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New MacBook Pro series
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- Tichy 16y agoI recently bought an Acer TimelineX (14'' version) for my mum, installed Ubuntu on it, and my impression is really good. Of course it is not all-aluminium, but apart from that, the specs are nice. It cost 620€ - About half of a 13'' MacBook Pro.
- PHPAdam 16y agoIn other news Dell XPS Laptops Add Premium Audio, 3D Video, Sandy Bridge Processors.
- CrazedGeek 16y agoI was about to post something to the effect of "I'm disappointed that the 13-inch model replaced the Nvidia GPU with an Intel one", but it seems to be decently better: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.html http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...
- DocSavage 16y agoI'm a bit disappointed because I wanted to fool with GPU programming and I think Nvidia is still the standard there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638324/nvidia-vs-amd-gpgpu-performance http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638324/nvidia-vs-amd-gpg... Does anyone have any experience with OpenCL versus Cuda?
- tcoppi 16y agoyou can't program cuda in os x anyway, apple only uses OpenCL. As far as I know, os x doesn't support OpenCL on the intel graphics chips either
- reustle 16y agoOf course they don't.
- danieldk 16y agoI didn't encounter any problems using nVidia's CUDA toolkit on OS X. If you mean that it is not provided out of the box, true.
- DocSavage 16y agoThe people in this forum would be very surprised you can't program Cuda on Mac OS X :) http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=75 http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=75
- tcoppi 16y agoOh wow, I was pretty sure I read somewhere that Apple was only allowing OpenCL. Good find
- ssn 16y agoWhat's new?
- pclark 16y agoQuad core i7 instead of dual core i7 in 15" and 17" i5 processor in 13" Thunderbolt 10Gbps integrated into DisplayPort connection AMD/ATI Radeon graphics chips
- xutopia 16y agoActually the older generation of core i7 were quad core too but had less cache than this generation. L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB
- cjeane 16y agohttp://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-compare.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-compare.html
- Torn 16y agoInteresting they've included an integrated graphics controller (Intel) but also a discrete ATI card with 1GB of its own memory. I wonder if real-world gaming benchmarks will really have near the promised 3x improvements over the last gen MBP's...
- pclark 16y agohasn't Apple always done this?
- Stormbringer 16y agoThe combo of built in and also discrete graphics is a relatively new phenomenon for them. I remember back when they introduced the first MBPs with the two different built in graphics chips they were hyping it up, but the audience reaction was stony to say the least, because the previous MBPs had had a moderately good (for the time) graphics card, and built in graphics were perceived as being of a much lower capability, so that was a step backwards in power. It might have given them great battery life (I seem to remember that as their big selling point), but it meant you couldn't play graphics intensive games on them.
- Stormbringer 16y agoThe combo of built in and also discrete graphics is a relatively new phenomenon for them. I remember back when they introduced the first MBPs with the two different built in graphics chips they were hyping it up, but the audience reaction was stony to say the least, because the previous MBPs had had a moderately good (for the time) graphics card, and built in graphics were perceived as being of a much lower capability, so that was a step backwards in power. It might have given them great battery life (I seem to remember that as their big selling point), but it meant you couldn't play graphics intensive games on them.
- cjeane 16y agoThis is the same configuration as the last gen MBP. They just traded nvidia for ati.
- shareme 16y agoIts the first MacBook Pro that I have wanted to buy
- wippler 16y agomay be they should've relabeled the 13" MBP as Macbook and retired the white Macbook, frankly the specs are quite low except for the CPU.. display at 1280x800 :( But the 15" and 17" inchers look awesome with quads
- casschin 16y agoI agree. I'm especially bummed out that the screen resolution is the same as before. I was hoping that it would be 1440x900! Given that the Macbook Air 13" is 1440x900, it's plausible.
- scott_s 16y agoI think that was the original goal - hence why my original 13" unibody just says "Macbook" and not "Macbook Pro." I think they originally planned on retiring the white plastic model, and either calling all of them Macbooks, or just calling the 15" and 17" models Pros. I can only assume they changed because there was still demand for the slightly cheaper plastic model.
