This is just totally sick. The guys over at Germany’s Hardwrk have taken 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a 1TB Samsung 830 SATA III SSD bundled up in an SSD-RAID-0, slapped it into a 13-inch MacBook Pr running an Intel Core i7-2640M 2.8GHz chip.
The result? A three-thousand euro behemoth of a machine — custom-engraved and covered in a beautiful matte black covering — that they say is the world’s fastest MacBook Pro, and with a 1.7 second PhotoShop boot-up time, we’re inclined to believe them.
Best of all? They’re giving this bad boy away to one lucky winner. All you have to do is leave a comment on their post.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
181 responses to “Win The World’s Fastest 13-Inch MacBook Pro With A 1TB SSD!”
Been wanting a macbook pro for so long.
Wee
I may die if I didn’t touch it. well done guys .
Do want!
About time to replace my old MBP
Super awesome.
Yes please.
1.7sec Bootup? OMG! This is a dream come true
Checking!
That is AWESOME!!! Would be a great replacement for my aging MacBook Pro!
Awesome…looks good…
Yes and yes
This is really cool … and … I wanna win it!
I just put a 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 in my early 2011 2.2Ghz MacBook Pro with 16GB Ram. It is absolutely ridiculous; everything is instant. An SSD is the best thing you can do to your computer if you are looking for significant performance gains. I’ve built tons of systems throughout my days and done tons of performance upgrades and tweaks. Never have I seen such an immense performance boost from any component like that of an SSD upgrade. Once you use a machine with an SSD you soon realize how much HDD are holding everything back. All of the sudden your machine boots in just a few seconds (especially OS X machines), Apps launch instantaneously, and the entire system is cooler and quieter. One major factor that was previously holding me back was losing all that storage space that comes with HDD, however, with iCloud, iTunes Match etc. I found that 240GB of storage was more than suffice and cloud storage is only going to become more prevalent. So if you were thinking about dropping some cash on a brand new machine first consider upgrading to an SSD. I promise you, your old machine that you once thought was getting old and clunky will feel like a brand new system.
I need this more than you, I think. – Carl Johnson.
This is truely amazing! And it was made for me, Gadget Boy! http://is.gd/aOl4Au
AWESOME!! YES PLEASE!!! This would be GREAT for storing all my data and for data processing!
I can haz?
Awesome, that would be like the most amazing first laptop ever :D
This would be awesome to have :]
Wow this is an awesome giveaway, good luck to all those that are entering and I wish you the best of luck.
I wanna win
This is so cool .. I want!
Me please
Yes yes wanna
Yes yes wanna
Incredible Tri-force of awesome. Speed, beauty, and power? Well played.
Oh my. This is a lovely machine.
Wow what a beast of a MBP, definitely want one!!
I think I just climaxed
What a radical laptop! I’d love to take it for a spin as it’s new owner.
Pure evil genius! MUST.HAVE.ONE! Make more pretty please!
please let me win jebus.
Perfect for video and photo editing!
Every machine should be like this!!!! I want this beast!
Amazing!!! Please oh please let it be me!
Way better than my iPad. I want one
SICKKKK!
Not strictly a 1TB drive, it’s two 512 drives striped as a RAID 0 volume. Just something to keep in mind… that’s about performance, but comes with increased risk to your data. Back up, back up, back up. (I recently had a catastrophic drive failure in a RAID 0 array in a Mac Pro at work, and the volume wasn’t backed up, because the guy who configured it thought “RAID” meant redundancy #facepalm).
I’m sure I can find a way to make this thing useful. But, if you decide to go in another direction, pick AliJoy.
Our main concern about getting a laptop (other than the higher cost than a desktop) is less memory to put our stuff on the computer. We run our movies and music through Apple TV. That would address our concern. Looks very nice.
looks sweet!
Jawdrop. Amazing Macbook.
Yeah buddie!!!!
that’s sick :D
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They say size doesn’t matter but Hardwrk does!
To russia, with love…
1TB!!! Please be me!
