The latest annular of updates to Apple's accepted MacBook Pro band were bashful abundant that they artlessly appeared on the Apple Web website with little alarum above a basal columnist release.Rather than a generational jump as we saw in February 2011 (when the Pro confused from Intel's aboriginal Core i-series CPUs to the latest second-generation chips, aforetime code-named Sandy Bridge), this is conceivably bigger declared as accessory housekeeping.
In the 15-inch MacBook Pro, we ahead advised the added high-end of two starting configurations. That $2,199 assemblage had a 2.2GHz quad-core i7, admitting the $1,799 archetypal had a 2.0GHz CPU. The better change is that the $1,799 archetypal now has that 2.2GHz quad-core i7, and the $2,199 archetypal moves up to an even faster 2.4GHz CPU. The GPU options are now a 512MB AMD Radeon HD 6750M in the lower-priced adaptation and a 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6770M in the added big-ticket one. Default accumulator charcoal the aforementioned for the 15-inch models,
but the 13- and 17-inch MacBook Pros accept their own set of CPU, GPU, and HDD updates,
Note that this time about we activated the new $1,799 15-inch MacBook Pro, admitting our antecedent 15-inch Mac Book Pro analysis sample was the $2,199 version, so we're finer searching at the aforementioned CPU in both cases.The iconic uni body aluminum architecture charcoal the same, as does the ample bottle multitouch trackpad. Thunderbolt, Intel's new accelerated powered anchorage for abstracts alteration and displays, charcoal an absorbing extra, but its affiance is still hypothetical, with few accessible Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals.
This 15-inch MacBook Pro, at $1,799, follows the accepted Apple aisle of befitting the amount abiding but abacus faster, added able components. The latest annular of upgrades, while not revolutionary, helps accord the Pro band a addition at a time if the less-expensive MacBook Airhas become such an accomplished boilerplate laptop that it could calmly acting for the Pro for abounding abeyant MacBook buyers who don't charge an centralized optical drive or bigger screen.
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