[BlueApple]

Does anyone know if the 17-in MBP also get the new LED backlight display?

Has apple upgraded the RAM-speed as well? (since the FSB on the new MBP is 800MHz now, if I'm not mistaken)



Thanks

[drewprops]

I believe reading on Engadget that it was NOT on the 17" book but you should go over there and poke around....

[Majost]

Originally Posted by drewprops I believe reading on Engadget that it was NOT on the 17" book but you should go over there and poke around....

Indeed. From Apple.com:

More than beautiful The new 15-inch MacBook Pro is better for the environment, thanks to its new mercury-free display. Backlit by light emitting diodes (LEDs), the display weighs less and is more power efficient than the cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) which most notebooks employ, and provides full brightness immediately after the system is turned on.

Note: *Not* 17"

[709]

Right, and Apple didn't *bump* the RAM speed it's more that the motherboard blah blah 667 RAM will work just fine blah blah 800Mhz doesn't make a whole lot of difference blah blah nothing to be concerned about blah blah til Penryn or whatever the fuck it's called blah blah help me chucker you're my only hope blah blah

[Windowsrookie]

It uses the same 667mhz RAM.

[Moogs]

Penryn is the next desktop chipset which will relieve some of the bottlenecks in the current system among other things, but will not bring native quad-core processors (duct-tape versions will still be used like today's model). Nehalem is the uber-bad-ass chipset, that will bring said processors, along with a slew of architectural performance improvements. That should be here around this time next year I think. Probably a good 2008 WWDC prediction would be "OMFTow@rz, Nehalem asploded the benchmarks!!one Everything runs 17x faster than all preeeeveeeus models!"

I have no idea what's next for Laptops though.

[Windowsrookie]

Can't wait for my Hydrogen cooled 83 1/2 core 60billionghz Super MacBook Pro Extreme Core 2 87 Duo with 8,000,000mhz FSB and an ATI X237586382923845 Extreme Chuck Norris version. Featuring 2 USB 4.0 ports!

[chucker]

Originally Posted by 709 Right, and Apple didn't *bump* the RAM speed it's more that the motherboard blah blah 667 RAM will work just fine blah blah 800Mhz doesn't make a whole lot of difference blah blah nothing to be concerned about blah blah til Penryn or whatever the fuck it's called blah blah help me chucker you're my only hope blah blah

Santa Rosa was rumored to bump RAM speeds to 800 MHz, but the actual released form of the new chipset does not support it. The FSB was bumped to 800 MHz, but the fastest RAM is still PC2-5300/DDR2-667.

The reason the 17-inch MBP does not have an LED backlight is the same LED Backlights are so rare on anything but mobile-sized screens: it's still hard/expensive to produce at such sizes, and therefore harder on a 17-inch screen than on a 15-inch one. It'll eventually happen.

[Banana]

Originally Posted by Windowsrookie Can't wait for my Hydrogen cooled 83 1/2 core 60billionghz Super MacBook Pro Extreme Core 2 87 Duo with 8,000,000mhz FSB and an ATI X237586382923845 Extreme Chuck Norris version. Featuring 2 USB 4.0 ports!

Hydrogen cooling? I'm going to ignore the obivous problems with other spec and focus on that one.

1. While they have higher specific heat than water, they're also significantly less dense than water and therefore conduct much less heat. If anything, they'd act more of an insulator than conductor.

2. Hydrogen has a tendency to react violently with free oxygen which also releases a helluva lot of enegry. Read: assplode.

3. Hydrogen leaks. They transport hydrogen as a liquid exactly for that reason.

4. #1 and #3 could be partially solved by pressurizing, but that only exacerbates #2 plus additional risk of puncturing the pressurized chamber which will also assplode.

Try again, kid.

[Windowsrookie]

Smartass.

[PB PM]

Yeah, you should totally have gone for a copper case, (giant heat sink) rather than aluminum and make that USB 4.2 with top speeds of 10GB/s, with 22 pin firewire (20GB/s) matched with a 10.5Ghz Bus.

[Partial]

Originally Posted by Moogs Penryn is the next desktop chipset which will relieve some of the bottlenecks in the current system among other things, but will not bring native quad-core processors (duct-tape versions will still be used like today's model). Nehalem is the uber-bad-ass chipset, that will bring said processors, along with a slew of architectural performance improvements. That should be here around this time next year I think. Probably a good 2008 WWDC prediction would be "OMFTow@rz, Nehalem asploded the benchmarks!!one Everything runs 17x faster than all preeeeveeeus models!" I have no idea what's next for Laptops though.

Isn't Nehalem the architecture after Core 2 duo (which encompasses the original core 2 duo, and the forthcoming Peryn revision of Core 2 Duo )?

[Satchmo]

I'm blown away simply by the fact that it'll have a resolution of 1920 x 1200.
I passed by an Apple store today and the current 17" with a res of 1650 x 1050 already looks awesome.