I was just curious if anyone has gotten a new MacBook Pro that's based off the Santa Rosa edition. If so, I've got a few questions:

Does it come with the Intel 4965AGN WiFi card?
Does the 7200rpm drive cause the case to get hot?
Is the new LED backlight monitor bright enough?

Thanks to whoever answers this!

Well, I don't have one myself, but I think you can pick up some information from this:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3747

Hopefully it'll help you some.

I have one, but can't help with all of your questions.

1) It comes with the Apple Airport Extreme card ... with 802.11n -- it works great with my older Linksys router (a/b/g). Frequency of wireless drop-outs is lower with this system than with any other computer I use.

2) Only have the 5400RPM 160GB HD - so don't know how the 7200 RPM drive will be.

3) The LED drive is plenty bright enough.

Do you think they are going to update the MacBook Pro again around May 2008-ish or so? I am planning on getting one of these around then.

I imagine there will be at least one, if not two, updates by then...

I don't know how major the updates themselves will be, but of course one more immediate one coming up I'm guessing will be with OSX Leopard later this year. As far as hardware updates go, perhaps maybe some flash-based hard drives maybe? Take that last one lightly, especially considering how exorbitantly expensive they are over regular ones. But who knows about that far in advance with prices.

They stretched out this update pretty long. We won't se another until Spring '08. There may be a speed bump though. The graphics processor and 2GB of RAM standard are the Leopard updates.

The LED screen is bright. I run at 50% brightness all the time.

Apple does not use the Intel wireless card. They have their own wireless card. AFAIK, it doesn't support 802.11a.

I can't imagine the 7200 rpm drive will make it much hotter. I've only noticed it getting hot when I was running Parallels.

im guessing jan08 for next update. Im waiting for SantaRosa to mature more, and for SSDs to be standard.

I have the new MBP. The LED screen is darned good. It is very very bright and evenly lit. All around a very nice laptop.

2008 should be the 45nm refresh of the Core2 which will lower heat quite a bit and maybe quadcore laptop chips which will raise it right back up. I doubt SSD drives will be cheap enough, large enough or fast enough in 2008 to replace a HD, but you could always have an SSD and HD in the same laptop.

2008 should be a good year for laptops. 2007 has been kind of blah.

makes u wonder what kind of SSD capacities we might see on an expresscard.

think ill build a cheap desktop, well sub 800 bucks.

maybe sell the mbp for now, reinvest when i see what i like per say