New MacBook Pro series

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Post by frytaz » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 1:43 PM UTC

New MacBook Pro series
apple.com

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by PHPAdam » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 1:55 PM UTC

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Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by CrazedGeek » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

I was about to post something to the effect of "I'm disappointed that the 13-inch model replaced the Nvidia GPU with an Intel one", but it seems to be decently better: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by ssn » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

What's new?

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by Torn » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:02 PM UTC

Interesting they've included an integrated graphics controller (Intel) but also a discrete ATI card with 1GB of its own memory.

I wonder if real-world gaming benchmarks will really have near the promised 3x improvements over the last gen MBP's...

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by shareme » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:02 PM UTC

Its the first MacBook Pro that I have wanted to buy

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by wippler » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:02 PM UTC

may be they should've relabeled the 13" MBP as Macbook and retired the white Macbook, frankly the specs are quite low except for the CPU.. display at 1280x800 :(

But the 15" and 17" inchers look awesome with quads

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by NathanKP » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:02 PM UTC

It seems as if for the last couple years every time Apple releases a new device it gets less expensive than the predecessor. I wonder if this is just an economy of scale effect, if as Apple grows they can afford to make less expensive computers, or if the lower prices are driven by falling hardware costs, or if they are deliberately driving the price down to grab a larger market share.

Either way the Apple product line up is just getting better and better in my eyes.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by joshfinnie » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:03 PM UTC

I never understood why the 13" version is such a second class citizen? Is it that different of a footprint that Apple can't fit the same technology in it... or is this Apple's plan?

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by pclark » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 2:05 PM UTC

Torn wrote: post #5

Interesting they've included an integrated graphics controller (Intel) but also a discrete ATI card with 1GB of its own memory. I wonder if real-world gaming benchmarks will really have near the promised 3x improvements over the last gen MBP's...

hasn't Apple always done this?