AnandTech is seriously in love with the new MacBook Pro. For the short take jump to the conclusion here:There’s no other way to say this. If you care about battery life and portability at all, buy the new MacBook Pro. Go to the Apple store and buy one....
Ever since I first looked at the power consumption specs of Nehalem I thought it didn’t make any sense to buy a new, expensive notebook before Arrandale’s launch in Q4 2009/Q1 2010. While performance will definitely increase considerably with Arrandale, Apple just threw a huge wrench in my recommendation. The new MacBook Pro is near perfect today. If you need a new laptop now, thanks to its incredible battery life, I have no qualms recommending the new MBP....
I’m not sure there’s much else I can add other than Good Job, Apple. He did extensive real world battery tests and found that the new MacBook Pros show a 100% increase in battery life over the previous generation! He got 6.5 hour out of a full charge doing normal surfing and music playing. And over 8 hours in some cases. Yikes. That's pretty amazing. And the 15 inch model - with 4GB of RAM now standard - is now only $1699. I'm still in love with mine, but wow.
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- jim 6-13-2009 2:50 pm