Good option for those planning on doing some heavy duty work in Final Cut Studio or Aperture 3
Faster performance, better graphics, seamless switching between on-board and discreet graphics, good battery life, brilliant display, keyboard and trackpad
No way to manually select just on-board graphics to save battery, some applications trigger the discreet graphics despite their undemanding nature, overheats excessively, only two USB ports, expensive
Apple has finally updated the MacBook Pro range of notebooks with improved processors and graphics. The 15" and 17" models have received Core i5 and Core i7 processors with new NVIDIA 330M discrete graphics, whereas the 13" model got faster Core 2 Duo processors and NVIDIA 320M graphics. The graphics on the 15" and 17" models can automatically change to the on-board Intel HD graphics according to graphics requirements to save power. Another major change was the higher battery life, with Apple claiming an unbelievable 10 hours of battery life for the 13" MacBook Pro and 8-9 hours for the 15" and 17" models. We received the base 15" model, with 2.4GHz Core i5 and 4GB of RAM for testing. Let's see what this baby can do.
