Apple MacBook Pro 2.5 Ghz - 17" Widescreen

As a result of the 15.4-inch heels, MacBook Pro and in place of 17-inch PowerBook G4, 17-inch MacBook Pro offers more of the same features as its little brother beloved, as the scrolling track pad, the Sudden Motion Sensor, and great software, and offers a large and bright 17-inch display, which is to work for graphics.the 17-inch MacBook Pro is the standard configuration costs $ 2799 (upgrades to our unity, the price adjustment to $ 3099). But for graphics professionals and other Mac users, silver, 17-inch MacBook Pro is a dream.With the MacBook Pro, Apple has radically transformed the shape of PowerBook-Factor, a few improvements. Measuring 15.4 centimeters wide, 10.4 cm deep and 1 cm thick, the structure, aluminum MacBook Pro is very similar to the 17-inch PowerBook G4 it replaces. At 6.8 pounds, the 17-inch MacBook Pro is a hair more easily than its predecessor and the lightest laptop of its size on the market. With the adapter, which like other Apple laptops connects magnetic Where the MacBook Pro weighs 7.9 kg. In comparison, the Dell Inspiron E1705 weighs 8.2 kg, the Toshiba Qosmio G35 weighs 10.2 kg.

Under the lid, the MacBook Pro is the tradition of the PowerBook minimalist design. The MacBook Pro is simply an on / off, a big keyboard framed by stereo speakers, a large touchpad with one button and a practice of the built-in iSight camera, which is sitting at the screen. Although the keys are somewhat superficial, they are yours and you are the keyboard backlight, which relate to changes in ambient light. We are not only that the keyboard is located 5.4 cm from the laptop front, we were focused on a position of ergonomics. The touchpad, you can scroll through documents, web pages and tables, using two fingers of the PAD, a feature that is unique to Apple laptops. No doubt, 17-inch MacBook Pro is the most beautiful display function: the big big screen has a good 1680x1, 050 native resolution.

The 17-inch MacBook Pro offers a choice of ports and connections, but it is a bit short, what you do on a large-laptop, including the Inspiron E1705. This means that the MacBook Pro is equipped with three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 400 and FireWire 800, one Express Card slot and a DVI (with VGA adapter) to connect to an external monitor. It also supports Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), and you can access the Internet via 802.11g Wi-Fi radio and Gigabit Ethernet. As with the PowerBook, MacBook Pro has a slot-loading SuperDrive plays and burns DVDs and CDs. A new extra is the Apple Remote included with the Front Row media player, we want the MacBook has a location for storage. Unlike most laptops, the MacBook Pro does not have an integrated media player for flash memory cards, and there is no S-video and modem - the PowerBook had.

The MacBook Pro comes with Mac OS X Tiger, highlights of the incredible advantage cool customizable Spotlight and Dashboard, a collection of office tools at hand. In addition, the software robust iLife'06, Front Row Media Center Software, and a handful of other applications. In addition, the beta version of Boot Camp, you can MacBook into a dual-boot engine, all versions of Mac OS X and Windows XP (you need a full version of Windows separately).

The 17-inch MacBook Pro comes with a default configuration that costs $ 2799th Although not many upgrade options, including our hard drive and memory extensions, that the price to $ 3099th Many money, you expect a fairly high-end data, the MacBook is a fast, 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB of fast 667MHz DDR2 RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256 MB VRAM and fire of 7200 rpm, 100 GB hard drive. However, the MacBook Pro is slightly more expensive than other laptops of Windows is configured, such an Inspiron E1705 with similar features costs $ 2889th

CNET Labs compared to 17-inch MacBook Pro to a number of elderly, laptops Apple on the PowerPC processor and Core Duo-Mac. Not surprising that the MacBook Pro trailed behind a PowerBook G4, in the performance of Sorenson Squeeze, the Rosetta translation for the new chipset. But the ability of memory and a fast hard drive helped the power on our Photoshop CS test, in spite of Rosetta. (We hope that the MacBook Pro at a price of more software Publisher Release Universal Binary-known programs, but we recommend testing your applications, or will soon be Intel compatible before buying a new system of Apple.) Courses on native applications such as iTunes, the 17-inch MacBook Pro saw significant increase over the last generation PowerBook. Probably due to its discrete graphics card, 17-inch MacBook Pro Doom 3 very respectable frame rates, while the 23.2 frames per second (fps) with 56.5fps Inspiron E1705 we tested. In our DVD battery-drain test, the MacBook Pro lasted 2 hours, 54 minutes - very respectable for a desktop replacement that is not likely to see too much time away from the socket.

Apple, the MacBook Pro with an industry standard one year warranty parts and labor, but the telephone support is limited to only 90 days - more than what you normally find on your page PC - unless they buy $ 349 Apple Care Protection Plan, phone support and repair for three years. However, you can most PC warranty to three years for about $ 200 U.S.. Apple offers online events and web forums are a good source for advice from other users to download and print the product manual.