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Animated Video MacBook Pro Teardown
New Macbook Pro Doesn't Support 8GB RAM
New MacBook Pro: In Depth Analysis
Drive Shootout: HDD vs SSD in the MacBook Pro 2.8GHz
New MacBooks Flying Off Shelves In France
New Unibody MacBooks Provide Some Reasons to Buy an Earlier MacBook Pro
How the Unibody Aluminum MacBooks Strengthen Apple's Position
New MacBook Gives You More For Your Money
Animated Video MacBook Pro Teardown
TechRestore Blogs' Brian says:
Here's our latest animated tear-down video: a look inside the brand new MacBook Pro! As an added bonus, by popular request, I got footage of Chet putting it back together.
These new MacBooks Pro are amazing! The whole trackpad is a button, which doesn't seem all that much better than tap clicking, until you go to drag stuff, which is sooo much better this way! The four-finger Expose controls are wicked too.
You can check it out at:
http://www.techrestore.com/blog.shtml
New Macbook Pro Doesn't Support 8GB RAM
AppleGazette reports:
According to iFixit it looks like the new Macbook Pros will not actually support 8GB of Ram. NVIDIA representatives have dated previously that the new chipsets used in the MacBook and Macbook Pro could support up to 8GB of Ram, but after testing, that doesn't seem to be the case.
The article further notes that the Macbook Pro tested recognized the the RAM, but only used 4GB while active, and that it's possible this could be fixed in the future with a firmware update..
For the full report visit here:
http://www.applegazette.com/macbook-pro/new-macbook-pros-wont-support-8gb-ram/
New MacBook Pro: In Depth Analysis
HardMac's Lionel reports:
Hereafter are details and information we noticed after having tested the MacBook Pro for several days.....
Some snippets:
• In standard usage, meaning no 3D request or tasks requiring CPU/GPU to be fully loaded for a long period, the MacBook Pro enclosure remains "cold", even if you are charging your battery.....
In summary, in normal usage, the new MacBook Pro is quieter and colder than the previous models.
• Trackpad usage is just dead-easy and should not disturb you at all.
• Keyboard more comfortable than the one from the previous MBP model
• In standard usage, the GeForce 9400M is more than enough power, and there is no noticeable slow down when using iApps.
• Sound is overall much better than in the previous MacBook Pro
• The image provided by this display is simply gorgeous
• The new MacBook Pro simply looks gorgeous, on all sides, the "finish" of the notebook is simply beautiful
• When using the new MBP for a standard usage on the GF 9400M, the battery will last more than 4 hours
For the full report visit here:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-10-27/#9078
Drive Shootout: HDD vs SSD in the MacBook Pro 2.8GHz
BareFeats' rob-ART morgan reports:
We love the ease with which you can change hard drives on the 'late 2008' MacBook Pro. We ordered our 2.8GHz lab "rat" with the 7200rpm 320GB drive option (which happens to be a Hitachi Travelstar 7K320. We obtained the OCZ Core Series 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) to test against it.
We put the factory drive in FireWire 800 enclosure to boot from and tested an identical empty 7K320 against the empty SSD. We wanted to measure the maximum speed when empty as well as simulate a full drive with the help of DiskTester 2.
For the full report visit here:
http://barefeats.com/mbpp08.html
New MacBooks Flying Off Shelves In France
HardMac's Lionel reports:
According to several sources, new MacBook models seem to fly out of shelves, and especially the entry-level one. The large stocks initially provided by Apple to support the official launch of the product melted as ice-cream in the sun. As an example, one could not find a MacBook on Saturday in Paris among all resellers we called....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-10-27/#9077
New Unibody MacBooks Provide Some Reasons to Buy an Earlier MacBook Pro
Low End Mac's Andrew Fishkin reports:
It was extremely exciting when Apple released its first new laptop case designs since the plastic MacBook of May 2006. 2-1/2 years is an eternity in the tech industry, and when you consider that the high-end MacBook Pro models were introduced months earlier (with an uncanny resemblance to the aluminum PowerBooks from 2003), you can see that Apple's designs were a bit long-in-the-tooth.
Needless to say, anticipation was high, and in very uncharacteristic fashion, there were plenty of hints and leaks floating around the web about what the new models would look like.
Now that they are out, how do they compare? Do they make everything that came before obsolete? Are the "early 2008" models suddenly low-end Macs?
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/fishkin/08af/oct-2008-macbook-changes.html
How the Unibody Aluminum MacBooks Strengthen Apple's Position
Low End Mac's Tim Nash says:
The more automated the production line, the easier and cheaper it is to do short production runs. The 2.5 lb. aluminum brick is the same. So to change from MacBook Pro to MacBook bodies, all Quanta has to do is change the program running in a few CNC machines and some of the attached tools. This will further strengthen Apple's top of the class inventory control.
The more rigid, more precisely engineered body may also help to reduce mistakes in assembly. It should certainly help with warping as the MacBook ages and lessen returns for cosmetic reasons, such as discoloring. The gap in consumer satisfaction scores between Apple and the rest should widen....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/nash/08tn/unibody-macbooks.html
New MacBook Gives You More For Your Money
Walter S. Mossberg writing in The Tampa Tribune says:
Apple's MacBook laptop, the company's low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn't just any old product. It's the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the United States overall. And, according to the sales-research organization NPD Group, the midrange model of the MacBook has been the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. retail stores for the past five months.
So, when Apple completely revamped the design of the MacBook recently, it was a big deal.
I've tested the base model of the new MacBook for five days, and I like it a lot, despite a few downsides. I found this new MacBook to be speedy, solid, innovative, and comfortable to use, with very good battery life.....
It's 10 percent lighter, at 4.5 pounds, and 12 percent thinner, at 0.95 inch, than its predecessor....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6648t8
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