New Apple MacBook Pros are HERE! Come get the Prices and Spec.

Apple has just refreshed the entire line of MacBook Pros today – Happy birthday Steve!

The new models are a refresh of the lovely aluminium unibody laptop. As I mentioned before, the Nvidia graphics have been dropped as these MacBook Pros now feature the Sandy Bridge Intel CPUs paired with switchable graphics between an integrated Intel chip or a discrete AMD GPU. It’s worth noting that the 13-inch flavoured MBP is only loaded with integrated graphics.

Also true to rumour is that Apple’s mini DisplayPort interface now shares real estate with Intel’s Light Peak – renamed Thunderbolt. Intel has declared the Light Peak interconnect will be the next generation of data transfer protocols with the WSJ Digits blog reckoning the reason that it uses the mini DisplayPort jack is that Apple designed that port and licenses it for free.

You now get 1333Mhz, as opposed to 1066Mhz chips but the start-off RAM stays put. Besides the SD slot now supporting SDXC, the rest of the connectivity options are just as you know them.

FaceTime has got HD and will now broadcast in 720p.

The basic 13-inch and 15-inchers cost the same as the outgoing models. The 17-inch is now equipped with a 2.2GHz quad core CPU as standard so the price has been bumped up slightly.

13-inch: 2.3 GHz

* 2.3GHz dual-core – Intel Core i5
* 4GB 1333MHz
* 320GB 5400-rpm1
* Intel HD Graphics 3000
* Built-in battery (7 hours)
* £999.00

13-inch: 2.7 GHz

* 2.7GHz dual-core – Intel Core i7
* 4GB 1333MHz
* 500GB 5400-rpm1
* Intel HD Graphics 3000
* Built-in battery (7 hours)
* £1,299.00

15-inch: 2.0 GHz

* 2.0GHz quad-core – Intel Core i7
* 4GB 1333MHz
* 500GB 5400-rpm1
* Intel HD Graphics 3000
* AMD Radeon HD 6490M with 256MB GDDR5
* Built-in battery (7 hours)
* £1,549.00

15-inch: 2.2 GHz

* 2.2GHz quad-core – Intel Core i7
* 4GB 1333MHz
* 750GB 5400-rpm1
* Intel HD Graphics 3000
* AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1GB GDDR5
* Built-in battery (7 hours)
* £1,849.00

17-inch: 2.2 GHz

* 2.2GHz quad-core – Intel Core i7
* 4GB 1333MHz
* 750GB 5400-rpm1
* Intel HD Graphics 3000
* AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1GB GDDR5
* Built-in battery (7 hours)
* £2,099.00