EARLY 2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 UPGRADE
EARLY 2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 PORTABLE
EARLY 2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 PRO

RyanSmithAT: Noticeably absent from this year's GTC keynote: 'The more you buy, the more you save'.

gavbon86: RT If your servers do this, consult your local sys admin.

gavbon86: RT Taking 12th gen and DDR5 cold for the first time.

I'm pretty sure also that the screens for high-end tablet PCs isn't that good when it comes to color accuracy their usage is for viewing angles. They have done more detailed reviews of laptop screens too, but they only confirm that they are horrible. Any way that's what the review of monitors is for. But it's still pretty useless for a lot of things. The MBP screens aren't worse then any others. So I hope it doesn't come as a surprise to anybody. As netbooks and low cost devices use TN panels and e-readers use reflective technology.Д®very photoguy knows the macbooks screens aren't worth a shit and that they need a calibrated external screen for referencing and work. IPS screens in devices like iPad was unheard of before LG put one together for Apple and hard to imagine. Haven't seen PVA panels in those sizes and power envelope or anywhere near. Many of them simply don't make any IPS screens at all. They can't use something that aren't manufactured, and a display like that isn't in the catalogs of the Korean and Taiwanese panel manufacturers and are frankly out of most of theirs capability.

Penti - Wednesday, Jlink Only tablet-PCs don't and they are only on IPS-based tech since recently and in smaller sizes, as far as I'm aware of there is no 15' low power laptop panel in existence or being manufactured.

EARLY 2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 PRO

If you're unfamiliar with Apple's unibody MacBook Pro and integrated battery design I'd recommend reading our older articles on the topic. Today we're going to find out if the sweetspot got any less sweet as a result of the unusual upgrade. You get GigE, FireWire 800, mini DisplayPort, 2 x USB 2.0, a SD card readerand a shared line in/out port. The 13-inch MBP comes with all the ports the 15-inch model has, minus dedicated line in/out. I'd say that given the usage model for most notebooks, 4GB should be plenty with OS X 10.6. It's still spread out over two DIMMs (making upgrading more expensive than it should be), but it's enough to get you going. On the bright side, Apple finally outfitted the 13-inch MacBook Pro with a sufficient amount of memory: 4GB. While the rest of the MacBook Pro lineup got shiny new Core i5 and i7 processors (dual core + Hyper Threading), the new 13-inch is stuck with an older Core 2 Duo. Keeping up with recent tradition, a NVIDIA GeForce 320M chipset is also under the hoo.err, keyboard.

Priced at $1199 you get a 4.5 lbs aluminum unibody chassis, a 13.3' display and a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It got a faster GPU and bigger battery, but only a mild CPU bump.

EARLY 2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 UPGRADE

When Apple made its 2010 upgrade public however, the 13-inch model was somewhat neglected. I've praised the 2010 15-inch MacBook Pro as being the one to get thanks to its combination of performance and battery life.

EARLY 2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 PORTABLE

And for portability, that choice often leads you to something a bit larger than a netbook for performance, but small enough to comfortably carry around.ДЇor Apple users this portable sweetspot is the 13-inch MacBook Pro.ДЄpple's 2010 13-inch (left) vs. Unfortunately having a set of notebooks and mobile devices isn't really an option for most. You may use some more often than others but having the entire set helps. You get a desktop-like screen resolution and mainstream desktop performance. And given how thin the system is, it's also not hard to make an argument for Apple's 17-inch MacBook Pro. Other times you need to do actual work but don't need a ton of CPU horsepower that puts you into 13-inch notebook territory.ДЇor even more productive beings there are larger 15 and 16-inch systems. Sometimes you don't need to do a lot but want to be able to couch around and browse the web on a tablet.

There's simply a time and a place for everything. You can make arguments in favor of and against everything from the smartphone and tablet to 17' desktop replacement notebooks.

I'm convinced that there's no perfect mobile form factor.

Early 2010 macbook pro 13