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Review: 2009 MacBook Pro 13-Inch Is Freakin Awesome
cultofmac.com - 6/15/2009
Review: 2009 MacBook Pro 13-Inch Is Freakin Awesome
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Last fall I bought a 13-inch unibody MacBook, and I fell in love. For the last seven months I’ve been head-over-heels with the machine. But now there’s a new love in my life: a brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro, which is shaping up to be the perfect laptop. Released last week, Apple’s ...
support.apple.com - 6/22/2009
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7
— support.apple.com — About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives ... (more) MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7

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13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface
macrumors.com - 6/14/2009
13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface
— macrumors.com — As first described in our forums, Apple seems to have quietly downgraded the SATA Interface from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit speeds in some of the new MacBook Pros introduced last week. Readers are reporting that both the new 13" and 15" MacBook Pro models... (more) 13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface

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MacDailyNews:  Leander Kahney reviews Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro: ‘I’m in love, the perfect laptop’

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Leander Kahney reviews Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro: ‘I’m in love, the perfect laptop’
MacDailyNews — ... is good for crossing the entire continent?" "The build quality remains impressive and true. The unibody MacBooks exude quality. They’re very well built. In terms of looks and materials, the MBP 13” is more or less indistinguishable from the higher priced machines. It’s as good as the 15-inch or 17-inch, but at a fraction of the price," Kahney reports. "The buttonless glass trackpad is a fantastic innovation, a pleasure to use." Kahney reports, "Yeah, I’m in love... " Full review here . ...

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13" MacBook Pro
lowendmac.com 6/11/2009 — The Unibody MacBook gains FireWire, a built-in battery, and adds 'Pro' to its name.
15" MacBook Pro (June 2009)
lowendmac.com 6/11/2009 — The middle MacBook Pro is more affordable, gets a built-in 7 hour battery, and has more speed options.
17" MacBook Pro (June 2009)
lowendmac.com 6/11/2009 — The biggest MacBook Pro gets a faster CPU and a 3.06 GHz build-to-order option.
The June 2009 13" MacBook Pro Value Equation, Dan Knight, Mac Musings
lowendmac.com 6/11/2009 — The new 13" MacBook Pro has a lot to offer over the discontinued Unibody MacBook, but where's the best value?
Fire Sale on End of Life 'Books, Pros of SD Card Support, 13" MacBook Pro an Editor's Choice, and More, The 'Book Review
lowendmac.com 6/12/2009 — Also 13" MacBook Pro teardown, ExpressCard missing from new 15" MacBook Pro, Virgin Mobile intros 3G broadband service, bargain 'Books from $170 to $2,199, and more.
13" MacBook Pro a Practically Perfect Replacement for the 12" PowerBook, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job
lowendmac.com 6/15/2009 — Except for being an inch wider, the 13" MacBook Pro surpasses the 12" PowerBook G4 in every respect.
13-Inch MacBook Pro Arrives and MacBook Air Gets a Price Cut [Apple]
i.gizmodo.com 6/8/2009 — Apple just announced a spec bump for their 13-inch MacBook that brings it into MacBook Pro territory, and the MacBook Air got a whopping $700 price drop. The 13-inch MBP gets the backlit keyboard, SD card slot and the option to be loaded with up to 8GB of RAM, just like its new big brothers .  ...
Apple Refreshes MacBook Line at WWDC
db.tidbits.com 6/8/2009 — Apple seldom introduces new Mac models at WWDC, but chose today to announce that it has revamped nearly its entire laptop line . The 13-inch MacBook has transmogrified into a MacBook Pro, and Apple pushed out revised versions of the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models as well and dropped the ...
Apple Releases New 15" MacBook Pro, Updates 17" MacBook Pro
macrumors.com 6/9/2009 — Apple today released a revamped version of the 15" MacBook Pro. The new model incorporates the same non-user-replaceable battery found in the 17" MacBook Pro and offers up to seven hours of runtime and up to 1000 charge cycles. Apple has al...
