Powered by the most advanced mobile processors from Intel, the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is over 50% faster than the original Core Duo MacBook Pro and now supports up to 4GB of... more
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is over 50% faster than the original Core Duo MacBook Pro and now supports up to 4GB of RAM. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT delivers exceptional graphics processing ...
SuperDrive ATI Mobility Radeon X1600graphics with 256MB SDRAM Intel Core 2 Duo processor Powered by thelatest generation of Intel's mobile processors plus a larger L...
audience and control the display from up to 30 feet away. Designed for life on the road - Dozens of unique innovations - such as a magnetic power cord the illum...
Intel Core 2 Duo, 17" TFT-display (1680x1050), 160 GB serial ATA drive, 2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 667MHz frontside-bus, 2GB Ram (2x 1GB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300), 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256 MB, incl. Apple Remote, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ExpressCard/34 slot, dual-link DVI video out, Gigabit ethernet, 3x USB 2.0, FireWire 400 + 800, incl. Apple Care Protection Plan, extends Apple warranty and Apple support to 3 years APPLE MACBOOK PRO 2,4 17" CORE 2DUO (order code 116918), APPLE APPLECARE POWERBOOK/MACBOOKPRO (order code 163286)
Intel Core 2 Duo, 17" TFT-display (1680x1050), 250 GB serial ATA drive, 2,5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 800MHz frontside-bus, 2GB Ram (2x 1GB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300), 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512 MB, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ExpressCard/34 slot, Gigabit ethernet, 3x USB 2.0, FireWire 400 + 800, incl. Apple Care Protection Plan, extends Apple warranty and Apple support to 3 years APPLE MACBOOK PRO 2,5 17" CORE2DUO (order code 206539), APPLE APPLECARE POWERBOOK/MACBOOKPRO (order code 163286)
Intel Core 2 Duo, 15" TFT-display (1440x900), 200 GB serial ATA drive, 2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 667MHz frontside-bus, 2GB Ram (2x 1GB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300), 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256 MB, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ExpressCard/34 slot, Gigabit ethernet, 2x USB 2.0, FireWire 400 + 800, incl. Apple Care Protection Plan, extends Apple warranty and Apple support to 3 years APPLE MACBOOK PRO 2,4 15" CORE2DUO (order code 206516), APPLE APPLECARE POWERBOOK/MACBOOKPRO (order code 163286)
Intel Core 2 Duo, 15" TFT-display (1440x900), 250 GB serial ATA drive, 2,5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 800MHz frontside-bus, 2GB Ram (2x 1GB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300), 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512 MB, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ExpressCard/34 slot, Gigabit ethernet, 2x USB 2.0, FireWire 400 + 800, incl. Apple Care Protection Plan, extends Apple warranty and Apple support to 3 years APPLE MACBOOK PRO 2,5 15" CORE2DUO (order code 206524), APPLE APPLECARE POWERBOOK/MACBOOKPRO (order code 163286)
features all fit inside just one liberating inch. The MacBook Pro has the performance, power, and connectivity of a desktop computer. Without the desk part.
features all fit inside just one liberating inch. The MacBook Pro has the performance, power, and connectivity of a desktop computer. Without the desk part.
features all fit inside just one liberating inch. The MacBook Pro has the performance, power, and connectivity of a desktop computer. Without the desk part.
