Brand New Apple Macbook Pro 17" 2.5G Core2 Duo Notebook

Intel 2.5Ghz, 2Gb RAM 667Mhz,250G HD,512Mb Geforce 8600

1 Years Australia Wanrranty

Model: MA166X/A

RPP: $4399

I am Selling 17-inch: 2.4GHz (MA166X/A)

250Gb Hard Disk
nVidia GeForce 512Mb 8600 Video Card
DVD RW (Super Drive)

The coolest centimetre ever made.

Power takes shape.

MacBook Pro is meticulously designed for maximum performance in a minimum size. Bare minimum, in fact. It's 2.45 kg of unparalleled portable power in only 2.59 cm. Encased in sleek and sturdy aluminium, MacBook Pro is just as ingenious on the outside.

15” 1440 x 900
17” 1680 x 1050
17” 1920 x 1200

Spectacular display.

MacBook Pro makes your ideas even more brilliant with a sharp, high-resolution screen. Choose the 15.4-inch, 1440-by-900-pixel or the 17-inch, 1680-by-1050-pixel digital display, with glossy and antiglare options. Or choose the new, optional high-resolution 17-inch LED backlit model for the optimal viewing experience. The 15-inch and 17-inch LED backlit displays are lighter, more power efficient and they deliver full screen brightness the instant you turn them on. Both LED backlit displays are mercury-free — and the 17-inch high resolution display is also arsenic-free — so they're better for the environment.

Smart touch.

MacBook Pro features an advanced trackpad with amazing Multi-Touch technology. You can flip through photos, enlarge text and adjust an image using just your fingers. And your hands have room to spread out on the full-size keyboard with crisp, responsive keys. MacBook Pro has a built-in ambient light sensor that adjusts the keyboard and display brightness so it’s easy to work in low-light settings such as airplanes and conference rooms.

MacBook Pros.

Multi-Touch meets MacBook Pro.

Multi-Touch technology from iPhone, iPod touch and MacBook Air comes to MacBook Pro in an amazing new Multi-Touch trackpad. Now you can pinch, swipe or rotate to enlarge text, advance through photos or adjust an image.

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Trackpad Gestures

MacBook Pro’s revolutionary Multi-Touch trackpad lets you navigate your applications more efficiently.
* Trackpad shown is the MacBook Air trackpad.
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Trackpad Gestures

MacBook Pro’s revolutionary Multi-Touch trackpad lets you navigate your applications more efficiently.
* Trackpad shown is the MacBook Air trackpad.
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Trackpad Gestures

MacBook Pro’s revolutionary Multi-Touch trackpad lets you navigate your applications more efficiently.
* Trackpad shown is the MacBook Air trackpad.
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Trackpad Gestures

MacBook Pro’s revolutionary Multi-Touch trackpad lets you navigate your applications more efficiently.
* Trackpad shown is the MacBook Air trackpad.

Room for more.

MacBook Pro has a standard hard drive up to 250GB and up to 4GB of RAM. So there’s more room for even bigger ideas.

Power duo.

The new Intel Core 2 Duo processors run at speeds up to 2.6GHz on a groundbreaking 45-nm process technology with up to 6MB L2 cache. And the powerful NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor now includes up to 512MB of video memory. Learn more

Ins and outs.

Connect storage, multimedia devices and high-speed peripherals to your MacBook Pro. Along the sides, you’ll find a FireWire 400 port, a FireWire 800 port, a DVI port, optical audio in and out ports and an ExpressCard slot. There are three USB 2.0 ports on the 17-inch MacBook Pro and two on the 15-inch models.

Supersized display.

Connect an Apple Cinema Display to expand your desktop and lose nothing in translation. That’s because the DVI connection gives you a pure digital signal from system to display. View more than 4 million pixels on a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor.

Even the power cord is a feature.

The MacBook Pro power adapter with MagSafe connector is a magnetic connection instead of a physical one. So, if you happen to trip over the power cord, you won’t send MacBook Pro flying. The cord simply disconnects, without damage to either the cord or the notebook.

