Apple Macbook Pro 17-inch (unibody), the expensive beauty

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This is not a new story since it’s been around since early January. I joined Apple’s product mailing list to be the first informed by the latest offering or product, but I put blame on Apple because I only come to know about it, this morning.

It is norm that the first thing I wanna know is the price tag.  I can’t hide the feeling that this monster is damn expensive. RM10k is the amount you have to willingly part away,  if you want to bring this beauty monster home. For bachelor, keep in mind that this is the favorite number for  ‘duit hantaran‘ most parent set nowadays.

But, this is Apple, where price is not the selling point. In fact, Macbook Pro is the top seller notebook in US. Certainly, this notebook is not for  only for PRO, not for me who used to Acer or Dell or HP.

You got what you paid. This beauty monster has stunning looks, thank to aluminum  unibody. It is thinnest and lightest 17 inch notebook in the world, claimed Apple.

Powered by Intel Core 2 Duo chip processor up to 2.96 GHz, 4 GB DDR3 Ram upgradeable to 8GB, 320 GB hard drive, 8 hour battery life (integrated), GeForce 9600M GT graphic card are among the impressive spec ready to rock you.

But beside the thousands of high end chip and electronic parts that powering this notebook, Apple is touting this notebook is among the greenest notebook on its class. It contain contains no arsenic, BFR, mercury, and less PVC as well as the battery life that lasted for up to 5 years. For real, that is another bonus you end up with.

So who needs this notebook? Anyone who has deep pocket, as well as PRO users. Interested users that ready to be PRO, check the spec carefully before decide to part with your 10k.

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Newly refreshed 2009 MacBook White lands in Malaysia

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The newly refreshed MacBook white is available for booking since couple of few days ago on the Malaysia Apple online store.

With the same price (RM3699), it now has better spec such as new graphic card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared, and 2GB (2x 1 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM) which is now the default setup.

For comparison, this is the old spec, with 2.1GHz

* Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1GB DDR2 Memory
* 120GB hard drive1
* Intel GMA X3100 graphics
* Standard keyboard
* White polycarbonate shell

It come also with FireWire 400 port (up to 400 Mbps), which I read on couple of MacBook blog is the most surprise inclusion on this 2009 refresh.

I almost buy this MacBook white if not because a  friend of mine  who went to New Zealand for business trip offer to buy iPhone 3g 16GB, which he said the price is equivalent to RM2100. That is pretty cheap compared to the current price on the local market . Hope that true. Otherwise I might end up with this MB at the end of this months (hopefully).

Lowendmac has made a decent comparison betwen 2008 and 2009 white MacBook. Check it out.