Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT

Advantages: nice screen, good battery life, fast specs
Disadvantages: large size (price?)

...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. At first glance you realise that it is a fairly large laptop, this allows for a big screen, which being an apple ffers clear vivid displays, unfortunatly the big screen increases the overal size and also uses more battery, however, the 4.5 hour yattery is still very good for an entertainment laptop. The laptops technical specs include a very fast 2.5 ghz dual core proccesor which is very fast, the dual core allows it to tackle multiple tasks quicly as well as increasing the overall speed of the laptop. The price is quite steep however, but i believe, if given the money, it is...

pieceofmind 29.04.2008 (30.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT

Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 13.3" - I'm a convert

Advantages: Stylish, flexible, super fast startup
Disadvantages: Pricey compared to a PC

...I got my MacBook a month ago and, despite having been a heavy PC user for the last 20+ years, I'm a convert. It's just great. I got it because of all the good stories I'd heard about them; usability, security, availabiity of applications and it's stylish looking too, not like the lumpy almost invariably black Windows laptops out there. It's not cheap at £700 you can get a lot of PC for that, but I really like my Mac, so I'm not going to linger on that side of things. The 13" screen is crystal clear, the keyboard feels nice and it doesn't take long to get used to the trackpad style mouse. It's super fast to boot up and shut down, less than 30 seconds from 'off' and probably less than 5 from 'sleep' mode. That's stunning compared to my other machines that can take anything from 5 to 20 minutes to do the same. It was initially a bit...

ManicMorFF 01.09.2009 · Read review
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (Performance Computing For The Masses)

Advantages: Speed, Reliability, Overclockability and Price!
Disadvantages: None!

...The Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz CPU is a triumph of computing technology, It combines cool running temperatures, Good clock speeds and Great performance for a low affordable price. These CPU's are well suited to Gaming applications due to their calculation proccess and their Overclockability, This CPU will run all modern games and future games with ease! providing great FPS Rates and great gaming enjoyment, speeds of 3.6Ghz + can be achieved easily on stock cooling. With after-market cooling much higher clock speeds can be achieved. This CPU is very stable and reliable even when overclocked. I was originally hooked on AMD CPU's and was adament that they provided better gaming performance, However after i finaly took the leap to see what all the fuss was about with the Intel C2D CPU's i have never looked back, These CPU's far out...

GezUK 15.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / 3 GHz processor

Core 2 Duo E8500

Advantages: Very Fast, good overclocker
Disadvantages: Possible Temperature problem, E8400 is worth a look at

...The Core 2 Duo E8500 is an extremely fast processor for the LGA 775 socket. At a stock speed of 3.16 Ghz, it is already fast enough to accomedate most user's need, but if people want to push it further, then thats not a problem for this. I bought the processor at the beginning of last year, and what a great purchase it was. After updating my Bios on the motherboard to support the 45nm processor, it was set and ready to go. After a while though I decided to try and overclock it, and was amazed at how well it did it. I managed to get it 4Ghz + stable with just a simple after market cooler. Overclocking is no problem for this, aslong as you have to motherboard and cooling to match. When I bought this there was a big debate between the E8400 and E8500, and all it comes down to is .5 of a multiplyer. E8400 is...

Kovu123 21.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 / 3.16 GHz processor

A Cheap core2 duo processor with handy features.

Advantages: High FSB, large L2 cache memory, 64 bit architecture, operates in low voltage.
Disadvantages: Does not support Hyper-threading technology, very poor L1 cache memory.

...is only enabled if and only if I have 64 bit supported BIOS. But, I have 32 bit bios in my system. Anyway, still it is pretty good and supports multi tasking to a certain level. The high FSB allows steady good performance from all the hardwares . I can surf internet, listen to music and also play some decent entry level games at the same time. This is fair enough for me. It also operates in a very low power. This is definitely a plus point, since it also consumes less power and doesn?t get heated easily. It also comes with the cooler and heatsink on top to keep them cool. All in all a decent core 2 duo processor with some handy and helpful features and it is recommended for standard pc users. ~INCONVENIENCES~ To be honest with you, there is no significant drawback. But, E4500 is a very decent processor with handy features. But...

