Why are the specs of the MBPs different between US and UK???

[ibizarocks]

I've just checked and US get 512mb vid card ram as standard and the UK a 256mb????????

UPDATE: in fact I've just checked again to see if I wasn't dreaming and it's the same on the low end MBP, 256 in US and 128 in UK... what's going on??? (not that I care too much as I'm waiting till June but just thought it was a worthy thing to note!)

 

[Ironduke]

almost certainly a missprint

 

[edesignuk]

Must be a typo, all UK MPB's have half as much as the US according to the store at the moment, but that can't possibly be the case

 

[Gex]

I noticed the same thing in the Norwegian Apple Store!

What's going on!?!

 

[worriedmac]

The US is getting a 8400 card and the rest of the stores are getting the 8800. I feel that this isn't a misprint. We get a better chipset but poorer vram. I would prefer the vram. I was thinking of buying one of these but I think that is a big discrepancy.

 

[CoolJuul]

In the Dutch store at least it says "up to 512MB of video memory" in the description of the presentation of the new MBP.

So I think it should be 256 and 512.

 

[hooly]

Same here in Finland; it seems to be all the European stores.

If you go into 'compare specs' though, it lists as 512Mb.

What gives!?

EDIT: all sites list the 8600GT and all sites list 512Mb for the upper models in the 'compare specs' but the european sites list 256Mb in the MBP front page.

Hopefully a misprint...

 

[JBourne]

That Alone!!

Price Drop Europe but not in The UK
Does anyone have a explanation why the base model price dropped €100 in country's such as Holland?, But the price at the UK store remains the same.

 

[LunaLovegood]

same in italy!

USA: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB (/512/512)
UK, Italy: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM (/256/256)

 

[design-is]

They just didn't update the site properly. Its only a typo. They should fix it soon.

 

[rmarinheira]

Ordered my base model with a €100 price drop!


Realy sweet!

 

[jacjac3]

calm down folks let apple update the online store ....hahhaha...tsk tsk panicking around the world over a MBP

 

[Impulz]

The vram seems to be a typo. While the german shop says 128MB for the entry level MBP, my order confirmation says 256MB.