THE NEW MACBOOK PRO 17-INCH

The last MacWorld was a little disappointing. Other than the fact that nothing revolutionary was displayed we also missed Jobs keynotes. But although some things were missing Apple did come clean on a lot of other products including the new MacBook Pro 17-inch.

If you read our posts two days ago about the rumors surrounding the new uni-body system, we're happy/sad to report that they are true. Happy that finally the sexiest 17-inch system has finally gotten the needed upgrades and sad because some of them are should I say idiotic.

The new system will go for the same price as its former ($2799). And the specs are as follow.

1920 x 1200 LED-backlit display
2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 6MB L2 cache
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory
Nvidia GeForce 9400M
Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT / 512MB
320GB hard drive
Slot-loading SuperDrive

The cool features is that it sports the new uni-body frame that all the other MacBooks have been wearing for the past few months. The contrast ratio is 700:1 which means be prepared to see the light so to speak.

The only drawback from the new system is the integrated battery. According to Apple is was crucial to make the battery non-removable for performance and design reasons. The battery gets 8 hours on integrated graphics and 7 hours on discrete graphics and the battery is good for 1000 charges before you're laptop must be plucked out of your hand for a two week repair (unless you carry it to an Apple store, good luck funding one).

So far we haven't gotten a full review as the system is set to release in a few weeks but be prepaired to expect some stellar performances fom this system.

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