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what's up YouTube Jonathan with Texas lunch and dinner bringing the latest Core i7 15-inch MacBook Pro review I'm going to take you guys through the box contents the specs the features how much it costs I also want to talk about turbo boost at hyper join I haven't seen that cover too much in any of the reviews I'm going to give you guys what I thought about it I tell you it's worth your money to buy we're going to jump right into the specs this 15 inch MacBook Pro features the core i7 two point six six gigahertz CPU four gigs of ddr3 memory up to eight if you choose it has a 500 gigabyte 5400 rpm hard drive the nvidia geforce GT 330 m which has half a gig of GPU power it also features Intel integrated graphics was automated switching for better performance this base model comes in at $21.99 us you guys can score up to 200 bucks off with an education discount inside the box you obviously get the MacBook Pros a MagSafe power adapter the wall plug the install DVDs the owner's manual and some stickers as well as a cleaning cloth the MacBook Pro comes in at just under 1 inch thick 14 inches wide weighs about 6 pounds we have an LED backlit display with a resolution of 1440 by 900 here we get a close-up of the multi-touch trackpad following that I'm going to show you guys the LED backlit keyboard typing feels pretty good much better than older MacBook Pros in my opinion moving down the side we have the MagSafe input the Ethernet port firewire 800 mini display port two USB 2.0 ports right here you guys see the SD card slot it has an audio out it has a headphone jack which is also an audio in moving further down we see the battery indicator and as we flip it on the other side you can see Apple left it very bare only the super drive which leads me to my next point one of the things I don't like is it gets very cramped if you have all your peripherals plugged in next I'm going to run you guys through Intel turbo boost when you're using processor intensive applications on a single core the turbo boost will kick it up from two point six six to three point three three gigahertz now keep in mind this is only when you need it when you don't it's going to kick it back down it's going to optimize performance now what Apple doesn't tell you if you're using turbo boost on two cores it's slightly lower it takes it up from two point six six to three point zero six it's not bad by any means but I just wanted to let you guys know that and it's still a very impressive feature now physically this is a dual-core CPU but with Intel hyper-threading it allows the OS to see and utilize four cores I've used it extensively with Final Cut Pro it sees it and it does take advantage of it moving on to the battery life apple claims about eight to nine hours I tested it I got about seven hours and 40 minutes with moderate use such as web browsing iTunes email now with intensive applications like Final Cut Pro keynote I got about three hours and 40 minutes now those are still very impressive numbers in my eyes okay I gotta say I'm very impressed new i7 MacBook Pro I actually sold my 2008 8 core Mac boat of fun this I knew I'd be giving up a lot of the power as a Mac Pro was a beast and a workhorse of a machine but I was blown away with how well and how fast the Isetta macbook pro performs if you guys are on the ropes about picking one up I say go for it I have no regrets the boost and the GPU was nice if you're wondering about playing games do it very well it's not gonna be like a PC where you to overclock it and play high res maxed out game settings but it'll do the job just fine like I said if you're on the ropes pick one up I have no regrets I hope you guys enjoyed the review stay tuned and that's always feel free to subscribe you