Sounds all around.

MacBook Pro sounds as good as it looks, with unprecedented attention to audio detail. For musicians on the go, MacBook Pro offers pristine sound through crisp, clear stereo speakers, a built-in microphone and optical digital audio on both input and output.

Built-in iSight.

Strategically placed in the center of the MacBook Pro display bezel is a small but powerful iSight camera. Wherever you go, you can video conference with iChat, make a movie with iMovie and experiment in Photo Booth.

The wireless standard.

Freedom. It’s the incredible invisible feature of the MacBook Pro. With the latest wireless technology built in, you can do everything you need to do, wherever you need to do it. Wi-Fi networks show up right on your desktop. Just click and connect and surf the web from a cafe, video chat from a hotel, share files at the airport and take on the wireless world.

Wireless backup.

MacBook Pro ships with Mac OS X Leopard, which brings you Time Machine — the built-in application that automatically backs up files to an external drive. With Time Capsule, Apple’s revolutionary new back up device and server-grade hard drive, you can back up everything wirelessly through Time Machine. So you’ll never have to worry about losing your digital files and hours of work. Learn more

Wireless printing.

Print a layout from the studio or a script from the couch. With wireless printing through AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express or Time Capsule, access to a printer goes where you go.
Learn more

The virtual conference room.

Talk to anyone, anywhere with iChat. iChat video conferencing is integrated into your iChat buddy list, so initiating a video conference is easy. Just click the meeting attendees on your buddy list and each colleague steps into your virtual office. View their faces as if they’re all sitting around a table with you. Make your multiway video conference full screen and instantly turn your hotel room into a conference room — without paying for a single phone call.

Bonjour, Bonjour.

With Bonjour networking technology built into every MacBook Pro, the possibilities for wirelessly sharing files, printers and data are nearly limitless. Your computer discovers other computers and peripherals on the same network. From there, you can print and share with secure simplicity.

3G wireless cards.

No Wi-Fi? No problem. With the ExpressCard slot in MacBook Pro and a 3G wireless card, connect to the Internet anywhere there's a cellular network.

Back to My Mac.

Let’s say you’re at work and you left an important file on your computer at home. With Back to My Mac, a feature of .Mac, you can get to any Leopard-based Mac remotely with just a click. .Mac finds your Mac computers over the Internet and displays them in the Leopard Finder on the Mac you’re using. So wherever you go, your Mac comes along. Learn more

Wireless Entertainment Center

Take the latest mobile processor from Intel, sophisticated system architecture, loads of memory, bigger hard drives and cutting-edge graphics and you have the force behind every creative endeavour. And all the power that makes a pro love MacBook Pro.

Applied performance.

The new MacBook Pro features the latest mobile processor from Intel. The Intel Core 2 Duo runs on 45-nm process technology at speeds up to 2.6GHz with up to 6MB of L2 cache. Its SSE4 vector engine handles 128-bit computations in a single clock cycle, accelerating data manipulation by simultaneously applying a single instruction to multiple data. That means you can get more done in less time.

Supporting the superfast Intel Core 2 Duo is an advanced system architecture with up to 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory, an 800MHz frontside bus and 16-lane PCI Express graphics.

The new Intel processor and advanced system architecture make MacBook Pro one of the most sophisticated notebooks on the planet.

More powerful, less power.

The Intel Core 2 Duo uses Intel’s groundbreaking 45-nanometer process — resulting in transistors so small, you could fit a hundred inside a single human cell. With smaller distances for electrons to travel and two execution cores designed to share resources and conserve power, the Intel Core 2 Duo achieves higher levels of performance without using more power. This is what helps make MacBook Pro just one inch thin.

Compared to 17” MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Core Duo

Compared to 17” PowerBook with 1.67GHz PowerPC G4

Final Cut Pro. DV encode and render. Measures how long it takes for DV video to be encoded and rendered with common effects.

