Thin, Light, Up to 8 Hours of Battery Life!
Meet the Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz notebook computer! Not only is it the first MacBook Pro to feature the sleek, stylish, and environmentally friendly aluminum unibody - it's also the first Mac notebook in history to feature Apple's breakthrough battery design. With the Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, you'll enjoy up to 8 hours of use - even when wirelessly surfing the web - on just a single charge. It's lightweight, it's thin - and with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of RAM, the Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz is also incredibly powerful.
Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz Notebook Computer at a Glance:- Longest lasting Mac notebook battery ever
- Packed with power, RAM, and storage
- Precision aluminum unibody enclosure
- Ultra-thin LED-backlit display
- Two graphics processors
- Smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad
- Wireless workhorse with 802.11n, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth
- World-class software suite included
Longest lasting Mac notebook battery ever
The Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz is the world's thinnest and lightest weight 17" notebook computer - but it packs a groundbreaking built-in battery design, boasting up to 8 hours of use on just a single charge. Plus, thanks to the innovation behind the battery's chemical makeup and charging method, it can be recharged up to 1,000 times - that's more than three times the lifespan of typical notebook batteries. So, go ahead and mix away on your next long flight - the MacBook Pro is designed to be untethered, just like your creativity.
Packed with power, RAM, and storage
The Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz has as much brawn as it has beauty, featuring a blazing-fast 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of DDR3 memory, expandable up to 8GB. There's also a huge 320GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive, which provides plenty of room for storage, as well as an 8x SuperDrive, three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, one ExpressCard slot, a Mini DisplayPort, Ethernet, and audio line in and line out ports.
Precision aluminum unibody enclosure
Instead of assembling a notebook from many minor parts, the new Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz was reinvented from just one: the new, solid-aluminum unibody enclosure. It gets full credit for making MacBook Pro thinner, lighter, and even more stunning. But it's not all beauty. Because of the unibody, this MacBook Pro is also durable. Slip it into your backpack or briefcase and pull it out wherever you go - the new MacBook Pro is designed to take on your world.
Ultra-thin LED-backlit display
The beautifully seamless, remarkably thin design isn't the only gleaming quality of the LED-backlit display. The Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz requires no warm-up time, like with LCD displays, so you're instantly greeted with full screen brightness. And the aluminum enclosure is perfectly integrated with a glass overlay that stretches to the edge of the notebook, providing a completely unobstructed picture. Anything you view, including the glossy widescreen display itself, is a spectacular experience. The 1900x1200 LED-backlit display is also more power efficient, and it's mercury- and arsenic-free, so the new MacBook Pro is greener than ever, as well.
Two graphics processors
The new 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz combines the efficiency of an integrated graphics processor with the desktop-class performance of a discrete graphics processor. That's because it has both. Out of the box, it runs the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M processor, which provides plenty of performance for everyday use. But when you need turbocharged performance for the most graphically intensive tasks, the discrete NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT processor delivers. And thanks to a new graphics architecture, it's easy to switch between these two processors.
Smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad
The amazing new trackpad doubles as a button - just press down anywhere and consider it clicked. No separate button means there's 39% more room for your fingers to move on the silky glass surface. And with the Multi-Touch gesture feature, with the Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, all the function is in your fingers. Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page. Pinch to zoom in and out. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Rotate to adjust an image with your fingertips. Using the new four-finger swipe gesture, swipe up or down to access Expose modes and left or right to switch between open applications. If you're coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch trackpad, the more you'll wonder what you ever did without it.
Wireless workhorse with 802.11n, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth
Wherever you need to work, your Apple 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz is up to the task. With its latest generation 802.11n wireless networking technology, you'll enjoy up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g - plus, Bluetooth is already built-in and ready to go.
World-class software suite included
Every Apple comes with iLife '09, a tremendous software suite that's brimming with award-winning applications to stretch your creativity. Sketch song ideas with GarageBand, organize your music with iTunes, then build your own website with iWeb - you can even capture pictures and films with the built-in iSight camera, load them into iMovie, and start scoring your own mini-films. Once you've perfected your creations, you can effortlessly secure them with Mac OS X Leopard's included backup software, Time Machine.
- MacBook Pro 17-inch Widescreen Display
- Aluminum Unibody with Multi-Touch trackpad
- 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
- 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
- 320GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
- SuperDrive 8x DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW Drive
- Backlit Keyboard
- 85W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord
- Built-in 95-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery
- Mini DisplayPort with support for DVI, dual-DVI, and VGA video
- 3 USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
- 1 FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)
- Install/restore DVDs
- Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
- iLife Software Suite
- Front Row
- Photo Booth
- Time Machine
