{"id":379,"date":"2006-04-29T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2006\/04\/29\/macbook-pro\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:41:23","slug":"macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/macbook-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10563,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macbookpro&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120606123111\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macbookpro\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 16:03:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-13 01:49:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-05 02:23:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 07:13:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-14 22:34:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-18 18:33:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 09:16:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 08:33:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-04 11:31:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 01:10:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 08:30:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 08:52:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 11:02:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 15:27:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 14:39:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 07:02:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 19:20:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 21:53:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 15:30:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 15:30:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10564,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/intel.com\\\/products\\\/processor\\\/coreduo\\\/index.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/intel.com\\\/products\\\/processor\\\/coreduo\\\/index.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here writing this on my shiny new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">MacBook Pro<\/a> which arrived earlier this week! The MBP is the evolution of the former PowerBooks (may they RIP!) now updated with hyper-fast Intel <a href=\"http:\/\/intel.com\/products\/processor\/coreduo\/index.htm\">duel core<\/a> processors with the same cutting edge industrial design to match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macbookpro.jpg\" alt=\"MacBook Pro\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What sets this apart from the competition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>15.4-inch widescreen display<br \/>2GHz Intel Core Duo processor<br \/>2GB (667MHz) DDR2 RAM<br \/>ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor with 256MB memory<br \/>Dual-link DVI output<br \/>Optical digital and analog audio I\/O, built-in microphone and stereo speakers<br \/>Slot-loading DVR-RW Drive<br \/>Illuminated keyboard, Scrolling TrackPad<br \/>Built-in wireless (802.11g), Bluetooth, and Gigabit Ethernet<br \/>Built-in iSight webcam<br \/>Mac OS X Tiger with iLife &#8217;06 and FrontRow + remote<br \/>MagSafe Power Adapter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know of any other laptops which pack so much into such a small and stylish package. How many computers do you know which could handle playing HD videos, encoding a DVD, surfing the web and IM&#8217;ing all at the same time? The MBP really is an amazing bit of kit, if not a bit on the expensive side!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here writing this on my shiny new MacBook Pro which arrived earlier this week! The MBP is the evolution of the former PowerBooks (may they RIP!) now updated with hyper-fast Intel duel core processors with the same cutting edge industrial design to match. What sets this apart from the competition: 15.4-inch widescreen display2GHz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[101,721,520],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-hardware","tag-reviews"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":424,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/visual-acuity\/","url_meta":{"origin":379,"position":0},"title":"Visual Acuity","author":"David","date":"29th July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"All new Intel Macs (with the exception of the mini) come with built in iSight webcams but up until recently the only video conferencing application which supported it properly was iChat. 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