Overview: The new 15" MacBook Pro

Between the low end MBP 15", is there any difference in the shared memory? I am wanting to be able to play games for the next three years and it seems like most games are oscillating between 128 and 256 req...only a few games go past that state. Should I opt for the 512?! Is it worth the additional money? I just graduated college and I don't even game that much, but I have many games so I am thinking of getting back into it. Also, I am coming from a white mac book 2 GHz with 64 MB shared memory...I'm sure the change will be huge huge huge!

Yeah, I have been awaiting this announcement to help decide between a new Quad Core iMac or a 15" MBP. I was hoping for a quad core i7 MBP but no luck. Looks as if it is going to be an iMac and an iPad for me, but I will await some test results to make sure. I use Photoshop, Lightroom and Final Cut Express and want the processing power and I was hoping would get it with a MBP

Buying an SSD from Apple is just silly. Go to NewEgg and get one for a fraction of the price and pick yourself up a screwdriver.

Also, OCZ and Crucial drives are pretty bad... Sure, they scream when new but the OCZ have a very high failure rate, and both use a poorly designed controller chip that causes significant speed degradation over (not that much) time. We're talking 2000%.

The Intel SSDs don't look as good on paper because of the comparatively low write speeds, but the algorithms in their (own) controller are far superior to anything else and do a much better job of preserving speed over time. SSDs are tricky little fuckers.

Would an eSATA connection killed them?

It's about time! I have been waiting for this update since December! Off to the Apple Store I go!

I'm glad the 15.4" MBP update has finally arrived. Unfortunately, I'm a little disappointed that the specs really aren't what I expected them to be. The last discrete GPU was 256/512MB as well. I would have expected to see a 1GB option by now. I can't really complain about LightPeak right now because it isn't finished yet, but it is disappointing that the MBP is still on USB 2 when NEC came out with a USB 3 controller last June. It definitely doesn't have a "new" feel to me or a 3G/4G built-in modem for internet on the go. Sure, I could get a USB 3G/4G modem, but that is already going to take up one of only two available USB ports on this model. It would just be simpler if there was a BTO option for a built-in 3G/4G modem and AT&T coverage like there is for iPad.

I just ordered a 15" i7, 500 GB HD 7200RPM, hi-res anti-glare. Currently I'm on a 1st gen Core Duo, and what was really killing me was the 2GB max RAM that it supports. I'm expecting to be blown away by this new system.

Anyone else notice the hilariously impossible reflection on the MacBook Pro page? (it threw me off-- I thought the page hadn't loaded properly).

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

Look at the middle machine (15")... The screen is reflected below the "floor", whereas in reality, this wouldn't be possible.

Now, I'm not usually the person to criticize others' websites, but a) I have high expectations for Apple in the design department, and b) like I mentioned earlier, it threw me off, and I thought the page hadn't loaded properly.

Still no official SATA II support. I hope this generation doesn't have the same compatibility issues as the last did with 3rd party hard drives.

> (I can only imagine what my experience would be switching from a 2GHz Intel Core Duo)

I'll let you know when it arrives. :)