Drool. Drool…
Didn’t show start up time :(
Hopefully this is a fully working MacBook, seeing as how Germany has upheld its ban on Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe push services…maybe they left some things out. ;)
Would have though it would cost more that 3000 Euros
Holy smokes, what a machine! As Van Halen penned so many years ago: “Everybody wants some, I want some too.”
Over here! I’ll take it.
What a spec, would be nice
Not even trying to WIN this i just love Apple – which means am a Mac
Oh pick me!
Awesome! I’d love to say I won something in my lifetime!Please?
You guys know it’s not this blog post you are suppose to comment on right… or no you didn’t did you.
I need this, it seems to good to be true! :)
Apple is the best!!!!
O.M.G……… it’s so… Sexy..
Oh my. What a machine. Millennium Falcon of the Apple world!!
MANNNNN. do you really mean it? I NEED this MONSTER, please.
WOW ! Awesome!! i would like to have one! :)
OMG…I love it
Absolutely, sign me up.
fell in love instantly
Looks impressive :)
C’mon I have never won anything in my life, luck be a laptop!
Beautiful craftsmanship
Looks impressive :)
Now THAT is Insanely Great!
Cool mac config
Oh my… I need a napkin after reading that specs.
Oh my god, give my old macbook specs like that!
The reason I want to win the MacBook 13″ is because I am a college student. well truthfully I am a full time college student and my younger brother is becoming a senior in highschool soon this coming fall. Well he doesn’t have a laptop and I have a 15″ MacBook pro but I always need it for my colleges courses and can’t lend it to him a lot. Well we have to one old computer with a slow hard drive I mean really slow and he can’t do his homework or essays fast because of it. Sometimes I feel bad about it but yes. Right now we could buy
A labtop for him but with te economy and money. I saw this free giveaway competition and thought why not give a try to win my brother a labtop for free. So that’s my reason. [email protected]
Awesome! This could run a CAD-program properly
Very nice.
Great I already picked a spot for my new laptop! Is it coming via FedEx or UPS?
I want it!!!
Me please!!!!!!!
That is one pimped up Mac book!!!
Incredible!!!!!!!!!
Cool a spiced up MBP…
I’ll take it
Awesome! It would be great for my photography course!
Would love to win that beast….
A+! Would comment again!
Incredible! This monster would be great for school!
Wow thats incredible!
nice piece of machine
OMG hellyes please I love the Germans! .. And the beer!
This could really help my business of helping others!
Woow, thats really BAD BOY
I want this! Actually…. Can it run Crysis? (Troll)
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Shotgun.
Looks AWESOME.
My early 2011 MBP 15″ (with added 480Gb Vertex3 SSD and 16Gb RAM) does a Photoshop CS5 start in under 2 seconds. Must say I love such a high performance machine
I’d take it to every cafe I could find just to showcase how beautiful and powerful it is. Might motivate others to think differently with theirs Macs.
Love this machine.
Finally, a computer that would actually impress Sheldon Cooper!
mine
ooaaa!!! nice of machine
This would have to be THE most awesome piece of tech I have ever seen! I would do anything to have this!
This, would, complete me.
Customising cars is one thing, tweaking the engine adding a turbo but now people are doing it to MBPs!!!
1.7s boot up of photoshop too, that’s pretty awesome! Amazing work.
I used to think that Mac is no where as good as pc, but this changed my mind!
Seems awesome.
poopfeast420
Cool!
That is really impressive
Very impressed!
Yjis would be better than Fantastic!
Omg I want this machine!
Amazing piece of Mac!!!! I wish Apple would release these kind of equipment! Great job, guys!
wow, just wow,, count me in!
I NEED this machine!
My iMac died a couple of months back. I am currently without a machine and I think this will fill that void.
Simply amazing, I’m in awe!
Thank You for CultofMac.com to sending this Information to us and Giving us an Opportunity to have this Macbook Pro! You guys are Amazing! :)
please please pick me. thanks!
