Apple: The new MacBook Pro
Introducing the new MacBook Pro:
Precision aluminum unibody enclosure, LED backlit display, next-gen graphics, multitouch glass trackpad, mini display port connector (putting on all new macs), environmentally responsible.
Next-gen graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 9400M is now in the MacBook pro and the GeForce 9600M GT as well.
Multiple buttons via software and a gorgeous multitouch glass trackpad-New trackpad for notebooks.
The trackpad is the button now with a 39% larger tracking area, multitouch, glass for silky smooth travel.
“If you compare this with the pro graphics in the MacBook Pro, we’re at 55 percent of 3D graphics performance instead of 10 percent. If you look at overall graphics performance, we’re at 82%.
From about 3x to 6x speedups when we go to play games on it (real world performance)”
The chipset + GPU on one die, 70% of die area is GPU, 16 parallel graphics cores, 54 Gigaflops of graphics performance, up to 5 times faster graphics than Intel integrated graphics.
The 15.4-inch base model will be priced at $1999, with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM and both GPUs. The $2499 model will have a a faster CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD. The 17-inch MacBook Pro comes in a similar configuration.
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Filled under: Desktops, Laptops
Tags : apple, new macbook pro, notebook, nvidia geforce, precision aluminum




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One Response to “Apple: The new MacBook Pro”
8:09 pm on Oct 20th, 2008
Glass trackpad, ouch. They’ll only buy it in Romania if it’s Termopan.
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