Yes, it is well-equipped for that...unless of course, you need the higher resolution screen. As for PS performance, that is more a function of memory than anything else, and 4gigs is plenty at the present time.
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Apple Launches MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt, Quad Core CPUs, AMD GPUs
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Yes, it is well-equipped for that...unless of course, you need the higher resolution screen. As for PS performance, that is more a function of memory than anything else, and 4gigs is plenty at the present time.
Oh gosh, I'm drooling over this update.... Might have to sell everything in my room for a quad 15". 
No, the OS is everything to people.
Anyways, about the difference between the US and the EU price it's too high.
I know, you people in the US have these sales taxes that are pretty much the same as our TVA (actually, it's a totally different concept, but to the final buyer it doesn't really change anything), so yeah, you can say "you have to add these sales taxes to the price you see".
That's right, but you can't even remove TVA from the European prices: all you can do is to reakon the average TVAs in Europe and detract the average sales taxes in the US, and then compare the price difference.
Anyways, can you explain to me why the new MBP in Switzerland is 100CHF cheaper if starting at January 1st the Swiss TVA has augmented from 7.6% to 8%?
Let me tell you why: it's not about TVA, or at least, not just for that reason.
The real reason is that in the European Union (and Switzerland it's not part of it) there is a law (made to avoid what is called "price dumping") that says that the same product can't be sold at a price that is more than 10% higher than the price in an another European country...
And here comes the TVA: there are huge differences between the European TVAs, so if you want to avoid to loose money (nah, not "loose money", I'd say "have a lower profit") in a country, you have to keep the price higher than you would...
Hope I made myself clear
Obviously English it's not my native language 
Yeah, I think there have been several less remarkable Powerbook/Macbook refreshes than this one. The disgruntled among us fell victim to those French rumors.
When do we expect Thunderbolt cables to be up for sale? Feels weird that this might be the first time Apple has implemented a technology that just came out with us having to wait for cables to be available for purchase.
Also, could it be possible that the battery life is identical to the previous revision? The new MBP says 7 hours of "wireless web."
Also, could it be possible that the battery life is identical to the previous revision? The new MBP says 7 hours of "wireless web."
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Those prices are insane! Sure, Macs are great, but you can get a similar Dell 17" laptop for $700 at Costco - you really want to spend 350% as much on a Mac with similar functionality and usability? I'm not saying the Dell is as good as a Mac, necessarily, but the premium Apple is trying to extract on these is completely out of line.
To all the people moaning about the graphics chipset in the 13"
Are you basing your complaints on real-world app performance or is it just lusting after specs?
I'm still using a 2nd gen x86 MacBook from late 2006. It's funny to think it's going on four-and-a-half years now, because it still feels like a snappy new machine to me, and I love it. It's got whatever the cheapo Intel GPU option was from 2006. I use it for lots of things including software development (Xcode plus various interpreted languages for tools), but I don't play Left 4 Dead and other big 3D games on a notebook--the battery drains too quickly. I have never had graphics performance issues otherwise. Zero. None. If I needed a new notebook, I'd buy the 13" Pro in a heartbeat.
Are you basing your complaints on real-world app performance or is it just lusting after specs?
I'm still using a 2nd gen x86 MacBook from late 2006. It's funny to think it's going on four-and-a-half years now, because it still feels like a snappy new machine to me, and I love it. It's got whatever the cheapo Intel GPU option was from 2006. I use it for lots of things including software development (Xcode plus various interpreted languages for tools), but I don't play Left 4 Dead and other big 3D games on a notebook--the battery drains too quickly. I have never had graphics performance issues otherwise. Zero. None. If I needed a new notebook, I'd buy the 13" Pro in a heartbeat.
LOL...
or for $649, you can buy a 14" aluminum body quad-core HP envy w/ 1600x1200 rez
+ $150 or whatever for a macos X dvd
and have enough cash left over for an ipad and an iphone.
LOL
or for $649, you can buy a 14" aluminum body quad-core HP envy w/ 1600x1200 rez
+ $150 or whatever for a macos X dvd
and have enough cash left over for an ipad and an iphone.
LOL
Apple did a great job unifying and cleaning up the MBP lineup.
The 256MB video card in the 15" makes sense, instead of the base being 512MB. Get the gamers to upgrade instead of settling for the hypothetical 512MB version.
I just wish the 13" came with a 1440x900 screen.
Also, their choice to only offer Intel 3000 graphics in the 13" was a wise decision.
I'll wait 'til the screen resolution gets bumped. My CE unibody MacBook is still kickin' good, especially with the new 7200RPM drive.
The 256MB video card in the 15" makes sense, instead of the base being 512MB. Get the gamers to upgrade instead of settling for the hypothetical 512MB version.
I just wish the 13" came with a 1440x900 screen.
Also, their choice to only offer Intel 3000 graphics in the 13" was a wise decision.
I'll wait 'til the screen resolution gets bumped. My CE unibody MacBook is still kickin' good, especially with the new 7200RPM drive.
Hey you said it for me... Posts like these do make me LOL!
Go enjoy your Windoze heap of a laptop and troll somewhere else.
Thunderbolt is an exciting development, and the upgrades seem pretty decent. I'm not surprised the battery life has dropped a bit with the processor upgrades. But I'm surprised that Apple is still sticking with 5400 rpm hard drives in the notebooks. That's where the bottleneck is going to occur. For the price, they really should have all gotten SSDs.
I will get one, even so it doesn't feature everything I wanted in particular an affordable SSD 512 GB but I guess I can replace it myself in some years when the prices are coming down.
Hm, I never mentioned it is a "horrible" one. I mentioned it is "one of the worst" one. I do not need to prove my point of view to you or anyone. Make your own mind and convince yourself whatever you want to believe in.
Yeah, and that's reason why you're on forum dedicated to Apple...
You just make perfect sense.
There's always a trade off. You can't up the processing power without shortening the battery life. When the iPad came out, everybody bitched about the low powered A4 processor. Well, you wouldn't get that outstanding battery life if they went with a more powerful and power hungry processor.
It seems that people here want to have their cake and eat it to. You can't put quad cores into a laptop and not expect the battery life to take a hit. Apple has changed their method of measuring the battery life. The original estimate of 10 hours may not have been entirely accurate anyway.
