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Dan pointed out some nice tidbits about the new MacBook Pros, but he didn't mention something that I just noticed while perusing the MacBook Pro site. The base model (2.16 Ghz core 2 Duo, 15 inch) comes with one gig of RAM standard. This is up from 512 MB. The other two models come with 2 gigs of RAM.Reply in the Mail.app with a specific quote.
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Erno Miettinen said 8:14AM on 10-26-2006
And even better it's a single DIMM.
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Zac said 8:30AM on 10-26-2006
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lokipo said 3:48PM on 10-26-2006
Kudos to Apple? Yeah right, as a reseller, I´d rather say: Damn you Apple. Taking away about the only money left to earn on these books. Great, really.
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Galley said 9:42AM on 10-26-2006
This is certainly welcome news as one week after I picked up a 1 gig stick for my MacBook, the prices jumped an amazing 60%!
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Carl Trimble said 9:22AM on 10-26-2006
Will someone explain why you can order 3 gigs of ram (one two gig chip and one one gig chip). But you can not order a MBP with 4 gigs of ram?
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Leonard Nimrod said 9:29AM on 10-26-2006
It's the limitation of the Intel chipset. The next generation chip will not have this lower limit.
Either way, the high cost of a 2GB chip and the fact that most people don't need 3GB RAM, much less 4GB, means that it's really nothing to be concerned with.
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Josh said 10:00AM on 10-26-2006
You can get a Dell with 4GB RAM. The processor can only address 3GB, with the other 1GB going to other things. Don't quote me on that second part, though.
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Marc said 11:37AM on 10-26-2006
"And even better it's a single DIMM."
UM....Take a look at the specs again. It looks like the MBPs that come with 2GB have to 1GB DIMMs. You can order a 2GB DIMM to replace one of them to bump it up to 3GB, so 2GB DIMMs are available. But they don't come standard on the two upper level models of MBPs.
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Marc said 11:42AM on 10-26-2006
Oh...I just got that you were talking about the lower level model with 1GB....Nevermind. I'm planning on picking up the mid-level model as soons as they get them in inventory at the local store, so I have that one on the brain.
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lakiolen said 9:44PM on 10-27-2006
Why is this a good thing? Apple excessively overcharges for memory. $575 for switching a 1GB stick to a 2GB one?? You can find a 2GB stick from a reputable manufacturer for ~$200. That's I wish they would let me get the 15" MBP with the better video card but the 1GB of ram so I could buy the extra 2GB stick myself.
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Metrobilly said 9:45PM on 10-26-2006
Yep, I think most people would agree it would be best if Apple actually shipped these babies with NO ram, then we could drop 3 GBs into them for a fraction of the cost.
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Rob Blatt said 10:46AM on 10-27-2006
The other change in the MacBook Pro is that they no longer offer a 7200 rpm hard drive put inside the laptops.
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baileb said 8:03AM on 11-10-2006
Here's what I want to know. With those of us stuck with Macbook pro running that old legacy intel chip :-) can we bump to 3 gig's ?
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