The latter was a separate GPU linked off of the PCIe bus and designed to be used if/when you needed the horsepower. The original unibody MacBook Pro had two GPUs, the 9400M integrated in the chipset and a GeForce 9600M. This was a significant upgrade over the Intel integrated graphics that had previously been used across Apple’s line. All of Apple’s unibody MacBook Pros use NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M chipset the chipset also has a GeForce 9400M graphics core in it.
The missing ExpressCard slot was mostly to make room for the SD card slot, but the 9600M was most definitely a cost saving omission. The cheapest 15-inch MacBook Pro dropped from $1999 down to $1699, and Apple only sacrificed two things: 1) the ExpressCard slot and 2) the GeForce 9600M. If you’d like to see how it stacks up to much older hardware, check out our review of the unibody MacBook Pro from last fall.Īpple did a number on its pricing. A quick sanity check on performance confirmed that the new model is in the same league of performance as the old one.
It’s barely more than a 5% increase in clock speed, so I wouldn’t expect anything more than a couple percentage points of a performance boost in apps. The Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz used to be in the entry level 15-inch MacBook Pro, now it’s a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo. The new MacBook Pro, note the SD card slot.Īll of the CPUs got a speed bump. The SD slot is nice but I do most of my shooting with a CF based DSLR, so I still need an external reader for my CF cards. Apple ditched the ExpressCard/34 slot and replaced it with a SD card slot. The hardware hasn’t changed much since the Fall 2008 MacBook Pros. Two of these 5 tipped star screws hold the battery in place According to Apple, you wouldn’t have to for around 5 years though.
There’s a big sticker telling you not to and doing so would probably void your warranty, but you can at least get to it if you’d like to. After you remove the bottom cover there are just two screws between you and removing the battery. The integrated battery is actually very easy to remove, provided you have the right screwdriver. HDD (lower left), memory (center) and battery (lower right) Remove 10 screws and you can access everything. The base of the new MacBook Pro.just like the old MacBook Pro While the lack of any screwless removable panels makes the new MacBook Pro even more sturdy than its already herculean predecessor, it does mean that to swap hard drives you need to remove ten screws to get the bottom cover off then another two to get the hard drive out. The old removable battery and HDD bay, both gone Apparently that was short lived because it’s no longer there on the new unibody MacBook Pros. I was excited when Apple finally introduced an easily accessible drive bay for the MacBook Pro.
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