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New Macbook Pro Updates: 1st Impressions

2011-02-24
what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and today Apple took the wraps off they're completely refreshed not redesigned macbook pro line so let me run through everything with you and tell you what you can expect stick around so this is going to get a little bit on the technical side but I'm going to explain all the new specs new features and a new price you may see me a glance downwards I got some notes in front of me so all three macbook pros at 13 to 15 17 the various models within those sizes are now getting core i5 and core i7 Sandy Bridge chips which is awesome no more core 2 duo for that lowend 13-inch model no more core i3 everything is going core i5 and i7 to go anything they're going to be very very fast gone is the nvidia chipset unfortunately the higher-end models are going to have so 15 to 17 s are going to take advantage of AMD's radeon HD 6000 m graphics or some variants of that the 13 inch models are going to be using Intel's HD 3000 integrated options you hear integrated I have to think ah no but supposedly they are much better I'm so we'll have to sort of see what the hands-on results of those are they're all going to get facetime HD cameras which is long overdue it's going to give you about triple the resolution of the longest now last generation FaceTime cameras they've got this new technology called Thunderbolt you may have heard referenced as light Pete could sort of apples name for it it's going to give you 10 gigabits per second transfer speeds and to give you a frame of reference on the USB to point out ports down on the same macbook pros are going to give you four hundred and eighty megabits per second so much much much faster the only problem with Thunderbolt technology now is you're going to need peripherals that support it so that should be sort of set a new standard hopefully on the next coming years for data transfer speeds that is crazy fast alright so let's jump into the models and let's start with the smallest guy the 13-inch MacBook Pro is going to come in two configurations both models as I mentioned are going to come with now core i5 or core i7 chips which are awesome and super fast the lower end is going to run you 1199 dollars it's going to get you 2.4 gigahertz core i5 chip four gigs of ram is now the new standard and a 320 gigabyte hard drive and as can be using Intel's HD 3000 chip I was a big fan of the nvidia chip sets the last generation had so here's hoping intel i can keep pace with those stepping up a little bit 1499 is going to get you a 2.7 gigahertz core i7 model with a 500 gigabyte hard drive the same four gigs ram and that same intel integrated HD 3000 graphics moving on to the two inches larger the 15 inch you are going to get just i7 no I 5s for you you're going to get two more eyes you've been also going to get AMD's radeon HD chipset which is pretty awesome for all your graphics means it's going to cost you 1799 it's going to give you a 2 gigahertz quad-core i7 chip HD Radeon 6490 em with one gigabyte of vram checking out a lot of vram for all your video editing or game plan whatever you want to do and 500 gigabytes of hard drive space these computers now may actually be pretty decent fora for the casual gamers I want to hear at the gamers have to say if you would consider using one of these the next 15 inch model is going to cost you just shy of 2,200 2199 you're going to get a 2.2 biggert core i7 computer with the Radeon 6750 graphics 750 gigabyte hard drive with some solid state super expensive options for 128 256 or 512 the 17 inch model the big granddaddy of them all it's pretty much similar respects to the high end 15 model you're going to get the same 2.2 inch core i7 the same HD Radeon 6750 and seven hundred fifty gigabytes of hard drive you can put in them solid States if you want and it's going to cost you two thousand four hundred ninety nine dollars so none of these are very cheap computers we are getting now a more powerful line of macbook pros you're getting the same USB ports you had in there but this new Thunderbolt port is pretty neat what do you guys think about the new FaceTime HD camera long overdue I think that Apple put it in certainly gonna make making casual web videos um my cheese here so I'm excited to see these get my hands on them and you give them a thorough review I 10 you guys have to say or you've been waiting and you're gonna go jump the ship and go get a new macbook pro you know what's uh what's your plans do you care do not care you still thing back to overprice using Mac's or good value love to know what you guys have to say i'm jon rettinger contact me on buffalo i'm sure to check out the website for all your tech news and i'll see you in the next video bye bye you
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