Join Product Reviews on        
Apple’s New 17-inch MacBook Pro: Review, Specs and Gaming

Apple’s New 17-inch MacBook Pro: Review, Specs and Gaming

By: Peter Chubb | March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment

There are so many gaming laptops to choose from, such as the Dell XPS M1730 and the Alienware M9750, but it is an impossible task to know which the best one is. Apple (AAPL) are hoping that packing the new 17-inch MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM and a top spec video card will give them the title.

I will tell you this, the new MacBook Pro is not going to compete with Windows based laptops when it comes to games, but it is the ultimate one that Mac users have been waiting for. The great thing about the new 17-inch MacBook is how energy efficient it is, offering up to 8 hours of battery life per charge.

The larger MacBook Pro starts at $2,799, with a number of configurations for you to choose from, you can have the MacBook just how you like it. Computer World had one sent to them, so they could put it the test. Their review unit had the faster 2.93-GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid-state disk drive, that would cost you $4,849. You would have to be a serious gamer to speed that kind of money.

Read the full review

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Download our free iPhone and iPad apps, or read more in Computers, Laptops.

You may also like...

  1. Macbook Air Review: New 13.3, 11.6-Inch Models – Battery Life Praised Macbook Air Review: New 13.3, 11.6-Inch Models – Battery Life Praised
  2. New MacBook Air: 13.3-inch and 11.6-inch Hands-on Video New MacBook Air: 13.3-inch and 11.6-inch Hands-on Video
  3. New Macbook Air: 11-inch Upgrade – A Personal Review New Macbook Air: 11-inch Upgrade – A Personal Review
  4. Macbook Air: Hands-on Review of New 11-inch Model Macbook Air: Hands-on Review of New 11-inch Model
 
Next Story: Blue OLED efficiency up by 25%
Previous Story: Latest on Apple iPhone OS 3.0: Find My iPhone and MobileMe
Tags:
  • Kevin B

    I’ve had my Dell XPS M1730 for one year now. Two days before that one year – one of the RAID hard drives failed. Of course this thing was set up as RAID0 from the factory, so there goes all the data on my primary computer. Lovely.

    This drive failure occurred three weeks after having the power adapter (brick) replaced due to a defect as well. Put that together with crappy video drivers which greatly hindered the performance I SHOULD have been getting out of this laptop (with Vista certainly not helping) – it’s currently in storage and I’m typing this out on my new MACBOOK PRO.

    Never thought I’d ever own a MAC (I’ve been tech support of Windows PCs for my whole life). Bit of a learning curve, but I don’t think I’ll ever look back.

    My wife got her first Mac (last year’s MacBook Pro) in December 2008, and replaced a Dell Inspiron notebook (that again we were forced into buying with Vista).

    Thanks Dell and Microsoft Vista – you’ve converted me, and neither of you will ever see another cent of my money again.