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Apple Updates MacBook Pro Range (Mostly)

Well, in case you live under a rock, or otherwise hate the internet (which’d be somewhat ironic given that this is on the internet, but…), Apple finally announced some long-awaited upgrades to the MacBookPro range today.

Mostly.

I say mostly because the little brother, the 13″, saw only a meager handful of upgrades, mostly a new battery now promising up to 10 hours of battery life (versus the claimed 7 on the model I bought). It’s also been bumped to the NVIDIA GeForce 320M.

The bigger bros have new processor options, with Core i5 or Core i7 processors available for both models. The big boys also upgrade to NVIDIA GT 330M GPUs and will auto-switch between them and the integrated GPU as needed to performance and to save battery life, no longer do you need to pick one and reboot. Batteries are also beefed up on these, but don’t hit the magical 10 hours number of their little bro.

Oh, and there’s a new 1680×1050 screen resolution upgrade available on the 15″ model.

The rest of it’s mostly what it was last year. Aluminum unibodies, huge glass trackpads with 4-finger multi-gesture, LED illuminated keyboards, general all-around spiffiness. No, seriously, I’m enjoying my unibody. Never figured I’d be a Mac guy, but it’s a mighty fine laptop.

Of course, if you’re a Windows user, Bootcamp makes running Windows a mostly painless experience these days (though ym audio drivers do have the occasional problem). You won’t see those epic battery life numbers, from personal experience. Windows 7 just seems a bit more power hungry than Snow Leopard (I can only get about 2 hours in Windows on last year’s 13″ MBP, versus 5-6 on average in OSX).

Aaaaaanyway, those new Macs are available now. So, go over to Apple’s site, spec yours out, relishing the new options and such, and then get with us about what you want and watch us work that Roberts magic for you.



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