Jake Widman
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 04:12
IT Industry -
Strategy
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Apple also took advantage of the WWDC speech to fill a gap its product line.
The company has introduced a 15-inch MacBook Pro; up till now, there was nothing in between the 13-inch aluminum MacBook and the 17-inch MacBook Pro.
The new notebook shares the unibody aluminum construction of its two siblings. It's less than an inch thick and weighs 5.5 pounds (2.49 kg).
It's available with a Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.53, 2.66, 2.8, or 3.06 GHz, and comes standard with 4 GB of RAM but can support up to 8 GB.
The three highest-speed chips can also be paired with an Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor.
It also takes a 250, 320, or 500GB 5,400-rpm hard disk, with options for a 320 or 500 GB 7,200-rpm drive.
Pricing starts (in the U.S.) at $1,699 for the base model. Beefing it up with a 3.06GHz processor, 8GB of RAM preinstalled, and a 500GB 7,200-rpm drive bumps the price up to $3,649.
The rest of the notebook line was shuffled around a bit as well: the 13-inch aluminum MacBook was welcomed into the Pro family, even though it costs less than it did before (starting at $1,199). And the 17-inch model is now available with a 3.06GHz processor and up to 8GB of RAM.
The 13- and 15-inch 'books also get SD card slots.
So in sum: before we had a 13-inch plastic-body MacBook, a 13-inch aluminum MacBook, and a 17-inch MacBook Pro. Now we have a 13-inch plastic MacBook and 13-, 15-, and 17-inch MacBook Pros.
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