Agreed I am a freelancer and I am always on the road, in a good deal of my working situations I don't have the luxury of hooking my laptop up to a second monito

Agreed I am a freelancer and I am always on the road, in a good deal of my working situations I don't have the luxury of hooking my laptop up to a second monitor. If Apple killed the MBP 17 it would suck of me. I understand that my use case may be a niche and not the norm, but I would have to imagine there is more than just a handful that have similar needs for the 17. If they kill the 17 I would probably look at building out a hackintosh system on a large screen PC laptop rather than move down to the 17. I have been anxious for this refresh, due to the fact that I skip a refresh so my 17MBP now is the generation before the current offering, as such I can't upgrade past the 8GB ram barrier which I am really starting to feel when running VMWare. I hope the news is just rumor, because I could have already switched to a PC laptop with a hackintosh set-up, but I have been grinning and bearing it knowing a refresh was around the corner.