- NathanKP 16y agoIt seems as if for the last couple years every time Apple releases a new device it gets less expensive than the predecessor. I wonder if this is just an economy of scale effect, if as Apple grows they can afford to make less expensive computers, or if the lower prices are driven by falling hardware costs, or if they are deliberately driving the price down to grab a larger market share. Either way the Apple product line up is just getting better and better in my eyes.
- joshfinnie 16y agoI never understood why the 13" version is such a second class citizen? Is it that different of a footprint that Apple can't fit the same technology in it... or is this Apple's plan?
- cjeane 16y agoThe main driving factor here is not making the technology smaller, it's running those chips on a smaller battery. All of the MBPs achieve a claimed 7 hours battery life.
- borism 16y agoplan. remember that 13" didn't even have Pro in it's name at first - it was called Aluminum Unibody MacBook when first introduced.
- maggit 16y agoThe footprint is that different. The volume is smaller, but the HDD, optical drive, keyboard, trackpad, and several other parts stay the same size. Of course the smaller laptop is going to be less stocked with features.
- smallegan 16y agoAnd people expect to pay less for a 13" version...
- Stormbringer 16y agoProbably because of overlap between it and the MacBook and the MacBook Air? Frankly, I'm amazed they still offer a 13 inch MBP (which is not to say that it isn't a good little machine, but that Apple likes to segment their market clearly) I can't see the prices and options at the moment, but it may be that the MBP is just a couple of hundred bucks more than the top end MacBook, which means that some people might stretch that little bit extra.... but the Apple lineup is becoming very cluttered around that small portable computer strange attractor.
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- tsycho 16y agoInteresting that they are now offering a SSD drive......does this mean they have now added the SSD TRIM command (or planning to add it in Lion)?
- pclark 16y agothey've always offered SSD
- gumbah 16y agoIndeed, they've done so for some time now. I hoped it would be the default in the new MBP's... :-(
- ojbyrne 16y agoThere is already an SSD option for current Macbooks. No TRIM.
- yread 16y agonewer SSDs (Vertex 3 Pro) actually perform worse after a TRIM
- gimpf 16y ago_worse_? I'd expect worst-case no-change, if it would hurt, the vendor would make TRIM a NOP. However, I'm always open for a source. (AnandTech for instance writes, TRIM just doesn't help, at http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/6 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-...) [edit] Well, if you look at the numbers, one column actually got worse. Wow.
- CountSessine 16y agoNot sure why you were voted down - I really want to see Apple support TRIM, too. Does anyone know whether there's a next-gen interface standard that's being worked on that might supersede SATA, with more elegant support for flash memory (beyond SATA's hacky NCQ+TRIM)?
- wheels 16y agoColor me disappointed. I was hoping for: • Ditching the optical media for longer battery life • 4 cores in the 13" • Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn't listed ... maybe?) • The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13" that the Macbook Air has Altogether it's a pretty wussy update. Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13" model, which is what I care about) is: • Faster CPU (finally!) • Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation) • 3 hours less battery life
- nikster 16y agoI don't think it's less battery life - it's just measured more accurately. Love the quad core. Hate the CD drive - fill up that space with something useful, not a dead weight. I'd have to install an optibay adapter with SSD but I don't see why I'd want to to hack a brand new laptop.
- siglesias 16y ago>>• 3 hours less battery life The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17'', but who really got even close to that under normal use? I'm thankful they're taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.
- wheels 16y agoI'd be surprised if that's what happened. I suspect this is just another unrealistic number that's the same proportion of reality as the previous numbers. That said, when I'm traveling and going for extended battery life (read: trans-atlantic flights) I get pretty close to the rated number by dimming my backlight and shutting off wifi and bluetooth.
- ericd 16y agoApple reported that they were changing the way they measured/reported battery life with the last MacBook air launch, and explained that it was less favorable, but more realistic.
- marknutter 16y agoI remember when Apple used to have events for their notebook releases. Sigh.
- ugh 16y agoThey never had events for speed bumps.
- wmf 16y agoThunderbolt and FaceTime HD aren't exactly a speed bump.
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- KeithMajhor 16y agoI've never seen a more beautiful laptop. What can they really do besides include faster components and add features to software?