74% faster

Aperture. Benchmark total. Times how long it takes the MacBook Pro to complete a suite of common Aperture actions on NEF and CR2 files.

59% faster

Logic Pro.* Reverb plug-ins. Measures the maximum number of reverb plug-ins and synthesised instruments the MacBook Pro can play.

55% faster

Adobe Photoshop CS3. 45-filter function test. Measures how long it takes to complete 45 common Photoshop actions on 120MB Photoshop files.

50% faster

17-inch MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Core Duo

Baseline

Testing conducted by Apple in February 2008 using preproduction 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro units; MacBook Pro systems with Core Duo were shipping units. *On a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro, Logic Pro showed a 55% performance improvement, playing 255 reverb plug-ins compared to 165 reverb plug-ins played on a 2.16GHz Core Duo–based MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro continuously monitors system thermal and power conditions and may adjust processor speed as needed to maintain optimal system operation.

Logic Pro.* Reverb plug-ins. Measures the maximum number of reverb plug-ins and synthesized instruments the MacBook Pro can play.

8.5x faster

Final Cut Pro. DV encode and render. Measures how long it takes for DV video to be encoded and rendered with common effects.

4.9x faster

Aperture. Benchmark total. Times how long it takes the MacBook Pro to complete a suite of common Aperture actions on NEF and CR2 files.

3.4x faster

Adobe Photoshop CS3. 45-filter function test. Measures how long it takes to complete 45 common Photoshop actions on 120MB Photoshop files.

3.3x faster

17-inch PowerBook with 1.67GHz PowerPC G4

Baseline

Testing conducted by Apple in February 2008 using preproduction 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro units; PowerBook systems with PowerPC G4 were shipping units. *On a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro, Logic Pro showed an 8.5x performance improvement, playing 255 reverb plug-ins compared to 30 reverb plug-ins played on a 1.67GHz PowerPC G4–based PowerBook. MacBook Pro continuously monitors system thermal and power conditions and may adjust processor speed as needed to maintain optimal system operation.

Image is everything.

MacBook Pro features the colour and clarity of NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with up to 512MB of GDDR3 memory. The combination of a 16-lane PCI Express architecture and the powerful graphics processor brings a new level of realism to MacBook Pro users. The 16x full-screen anti-aliasing, 128-bit High Dynamic Range rendering and texture fill rate of up to 8.2 billion textured pixels per second provide unrivaled picture quality and lifelike contrast and tone for next-generation 3D animation and games. The new MacBook Pro graphics performance is up to 2.3 times faster than that of the original Core Duo-based MacBook Pro.

The MacBook Pro 15- or 17-inch display is ideal for viewing high-resolution Photoshop images or HD movies. The optional 1920-by-1200 resolution on the 17-inch MacBook Pro offers a 30 percent increase in viewable area over the 1680-by-1050-resolution display. With more than half a million extra pixels at your disposal, you can view 1080- resolution HD video in all its glory — no need to resize the window to fit the screen.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Compared to 17” MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Core Duo

Quake 4. Demo001.netdemo. Measures the number of frames per second the MacBook Pro can play in self-test mode at 1280-by-800 resolution.

2.3x faster

Doom 3. Timedemo demo1. Measures the maximum number of frames per second at 1024-by-768 resolution.

2.2x faster

Motion 3. Benchmark total. Measures the amount of time it takes to render effects in real time and to render QuickTime movie files.

2.1x faster

17-inch MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo

Baseline

Testing conducted by Apple in February 2008 using preproduction 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro units; MacBook Pro systems with Core Duo were shipping units. MacBook Pro continuously monitors system thermal and power conditions and may adjust processor speed as needed to maintain optimal system operation.

Serial ATA hard drives.

For the big ideas to come, MacBook Pro comes with larger Serial ATA hard drives in every configuration. In the 15-inch MacBook Pro, you can choose a 200GB or 250GB 5400-rpm hard drive or a 200GB 7200-rpm drive. In the 17-inch model, choose a 250GB 5400-rpm, 200GB 7200-rpm or 300GB 4200-rpm hard drive.

