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It's amazing what you can get for $1,500 these days, or even less than $1,000. These laptops are built for comfort, both at work and play, with fast CPUs and graphics processors, good battery life, and enough room to type comfortably and watch a video without...
Great multi-touch mouse, Solid build quality...
Dim screen, Overly-glossy keyboard is uncomfortable...
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We all knew when mobile Nehalem processors were coming out. I kept referencing Q1 2010 as when you're going to want to replace your MacBook Pro. As far as I was concerned, there was nothing Apple could do to make me recommend anything but wait.Then th...
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Apple updated its line of Macbooks and Macbook Pros on the 8th of June 2009 with faster processors, SD card slots, increased battery life, and improved displays. This review looks at the standard top end 15-inch Macbook Pro purchased in the United Kin...
Excellent rigid seamless aluminium chassis, Light and easy to carry for a laptop of its size, Automatically adjusting backlight illuminated keyboard, Gorgeous LEDbacklit display with 60% greater colour gamut, Incredible battery life, 22% improved performa...
Only two USB ports, No ExpressCard slot, Requires adaptors in order to connect to external displays, SD Card slot only supports full size SD cards, High price/performance ratio according to Xbench, Nonuserremovable battery, Dodgy and limited trackpad driv...
So, should you get a standard top end 2.8GHz 15” Macbook Pro? The short answer would be yes. However, at £1,699/$2,299, it is no doubt the least favourite when it comes to value for money in the entire Macbook range, disregarding the values fro...
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Before we look at its technical performance, we like to get a feel for each laptop, checking the case and finishing. Sometimes its easy to get seduced by promises of high speeds, but sooner or later, a faster model will arrive at the same p...
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Thats how Apple has named its strongest version of the 15" MacBook Pro with a 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo and a 512 MB GeForce 9600M GT. The refresh of midyear 2009 has brought a new display with an extendable color space, a SD cardreader and an integrated...
Excellent workmanship, stability and design, Improved display, Usually very quiet, Switchable graphic (in Mac OS), Very light and slim (for 15" notebooks)...
Heat development, Intensely reflective display, Sharp front edge...
Apple still knows how to impress with the Unibody MacBook. Design, haptic and stability are unsurpassed . The performance is also excellent for a 2.5 kg notebook, but the 9600 M GT isn't quite state-of-the-art anymore. The improved display pleased with a...
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Apple's revised unibody MacBook Pro 15in (Mid 2009) is also the fastest we've ever tested.For this mid-2009 update of its laptop range, Apple has kept the unique unibody construction introduced last October, and bumped up processor speeds. But additio...
It’s not the cheapest 15in laptop currently available, but the new Apple MacBook Pro is arguably the best that money can buy today. Only the poor screen quality really lets down an otherwise near-perfect machine. If you can overlook this, then the tho...
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Bottom LineThe new 15-inch MacBook Pro is faster, runs longer on a charge, doubles the memory capacity, and adds an SD card slot. It also has a gorgeous wide-gamut display and a lower price. In short, the quintessential commercial notebook is now even...
The new 15-inch MacBook Pro is faster, runs longer on a charge, doubles the memory capacity, and adds an SD card slot. It also has a gorgeous wide-gamut display and a lower price. In short, the quintessential commercial notebook is now even better.
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From the outside, the latest 15-inch MacBook Pro closely resembles its predecessor. It sports the same solid aluminum unibody enclosure with the indented thumb scoop for opening the lid, the same huge touchpad, and the same stiff button that makes tapp...
Good battery and performance, Bootable SD card slot...
No ExpressCard slot, Nonremovable battery...
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The 15in Apple MacBook Pro now comes in three varieties, all of them with 4GB of RAM - which you can double to 8GB for a massive £799 - and hard drives with between 250GB and 500GB of space, or solid-state disk drives of 128GB or 256GB.For £208 more...
The 15in Apple MacBook Pro seems larger than it is. This is a good thing. Given that the overall design of the MacBook Pro is unchanged, the updates to the model line are evolutionary. It's the price cuts that, for Apple, border on the revolutionary...
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This past fall, when the 15-inch Macbook underwent its stunning unibody redesign that added an edge-to-edge LED-backlit display, a multitouch-enabled touchpad, and dual graphics cards, we heaped plenty of praise upon it; but lamented its lack of a mem...
Long battery life, Sleek, durable design, Buttonless multitouch trackpad, Brilliant, edge-to-edge LED-backlit display, SD Card reader...
Only two USB ports, Switching graphics requires logging out...
Priced at $1,999, the 15-inch MacBook Pro offers plenty of processing power and graphics muscle, as well as lengthy battery life, which makes it an outstanding system for heavy-duty content creation in the office or on the go. In future, we’d like t...
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For Apple, integrating nonremovable batteries across an entire product line was a daring move and inevitable after the Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch (Unibody)—the companys biggest laptop—received one. So its no surprise that owners of the new Apple Ma...
Lower starting price. Superior design engineering. Bigger battery and over 5 hours of battery life on tests. Earns our GreenTech Approved seal. Illuminated keyboard. Versatile touchpad.
Deep-sixes the ExpressCard slot. Base configuration uses integrated graphics only.
The MacBook Pro 15-inch (SD Slot) shows improved battery life over the previous version, while lowering its base price to $1,699. Though thats enticing enough for newcomers, some current MacBook Pro owners might not be ready to give up the ExpressCard...
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