Apple announced it’s Intel-centric notebook the MacBook Pro yesterday at Macworld 2006 in San Francisco. This is the first use of Intel chips in an Apple product. Specifically, the high-end MacBook Pro uses the 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 Cache. The display is 15.4-inch 1440×900 LCD. The MacBook Pro comes with 1GB of memory, a 100GB 5400rpm hdd and graphics provided via a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 GPU with 256MB.
According to Apple, these specs deliver a 4x performance improvement over the PowerBook G4. No word on battery life as yet.
While the MacBook is visually virtually indistinguishable from the previous-gen PowerBook, Apple has made some small changes. They’ve dropped the internal modem and the FireWire 800 port, and added something they call the MagSafe power connector. A good side-by-side comparison of PowerBook vs. MacBook features can be found at this link.
MacBook Pro – product homepage
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I didn’t realize Apple started using Intel chips way back in ’06. How has the Intel/Apple relationship gone so far?