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Apple releases MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
The Apple Store (US) is still down as I type this, but the apple.com splash page shows the MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo, as many of us suspected was coming when the store went down this morning.
Apple says the new Core 2 Duo MacBook is up to 39% faster than it predecessor. That's pretty freakin' fast. Prices start at $1999 for the 15-inch 2.16GHz with 1GB of RAM and top out at $2799 for the 17-inch 2.33Ghz. The 15-inch 2.33GHz is $2499 and both 2.33GHz model ship with a whopping 2GB of RAM! That's double the RAM across the board. It's about time!
Thanks, as always, to all of you who sent this in!
UPDATE: I just noticed that Firewire 800 is back as the standard on the 15-inch models, as well as the 17-inch. Yay :)
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Zac said 9:04AM on 10-24-2006
The thing I'm most excited about is the magsafe airline adapter they've now offered. Any chance it'll work in cars, as per a cigarette adapter?
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DD_nVidia said 9:04AM on 10-24-2006
Def getting it for the christmas :P
Would have been better if they waited for mobile nVidia 8800 :(
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Jacob Varghese said 9:05AM on 10-24-2006
Looks like they still haven't updated the consumer Macbooks.
That sucks.
This leaves them far behind the laptops from HP.
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Zac said 9:06AM on 10-24-2006
"The MagSafe Airline Power Adapter is not compatible with automobile power ports."
So no, no it's not.
Damn.
Anyway, they're cool. Now I can convince my friend to buy a 17-inch Macbook Pro.
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Carl Trimble said 9:09AM on 10-24-2006
Well GOOD MORNING then!!!
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peekytoe said 9:10AM on 10-24-2006
Can someone find out who's making the 200GB HD? And is 4200 rpm noticeably slower than 5400? This is the largest harddrive option i've ever seen on a mac notebook.
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Sebastian said 9:13AM on 10-24-2006
The base config. comes with 1GB of RAM Standard. The higher up 15 in. and the 17 in. come with 2 Gig standard..
Nice!
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Leonard Nimrod said 9:15AM on 10-24-2006
As Peekytoe mentioned they now offer a 200GB @4200RPM HDD in the MBP line. That really does rock for those of us that need/want the addiotnal storage.
THE 15" now has DL-DVD burning. It's about F-ing time!.
I'm still confused with the 3GB RAM maximum. Can anyone explain that?
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Ben C said 9:15AM on 10-24-2006
I like the supported option for 3GB of RAM when using a 2GB stick. The FW800 port is also a nice touch. Also didn't realize that the C2D has a 4MB L2 cache intead of the 2MB one in the original Core Duo. Other than the faster CPU, standard memory increase, larger standard HD, and FW800, is there anything different?
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mungler said 9:21AM on 10-24-2006
So apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
;)
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Leonard Nimrod said 9:27AM on 10-24-2006
To All The Whiners:
Is there anything that Apple missed? It appears Apple listened to their customers very well this time around. If you say 17-in-2 memory card reader, internal modem and PCMCIA slot I will hunt you down and shoot you.
FYI: The DL burning in the 15" MBp is a 6x, not an 8x like in the 17" MBP.
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Hammo said 9:28AM on 10-24-2006
to #6
Fujitsu Mobile MHV2200BT SATA-150 (200gb, 4200rpm, 8mb)
Toshiba MK2035GSS SATA-150 (200gb, 4200rpm, 8mb)
One of these most likely.
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Gandhi said 9:31AM on 10-24-2006
I really wished Apple upgraded the graphics and screen res.
I was hoping for 1680x1050 on the 15" model, and 1920x1200 on th 17" one. And was hoping Apple had switched from ATI to the latest Nvidia goodness.
That and the magnetic latch (like in the non-pro Macbook). Guess I will just have to wait and see what Apple does once Santa Rosa comes out.
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Dark Morford said 9:34AM on 10-24-2006
Merom CPU, RAM boost, and dual-layer burning on the 15"? Awesome. Now all they have to do is put iLife/iWork '07 on there and I'm sold on my first Mac.
(In no real hurry... I've got an HP notebook that's still got a good year or so in it.)
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Rom said 9:39AM on 10-24-2006
I am sitting this one out since the upgrade is not that much compared to the Core Duo.
Am hoping for the NVidia GPU as well the Centrino Pro specs (1GB NAND flash + HSDPA) bundled with Leopard. :D
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Wheels said 9:41AM on 10-24-2006
I just hope they put the heat sinks in the right place this time!
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Hammo said 9:44AM on 10-24-2006
Own a Core Duo Macbook or Macbook Pro? Today's news got you down? Try the following upgrade for immediate joy:
Go get a 7200rpm SATA drive for your baby and watch it fly.....
In real terms I don't find my 2ghz CD Macbook much slower than my 24" C2D iMac. Can't say I am bothered about much of today's news.
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Dark Morford said 9:45AM on 10-24-2006
... and Leopard. How could I have forgotten Leopard?
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icerabbit said 9:47AM on 10-24-2006
I'd never go for the 5400 let alone the 4200 rpm drive.
On a standard macbook if you want to encode larger files the hard drive is so slow the cpus hover around 50%. So, while the C2D is n% faster technically, it won't encode anything faster than the hard drive can feed it.
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illobo said 9:51AM on 10-24-2006
so, if i return my MBP for some system board problems (like the whine) , they should change me to a C2D system board ?
APP on the way ?
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