New Laptops from Apple
The new 17in MacBook Pro is an amazing piece of enginering, with its new aluminum unibody case, an 8 hour integrated battery, and full size desktop-like LED backlit display, the new 17in MacBook Pro is a welcome addition to the MacBook family.
Following the design standard set by Apple late last year the new 17in MacBook Pro is getting the Aluminum unibody enclosure. Carved from a single block of aluminum, the new unibody enclosure is slim and streamlined, making this MacBook Pro the world’s thinnest and lightest 17-inch notebook — just 0.98 inch thin and 6.6 pounds. But it’s not just for looks. The rigid construction of the unibody also makes MacBook Pro more durable than ever.
The battery in the new 17-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to 8 hours on a single charge and can be recharged up to 1000 times – compared with only 200 to 300 times for typical notebooks. While most notebooks wear down their batteries by charging them at a constant rate, the 17-inch MacBook Pro takes a different approach. Using an Apple-developed technology called Adaptive Charging, a microchip on the battery constantly communicates with the computer to determine the optimal way to charge its cells, adjusting the current up and down depending on a variety of conditions. Combined, these advancements offer a dramatic improvement in battery lifespan: more than three times the lifespan of typical notebook batteries — up to five years.
The new battery technology in the 17in MacBook Pro is also one of the reasons Apple is able to get full desktop-quality color in an Apple notebook for the first time. With the high-resolution LED-backlit widescreen display on the 17-inch MacBook Pro, the moment you open your MacBook Pro, you’re greeted instantly by full, corner-to-corner screen brightness. The 1920-by-1200-pixel resolution (133 pixels per inch) means you can view more palettes and windows or watch HD video in its native 1920-by-1080 resolution.
Another quick hardware change that snuck in under the radar this week was the revision of the white MacBook. The white MacBook is still maintaining the $999 price point and same outward appearance, but the changes internally are great. The New White MacBook boasts the new Nvidia 9400m Chipset giving this machine tremendously more power without breaking the bank. Instead of sharing 64 MB of Video Ram with the system it now shares 256 MB with the system meaning your iphoto library will load and scroll faster and your iMovie projects will render quicker. The other big change internally is the frontside bus moving from 800 MHz to 1066 MHz, meaning data and instructions gets from the hard disk to RAM to processor faster. Currently the New White MacBook is also the only Mac laptop below $1800 to have a Firewire port.
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