Macbook Pro 2011 release date and specs

Apple, Everyone seems to be waiting for new Macbook Pro release date, eversince the rumors that are flying about Apple is about to release this refreshed machine. Other rumors are flying that MacBook Pros and new Mac Pro desktops is going to be released next week.

Other surprises are the new MacBook Pro line is equipped with Intel Core i5 processor for 13-inch models, and Intel Core i7 with 15 and 17-inch models. Other rumors on tech magazines are also saying that MacPros will be based on Intel Core i7-970 processor. We are not sure which one is correct though. Apple seems want to make their fans surprised. This processor issues seems to be happen with the Apple deal with Chipzilla to get the chips early.Other than these rumors, there is no words about the possible upgrade in memory or capacity. But the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphic cards is expected to be there, considering the cost nearly £300.[http://digitalchunk.com/new-macbook-pro-release-date.htm]

Apple MacBook Pro MA609LL/A 15" Notebook PC

Apple : Powered by a 2.0 or 2.16 GHz dual-core Intel engine. Up to five times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics bandwidth. With built-in iSight for instant video conferencing on the move. Front Row with Apple Remote to dazzle everyone in the room. Now available in 15- and 17-inch models.

Performance squared :
MacBook Pro is built upon the revolutionary Intel Core Duo--which packs the power of two processors (up to 2.16 GHz) inside a single chip. It provides 2MB of Smart Cache, L2 cache that can be shared between both cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2-D and 3-D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. And the new engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro has a frontside bus and memory that, at 667-MHz, runs faster than any previous Mac notebook. It's the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive, and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.

iSight to behold :
Sit down. Click on someone's iChat icon. And video conference from anywhere in the world. Though you can barely see it, there's an iSight camera built into the thin bezel just above the display. So now you can conference with associates during the day and chat with the kids at night. iChat AV lets you video chat with up to three other people simultaneously. And when you go head to head, you'll see your colleague more clearly, thanks to the VGA resolution made possible by the superfast Intel Core Duo. MacBook Pro also comes with Apple's Photo Booth application, a fun program that lets you take warped and Warholesque snapshots. With the new iLife '06 (included, of course), you can even record movies with iSight right into iMovie, then use the new iLife's newest application, iWeb, to create a video blog entry or podcast in just a few clicks.

Road show :
MacBook Pro delivers the Front Row media experience, making it easy (and rather spectacular) to showcase your latest creations. Whether you're at the client's office, on location, or back at your hotel room, you just use the Apple Remote to control your videos, music, movies, and more. Front Row lets you quickly navigate through your work and play from anywhere in the room. You can even use the Apple Remote to navigate through Keynote presentations.

Do something. Say something. Make something. MacBook Pro comes with iLife '06, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make it easy for anyone to make postcards, calendars, DVDs, websites, and podcasts. Even professionals with proficiencies in high-end applications can appreciate the ease of creating initial compositions. Or posting pictures, videos, and commentary of current events almost before they happened. Enjoy the freedom of the press on MacBook Pro.

What's in the box :
MacBook Pro, 85W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug and power cord, lithium-polymer battery, Apple Remote, DVI to VGA adapter, install/restore DVDs, and printed and electronic documentation.

Product Description :
Presenting the world's most advanced 1-inch-thin notebook. MacBook Pro is the first Mac notebook built on the Intel Core Duo processor, which delivers the power of two processors on a single chip--for blistering performance with high-end creative applications.(1) Front Row and the Apple Remote let you summon your photos, movies, music, and presentations from anywhere in the room. The built-in iSight camera gives you effortless, high-quality video conferencing using iChat AV.(2) The spacious 15.4-inch screen is a full 67 percent brighter than the 15-inch PowerBook G4 display. Yet with all of its advances, MacBook Pro is just 1 inch thin and weighs only 5.6 pounds.(3) So it's a joy to handle as well as to use. (1)Based on estimated results of industry-standard SPECint and SPECfp rate tests. (2)Requires broadband Internet connection; fees may apply. (3)Weight varies depending on configuration and manufacturing process.

