Retailer internal computer systems never lie — New Macbook Pro’s all but certain.

Are new Macbook Pros right around the corner? You could say the leaked images a couple of days back showing a Core i7 Macbook Pro being put through the paces as nothing more than some clever Photoshop mastery. I’m more of an optimist however. I’m choosing to take the higher road. A road which eventually leads to new, more powerful Macbook Pros. You could say my head is stuck up in the clouds and that I’m a too much of a dreamer. That may be true, but the images above combined with new evidence of disappearing SKU’s in store inventory points to the inevitable — that’s right, new Macbook Pros.

What of these disappearing SKU’s? The image above comes courtesy of some random Best Buy employee. What you’re looking at is the internal system page for the Macbook Pro 13″ — no longer available for order. I haven’t heard of any bizarre display, aluminum, silicon, ram, etc. shortages within the last month so why would they disappear if something newer and better wasn’t about to replace it?

If Apple were still attending Macworld, I’m sure we’d hear of the new hardware then. But, seeing as how they up and left that party, it appears we’ll have to wait until Apple announces their own little shindig or simply uploads the new goods to the store on a Tuesday some not too distant Tuesday morning.

I really don’t care how they do it. I just want my Core i7 17″ Macbook Pro. Anyone else getting antsy?

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White House phone inventory goes old school…

While we’d like to think of that the White House of all places in the country would employ some sort of high tech form of mobile device inventory, from the picture above we can see that simply isn’t the case. No sir. There isn’t any advanced monitoring chip, no fingerprint/BlackBerry add-on, and no retina scanner built into the camera. It’s good ‘ol sticky notes for the fine leaders of our country.

The only sad thing that I’ve come to realize is that a politician (“Rice” in the picture above) has more phones than I do — 3 to be exact. I can’t imagine why anyone would need three BlackBerries. Though perhaps my confusion and inability to understand is merely jealousy taking over…?

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