- ugh 16y agoDitch the two spinning drives and build in a SSD by default? That would allow for a redesign as well as a larger battery and would certainly warrant an event. After the MacBook Air, it’s only a matter of time until they do just that, maybe next year. (I can only hope. I’m actually seriously considering schlepping my 2007 MacBook Pro around another year.)
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- whyohwhy 16y agoWhy is this on HN?
- WillyF 16y agoBecause it's a device that a large number of HN users will probably end up owning and using to do their jobs.
- jokermatt999 16y agoBecause a lot of people here use a MBP as their main development device, at least from what I've seen in the comments. However, this topic being near the top of the front page does amuse me, because I saw several accusations of HN having a strict anti-Apple bias. That's not to say that there's a strict pro-Apple bias, however, just that the community seems to be genuinely split.
- maggit 16y ago> the community seems to be genuinely split. Or nuanced, perhaps? I mean, I am very opposed to everything iOS because of politics, but I am very pleased with my MBP. I don't need to downvote Apple's announcement of new MBPs just because I don't agree with the politics surrounding iOS.
- jokermatt999 16y agoYeah, I was a little vague there. I didn't mean to imply that people interested in MBP would be supporting everything done in iOS, just that there was not a simple pro- or anti- Apple opinion here. Thank you for explaining that better than I did.
- code_duck 16y agoThat's a good thing, considering you can't downvote articles on HN.
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- nicksergeant 16y agoDoes anyone know if Thunderbolt will support multiple displays? If I hear a yes, I'm off to the Apple store.
- robryan 16y agoYou'd think so, it did say something like up to 6 devices.
- nicksergeant 16y agoThat's what I'm thinking. As stated here: "...including your display. And with support for video and eight-channel audio, it’s easy to connect HDMI-compatible devices — like your TV and home stereo — using the HDMI adapter you already have. Current VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort adapters are also supported." -- So, one DP monitor, another with HDMI, another with DVI.
- weaksauce 16y agoIf this allows for daisy chaining monitors I might just get the newest one.
- honopu 16y agoI agree with you. It'd be great to be able to run 3 monitors from a closed mbp as a tower replacement. We'll have to see what kind of display adapters they come up with. I use a Diamond NV usb-2 video adapter and it works well for excel or mail, but if you are trying to actively use spaces it gets very laggy due to bandwidth constraints on usb2.0
- nicksergeant 16y agoYeah, I've got the Diamond BVU195, too. Slows everything down, especially spaces and other things that use Core animation.
- rufo 16y agoSupposedly DisplayPort is theoretically capable of at least one extra display, but Apple's tech specs page still says "an" external display, so I don't think they've implemented that yet. Still, I'm thinking there might be Thunderbolt-compatible external video cards. Since the wire protocol is PCI Express, it seems possible, and performance should be better than external USB video cards.
- xubz 16y agoNo BluRay combo drive.. I was very much expecting it to be present in the series update.
- philthy 16y agoporn industry killed the bluray
- xuki 16y agoApple will never include a Bluray drive. Period.
- beaumartinez 16y agoWhy?
- xuki 16y agoApple won't add a new technology to a product for no reason. I can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay. Moving forward, I hope Apple will get rid of the optical drive or offer an option to replace it with a 2nd HDD.
- jokermatt999 16y agoI can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay. For those of us without excellent internet connections, it's the only feasible way to get HD movies.
- xuki 16y agoOh, well. Maybe because I live in Singapore here where internet connection is damn fast I took it for granted.
- mmt 16y agoI suggest that you're therefore not a mainstream user. Obviously circular reasoning aside, the other feasible way is to spend more time on a slower internet connection. Under 24 hours on a 2Mb/s connection for 20GB isn't prohibitive, unless you're looking to stock your hard-disk for a trans-Pacific flight.
- philthy 16y agosucks i bought a MBP two months ago...
- Corrado 16y agoYea, I just ordered 4 Henge Docks for the current (last?) generation MacBook Pro lineup. Crap! I have a support question out to Henge to see if the ports line up or not. BTW: I'm not affiliated with Henge in any way, just a satisfied customer. If you need a dock for your MBP, the Henge is it!
- flomo 16y agoI'm excited about "Thunderbolt" because someone will finally be able to build a real Mac laptop dock/port replicator. Henge looks nice, but having a bunch of plugs sticking out from a piece of plastic seems like such a kludge.
