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.

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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.

How many slashdot icons does Apple get?

[Missing.Matter]

They have the Apple logo, iOS logo, iPhone, and Macbook. Why does apple get so many special Slashdot icons?

Re:How many slashdot icons does Apple get?

[Rary]

They have the Apple logo, iOS logo, iPhone, and Macbook. Why does apple get so many special Slashdot icons?

Meanwhile, Microsoft gets a dated sci-fi reference attached to a dated image of a guy who doesn't work there anymore.

Re:How many slashdot icons does Apple get?

[Kjella]

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

And yet pretty much every tech site feel a need to post what is essentially free slashvertisements for Apple, otherwise people think they're out of touch with current trends. Of course slashdot being full of IT people and engineers hate all that branding, advertising, marketing and so on but you can't deny that the free publicity is a huge, huge business asset. Dell or HP or Acer releasing a new laptop model gets a meh on a few computer sites, that's all..

Re:How many slashdot icons does Apple get?

[Anubis IV]

And yet, somehow, these make sense. Apple is known widely for its recent products, while Microsoft is mostly known for its older ones and for Gates. The Ballmer years have not been kind to them.

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

Re:iPad

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Or Apple could get really crazy and issue a firmware update that allows the iPhone/iPad to optionally wirelessly sync in the background when at home/on the charger, so that "syncing" could take advantage of wireless networking and network storage capabilities(which things like the time capsule indicate that Apple can certainly handle) rather than being pretty much exactly identical to what Pilot 1000 owners were doing in 1996...

Re:The 15 inch quad core price is very disappointi

[glennpratt]

I thought the same before using a MacBook Pro every day for work for a year.

You just don't get the stability, performance, battery life and build quality in a cheap Windows notebook (I've bought tons of them after much research when I worked in IT). Runs for months on end, 80 hour weeks, never shutdown, rarely restarted, basically never gets in my way.

Re:Resolution

[beelsebob]

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

Re:Reduced battary life

[LordNimon]

I'm pretty sure Adobe is working on an update that will allow all four cores to run at 100%.

Re:Number of Apple stories in last three days

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Dozens.

Overkill much?

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Yeah, overkill. Slashdot's really ramming this down our throats. It's not like we're screaming at Slashdot to keep publishing Apple stories or anything.