The resolution of the 15″ MacBook Prodisplay is 1440×900. This happens when less graphics intensive tasks are being performed, like writing documents and basic web surfing. In the MacBook Pro we get the AMD Radeon HD 6490M processor that can switch off to use the integrated Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics. Apple offers faster 7200rpm drives and SSDs as optional upgrades at the time purchase.Īpple switched from NVIDIA to AMD graphics.

It has a 500GB hard drive that unfortunately runs at the slower 5400rpm. The MacBook Pro 15″ has 4GB of DDR3 RAM in 2-2GB sticks, upgradable to 8GB from Apple or up to 16GB if you do it yourself. The MacBook Pro we have in for review has the “slower” 2.0GHz quad-core The new Sandy Bridge processor integrates graphics into the same piece of silicon as the processor, resulting in greater power efficiency and speed. The early 2011 MacBook Pro 15″ model comes with either a 2.0 or 2.2GHz quad-core 2nd Gen Intel Core i7 processor.

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