iPhone, iPod touch and MacBook Air comes to MacBook Pro in an amazing new Multi-Touch trackpad. Now you can pinch, swipe or rotate to enlarge text, advance through photos or adjust an image.\n\nPower duo.\n\nThe new Intel Core 2 Duo processors run at speeds up to 2.6GHz on a groundbreaking 45-nm process technology with up to 6MB L2 cache. And the powerful NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor now includes up to 512MB of video memory. \n\nSupersized display.\n\nConnect an Apple Cinema Display to expand your desktop and lose nothing in translation. That's because the DVI connection gives you a pure digital signal from system to display. View more than 4 million pixels on a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor.\n\nEven the power cord is a feature.\n\nThe MacBook Pro power adaptor with MagSafe connector is a magnetic connection instead of a physical one. So, if you happen to trip over the power cord, you won't send MacBook Pro flying. The cord simply disconnects, without damage to either the cord or the notebook.\n\nSounds all around.\n\nMacBook Pro sounds as good as it looks, with unprecedented attention to audio detail. For musicians on the go, MacBook Pro offers pristine sound through crisp, clear stereo speakers, a built-in microphone, and optical digital audio on both input and output.\n\nBuilt-in iSight.\n\nStrategically placed in the centre of the MacBook Pro display bezel is a small but powerful iSight camera. Wherever you go, you can video conference with iChat, make a movie with iMovie and experiment in Photo Booth.
AMAZING BEST LAPTOP Review ofApple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo - 17\" TFTby
ryanmorgan001
Advantages: Pretty Damn Good in Every way Disadvantages: Not much of significance
Hello all,
I work at several large computer superstores and have access to them all on a daily basis. I Have not purchased these laptops but I instead work with them in order to bring you the highest quality consumer based reviews. I sometimes ask the opinions of my staff and also of customers to bring you up to speed.
So without further interuption here is my review on the MacBook Pro with 17" display.
DESIGN
The MacBook Pro is one of my favourite ... ...buy one right now. The design is hard to improve and has such stye and elegance. It does sound silly to say this about a laptop but it's true. Not only is it very astetically great it's also functional aswel and is very sturdy. The thing is made from sturdy alluminium and in my opinion this adds to the laptop.
When you open the MBP all you can see is this huge glossy screen. Its breathtakingly good and is very easy to look at.
There is also the ...
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Advantages: Very fast for both Mac OS X and Windows Disadvantages: Slightly heavy
...Windows graphics programming. So the Apple MacBook Pro 17" with the Intel Core Duo processor seemed like the ideal combination. To give you an idea of the speed improvements; starting with Video processing, iMovie encodes Quicktime movies to streaming versions for the web in just a few minutes compared with tens of minutes on the PowerBook G4 or Mac Mini G4. Note the speed-up comes because iMovie and other programme ssupplied with the MacBookPro ... ...party packages, commonly used by Apple users, like Microsoft Office and Adobe Flash Studio are still supplied as older PPC applications, so there's no speed up with these programmes. However as this laptop is more powerful than my office desktop I haven't noticed any particular slowness.
I also do quite a bit of programming and I have been more than pleased with the Pro Book's ability to let me recompile a number of open source programs and libraries ...
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Advantages: Super wide screen, powerful CPU, good design Disadvantages: keyboard could be bigger
...Appartently according to web sources, Apple are working on these for when BootCamp is released. The wide 17" screen is clear, crisp and great, especially for business users as it allows two documents to be opened side by side and be able to read both clearly, as well as large spreadsheets. The battery life is good, at over two hours on a medium brightness display, if you drop the brightness down, it will go to about 2.5 hours. The machine runs just ... ...for long periods with the Apple Bluetooth keyboard, whcih is also good. I will rap it up here, so to sum up: Great laptop, packed full of features, looks great!! I would give this 10/10 for the business user and same for the home user, as the remote used in MAC OS X, turns it into a media center, letting you play CDs/DVDs, iTunes and control it through the remote. All the best, Jinxx1 ...
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Advantages: Dual Core, 2Gb Memory, Dual Layer DVD Rwriter Disadvantages: Battery Life
Well where do i start with this product there is so many positives about this product and not many negatives. I am going to start with the negative points first. Negatives:
(1) The Cost this may put off people from buying because it is out of their price range.
(2) The battery life doesn\'t seem to be very good needs charging often which may put off the business customers. (3) Not enough usb ports, this is a real downside to a excellent product ... ...requires a usb connection and this laptop doesn\'t offer that i don\'t feel 3 ports is enough considering most people connect external hard drive, wireless routers, wireless dongles, and printers as well as external memory card readers. Now lets see the positives this laptop gives to it customers:
(1) Design of the laptop was just one of many appealing factors that made me choose this laptop, it is sleek and slim very light compared to some laptops ...
