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MacBook Pros Upgraded and Shipped

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-wow-benchmarks dept.

Moby Cock writes "Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has started shipping the new MacBook Pro with an upgrade to the CPU clock speed. The two models now sport 1.83 GHz and 2.0 GHz Core Duos (up from 1.67 GHz and 1.83 GHz). A 2.16 GHz upgrade is also available. The price point remains the same." Dear Apple: Slashdot needs to review 5 of these indefinitely. Thank you XOXO ;) Seriously, i'm waiting for someone to give good benchmarks on these- especially testing for Warcraft. Now that it has a new Universal Binary I can't wait to see how it holds up against a modern windows machine.

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  1. Battery life? by merdaccia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone have any idea what the battery life of these things are? It was previously unannounced because they were still testing pre-shipping versions. Well, now they're shipping. And the only thing on the technical specs page is a footnote that says

    1. Battery life depends on configuration and use.

    Yeah, that helps.

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  2. Re:Dual boot by _Pablo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well Windows Vista setup boots, but there is no graphics driver for the UGA BIOS so you don't see anything - but remember the keypresses to exit Vista setup and Robert is your mothers brother the computer reboots.

    So it seems the like "Running Windows natively" problem has become one of getting Windows drivers for the Mac hardware which given most of it is now Intel standard stuff means we are really waiting for Apple or Microsoft (or perhaps ATI) to release that driver or for someone to hack the Windows driver to work with the Mac BIOSed X1600s.

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  3. That is an exceedingly bad idea. by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wait for VPC or VMWare. Letting Windows boot your hardware is just begging for a world of pain.

    -jcr

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  4. More Important: What Doesn't Work by JoeCommodore · · Score: 4, Insightful
    As a long-time Mac user (with Macs at work) I am more interested in learning what doesn't work on the new Intel Macs than what does.

    So far Classic is a dead issue (pun intended, but unfortunate for us and Apple) and I'm sure there will be more.

    To me it's just another cycle of waiting (hoping) vendors update thier products (as well as making the upgrades affordable) or manufacturers bother to re-code thier device drivers to work on yet anothewr new Apple platform.

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  5. Re:OS is not everything by Bazzalisk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes we know that macbooks aren't exactly cheap ... and nor are gaming capable PC laptops -- they come out quite comparable pricewise. You certainly can't buy a PC laptop with all of the features of the MacBook for much less than the MacBook costs.

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  6. Re:Happy with Windows machines by Golias · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So my question is, why should I switch?

    My question is, why should we care?

    If you're actually happy with your Windows box, good for you. Why even post in this thread?

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  7. Re:what about preorders? by Echnin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, being upgraded from 1.83 GHz to 2.0 GHz for free constitutes being "screwed" now. That's some way to twist it!

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