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Apple MacBook Pro review

 
Just in the same way celebrity deaths always seem to come in threes, it's much the same with Apple notebooks. You wait around for ages only for them all to arrive at once. Earlier in the week we looked at the bargain basement MacBook and now it's the turn of its big brother, the MacBook Pro. There are two versions on offer, the 17-inch beast for those who like to bathe in the full glory of their screen content, and this, the smaller 15-inch model. The new body design isn't a great move away from what we've come to expect. However, it now has a body cut from a single piece of aluminium. Apple has been hugely criticised for its lack of attention to recycling but this new casing, as well as the glass used in the 15-inch screen, goes some way to addressing the problem. The super glossy LED screen is eye-squintingly bright at its highest setting, and delivers fantastic quality. The screen has an impressive 1440 x 900-pixel resolution, which is surely high enough for even the ... (link)

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