Technical Details :

• 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2 MB shared L2 Cache
• 512 MB (single SODIMM) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); 80 GB 5400 rpm Serial ATA/100 hard drive; slot-load 4x SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• One FireWire 400, two USB 2.0 ports, and ExpressCard/34 slot; no FireWire 800 slots
• Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit); built-in 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme (802.11g); built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• 15.4-inch TFT widescreen display with 1440 x 900 resolution

Apple MacBook Pro MA092LL/A 17
Apple MacBook MA699LL/A 13.3"
Apple MacBook MB881LL/A
Apple MacBook MC700LL/A
Apple 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.5GHz

Apple MacBook Pro MA092LL/A 17" Laptop Review

Powered by a dual-core Intel engine. Up to five times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics bandwidth. With built-in iSight for instant video conferencing on the move. Front Row with Apple Remote to dazzle everyone in the room. Now available in 15- and 17-inch models.

Performance squared :
MacBook Pro is built upon the revolutionary Intel Core Duo--which packs the power of two processors (up to 2.16 GHz) inside a single chip. It provides 2 MB of Smart Cache, L2 cache that can be shared between both cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2-D and 3-D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. And the new engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro has a frontside bus and memory that, at 667 MHz, runs faster than any previous Mac notebook. It's the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive, and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.



The new MagSafe Connector prevents the MacBook Pro from being pulled off your desk.

iSight to behold :
Sit down. Click on someone's iChat icon. And video conference from anywhere in the world. Though you can barely see it, there's an iSight camera built into the thin bezel just above the display. So now you can conference with associates during the day and chat with the kids at night. iChat AV lets you video chat with up to three other people simultaneously. And when you go head to head, you'll see your colleague more clearly, thanks to the VGA resolution made possible by the superfast Intel Core Duo. MacBook Pro also comes with Apple's Photo Booth application, a fun program that lets you take warped and Warholesque snapshots. With the new iLife '06 (included, of course), you can even record movies with iSight right into iMovie, then use the new iLife's newest application, iWeb, to create a video blog entry or podcast in just a few clicks.

Road show :
MacBook Pro delivers the Front Row media experience, making it easy (and rather spectacular) to showcase your latest creations. Whether you're at the client's office, on location, or back at your hotel room, you just use the Apple Remote to control your videos, music, movies, and more. Front Row lets you quickly navigate through your work and play from anywhere in the room. You can even use the Apple Remote to navigate through Keynote presentations.

Do something. Say something. Make something.
MacBook Pro comes with iLife '06, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make it easy for anyone to make postcards, calendars, DVDs, Websites, and podcasts. Even professionals with proficiencies in high-end applications can appreciate the ease of creating initial compositions. Or posting pictures, videos, and commentary of current events almost before they happened. Enjoy the freedom of the press on MacBook Pro.

What's in the box :
MacBook Pro notebook (with non-glossy screen), MagSafe power adapter, AC wall plug and power cord, lithium-polymer battery, Apple Remote, DVI to VGA adapter, install/restore DVDs, and printed and electronic documentation.
Product Description
You've seen improvements in notebook performance before--but never on this scale. The Intel Core Duo powering MacBook Pro is actually two execution cores built into a single chip. This, combined with myriad other engineering leaps, boosts performance up to five times higher than the PowerBook G4. With this awesome power, it's a breeze to render complex 3-D models, enjoy smooth playback of 1080p HD video, or host a four-way video conference.

More power, using less power :
Intel Core Duo is the first chip built using Intel's groundbreaking 65-nanometer process--resulting in transistors so small, you could fit a hundred inside a single human cell. With smaller distances for electrons to travel, and two execution cores designed to share resources and conserve power, Intel Core Duo achieves higher levels of performance as it uses fewer watts. Which is what makes it possible to design a super-powerful MacBook Pro that's only one inch thin.