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Advantages: Powerful Core 2 Duo processor, large screen Disadvantages: Chunky, not really value for money
The Macbook pro is basically a standard increase on your average Macbook, it offers a souped-up Core 2 Duo processer running at 2.33 Ghz, a definite level up from the older versions 2 Ghz running speed. There is more hard drive there, and more RAM for your money. But is it completely necessary to pay a substantial amount more than the average Macbook? I had one of these installed in my household not long ago, and I must say it was impressive and ... ...it would make a good online gaming high spec laptop, but its not, its a Mac and therefore its a bit odd to have all this power for something that is internationally recognised as a better office/business tool than a PC but nowhere near as accomplished on the gaming front. Having said that it does come with all the regular tools of a macbook, and yes it does handle more operations at once faster, which is potentially a good thing if you're trying ...
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Data Link Protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n (draft), Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
Compliant Standards: IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n (draft), Bluetooth 2.0, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0
Manufacturer's product description
Powered by the most advanced mobile processors from Intel, the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is over 50% faster than the original Core Duo MacBook Pro and now supports up to 4GB of RAM. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT delivers exceptional graphics processing power. Featuring 802.11n wireless technology, the MacBook Pro delivers up to five times the performance and up to twice the range of previous-generation technologies. Quickly set up a videoconference with the built-in iSight camera. Control presentations and media from up to 30 feet away with the included Apple Remote. Connect to high-bandwidth peripherals with FireWire 800 and DVI. Innovations such as a magnetic power connection and an illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor put the MacBook Pro in a class by itself.
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slots Total (Free):
1 ( 1 ) x ExpressCard/34
2 ( 0 ) x memory - SO DIMM 200-pin, 1 ( 1 ) x ExpressCard/34
2 ( 1 ) x memory - SO DIMM 200-pin
Interfaces:
1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
1 x IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800)
3 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
1 x display / video - DVI-Analog/Digital (dual link)
1 x audio - SPDIF input/line-in - mini-phone 3.5 mm / TOS Link
1 x audio - SPDIF output/headphones - mini-phone 3.5 mm / TOS Link
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45, 1 x display / video - DVI-Analog/Digital
1 x audio - SPDIF input/line-in - mini-phone 3.5 mm / TOS Link
1 x audio - SPDIF output/headphones - mini-phone 3.5 mm / TOS Link
1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
3 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45
1 x IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800), 1 x display / video - DVI-Analog/Digital
1 x audio - SPDIF input/line-in - mini-phone 3.5 mm / TOS Link
1 x audio - SPDIF output/headphones - mini-phone 3.5 mm / TOS Link
1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
1 x IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800)
3 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45
OS Provided: Apple MacOS X 10.5, Apple MacOS X 10.4
Software: Apple QuickTime, Apple Mac OS X Mail, Apple iChat, Apple iCal, Apple DVD Player, Apple Address Book, Apple Safari, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, Apple Dashboard, Apple Spotlight, Apple XCode Developer Tools, Photo Booth, Aperture (Trial), Apple iLifeí08, iWork í08 (Trial), Apple Spaces, Apple Quick Look, Apple Time Machine, Drivers & Utilities, Apple QuickTime, Apple Mac OS X Mail, OmniOutliner, FileMaker Pro (Trial), Apple iCal, Apple DVD Player, Apple Address Book, Apple Safari, Apple iChat AV, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, Apple Dashboard, Apple Spotlight, Apple XCode Developer Tools, Front Row, Photo Booth, Apple iLife'06, plasq Comic Life, iWorkí06 (30 days trial)
Apple mac-books, where to start...
ok, so to start,
it is an apple, that means you get a solid quality product and on the whole very good customer are.
this particualar apple is deffinatly more suited to being a media center than other laptops.... more
