and up also he generally discounts up pretty nicely a newer of the outgoing model something to keep in mind I didn't expect any updates in the macbook air that was just updated about two months ago so I think that's gonna sort of stay as it is certainly the next time that does get upgraded I think we'll see faster processors perhaps ultra low voltage core i3 models I also think of the macbook pro we're going to see updates to of the chipset to the Newark war series of chips so perhaps I've three i5 and i7 some low voltage variance of each certainly there a big power consumption and it's impacted like I suspect any design is going to be a power management is going to be a trim bendis factor I think also will see the hard drives sort of splayed out almost like a stick of ram lycra suit in the past especially for the solid state drive sell it state drives so the mod tools would be sort of separated and soldered right onto the motherboard perhaps making upgrades quite difficult much more difficult than what we have right now with the spinning platters anyway guys want to know what you want to thank are you excited about these potential macbook and macbook pro updates are you going to miss the bus design do you think i am way off i really wanna hear what you guys have to say sound off in the comments down below and look for a video going over the desktop line so the mac mini the imac and the mac pro i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo if you want exclusive content to come out of twitter.com / john for lakers and for all your tech on computer check out TechnoBuffalo links all that information is in the underbar see the next video goodbye