Apple has lit up Macworld 2009 with the announcement of a 17-inch MacBook Pro that comes with a whopping eight-hour battery life.
But there's a catch. Apple's battery might deliver three times the lifespan of a typical laptop battery, but the new lithium polymer cell, which is 40% larger, is non-removable. So the eight hours of battery life requires a trade-off in terms of flexibility.
- 17-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1920 x 1200, glossy display;
- 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 6MB shared L2 cache;
- 1066 MHz front-side bus;
- 4GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM;
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics;
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT discrete graphics with 512MB GDDR3 video memory;
- 320GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
- a slot-load 8X SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
- Mini DisplayPort for video output (adapters sold separately);
- built-in AirPort Extreme® 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
- Gigabit Ethernet port;
- built-in iSight video camera;
- three USB 2.0 ports;
- one FireWire® 800 port (FireWire 400 compatible);
- ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
- one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
- glass Multi-Touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard;
- built-in, 95WHr lithium polymer battery; and
- 85 Watt MagSafe® Power Adapter.
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