MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Released

Finally now all of you that were waiting for this can have your dream come true.

That's a sweet upgrade.

I think it's definitely a sweet upgrade, but I'm a little mift the graphics chip didn't get an upgrade, a 512 option would have been nice, especially with Apple underclocking its chips so much.

Was wondering when this topic would come and the front page change. The upgrade is nice, but prices are really high. I think the Core 2 Duos of the Macbooks won't go down either, which is sad. To high priced to me.

I wish I had firewire 800 on my MBP, but otherwise I'm not too upset that mine is no longer "current".

Finally now all of you that were waiting for this can have your dream come true.

Yup, that's exactly what I'm gonna do.

And now I'm thinking about another swap for that new MBP - the FW800 port was a big surprise and would come in handy for video work since I have a 300GB external drive with FW800 on it not being used. Dammit... 120GB drive too... and a single 1GB stick finally... {censored}.

/me beats himself up over this now...

Bleh.

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What annoys me is that a 2,000 Euro notebook (an awful lot of money) doesn't offer a 256 MB graphics card, not even as a paid upgrade.

WOW. Thanks for the update! It makes me really consider selling my MacBook and upgrading to one of these.

if you get the 2.33 ghz 15 inch you can get 256 of vram

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html *see if you can find the typo*

if you get the 2.33 ghz 15 inch you can get 256 of vram

 

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html *see if you can find the typo*

I know. You must pay 500 Euro more. That is quite enough for a decent desktop (self built)

yeah they do the same with the imacs, but 128 is decent with gddr3 memory

Wow good thing I waited to buy one I was about to buy when it was released and then decided to wait a little and save some more for a better configuration and then they come out with this! Always a good upgrade.

ill be waiting more when leopard will be pre-installed... nice configuration, the mid-range 15" will be my target..

i'm happy about apple updating it's software and hardware frecuently, this is good for us apple users, but i feel a little sad about my macbook pro, i spend my money in a good piece of hardware, but it took just 1 month to be outdated. well i'll have to make the money for the new macbookpro. it's simply awsome... almost 50% faster.. damn

Wow. A lot sooner than I anticipated. Well how much longer 'til my BacBook's outdated? This actually isn't upsetting to me as a MB owner. It really wouldn't have been worth the wait to get Core 2 Duo. Thanks for the update.

FINALLY!

I ordered mine one hour after it was released. Education discount through wifey = even nicer!

Should be here Nov. 1st! As a switcher, I imagine that will be a big day for me, eh?

finally what I've been waiting for. And to think, today I had decided that I was probably just going to take the plunge this week anyway. And now you get 40 gigs more space, and twice the ram for the same money! Not to mention a dual layer burner. I'm excited!

Don't forget FW800 in the 15 inch...

An important thing here guys is the additional 1 gb of ram you can now add for a total of 3gb. Especially when you consider the speed boost in Rosetta apps from having more RAM, and the amount of memory chewed up by running Parallels, this is a really important option.

For me I'm going to see if I can't get a free upgrade from Apple (my current MBP has been in for repairs twice, has had a fan, hard drive, mouse, battery, and power adapter replaced, and now the keyboard backlight is broken). If not then I'll sell this on eBay and go for a maxxed out 17inch MBP. In hindsight the extra screen real estate will be nice for the web design work I do.

well damn. id love the increased ram and the bigger hard drive, but oh well.

anyone know how much id get if i sold my first rev high end(no whine)?

just checked on eBay and they're going for very reasonable prices. It'll probably sell for around 2,000 for at least the next 2 weeks.

I kinda wish they kept core duos and sold them cheeper :/

Came out faster than I thought. Im after a 24" Imac or bigger. Hopfully with HD support and the Mrs wants the middle range 15" MBP. Ill wait til Leopard come pre-installed, who knows what hardware will be in then...

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html *see if you can find the typo*

17-inch MacBook Pro

• ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor, dual -ink DVI support, 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM.

I win.

The day the Core 2s go in the MacBooks is the day I buy one. I've been holding off for the Core 2 Duo for a while now. Leopard doesn't matter all that much to me, as I won't be buying it till 10.5.3 or so, so they can work the bugs out.