Quad Core, Thunderbolt In New MacBook Pros

Although as I write this the store is still down, the Apple web site has officially published the specs for the revised MacBook Pros, which top out at 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 for the 17" as well as offering a 512GB solid state drive. Somehow I don't think my boss will let me expense the one I want.

Re:Reduced battary life

[kingtheseus]

Apple is now using a more realistic battery life testing suite: "Apple is using a new, more rigorous battery test that measures the results you can expect in the real world â" like surfing your favorite sites in a coffee shop or catching up on the latest web videos."

Thunderbolt

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Intel's official name for the technology formerly codenamed Light Peak

http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm

No, it's not an Apple made-up name.

Re:Resolution

[Missing.Matter]

13-Inch

Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio stretched; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio stretched

15-Inch

Supported resolutions: 1440 by 900 (native), 1280 by 800, 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio stretched; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio stretched

17-inch

Supported resolutions: 1920 by 1200 (native), 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1280 by 1024 pixels at 5:4 aspect ratio; 1280 by 1024 pixels at 5:4 aspect ratio stretched; 1600 by 1200, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 1600 by 1200, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio stretched; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio stretched

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html [apple.com]

Re:How many slashdot icons does Apple get?

[Anonymous Coward]

Most of the Apple "news" tends to be advertisements. Like this story.

Re:Resolution

[jevring]

I of course mean that *I* stand corrected. Not the anonymous coward posting from my phone... =)

Re:How many slashdot icons does Apple get?

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot is pretty much dying. Nobody really cares anymore :(

Re:Kind of weak

[Osgeld]

my bad its a 2.8ghz dual core i7 I was looking at

Re:Resolution

[beelsebob]

Notably, the 15" one can be upgraded to 1680x1050 at build time.

Re:now the cheaper macbook pro is better then mac

[MachineShedFred]

As someone who has benchmarked the living crap out of all of Apple's 2010 hardware, I can tell you with certainty that the Mac Pro will still leave these in the dust on any real work. The 2010 Mac Pro is 3 to 4 times faster than the 2010 MacBook Pro i7 in any reasonable benchmark you want to talk about. Maybe it's only 2 to 3 times faster now.

Until Intel releases Xeons based on this same stuff, then it will probably be 4 to 5 times faster.

Re:Buyer's remorse or Buyer's rejoice?

[TheRaven64]

Intel® Core i7-740QM processor (quad core 3.6 GHz)

Not sure where you got that from. The i7-740QM [intel.com] is a quad-core 1.73GHz part. In the highest Turbo Boost mode, it is a single-core 2.93GHz part. It doesn't have a 3.6GHz mode. It's also the last generation (Clarksfield, 45nm) part, while the MBPs use the newer (Sandybridge, 32nm) ones. The slowest that the 17" MBPs come with is the Core i7-2720QM, which is 2.2GHz in quad-core mode, up to 3.3GHz in single-core mode.

Given the other features of that machine, the CPU looks pretty anaemic.