- Corrado 16y agoIt actually works quite well. I have it set up behind my huge cinema display and it looks kinda like a tiny tower back there. :)
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- netmau5 16y agoNo retina display, oh well, I didn't really want three MBP anyway.
- trezor 16y agoWill you be able to get a MBP with a builtin 3G-adapter yet? No? Ok, I'll just go back to Dell then. Edit: While my comment may come off trollish, this is a requirement for me when buying any mobile gear. That Apple still doesn't provide this for their top of the line laptops still baffles me.
- mmt 16y ago3G? What about 4G? I'm a little irked that there's no system bus [1] slot, into which I could install a 3G/4G combo card. However, in the past, I've turned out to be unwilling to spend the extra money on the dedicated hardware and extra subscription. I'd rather have a (nowadays quite tolerably small) USB dongle that I can use on any laptop or even a battery-powered wireless access point [2] than the sleek convenience of something built-in that only supports what was available when I bought it. [1] e.g. ExpressCard, though, since the 802.11 on the pre-unibody generations appeared to be mini-PCIe, I do wonder if there's hope for a combo wifi/wwan card, even aftermarket. [2] I'm a huge fan of the Cradlepoint PHS-300
- Uchikoma 16y agoI second [2]
- daniel02216 16y agoThere is an ExpressCard/34 slot on the 17" MBPs, and there isn't really room for one on the 15" and smaller sizes.
- mmt 16y agoI'm aware, but the 17" is just too huge. The 15" is just right, and I wouldn't mind it being larger, as in previous generations, if only from squarer corners. I'm not convinced there's an issue of space per se, since the SD card slot is only slightly smaller, and, even there, a card is not completely contained within the chassis when plugged in. Doing this with ExpressCard would be better than having none at all, IMO.
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- SandB0x 16y agoDidn't get as much coverage, but there are also new ThinkPads this week: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/lenovo-trots-out-new-thinkpad-t-l-and-w-series-laptops/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/lenovo-trots-out-new-thin... The 14" models look good: 30 hours (claimed) battery on the T420, 0.83" ultrathin T420s with discrete graphics. Edit: Here's the official announcement, which took a bit of digging around to find: http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1421 http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1421 . synacksynack has posted a good link now.
- synacksynack 16y agoHere's the friendly version of the official announcement: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/professional-grade/thinkpad/t-series/t420-t520/index.html http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/professional-grade/thinkp...
- Symmetry 16y agoI'm pretty happy about the resolution bump for the T400 series, even if it means going to a less square screen.
- kloncks 16y ago30 hours (claimed) battery life? That sounds ridiculous. How close (or far away) to the truth is that? Anybody know more?
- emilepetrone 16y agoAsk HN: Get an old 13in MBP or new 13in MBP? The battery is more important to me than Thunderbolt.
- sandipc 16y agoAlso consider that the new i5 in the 13" will be much better than the old Core2Duo.
- steven_h 16y agoThe battery life will be similar, they are just using a realistic test on the 13" now. Go for the new one! :)
- emilepetrone 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258162 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258162
- nir 16y agoConsider the Air. At least the full-spec one ($1800) is fine for web dev (some Eclipse/XCode as well) and the form factor is unbeatable.
- cosgroveb 16y agoSo who's getting ready to sell their old MBP?
- sandGorgon 16y agohmm - you need to go to 1799$ before you end up with a half decent graphics card and 2199$ for a decent card. Compare it with a Dell XPS 15 Sandy Bridge - $1049 for i7 2620M, 1920X1080 display, nVidia GT525 Optimus card, HD Camera. For a first time possible mac buyer (me) - is it well justified ?
- vandalizeit 16y agoYes. I was a first timer on the first unibody. I still LOVE it. I've never loved a PC, Dell, Sony, HP, ACER, Lenovo or otherwise. Part of that is OSX. I find it so much better than Windows, even after having using Windows most of my life.
- weaksauce 16y agoI am pretty much the same way. I got a 13" mb a bit before the unibody was announced and the got the 15" in late 2009. Great machine and still very fast. I LOVE it and am amazed at how useful it is to have a computer that you trust to come out of sleep so quickly and that has good battery life. I only wish I have the 15" with the higher resolution screen.
