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MacChat: The incredible shrinking MacBook Pro
IN 2003, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs declared the “Year of the Notebook”, the 12” PowerBook made its impressive debut.
With a surface area similar to an A4 sheet of paper, and packing professional features, it was the ultimate blend of power and portability.
The 12” PowerBook was discontinued a few years later, and there hasn’t been another Mac notebook like it. That is, until now.
At Apple’s recent Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs’s stand-in, worldwide product marketing vice-president Phil Schiller, revealed the new 13” MacBook Pro.
While it physically resembles the standard MacBook it replaces, the differences are deeper than the new Pro label.
Pro users, or anyone who still uses Firewire devices, will welcome the return of Firewire to the 13” form factor.
And in a first for Apple, the 13” and 15” MacBook Pros now include an SD card slot (though in the larger models it comes at the expense of the more versatile ExpressCard slot). Put an OS X disk image on an SD card and you can even boot from it.
While not as thin as the MacBook Air, the 13” MacBook Pro is nevertheless ultra-low-profile, thanks to its unibody enclosure machined from a single sheet of aluminium.
And unlike the Air, it features a full array of ports, an internal SuperDrive and it can accommodate up to 8GB of RAM.
It does, however, still compromise on video power, with an integrated graphics processor rather than a dedicated video card.
The 13” MacBook boasts Apple’s unique hardware features (glass Multi-Touch trackpad, iSight camera, sudden motion sensor, MagSafe power adapter, light-sensing backlit keyboard, brilliant LED-backlit screen) and unique software (Mac OS X Leopard and iLife ‘09).
Whether or not it was prompted by Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters campaign, Apple’s portable range now has more aggressive pricing: the 13” MacBook Pro is a couple of hundred dollars cheaper than the standard MacBook it replaces.
The 13” MacBook Pro is impressively portable without compromising on the high-end features demanded by pro users on the go.
Apple 13in MacBook Pro, from $A1899, http://www.apple.com/au/macbookpro
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