Gladiator007 26.03.2009 · Read review
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Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz - 13.3" TFT - excellent!

Advantages: portable, runs very fast, large storage with TimeMachine application for backing up your work
Disadvantages: some problems with using Safari, though this may be due to the wireless network I am using, costs!

...In my opinion, the Apple Macbook Pro is an ideal laptop. As a student, I find that it meets all my needs - I can store plenty of music, photos etc even though I bought the cheapest one with the smallest memory. The system operates very fast and comes with both Firefox and Safari. My only criticism is that it only comes with textedit and so you have to buy iWorks for around £65. However, despite this it is good value for money and I don't regret spending my 2 years worth of part-time earnings on it! It has everything I want from a laptop and is ideally portable and good for watching films despite the smaller screen size. Another feature I particularly liked was that it has a light up keyboard for when you are in darker rooms - you can adjust the brightness of the keyboard the same as you can for the screen. Looks very impressive! It is...

mairig1 24.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz - 13.3" TFT

At the Core of Apple

Advantages: Made of metal, better battery, better overall compared to previous models
Disadvantages: Expensive, underpowered

...Manufacturer- Apple Features Processor- 2GHz Pentium Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB cache Memory/RAM- 2GB ? 2 x 1 GB sticks 1067 MHz DD3 Hard-drive Space- 160GB Graphics chipset- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 256 MB DVD Superdrive Screen size- 13.3 inches TFT, Widescreen USB- 2.0 x 2 Ethernet Adaptor Airport Bluetooth Audio input socket Inbuilt microphone Inbuilt camera Mini display adaptor- unfortunately it doesn?t come with a lead Mag-safe 60w lead Operating System- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard This model doesn?t come with a remote as standard- which annoyed me because I had to sell my other one as it was part of my other laptop?s original accessories. People ?s main complaint with Apple is that their products are way too expensive, and that having a Mac is far inferior to a PC- but this is mainly down to the fact that they were poorly powered yet...

sirmitchalot 25.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo

Macbook core 2 duo 13.3 inch aluminium casing

Advantages: Stylish design, solid case, light weight
Disadvantages: gets a bit warm under windows

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bryan_t 12.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo

  Introducing core 2 duo at the lowest price

Advantages: Greatest value and performance at the lowest price, highly overclockable
Disadvantages: Only 1MB L2 shared cache, performance hit in games

...; ▀ ▀ First was the great Core 2 Duo E6000 family. The first Intel Core 2 Duo processor cores, code-named Conroe were launched on July 27, 2006 at Fragapalooza, a yearly gaming event in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. These processors are built on a 65 nm process and are intended for desktops, replacing the Pentium 4 and Pentium D. All Conroe processors are manufactured with 4 MB L2 cache; however, for marketing purposes, the E6300 and E6400 versions based on this core have half their cache disabled, leaving them with only 2 MB of usable L2 cache. These processors had great performance and after a long period Intel had again the performance crown in the processors market, beating AMD's Athlon X2 in the majority of benchmarks. The E4000 family (Allendale core) was launched after few months with the main role to compete...

neo1983 03.08.2007 (07.08.2007) · Read review
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Intel Core 2 Duo E6750/ 2.66ghz

Advantages: Fast clock speed / Good amount of lvl2 cache
Disadvantages: Could balance out workload onto both cores a bit more

...This processor is a fairly mid-high spec for core 2 duo range it delivers some great performance for a good price. This cpu can handle a lot of multi-tasking along with playing powerful games. Usually i can run a defragmentation and notice it hardly at all i can play games and play music with no problem it just makes desktop computing so easy. As you may know this is an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 / 2.66ghz cpu, It has 2 cores on the one chip. it runs with 64-bit architecture which then opens up a whole new world of 64-bit operating systems for tommorows technolodgy...this along with the fact it has 4mb lvl2 cache makes superfast repsonse rates to programs and files i have also noticed that their are not so many "cache misses" to which i expected so this pleases me the most :D The only downside is that i have noticed that core...

mazuk88 07.02.2008 · Read review
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