- achompas 16y agoHave you used OS X before? I pay the Mac premium for two reasons: (1) my laptop is supported by tons of Apple Stores across the country, and (2) OS X is awesome (and since it's Unix-based, I can work in the terminal without a problem). There's also a great reselling market for Macs. If (1) and (2) don't really matter to you, go with the Dell. I'll pay the extra price to get exactly what I want in my computer.
- tomkarlo 16y agoThis... the cost of my computer hardware is basically inconsequential given that these days I'll often get 3-4 years out of it. If I'm using it for work, that's like $2 a day total cost over its lifetime. I'll happily pay an incremental $1 a day for a system that saves me 10 minutes of dicking around and forgo starbucks if that's what it takes. Justifying choice of your primary work system on the basis of even a $1,000 price difference is generally penny wise - pound foolish. I don't think that's a Mac/Win/Linux issue, just common sense when it comes to work tools.
- billybob 16y agoThunderbolt is the coolest thing here to me. The way I read this, Intel at least partly owns the IP on it, so it should be available on PCs in the future, too? (I hope so, because that will create a bigger peripheral market.) UPDATE: Answer appears to be "yes." "...the fastest way to get information in and out of your PC and peripheral devices..." http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm
- sandipc 16y agowhen the 11" Macbook Air gets Thunderbolt and a newer generation of processors, I will be first in line to pick one up. Compact size, internal SSD, and only two cords to plug in each time I sit down - power and data - and data happens to also carry video to a large external monitor setup.
- envane 16y agoThunderbolt is the coolest thing here to me. Same here. For years, my biggest compliant about laptops has been the speed bottleneck between my laptop and large external storage devices.
- jonpaul 16y agoBummed that you can't get more than 8 GB of memory on even the i7. Why are the i7 mobiles only limited to 8 GB? That seems silly for today's standards and memory costs.
- cnlwsu 16y agoits not the new i7 mobiles that are not supporting it... You can get a sager with 16GB http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_customed&model_name=NP8130 http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_customed...
- tjmaxal 16y agoI just bought a MacBook Pro last month. Why can't they announce these kinds of updates so us poor fools don't get caught with old tech.
- mtrn 16y agohttp://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro
- joebananas 16y agoBecause they want you poor fools to buy up their remaining stock.
- tortilla 16y agoDid you buy from an Apple store? Even if you are a little over the 30 days, they might let you upgrade for the difference.
- eof 16y agoNo USB 3.0 is surprising/bad.
- pluies 16y agoIt might be Intel trying to impose their Light Peak format. They already decided to postpone USB3 in their motherboards in favor of Light Peak. Maybe the sweetheart deal with Apple over being the first ones to implement this tech included a "let's not do USB3 too fast, shall we?" clause.
- wmeredith 16y agoSeems to me like they skipped it for Lightpeak, which is also surprising/good.
- TillE 16y agoIs there any technical reason they'd stick with USB2? Politically, I think they want to skip it and push "Thunderbolt" as the better standard, since USB3 adoption is still pretty low. Just look at their comparison chart: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html
- gamble 16y agoProbably because Intel's chipsets won't support USB 3 until next year. Current PC motherboards are supporting it with third-party controllers, which presumably Apple didn't want to bother with.
- brudgers 16y agoTL;DR A year and a half after quad core i7 mobile processors become available (and two and half years after the first quad core mobile processors were released), the MBP gets them.
- icefox 16y agoThe first ones ran hotter/used more power than the case was designed for.
- brudgers 16y agoThe reason was Apple wanted to sell older processors at a high markup. It was not as if Intel kept their roadmap a mystery or that Apple was not capable of designing a new case and by the time unibody 17" MBP came on the market Penryn had been out for more than a quarter.
- swannodette 16y agoConsumer laptops where the OS sees 8 processors. Now is a really good time to pick up Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Scala and see what the fuss is all about.
- zefhous 16y agoAnyone know if you can boot from a Thunderbolt Connected drive?
- ComputerGuru 16y agoApple has always supported booting OS X from external drives, be it USB or Firewire. So I'm sure the answer is 'Yes.'