15-inch hard drive options:

17-inch hard drive options:

Technical Specifications

Size and weight

15-inch MacBook Pro

Height:: 2.59 cm (1.0 inch)
Width:: 35.7 cm (14.1 inches)
Depth:: 24.3 cm (9.6 inches)
Weight:: 2.45 kg (5.4 pounds)¹

17-inch MacBook Pro

Height:: 2.59 cm (1.0 inch)
Width:: 39.2 cm (15.4 inches)
Depth:: 26.5 cm (10.4 inches)
Weight:: 3.08 kg (6.8 pounds)¹

Connections and expansion

One FireWire 400 port at up to 400 Mbps
One FireWire 800 port at up to 800 Mbps
15-inch MacBook Pro: Two 480-Mbps USB 2.0 ports
17-inch MacBook Pro: Three 480-Mbps USB 2.0 ports
ExpressCard/34 slot
Kensington cable lock slot

Wireless

Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking² (based on IEEE 802.11n draft (specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)

Audio

Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in omnidirectional microphone (located under left speaker grille)
Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
Combined optical digital audio output/audio line out (minijack)

Input

Built-in full-size keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 function keys and 4 arrow keys (inverted "T" arrangement)
Backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor for automatic adjustment of keyboard illumination and screen brightness
Solid-state trackpad with Multi-Touch gesture support for precise cursor control; supports two-finger scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, tap, double-tap and drag capabilities

Environmental status

Majority of circuit board laminates are free of brominated flame retardants
Majority of internal cables

New

The coolest centimetre ever made.

The coolest centimetre ever made.

Power takes shape.

Spectacular display.

Smart touch.

Multi-Touch meets MacBook Pro.

Trackpad Gestures

Trackpad Gestures

Trackpad Gestures

Trackpad Gestures

Room for more.

Power duo.

Ins and outs.

Supersized display.

Even the power cord is a feature.

Sounds all around.

Built-in iSight.

The wireless standard.

Wireless backup.

Wireless printing.

The virtual conference room.

Bonjour, Bonjour.

3G wireless cards.

Back to My Mac.

Wireless Entertainment Center

Applied performance.

More powerful, less power.

Final Cut Pro. DV encode and render. Measures how long it takes for DV video to be encoded and rendered with common effects.

Aperture. Benchmark total. Times how long it takes the MacBook Pro to complete a suite of common Aperture actions on NEF and CR2 files.

Logic Pro.* Reverb plug-ins. Measures the maximum number of reverb plug-ins and synthesised instruments the MacBook Pro can play.

Adobe Photoshop CS3. 45-filter function test. Measures how long it takes to complete 45 common Photoshop actions on 120MB Photoshop files.

17-inch MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Core Duo

Logic Pro.* Reverb plug-ins. Measures the maximum number of reverb plug-ins and synthesized instruments the MacBook Pro can play.

Final Cut Pro. DV encode and render. Measures how long it takes for DV video to be encoded and rendered with common effects.

Aperture. Benchmark total. Times how long it takes the MacBook Pro to complete a suite of common Aperture actions on NEF and CR2 files.

Adobe Photoshop CS3. 45-filter function test. Measures how long it takes to complete 45 common Photoshop actions on 120MB Photoshop files.

17-inch PowerBook with 1.67GHz PowerPC G4

Image is everything.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Quake 4. Demo001.netdemo. Measures the number of frames per second the MacBook Pro can play in self-test mode at 1280-by-800 resolution.

Doom 3. Timedemo demo1. Measures the maximum number of frames per second at 1024-by-768 resolution.

Motion 3. Benchmark total. Measures the amount of time it takes to render effects in real time and to render QuickTime movie files.

17-inch MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo

Serial ATA hard drives.

Technical Specifications

Size and weight

15-inch MacBook Pro

17-inch MacBook Pro

Connections and expansion

Wireless

Audio

Input

Environmental status