Technical Details :

• 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2 MB shared L2 Cache
• 1 GB (single SODIMM) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); 120 GB 5400 rpm Serial ATA hard drive; slot-load SuperDrive (DVD+/-RW/CD-RW)
• One FireWire 400, one FireWire 800, three USB 2.0 ports, and ExpressCard/34 slot
• Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit); built-in 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme (802.11g); built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• 17-inch TFT widescreen with 1680 x 1050 resolution

Apple MacBook MA699LL/A 13.3"
Apple MacBook MB881LL/A
Apple MacBook MC700LL/A
Apple 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.5GHz

Apple MacBook Pro MC700LL/A Laptop

You know, Apple just released the new MacBook Pro lines, millions of people are crazy about them, today we are going to talk about one of them, Apple MacBook Pro MC700LL/A, which is a 13.3-inch laptop outfitted with a 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM (8GB max.), and 320GB Hard Drive. It highlights a 13.3″ LED-backlit display at 1280-by-800 resolution, and Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory. Of course, the configuration is totally customizable, you can get higher one if you like.

The Apple MacBook Pro MC700LL/A laptop also comes with 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), FaceTime HD Camera, High Speed Thunderbolt Port, Multi-Touch trackpad, Audio Stereo speakers with subwoofer, Omnidirectional microphone, AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Wireless, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 10/100/1000 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet, and Built-in 63.5-watt-hour lithium-polymer Battery for up to 7 hours of life. The laptop is running on Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. Needless to say, such a configuration is good enough for our daily use, people are very satisfied with it.

There are many eye-catching spots about this new MacBook Pro 13.3″ laptop, one of them is the state-of-the-art dual-core Intel i5 processor, which delivers up to 2x faster performance (over the previous generation of MacBook Pro). And the new Thunderbolt technology lets you connect high-performance peripherals and high-resolution displays to a single port, and transfer files at lightning speeds. Plus, the new built-in FaceTime HD camera lets you make astonishingly crisp HD video calls.

Measuring less than 1 inch thin and weighing just 4.5 pounds, the MacBook Pro MC700LL/A is portable enough to let you take it anywhere with you, so you’ll never miss a thing, especially if you are a businessman who travel a lot. Its 13.3-inch, LED-backlit glass display as well as a glass trackpad that doesn’t include a button (for larger tracking area) that features Apple’s Multi-Touch technology, and up to 7 hours of battery life will make sure you are always connected.

The second-generation Intel Core i5 dual-core processor (dubbed “Sandy Bridge”) provides you with breakthrough digital media management, content creation, and 3D gaming capabilities. And Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking. You’ll be able to play any kind of games you want, very fluently.
The Apple MacBook Pro MC700LL/A provides a lot of wonderful features, let’s have a close look.

Features & Specs :

* 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor (“Sandy Bridge”) with 3 MB shared L3 cache for excellent multitasking.
* 4GB installed RAM (1333 MHz DDR3; supports up to 8GB)
* 320GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 RPM)
* 13.3″ LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with edge-to-edge, uninterrupted glass (1280 x 800-pixel resolution).
* Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.
* 8x slot-loading SuperDrive with double-layer DVD support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Built-in FaceTime HD camera for video chatting
* Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on 802.11n specification; 802.11a/b/g compatible)
* Gigabit Ethernet wired networking (10/100/1000)
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) for connecting with peripherals such as keyboards, mice and cell phones
* Two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port
* SDXC card slot
* Thunderbolt port with native Mini DisplayPort output plus support for DVI, VGA, dual-link DVI, and HDMI (requires adapters, sold separately)
* Multi-Touch trackpad for precise cursor control with support for inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities
* Full-size backlit keyboard
* Stereo speakers with subwoofers
* Dimensions: 12.78 x 8.94 x 0.95 inches (WxDxH)
* Weight: 4.5 pounds
* Up to 7 hours of battery life
* Meets Energy Star 5.0 requirements
* Rated EPEAT Gold