First look: MacBook Pro

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

You’ve probably read all about the new MacBook family of laptops, by now. You will have digested Steve Jobs’ speech. You may even have shrugged your shoulders and said: ‘meh’. But, having just had our first play with the the 15.4in MacBook Pro, however, we can reveal right now that the new MacBooks are certainly not to be sniffed at.

The first thing that strikes you about the machine is its incredible build quality. Jobs made much of Apple’s new manufacturing process – pioneered with the MacBook Air – where the main part of the chassis is hewn from a single block of aluminium, and it certainly makes for a very robust-feeling machine. The original Pro was no pansy in this regard, but if that was solid as a rock this is positively granite.

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