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They never had events for speed bumps.

I've never seen a more beautiful laptop. What can they really do besides include faster components and add features to software?

Ditch the two spinning drives and build in a SSD by default? That would allow for a redesign as well as a larger battery and would certainly warrant an event.

After the MacBook Air, it’s only a matter of time until they do just that, maybe next year. (I can only hope. I’m actually seriously considering schlepping my 2007 MacBook Pro around another year.)

I'm with you. On the other hand, considering that I had just bought a top-of-the-line 17'' MBP 3 months ago, the frugal part of me was actually dreading the prospect of an MBA-like MBP sans optical drive, because that's pretty much my dream machine right now. Would have been pretty hard to resist doing the foolish thing and upgrade again after just 3 months. As it is, I look forward to upgrade next year, pretty sure that's gonna be the date then. Personally speaking, makes that much more financial sense now. ;-) Now I just need to decide whether to spring for an optibay in the meantime...

I understand that there are pretty HUGE technical differences between SSDs and traditional HDDs. But from a user perspective it's just a faster component that uses less power...

It’s not the SSD per se, it’s the saved space. A speed bump is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for an Apple event ;-)

Thunderbolt and FaceTime HD aren't exactly a speed bump.

Holding an event for that kind of minor change would be pretty pathetic and boring. It’s also not exactly great demo material.

I agree with you but...

It wasn't that long ago that we had a "day you'll never forget". Though, I wouldn't blame if you if ..ahh..forgot about that.

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