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Fri, Mar 12, 2010 - 08:05 AM EST — AAPL: 225.50 (+0.66, +0.29%) | NASDAQ: 2368.46 (+9.51, +0.4%)

The New Zealand Herald: Apple’s 17-inch MacBook Pro a lighter, thinner, seriously capable machine

Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 02:24 PM EST

"Any MacBook Pro is a serious machine, capable of editing video and audio. If it's your only machine - and your biceps are up to it - a 17-inch makes sense and besides, this new Apple MacBook Pro unibody 17 is lighter and thinner than ever before. Apple claims it's both the lightest and thinnest 17-incher on the market, in fact," Mark Webster reports for The New Zealand Herald.

"The battery life of up to eight hours makes it a seriously capable machine out on the road and away from your desk... One of the big advantages of Apple's successes over the last few years (and in 2008 in particular) is the fact that the company's engineers have the time and money to invest in developing serious technology. Apple proudly posted videos of the unibody aluminium manufacturing process it developed for the latest MacBook series last October, and showed another process movie during Schiller's keynote the other day. It's now available online. This has a lot to do with a more efficient, space-saving flat shape [of the built-in battery] as compared to the usual series of cylinders. It also comes from the dispensing of a user-openable compartment and other space saving features, plus efficiencies in the rest of the laptop," Webster reports.

"Apple seriously upset the general public years back when the firm refused to put battery compartments on iPods. Then it left it off the iPhone. This was interpreted, especially by tinkerers, as an 'up yours' gesture rather than as a space, cost-saving and aesthetic exercise. Despite the complaints, heartfelt at times, the success of these two device categories belies the perception that Apple was wrong on this count," Webster reports. "So you may have to admit that Apple has been right on this."

Webster reports, "The new 17-inch MBP is the thinnest and lightest laptop on the market, says Apple, and the kind of rigidity and strength engendered by the aluminium unibody case Apple designed will be most welcome for those out on the road.... And that delicious big, shiny screen..."

More in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.]

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Jan 11, 09 - 02:46 pm Comment from: mac man by choice

Nice article on the pro

Jan 11, 09 - 04:09 pm Comment from: studentrights

Awesome! I'm first and Apple rocks!

Jan 11, 09 - 04:10 pm Comment from: studentrights

Ignore the first guy he didn't praise Apple!

Jan 11, 09 - 04:30 pm Comment from: Jeremy

Nice to see a reviewer being mature and practical on the battery issue.

Anyone with a brain can see at this point that having a removable battery is certainly not *always* the best solution, even when it's practical at all.

Like with all things Apple, in a few years everyone will have non-removable batteries and we will all be saying how strange it was that people thought they must be removable.

Jan 11, 09 - 06:32 pm Comment from: Ferf Muckmeyer

Saw the new 17" model at Macworld last Tuesday. To be honest, it doesn't appear to be much heavier than the 15" (well, it is but not by much). But the construct of the laptop is so good that you forget about the battery "issue". And to me there is no issue. Even if I got 6 hours of life out of the battery I could care less if it's non-removable. Oh, BTW, the 17" Macbook Pro is a thing of beauty.

Jan 12, 09 - 12:39 am Comment from: ElderNorm

And the drum roll please....... ""So you may have to admit that Apple has been right on this."". WOW, it starts, er, started with that first Apple II and its been running ever since.

Just a thought.
en

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