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maX_Andrews
02-23-2006, 07:10 AM
Apple's Macbook Pro has starting shipping to pre-order customers and is poppining up in retail apple stores around the country. This is on-target with apple's statements at the launch of the macbook in mid-january at the macworld expo, saying that the macbooks would ship around mid-february.

Here is an article of initial impressions regarding the intel powered macbook: http://mobilitytoday.com/articles/apple_macbook_pro/3.html

Battery life has been reported to be about four hours at full brightness without power save mode or screen dimming on. OSX's power save settings will dim the display ater a specified period of inactivity from the current setting, run the chips at lower power and performance settings for non-processing intensive tasks, and spin the hard drive down when it is not needed. These power saving features are expected to give a significant bump in battery life while performing non intensive tasks such as word processing, and would work well in airplanes, for example.

Here is a gallery of disassembled macbook pro pics, showing thre inner details of this new laptop. http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=/hardwareandnews/mbp1520/mbp1520.html
Jaspur
02-23-2006, 05:21 PM
Yay, mine i shipping now! Should have it monday.
agreenster
02-23-2006, 05:34 PM
I'm curious to see how Maya performs through rosetta for animating. I remember seeing a video of someone using Maya (for modeling) on a 2ghz Intel iMac and it was decent. But then again, modeling on my 1ghz powerbook was decent too, but animating was abysmal.

I opted for the nearly-exact same spec'd Dell Inspiron e1705 because it was 800 bucks cheaper (2ghz core duo, geforce 7800). Battery life blows on it though.
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