At the unibody MacBook event back in October, Apple remained mum on the unibody 17″ MacBook Pro, though hinting that one was in the works.
During today’s Keynote, Schiller made it official.
Here’s what we know so far:
- “Longest lasting battery ever” – up to 8 hours on a single charge, 1000 recharges. The downside? It’s built in.
- Unibody design
- 0.96 inches thin
- 1900×1200 resolution, 700:1 contrast ratio, with a color gamut 60% greater than previous models
- 6.6 pounds
- Anti-glare Matte option available for $50.
- 2.9ghz processor
- Up to 8GB ram
- Geforce 9400m (Up to 8 hours on battery)/Geforce 9600m GT (Up to 7 hours on battery)
- 360GB hard drive, or up to 256GB with solid state drives.
- $2799 gets you a 17-inch LED display, 2.66GHz proc, 4GB of RAM, and a 320GB HDD.
- Shipping “later this month” (January)
Makes me wish the MacBook Wheel was real. What a let down.
If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. — Owner’s Manifesto (makezine.com)
well i gota say, the only downfall i see with this laptop is the battery, but apple does make up for it with the long lasting battery. before this i was going to go with ramping up the 15 inch instead of buying a lower end 17, but now I may be reconsidering forking over for the fat 17 inch.
8N4MBO hi! how you doin?