{"id":926,"date":"2007-10-30T00:36:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/a-plea-for-apple-to-update-the-macbook-pro.htm"},"modified":"2007-10-30T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:56:33","slug":"a-plea-for-apple-to-update-the-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/a-plea-for-apple-to-update-the-macbook-pro.htm","title":{"rendered":"A plea for Apple to update the MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really would like to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/macbookpro\/\">17&#8243; Apple MacBook Pro<\/a> but if I&#8217;m going to spend all that cash then I need to know that it&#8217;s the right thing to do.   I&#8217;ve been waiting for OS X Leopard (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/has-the-leopard-lost-its-spots.htm\">not that I can see much advantage in upgrading to Leopard<\/a> but it seemed daft to buy a new computer with Tiger on it) and now I hear rumours that there will be a new MacBook Pro announced in the New Year.  So, if anyone from Apple is reading this, please, please, please, consider the following for the next update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:MacBook_Pro_17.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/macbookpro-17.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apple MacBook Pro (17\"), courtesy of Andrew Plumb\/Wikipedia\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is there all that wasted space to the side of the keyboard (which is the same size on both the 15&#8243; and 17&#8243; models)?  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