- wmf 16y agoThe drive would have to either be a device that's already supported by Apple's EFI or it would have to include an EFI option ROM.
- mcantelon 16y agoThe Mac I'm working on is the last Apple product I plan on buying. Not interested in further subsidizing their attempts to normalize restrictive computing models on their iOS platforms.
- lamnk 16y agoUgh, that's the biggest reason i decided to be a first time Mac user.
- xster 16y agounfortunate that almost all the rumours were false - hybrid ssd - better battery - higher resolution - bigger trackpad - thinner body
- nagnatron 16y agoI'm disappointed that the 13" still has no high DPI screen. I think Apple will start pushing higher DPI screens into their laptops when their OS becomes more resolution-independent.
- mrinterweb 16y agoI find the benchmark graphs on http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html frustrating. What is the baseline Apple is comparing to? I have a MacBook Pro with a core 2 duo 2.53GHz processor. I am sure that the 2.2 GHz quad-core processor on the new MBPs is faster, but by how much. How do the processors stack up when running single treaded applications? I suppose I'll need to wait for the third party reviews.
- ashamedlion 16y agoApple always say what the stats are of the machines in the footnotes: http://grab.by/98Pq http://grab.by/98Pq
- code_duck 16y agoI dread this because it makes the model I bought last year feel outdated! I can't see upgrading something like an MBP more than once every two years, though. That's reassuring since I know whatever that model is, it will be fantastic by current standards. The only time my MBP breaks a sweat as it is, though, is on games: Half Life 2 and the PlayStation 2 emulator make the fans come on like it's trying to dry my hair. I'm not 100% sold on my next laptop being an Apple, though. While my MBP is very impressive, it is also a quite expensive piece of hardware... and I'm not impressed by Apple's policies regarding iOS and the App Store. But what is the alternative? It doesn't seem like there is any other manufacturer successfully designs elegant, high performance luxury notebooks.
- mquander 16y agoI have been pretty satisfied with my HP Envy 15 purchased last March, for roughly the same price that a MBP would have cost me. Differences between it and a MBP: Slightly lighter. No cool magnetic charger thing; instead, power brick. Battery life is comparatively awful -- I usually get about an hour and a half. (I don't personally care about battery life.) Envy has better resolution at 15" -- 1920x1080. Envy has what appears to be slightly better graphics card. (That is, a slightly better graphics card a year ago as opposed to what the new MBPs have today. It kicked the crap out of the last-generation ones.) Envy has SSD+HDD instead of having SSD + built-in optical drive. I'm personally much happier with it, since resolution and being able to play games on it are a big deal for me. Not sure what HP's offerings look like today. Other laptops that don't appear to suck, but which I have no personal experience with, include IBM ThinkPads and some of Sony's Vaio series.
- bphogan 16y agoDon't feel out of date. I've had the same macbook pro I bought 4 years ago. It's gone on trips with me, it's been knocked off the couch by my kid, and it runs my unit tests just as fast as my friend's newer model. I paid $1900 for my core2duo macbook pro and got four years and counting out of it. Before that I was buying new Windows machines every two years. They were half the price, but didn't last as long. My next machine, when this one dies, will definitely be a mac. :)
- Groxx 16y ago>Thanks to the new microarchitecture, the graphics processor is on the same chip as the central processor and has direct access to L3 cache. I've been waiting for this kind of thing for years. Up until the iPad, I never would've guessed it'd be Apple that beat everyone out the door. That kind of proximity has the potential to change how we use GPUs, because moving data back and forth can be so much faster.
- wmf 16y agoInnovations in Sandy Bridge are due to Intel, not Apple. All PC vendors use the same Intel processors. CPU/GPU "fusion" sounds like a great idea until you realize that it necessarily involves a weak GPU, which negates any benefit of the close coupling.
- didip 16y agoThey took out the AMD Radeon graphic card on the 13" unit? Make up your mind, Apple.
- raymondh 16y agoThe new SDXC slot is limited to 64GB. That's an odd limitation given that Lexar has already released a 128GB SDXC card. The spec tops out at 2TB, so this slot could have provided a great way to load huge filesystems.
- bane 16y agoSomehow the shot of the side made me feel very old, I hardly recognized what half of the ports were. :(