Apple releases MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo

The upgrades are very welcome, but disappointingly, there is no longer the option of a 7200 RPM hard drive on the 15", and what's with the 4200 RPM drives? I haven't heard of anyone shipping drives that slow for a long time.

I was annoyed initially, I bought a 17" MBP a month ago- but then i realised no, it won't make much difference at all- my current MBP is only a little bit faster than my 14" G4 ibook in everyday use and what makes it great is the screen, the keyboard, the absolutely amazing speakers and the operating system, none of which has changed on the core2duo version.

now, if they could just make it so that it does not burn my fingers after 2 hours use and give it a decent battery life (5 hours my ar*e) then i would be interested. Maybe the c2d's will actually improve on these things?

There is any posibility of upgrade only cpu on a core duo to a core 2 duo in a macbook pro?

icerabbit that 50% has nothing to do with the harddrive, it means whatever encoder you are using is only using one core. IOW it isn't multithreaded.

A lot of nice little upgrades. Not enought for me to trade in my Macbook Pro, but I think a lot of people waiting would totally jump on this.

I'm only wondering why they couldn't put a FW800 or a faster DL burner in the earlier revisions?

holy cannoli, $750 to upgrade from 1GB to 3GB RAM? Can you buy a 2GB PC2-5300 elsewhere and just upgrade myself? A 2GB stick costs, $400 or so, is there a reason to pay almost double?

Wow. I'm shocked. This is why I hate being an early adopter. 2GB of memory, 120GB hard drive, a double-layer burner, firewire 800? My current Macbook Pro just became second rate. From now on, I'm waiting.

Perhaps the 200GB drive reads more per revolution, due to data density, so the 4200rpm comments may be off the mark.....?

digitalintrigue:
They didn't slow down the drive, they added a 200GB option that, by current physical limitations can only run at 4200RPM. The default drive and other otpions are 5400RPM.

I am guessing Apple removed the 100GB @7200RPM option from it's 15" MBP because it wasn't selling. Not many people will require additional the addtional HDD speed, especially when faced with the decreased battery performance.

4200 rpm?? Nothing like speeding up the CPU and slowing down the drive.

I'll be keeping my MacBook Pro with the 7200rpm drive I installed, thank you very much.