The biggest letdown in the design has been the hinge connecting the display to the rest of the chassis. Apple has been shipping unibody MacBook Pros since 2008 and from my experience the design has held up pretty well.įrom top to bottom: 13-inch MBP (2011), 15-inch MBP (2011), 15-inch MBP (2010) As a result there's absolutely no chassis flex or squeaking while you pound on the keyboard, use the trackpad or just interact with the part of the machine that you're most likely to be touching. There's no way to gain access to the MacBook Pro's internals from above, you have to go in from below. The term unibody comes from the fact that the base of the chassis is machined out of a single block of aluminum. These models fundamentally implement the same updated unibody shell that was introduced in 2009. The 2011 MacBook Pro lineup is no different.

All we got two weeks ago were a few pages describing the high level features of the lineup, a short outage on the Mac Store and five new configurations available for sale.Īpple tends to not mix architecture updates and chassis changes. There was no special press event and no video of an unusually charismatic man on a white background describing the latest features of the systems.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that when Apple launched its 2011 MacBook Pro lineup last week that it did so with little fanfare. Granted 20% of $26.7 billion in sales is still $5.3 billion, but the iOS crew gets most of the attention these days. Just looking at iPad and iPhone, that's 56% of Apple's sales.

Just last week Steve returned to introduce the iPad 2 and point out that the majority of Apple's revenue now comes from products that run iOS. Last year at the iPad introduction Steve Jobs announced that Apple is a mobile device company.

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