Somewhere, above us all, Steve Jobs is smiling at the Hardwrk put into this beautiful machine.
I don’t own any iOS or MacOS gadgets right now and i think this is the time for me to have one. 16GB of RAM is one hell of a Memory with a 1TB of SSD?!?! what the hell!!! i want one, Please pick me. XD
This would be perfect for my home and office and perhaps convince my workplace to switch to MAC as a primary after seeing it when I bring this in
Thanks for a GREAT opportunity!!!
This would cure my need for a new laptop update.
I use mine for all the Adobe master suite products so I put 12 GB ram(icores prefer sets of 3 and it saved me $80 over the 16GB upgrade) and a 750GB momentous XT Hybrid Drive in my 2.4 i5 13in MBP and it is smoking fast! I never thought to replace the optical drive, nice! Please let me have this one! I will donate mine to a starving artist or something!
you could do After Effects editing sitting at the park!
i will put it over a broken down hp laptop
i’ll put on my helmet coz it’s like riding a ducati
this machine must be straight out of hell!
or am i in heaven?
Woah! simple engineering beauty! would make my life a lot easier! damn. just a sexy machine!
Just wonder how its so fast?
Want to test it, Hope i will get free
Great work!
thats something Steve Jobs would have taken with him..
Would people buy this if Apple sold these :O What a beauty!
GREAT, INCREDIBLE… I need it. Thanks
Ohhh hubba hubba! This MacBook Pro is outrageously sexy! Finally a bad boy that I can bring to bed and not worry about sluggishness. There’s nothing slow or shy about this hunk of hardware. He’s sleek, powerful, and tasty to my eyes. I’ll scream with ecstasy if I should be so lucky to win all 13″ of this powerhouse!
… my dear Lord .. heaven is comming to the earth !!! .. I don’t need woman anymore !!!!
After all my coffee this morning I did not think anything could keep up with me. Well these guys changed it all. Slow Saturday mornings, no way It time to work on all the things my lame job has been keeping me from. This will help its a big list.
I want it!!
This would be a perfect money saver for me!
This would be better than fixing up the old white Macbook that’s on the shelf…
cool
Lets call it iSuperMac…..love it…
I’m lost for words. Awesome.
oh yea
Must try this in order to find out how fast this thing really is. Looks awesome.
iLust4U – holy smoke this baby wants me bad…
I’ve never had a Mac before. Been saving up some money to get one but this would be amazing!
This Mac looks amazing… I would love to have one.
Nice one!! Needs
A dream-come-true! (my PhotoShop boot-up time on my old macbook = 1.7 min :-)))
Smart people, smart machine. Good job!
WOW!
one word: amazing.
Unreal performance! This is the MacBook on steroids! :-)
Dammit. This was the project _I_ wanted to build. Ah well, seeing as the works already done I would seriously like to give it a go. :)
Wow…… this is krazy amaZing !!! 1tb ssd and 16 gb of ram….= speechless……
Sounds awesome
WOW!!! Way to go! lol
Awesome innovation for the new world
This Macbook Pro is like “the golden apple ” from godess Afrodite, a gift from heaven!
love this MBP!
This is the definition of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Wow.
If you really want me to… I´ll take it :)
I’m head over heels in love!<3
This is every geeks’ wet dream come true. A Ferrari of notebooks!
This laptop sounds amazing! Would be a great replacement for my 2007 MBP Santa Rosa.
i hope i win this awesome machine!
Did I win?
I would enjoy this laptop very very much 0_0
yesss please!
Ja, ich will!
Amazing work!!!!
World’s great laptop! Nothing Can beat Apple!!! I hope I can win!!! Coz i am an Apple avid fan!!!
I always wanted a fast and powerful MacBook Pro laptop
look amazing I so can not believe what i’m seeing if only I could win that beauty i’d proberly thank those who chose me and i wont do anything but go on it but that’s if I win. i really need one for my work and all the rest and i have waited for an macbook pro and i love fast and very powerful things like this macbook nothing can beat APPLE they ae the best