Among all the hoopla of the desktop Mac refreshes this morning, we missed the minuscule MacBook Pro update. The higher-end 15-inch model, you know, the $2500 one, got a processor bump from 2.53GHz to 2.66GHz. And a 256GB SSD for a whopping $750. Not good enough for you, huh? How about a $300 bump to a 2.93GHz processor? In case you haven’t caught on, that puts the high-end 15-inch model on par with the 17-inch MBP except the latter can take up to 8GB of RAM.
Anyone buy the 15-inch model recently?
If they’d fix the horrible problems with the dual-link video out, which affects anyone using a Macbook Pro with a 30 inch monitor, they might have themselves a sale.
Hey Peter – I’m thinking of getting the exact combo. 30 inch monitor with a Macbookk Pro. Please let me know what problems I can expect and if there are any ways around them Thanks.
Anyone got a MBP with a SSD? Curious how it effects batter life.
The SSD doesn’t dramatically improve the battery life from what I can tell, but it is killer fast on reads. Computer starts up incredibly fast, applications startup is fast. I’m never going back.
I got my MacBook Pro yesterday… It’s kinda disappointing but I wonder if a difference of .27GHz is noticeable…