APPLE MACBOOK PRO REVIEW - 17-INCH 2.4 GHZ

Introduction
This is a fine laptop with a backlit keyboard, a slot-fed DVD drive and a high quality 17-inch screen. This machine is also available to run Windows Vista very well and could almost be the ultimate notebook of 2007.

Design
This laptop is simply 1 inch thick and weight only 6.6 pounds. This is very good for a 17-inch laptop actually it is the lightest 17-inch laptop available at the market. However you will only get three USB ports and the laptop offers no memory card slots. This laptop also comes with an ExpressCard/34 instead of the better ExpressCard/54 slot and the battery life is poor, it only lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes. However you will also get good features like two FireWire ports, Bluetooth, 802.11n Wi-Fi and a very good design.

Performance
The design on the Apple MacBook Pro is very good and it’s the best laptop for Windows Vista. This laptop even runs Windows Vista better then the best laptops from Dell, HP Toshiba and the rest of the famous brands. The funny thing is that this is a MacBook and it is not even optimized for Windows Vista. Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, the maximum 4GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and nVidia's GeForce 8600M GT graphics card, the machine did excellent at benchmarks and game tests. In Far Cry we got an average 141 average FPS and on WorldBench 6 beta 2 we got a score of 88 points which beats all the other competitors.

Overall
The MacBook Pro really shows an amazing performance and is well suited to be one of the best laptops of 2007. It is the lightest and fastest 17-inch laptop to run Windows Vista. This laptop can be used by the hardcore gamer, the student or the average man.
With MacBook Pro you get everything in one high quality package.

Pros
+ Very light
+ Excellent performance
+ Overall high quality

Cons
- Only 3 USB ports
- Uses a ExpressCard/34 and not ExpressCard/54

Value For Money

Our Rating