Apple’s New MacBook Pro
It is out now. Apple has released all the Information about there New MacBook Pro. This is what it is called now. Powerbook was yesterday, MacBook Pro is the Future. It’s avaible with the Intel Duo Core (1.67 Ghz or 1.83Ghz) and is supposed to be 4.5 times faster then a Powerbook G4. It comes with a 15.4″ Screen (1440×900 pixels), Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.0, Firewire 400 and USB 2.0. Memory starts by 512MB Ram and is upgradeable with up to 2GB of Ram. In default it comes with an 80GB Hdd but you also can get 100GB and 120GB Hdd’s with 5400rpm or a 100GB 7200rpm Harddrive. The real good Graphicpower comes with the ATI X1600 with either 128MB or 256MB Ram. It weights around 2.5kg and starts by 2179Euro including Vat. It comes with Mac OSX 10.4.4 and also gots iSight build in over the screen. One of the nice new features is a thing called MagSafe with is a new chargerplug that goes into your Mac and is held by a magnet so even if somebody falls over your cable it prevents your Mac from getting pushed down from a table. There were no information avaible yet about the Battery Runtime. Apple also wants to have changed there hole Product range to Intel till the end of 2006.
Here are some images of the MacBook Pro
Here is a quicktime animation.
There is also an interesting TV Ad out now.
It includes the following lines:
“The Intel chip: for years, its been trapped inside PCs, inside dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks, when it could have been doing so much more. Starting today, the Intel chip wlll be set free and get to live life inside a Mac. Imagine the possibilities.”
