Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch Review

August 11, 2009 by admin
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Apple Inc. is a company known for making its own rules. However, with all the talks and discussions going on about how the same application cost so much less on Windows, it seems that the company is finally paying attention to its suggestion boxes. The latest series of Apple Macbook Pro 13-inch are all manufactured by with aluminium, thus giving them a shiny finish as well as more durability. Even the track pads are now multi touch enabled. These updates are being considered as the steps towards refinement rather than a revolution in the notebook sector. Apple has also decided to add some very sought-after features while also lowering the prices of the notebooks.

The Apple Macbook Pro is a 13 inch display macbook that is aluminium constructed that has recently been promoted to the Pro series. To complete the total upgrade, Apple even decided to give the macbook its missing FireWire port, thus making it even more useful for professionals who are constantly on the move. Another amazing addition to this series of macbooks is the installation of the SD card slot. This now comes as a standard feature on the 13 and the 15 inch pro macbooks. This series of laptops also come with keyboards that are backlit, that is, they have lights in the background. Earlier, this facility was seen only in the expensive 13 inch versions.

Another upgrade in the latest Apple Macbook Pro 13 inch laptop is it non-removable battery. When tested under lab conditions, the battery backup was an amazing 4 hours and 44 minutes. Some people do have strong feelings about this move of inserting a non removable battery; however, Apple has claimed a 40% improvement in the battery backup sector. Also, Apple claims that there would be three more recharge cycles of the battery as compared to the older ones. The build and design of this macbook is not much different from the last year’s models, though the finishing and the construction make it lighter and sturdier.

The other specifications include the 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 GB DDR2 RAM. The Apple Macbook Pro 13 inch laptop comes with a 160 GB 5400 rpm HDD and Nvidia MCP79 chipset. The graphics card used is the Nvidia GeForce 9400M which is integrated in the system. The macbook comes preloaded with OS X Leopard 10.5.7 operating system. The system weighs 4.5 pounds without the adapter and 5.2 pounds with it.

Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch Specifications and Features

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz processor
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
2.0 GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory
160 GB Serial ATA-150 – 5400 RPM
13.3″ LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1280 x 800 Resolution
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi, Built-in Bluetooth 2.1, 2x USB Ports
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard