« When the Boot Camp Assistant fails | Main | iDefrag review »

First take: New MacBook Pro 'one cool customer'

Posted in: Hardware

The Core 2 Duo-based laptops offer more speed, less heat. For speed demons, this is the fastest laptop Apple has yet offered. Aside from the fact that it's about 8% faster in terms of clock speed, underlying changes to the processor design - especially a doubling of the Level 2 cache memory from 2MB to 4MB - mean the uptick in speed is noticeable.