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what's up Internet Jonathan air was TLD and today I'm bringing the full unboxing and review of the 2011 15 inch quad-core macbook pro in the box you get the MacBook Pro itself a cleaning cloth the Macs a power adapter AC wall plug and power cord software DVDs and manuals and the ships with Mac OS 10 point 6 and iLife 11 which means you get the latest edition of iPhoto iMovie iDVD iWeb and GarageBand you got three flavors to choose from starting with the 1799 baseline model that'll get you a 2.0 gigahertz quad-core i7 alongside with an AMD Radeon HD 64 90m with 256 Meg's of video memory for 400 bucks more little hop you up to a 2.2 gigahertz quad-core but the key difference here is you jump up to an HD 6750 M which is a full gig of video memory for a couple hundred bucks more you can bump up to a 2.3 gigahertz quad-core you're gonna get the same video card so essentially all you're paying for is a slight clock speed increase on the CPU the 15-inch MacBook Pro comes standard with a 1440 by 900 16 by 10 glossy display for a hundred bucks more you can upgrade to the 1680 by 1050 high-res display an additional 50 bucks on top of that will get you the high-res and the anti-glare the model I'm looking at is the high-res anti-glare it's going to maintain the 16 by 10 aspect ratio the big thing you're going to notice is sharper text and you get 36% more pixels which is a huge plus if you're doing Photoshop final cut it really any media editing software aesthetically you'll notice the anti-glare comes with a silver bezel not too black like the standard glossy display one thing I have noticed is on the anti glare it's not as vibrant as the glossy sort of whites are a little bit brighter on the blacks are a little bit deeper on the glossy display overall I'd say the glossy is a little bit better for just enjoying movies and watching media on your computer the anti glare if you're doing a lot of photo editing or video editing or maybe if you're in a situation where you have a lot of light coming in you can't control the glare that's where I would opt for the anti-glare display I'm actually taking a look at the 2.3 gigahertz version of the quad-core i7 CPU this is gonna actually have four physical cores clocked at 2.3 gigahertz and what's cool about it if using heavy apps like Final Cut Photoshop it's going to intelligently overclock up to 3.4 gigahertz with Intel turbo boost another cool Intel feature is hyper threading so while this is a physical quad core the OS will see and utilize this as 8 threads now if you're wondering is faster than the previous iteration of the 15-inch i7 MacBook Pro with the addition of two more physical cores that's up to 50% faster and as you guys can see from the Geekbench it nearly doubles the score there's actually been no changes to the design so it's going to maintain that same aluminum unibody look it's going to measure in at fourteen point three inches wide less than an inch tall and weighs about 5.6 pounds all MacBook Pros feature a multi-touch glass trackpad you can either physical click or tap to click there's also a lot of multi-touch gestures you guys can check out a link down below if you want to learn more about that get a backlit keyboard and eight times slot-loading SuperDrive and stereo speakers with a built-in subwoofer they sound decent they're very usable but they're not the best in the world move it along to what's new all 2011 MacBook Pros feature a FaceTime HD camera which captures video at 720p 30 frames per second it also has an improved microphone built in so it sounds and looks pretty good if you guys want an example of how it looks and sounds going to click this annotation right here one of the biggest additions to the MacBook Pro line was the inclusion of Thunderbolt essentially it's a high-speed i/o which features PCI Express and DisplayPort functionality so you can use with Apple cinema displays with mini DisplayPort you can use DVI HDMI and VGA it features a super super fast transfer rate at 10 gigabits per second so that's 20 times faster than USB 2.0 12 times faster than fire and up to 2 times faster than USB 3.0 now taking a look at the rest of the in an ounce you get the MagSafe power Ethernet firewire 800 2 USB 2.0 ports you get an SDXC slot which supports up to 64 gigabytes audio in audio out and a cool little battery meter if you push it right here you can actually see the battery level without having to open up your MacBook Pro overall I got to say it's insanely fast for a laptop you do get a solid battery life about 5 to 7 hours for everyday tasks like web browsing email photos and about 3 to 5 hours if you use a heavier task like Photoshop or Final Cut but still good all-around if you're doing HD video editing photo editing or music production that's going to be the perfect laptop for you it's definitely worth upgrading with the speed bump from last year's model I'd say if you're going for the 2.2 gigahertz or the 2.0 it's worth the upgrade to jump up to the 2.2 not only do you get a slight bump in the speed but you also get a one gigabyte graphics card that's going to help you out with 3d motion effects such as After Effects or motion for the 2.3 gigahertz really isn't necessarily not going to notice too much of a speed I'd save that money put it towards an SSD or extra RAM as far as the high res I personally like that the extra screen real estate is nice as far as glossy versus anti-glare really depends on the situation you're in or the lighting in your room some people like glossy butter some people like anti-glare I will say the blacks pop a little more colors a little more vibrant on the glossy if that helps you make a decision if you're doing audio or video work I would say upgrade to the 7200 rpm hard drive or an SSD for optimal performance and also upgrade to eight gigs of RAM do that on your own though I'll post a link where to pick that up that's going to help you out with multitasking so I hope you guys enjoy this review if it helps you out you're looking to pick up a new MacBook Pro if you use a TLD Amazon store you can save a few bucks plus you don't pay sales tax which is like seven and ten percent extra on top of the savings depending where you live I'll post that link down below as always if you guys are brand new feel free to subscribe I've got a lot of cool tech videos here and on the way thank you guys for watching commenting and I'll catch you guys later you