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15-Inch and 17-Inch MacBook Pros Receive 2.8 GHz Core i7 Option

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Alongside Apple's other announcements today, the company also quietly added a new option to its 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros, allowing customers to configure the machines with a 2.8 GHz Core i7 processor. The upgrade comes as an additional $200 charge on top of the 2.66 GHz Core i7 processor that had been the top-of-the-line offering.

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Top Rated Comments

205 months ago
ka-ching

2.66 -> 2.8Ghz.

Intel price diff : $24.

Apple price diff: $200!

ka-ching!
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cherry su Avatar
204 months ago
The 13 inch Macbook Pro is a mistake, in my opinion.
When you look at the hardware, the interfaces, the resolution, there is nothing pro about those machines. They're simply aluminum Macbooks.

The pro line, aimed towards power users and designers, has features to support just that. When I'm doing my designing in illustrator or photoshop, or editing pictures in lightroom, I'd rather not have pathetic screen real estate and resolution when doing so.

So for people to complain that the 13" MBP isn't getting any love, there is a reason for that, because it should have never have came out. But instead of keeping the aluminum macbooks, they slapped pro on the case and decided to cash in.

Apple will give the 13" love in limited quanitites because the real designers and power users, and therefor the real profit and target audience, dont use them.
But the pro moniker lets apple get away with even more warped marketing! MacBook Pros can now start at $1199!
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charlieroberts Avatar
205 months ago
wow 400$ ???


and 999$ "aggresive" price for the new macbook Air?

OSX is getting more expensive by the keynote!!

Price cut across the board please!!! :(
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