MacBook Pro Valentine's surprise
Darius Chang | Feb 15, 2006
In a pleasant Valentine's Day surprise, Apple upgraded the processor for their flagship dual-core MacBook Pro on its online store even before the first unit has shipped, without raising the price by a single cent.
The pioneer intel-based Apple notebook, two configurations of the MacBook Pro is offered through the online store for pre-order. Due for shipping this month, the baseline model has its processor beefed up from 1.67GHz to 1.83GHz while the high-end unit now sports a 2.0GHz chip. The other components remains unchanged.
- 1.83GHz or 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
- 667MHz frontside bus and main memory
- PCI Express architecture
- Up to 120GB Serial ATA hard drive
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with up to 256MB memory on 16-lane PCI Express
- ExpressCard/34 slot
- Dual-link DVI, VGA adapter included
- One FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports
- Optical digital and analog audio I/O, built-in microphone and stereo speakers
- Slot-loading SuperDrive
- Illuminated keyboard, scrolling TrackPad
- Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and Gigabit Ethernet
- Mac OS X Tiger with iLife '06, featuring iWeb
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