Apple Updates 13" Aluminum MacBook, Rebranded as "MacBook Pro"
macrumors.com 6/9/2009 — Apple today updated its 13" aluminum MacBook, rebranding the model as part of its MacBook Pro line. The new model offers the same non-user-replaceable battery found in the 17" MacBook Pro and adds a FireWire 800 port and an SD card slot. Pr...
Low-end MacBook Pros: SD Card and FireWire In, ExpressCard Out, Charles W. Moore, 'Book Value
lowendmac.com 6/16/2009 — The new 13" and 15" MacBook Pro have FireWire 800 and SD Card slots, but ExpressCard is gone, left for the 17" MacBook Pro.
The June 2009 17" MacBook Pro Value Equation, Dan Knight, Mac Musings
lowendmac.com 6/11/2009 — The new model is a bit faster, but are older models better values?
New MacBook Pro can boot off SD card
hardmac.com 6/10/2009 — According to a kbase note just published by Apple : Can I install Mac OS X on an SD storage device and use it as a startup volume? Yes.  Change the default partition table to GUID using Disk Utility, and format the card to use the Mac OS ...
New MacBook Pros Boot From SD Cards
db.tidbits.com 6/11/2009 — When Apple announced that the swapping of the ExpressCard slot on the 15-inch MacBook Pro for an SD ( Secure Digital ) memory card slot, the few users of ExpressCard-compatible peripherals - at least those other than beyond SD card readers - were understandably disappointed. (Apple claimed that ...
MacBook Pro 2009 Review [MacBook Pro] — Gizmodo
You know those Microsoft laptop hunter spots ? Apple may already have responded with TV spots of their own , but these MacBook Pros strike back at Microsoft better than any ad can: by doing. Apple did two things simultaneously that are usually contradictory; they lowered the price of their ...
Review: 2009 MacBook Pro 13-Inch – It’s Freakin Awesome! — Cult of Mac
Last fall I bought a 13-inch unibody MacBook, and I fell in love. For the last seven months I’ve been head-over-heels with the machine. But now there’s a new love in my life: a brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro, which is shaping up to be the perfect laptop. Released last week, Apple’s ...
The June 2009 15" MacBook Pro Value Equation, Dan Knight, Mac Musings — Low End Mac
With an entry-level 15" MacBook Pro selling for $1,699, the midrange MacBook Pro line seems poised to take off.
Apple's new MacBook Pro family unboxing and hands-on! — Engadget
What would you call this? A "fleet" of MacBook Pros? A "catch?" A "murder," perhaps? In any case, Apple just dropped off the entire line -- including the newly-status-bumped 13-inch MacBook Pro -- at Engadget HQ, and while we'll have some in-depth impressions and benchmarks soon, we thought ...
Manuals of the New MacBook Pro Available — HardMac.com
Apple released manuals of the new MacBook Pro , but did not communicate about it. We looked for them and found them: Manual MacBook Pro 15" Manual MacBook Pro 13" You will or course find many information inside, including how to easily change the HD and memory modules.
Did Apple Downgrade the Hard Drive Controller in the New MacBook Pros? [Apple] — Gizmodo
Over the weekend, we got a number of reports that Apple has seriously downgraded the SATA controller in the latest MacBook Pro 13-inch and 15-inch update, capping potential drive speeds. Going over the evidence, it looks like they were right. The issue has been examined at length in the ...
MacBook Pro Hands-On Gallery [MacBook Pro] — Gizmodo
We've got a delicious gallery of pics of the new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros. Wanna know how to swap the locked-in hard drive and battery? We have shots of that too. Just by looking at the 13 and 15-inch models together, you can tell that Apple was pretty much right when they said that they ...
MacBook Pro SD/ExpressCard Slot Tradeoff: Brilliant or Blunder? — TheAppleBlog
Apple’s new/refreshed MacBook Pro 13″ and 15″ models each come equipped with a SD Media Card reader slot, but in the case of the 15-incher, this has required elimination of the ExpressCard/34 expansion slot that had been in every 15-inch MacBook Pro since the get-go, back in ...
