The Apple Store is down, and new MacBook Pros are on their way. We saw the 13-inch yesterday: now we’ve got the details on one of the 15-inchers and 17-inchers, respectively.
Here’s what we’re looking at for the 15-inch and 17-inch:
• An Intel Core 2.0 GHz i7 quad-core processor with a 6MB cache (15-inch)
• An Intel Core 2.2 GHz i7 quad-core processor with a 6MB cache (17-inch)
• 4GB of DDR RAM at 1333 MHz (both)
• 500GB hard drive (15-inch)
• 750GB hard drive (17-inch)
• 15.4-inch LED backlit screen with 1440×900 resolution (15-inch)
• a 17-inch LED backlit display with a 1920 x 1200 resolution (17-inch)
• Intel HD Graphics 3000
• AMD Radeon HD 6490M GPU with 256MB of memory (15-inch)
• AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1GB GDDR5 memory (17-inch)
• FaceTime HD camera
• 8x SuperDrive
• Thunderbolt and Mini DisplayPort
• SDXC slot, FireWire 800 port and two USB 2.0 ports
• Audio and Ethernet ports
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Like the 13-inch we saw yesterday, these are more modest updates to the MacBook Pro line than we anticipated, boasting no LiquidMetal design or ubiquitous SSDs. The only notable update is the adoption of Light Peak, branded by Apple as Thunderbolt.
There’s still two new MacBook Pros (a 15-incher and 17-incher) to be revealed, but expect them to be variations of these two. We’ll let you know price when the Apple Store comes back up.
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.
17 responses to “These Are The Specs To The New 15-Inch And 17-Inch MacBook Pro”
looking good, too bad the USB is still 2.0, and not 3.0…
what… no blu-ray again? -___-
I think that’s supposed to be the point of “Thunderbolt”; to not have to implement 3.0
I think Apple will remove the optical drive before putting in BluRay
With Apple looking toward the cloud and with the all of their online stores I don’t see Apple ever supporting Blu-ray. But, if you need one that badly you can go buy one from a third party vender. I personally haven’t used my optical drive for anything serious in a long time. Once I finish converting all my DVDs to digital files I won’t really ever have use for it again.
Blu-ray died the moment they won their battle against hd-DVD. Seriously who uses optical discs these days?
Everything I wanted in the 15″ except the screen res. would be nice for full HD
SDXC is in 13″ and 15″. 17″ MBP has ExpressCard slot instead.
Interesting and useful post