![]() ![]() The first thing I did when I took the 17-inch Macbook Pro out of the box was to place it on top of my first-generation 15-inch model. ![]() However, despite this earlier opinion, I was eager to try out the latest 17-inch Macbook Pro to see if my perspective had changed. The main problem was that it was big and heavy: two qualities that tend to conflict with my aesthetic sensibility of what a laptop should be. ![]() I have to confess that when Apple released their first 17-inch laptop a few years ago it really wasn't a product that appealed to me. Sure enough, Apple launched updated 15- and 17-inch Macbook Pros on June 5th, and a few weeks later they were kind enough to send us a brand new, top-of-the-line 17-inch Macbook Pro to play with. With other notebook manufacturers enthusiastically announcing details of their new models featuring this technology, it was again a question of when rather than if Apple would update their own products to adopt the new development. More recently, though, there was much speculation on what Apple would do with their portable line-up after the release of Intel's latest mobile computing platform, code-named Santa Rosa. The eight-core Mac Pro was one example of this: after Intel released quad-core Xeons, it was only a matter of time before Apple used them. While in the Power PC past it was hard to speculate on future Mac products, one interesting side-effect of the Intel transition is that it's now really easy to predict Mac hardware development, since it's pretty much the same route everyone else in the 'Intel Inside' industry is taking. It's been two years since Apple announced their adoption of Intel processors, and a year since that transition was completed. But, with a new higher-resolution display and the latest mobile technology, is it now a must for those seeking the best in laptop performance? Apple's 17-inch Macbook Pro has both attracted and put off potential purchasers because of its size. ![]()
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