We'll admit to being extremely wary whenever Apple makes changes to the 15-inch MacBook Pro. 15-inch MBPs running all manner of operating systems are pervasive in the Engadget ranks, and when we hit the road at events like CES and E3 we tend to standardize on them so we can do things like......
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The good: Price cut from previous version; new SD card slot; keeps the same solid unibody construction and oversize trackpad. The bad: Loses the ExpressCard slot; switching GPUs not as seamless as it should be. The bottom line: Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro makes only minor tweaks to the previous...
Read the full review →Apple did two things simultaneously that are usually contradictory; they lowered the price of their entire MacBook Pro line while at the same time bumping up the specs. The 15-inch version now starts at $1699 and caps out at $2299, down from $1999 and $2499. What's even nicer is that the...
Read the full review →Maybe it's because I've been staring at 13-in. screens for the better part of a year now -- starting with a MacBook Air and moving on to a late-model MacBook. For whatever reason, the 15-in. MacBook Pro seems larger than it is. This is a good thing. (More than one person asked me whether...
Read the full review →The 15-inch MacBook Pro has historically been the most popular model in Apple’s pro notebook lineup. It’s certainly easier to tote around than its more powerful and hefty 17-inch big brother, though its feature-to-price ratio compared favorably. Now, with Apple’s debut of a 13-inch MacBook...
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Sargonas
Apple yet again has scored big with the latest unibody lines of Mac Book pros. Their physical design is bar none, as alwats, and technically its above par with comparable notebooks. No secret is made by users of the fact apple notebooks on average cost a premium over their PC counterparts, but...
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uidroot
I love it. Need to upgrade to core i7 in the new year. I love Lion OSX except for the annoying application opening after reboot.
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Gofake1
My first laptop purchase. Everything was nice and neat when compared with the Dell workstation running XP that I upgraded from. The price was steep, but I wholeheartedly believe it was worth it. The specs were good, and for nearly all my computing requirements the MBP handles without problems....
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