It’s arrived: the new MacBook Pro. And it looks about as badass as its product page.
You’ve dreamed about it long enough. Now it has a name: MacBook Pro. Powered by a dual-core Intel engine. Up to four times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics bandwidth. With built-in iSight for instant video conferencing on the move. And Front Row with Apple Remote to dazzle everyone in the room. Wait no more.
Apple claims the 1.83GHz MacBook is 4x faster than the Powerbook G4. And it comes fully loaded with a 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and 1GB of RAM. The display has a resolution of 1440×900 (we saw this in the last generation Powerbooks too), but is apparently 67% brighter.
Having convinced myself that I need a new computer (my iMac case has tiny little cracks in the clear plastic that keep me up at night) I have been waiting for word on the Powerbook’s successor. Now I can bequeath the iMac to my wife (who will surely welcome it over her sluggish PowerMac G4) and return to the land of laptops where (I must admit) I’m much more at home. I’ve concluded I just don’t like working at a desk.
Update: Engadget has a hands-on first take with some photos. See Hands-on with the MacBook Pro