13-inch MacBook Pro gets torn apart — Engadget
We've only just started playing with our new 13-inch MacBook Pro , but the cats at iFixit have different ideas -- they've already torn one open for your morbid viewing pleasure. Interestingly, battery replacement involves only the removal of a couple tri-wing screws and a sticker, so the ...
Re-defining "Pro": The 13" MacBook Pro — The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Once again, Gruber called it (aside, I wish I had his sources); the naming distinctions between the unibody 13" MacBook and the 15" MacBook Pro are now gone: say hello to the 13" MacBook Pro . Complete with a lower price (starts at $1199 and goes to $1499 in stock configurations), and more ...
Apple Releases New 15" MacBook Pro, Updates 17" MacBook Pro — Latest iPhone News : iPhoneTopic.com
Apple today released a revamped version of the 15" MacBook Pro. The new model incorporates the same non-user-replaceable battery found in the 17" MacBook Pro and offers up to seven hours of runtime and up to 1000 charge cycles. Apple has al...
Apple Updates 13" Aluminum MacBook, Rebranded as "MacBook Pro" — Latest iPhone News : iPhoneTopic.com
Apple today updated its 13" aluminum MacBook, rebranding the model as part of its MacBook Pro line. The new model offers the same non-user-replaceable battery found in the 17" MacBook Pro and adds a FireWire 800 port and an SD card slot. Pr...
Product News - MacBook Renamed 13-inch MacBook Pro, Gains FireWire 800 — The Mac Observer
Apple returned the FireWire port to MacBook users on Monday at its World Wide Developer Conference, and redubbed the laptop the 13-inch MacBook Pro. Along with FireWire 800, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro includes a built-in battery just like the 17-inch and new 15-inch MacBook Pro.
Review: MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009) — Macworld
The latest 17-inch MacBook Pro is by all measures a minor hardware upgrade over its predecessor, offering only slightly faster processor options and a bump in hard-drive capacity. The more significant change is the value you get for your money.
Review: MacBook Pros (15-inch, Mid 2009) — Macworld
This update to the 15-inch MacBook Pro delivers better value and even more specification options to the laptop, though the upgrades to this new model are more nuanced than flashy.
MacBook Pro (mid 2009) in-depth impressions — Engadget
Let's be straight here: we're a little perplexed by the new MacBook Pro line . On one hand, Apple didn't really make enough changes to warrant a whole new review of the unibody lineup, and minor speed bumps aside, briefly using one of the new machines feels pretty much like using most any ...
The new MacBook Pro with 500GB/7200rpm hard-disk: so much vibrations it feels like a massage — HardMac.com
The very day the new MacBook Pros where announced during the WWDC09 Keynote, I ordered on the online Apple store a 15" model with a 2.8GHz CPU and a 500GB/7200rpm hard disk. 8 days later I received my machine, turned it on and had a bad surprise: you can feel the whole case of the computer ...
What’s the Buzz About the SD Card Slot? — MacLifer: The best apple mac computer hardware and software posts from around the web
When I originally wrote about the introduction of the new 15″ MacBook Pro, I was curious as to if the newly featured SD card slot would support even newer SDHC cards. A little research later, I learned that the MacBook Pro does support this standard and has a few more tricks up its sleeve. ...
What’s the Buzz About the SD Card Slot? — TheAppleBlog
When I originally wrote about the introduction of the new 15″ MacBook Pro, I was curious as to if the newly featured SD card slot would support even newer SDHC cards. A little research later, I learned that the MacBook Pro does support this standard and has a few more tricks up its ...
New MacBook Pro Can Boot From an SD Card. (Duh. So Can PCs.) (PC World) — Latest iPhone News : iPhoneTopic.com
PC World - In the wake of this week's WWDC keynote, in which Apple announced that new MacBook Pro laptops will finally include an SD slot, the tech press is all aflutter about what they seem to think is a new possibility: booting from SD. Sorry to break it to you all, but this isn't a new ...