Apple MacBook Pro 17" - Expert Reviews

Award: Editor's Choice!

Pros: Excellent design ; LED-backlit display ; Front Row multimedia software ; good battery life

Cons: No media-card reader ; quick to heat up

Verdict: The MacBook Pro is a great mix of high specs and high style. Its iconic design is matched only by its superior performance.

Review summary: The dual-core MacBook Pro is fast, fun, and sleek. It can even run Windows.

Pros: >• Powerful dual-core processor, • Beautiful display, • Excellent Front Row program

Cons: >• Lack of native software, • No PC Card slot, CPU: 2.16-GHz Intel Core Duo Processor, RAM/Expandable: 2GB, Hard Drive: 7200-rpm 100GB, , , , , , , As the first Apple laptop to be powered by an Intel dual-core processor, the Apple MacBook Pro promises ...

Review summary: Design meets Performance. One is already nearly used to the first ...

Pros: High quality materials and nice look, Excellent workmanship, Optically impressing keyboard lightening, MagSafe - magnetic power connector, Bright, matt display, fit for outdoor usage, Light sensor for display and keyboard lightening, Excellent ...

Cons: Limited opening angles of the display, Only 2 USB ports, modem and docking port are missing, Partly the aluminum case gets clearly warmer

Verdict: It's a miracle, how Apple could put this first-class equipment into such a slim case and also keep the noise emissions low at the same time. You can only call it: Art - The art to design top-class and sophisticated mobile notebooks

Review summary: - While the core element of the MacBook Pro hasn't changed, Apple has moved to upgrade and improve certain elements of the laptop. So should you upgrade now, does the new features give it a 9/10? We get working to find out.

Pros: Dual-core, power to spare, classic look, LED backlit, bigger graphics card, more battery

Cons: iSight not upgraded, no next-gen DVD players, remote will get lost and doesn't fit into the design

Verdict: Yet more hardware tweaks keeps the MacBook Pro one to consider

Review summary: Portable power players.

Pros: Good overall speed.

Cons: Shared main/video memory affects performance.

Verdict: . If you were expecting more bang for your buck from the upgrade to the MacBooks and MacBook Pros, you'll have to wait until Intel ships Penryn, the first 45-nanometer processor, probably near the holiday season or around the beginning of 2008. And, ...