New MacBook Pro line-up
As usual for 2008, Apple’s online store went down today. Every single Tuesday this year Apple has rolled out updates to their product line-up and today was no exception. New MacBooks and MacBook Pros have been anticipated by the masses for several weeks now but today those anticipations became reality.
Unfortunately I’m a little underwhelmed by the new offerings. The price stays the same. I would have liked to see a slight price decrease as it is easy to spend over $3000 on the 17″ MacBook Pro model. I think at this point it should be required that all hard drives come in at least 7200r RPM flavors. The 5400 RPM drives are just too slow for a great deal of today’s demanding applications such as video and photo processing IMO. The screen resolution has always been a downer for me on Apple’s notebooks. The 1900×1200 resolution is only available on the 17″ MacBook Pro model with the other models offering 1440×900. The new Spaces feature in Leopard makes it a bit easier to use this lower resolution, but I would still like to see something a little higher as the standard, like 1680×1050.
I have no doubt that my next laptop will be a 15.4″ MacBook Pro model, but hopefully by that point Apple will realize that a higher resolution is a necessity. I miss my 1900×1200 resolution on my old Dell laptop (15″ model) and wonder why we can’t have a similar resolution offering on the 15″ MacBook Pro model.
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