MacBook Pro 17-inch

You know the newest apple's notebook? Here is the MacBook Pro 17-inch.

Features of this new macbook is so wonderful. The battery in the new 17-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to 8 hours on a single charge. This macbook is so thin. You know the weigh? it's just 6.6 pounds.

2.3 million pixels of perfection.

With the high-resolution LED-backlit widescreen display on the 17-inch MacBook Pro, you get desktop-quality color in an Apple notebook for the first time. The moment you open your MacBook Pro, you’re greeted instantly by full, corner-to-corner screen brightness. The 1920-by-1200-pixel resolution (133 pixels per inch) means you can view more palettes and windows or watch HD video in its native 1920-by-1080 resolution. Perfect whether you’re working in the studio or out in the field, the display offers a 60 percent greater color gamut than previous generations for richer, more vibrant colors and a 700:1 contrast ratio that makes whites brighter and blacks blacker. In addition, the seamless glass enclosure makes the display stronger and more durable. Because it’s power efficient and the glass is mercury- and arsenic-free, it’s greener than ever. And now you can choose a standard glossy display or an optional antiglare display, depending on your needs.

Graphics in full force.

The MacBook Pro reaches a new level of high-speed, high-end game-playing power. Not to mention pure performance for graphics-intensive applications like Aperture and Motion. Use the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor for great everyday performance with up to 8 hours of battery life.¹ Or switch to the discrete NVIDIA 9600M GT graphics processor for the fastest, smoothest, clearest graphics yet.

Precision aluminum. The new gold standard.

Carved from a single block of aluminum, the new unibody enclosure is slim and streamlined, making this MacBook Pro the world’s thinnest and lightest 17-inch notebook — just 0.98 inch thin and 6.6 pounds. But it’s not just for looks. The rigid construction of the unibody also makes MacBook Pro more durable than ever. So you can throw it in your bag and pull it out at a photo shoot, in a hotel room, or on location without a second thought.

Everything fits.

The 17-inch MacBook Pro supports up to 8GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory and comes with a large 320GB hard drive,⁴ so there’s plenty of room for your photo and video projects and other files. It also offers an optional 128GB or 256GB solid-state drive, which has no moving parts for enhanced durability. And for burning DVDs, it includes an ultrafast 8x SuperDrive. You can upgrade the memory and hard drive yourself, or take it to an Apple Authorized Service Provider.

Ports with possibilities.

The 17-inch MacBook Pro is iPod, iPhone, digital camera, and external hard drive ready. If it has a cable, there’s a place for it. You’ll find three USB 2.0 ports and a FireWire 800 port for connecting faster peripherals. The Mini DisplayPort is a perfect fit for the new Apple LED Cinema Display, the first display designed for a MacBook, with a built-in iSight camera, microphone, and speaker system. MacBook Pro even recognizes what you plug in, so you don’t have to install new drivers.

Think fast.

Inside the 17-inch MacBook Pro is a powerful Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at up to 2.93GHz. It’s based on groundbreaking 45-nm process technology and advanced Core microarchitecture. With the 1066MHz frontside bus and 6MB of shared L2 cache, MacBook Pro runs applications faster and more efficiently than ever before.

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Netbook

A netbook is a light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient, highly portable laptop that achieves these parameters by offering fewer features, less processing power and reduced ability to run resource-intensive operating systems (e.g., Windows Vista).

Suitable for web browsing, email, and general purpose applications, netbooks are targeted increasingly at users accessing web-based applications, also known as Cloud computing, that do not require intensive resources available on the client computer.

History

Led by the popularization of small-form-factor laptops by Asus and then others, the term 'netbook' became a widely used and genericized industry classification rather than a reference to a particular product. By April 2008, Intel had begun officially using the term netbook to recognize a specific sub-category of laptops.

The term had existed previously – although related to specific products rather than a category of laptops:

• Psion in 1999 had used the product name 'netbook', and in 2008 claimed trademark rights to the term where used in a product name.
• MSI had registered the product name Wind Netbook.
• Coby Electronics had registered the product name Coby Netbook.

The influx of small form factor laptops categorized as netbooks began in 2007, when Asus unveiled the Intel Celeron-based ASUS Eee PC running a customised version of Linux with a 7-inch (18 cm) color screen.^[6] These netbooks measured 8.9 × 6.5 in (23 x 17 cm), featured less-than-full-sized keyboards, and could be customized by users to run alternate operating systems.

In mid February 2008, Everex launched its VIA chipset based CloudBook, running gOS. The CloudBook is based on the VIA nanobook reference design. In contrast to its closest competitor, the Eee PC, the CloudBook has a hard disk drive.

In June 2008, MSI launched the MSI Wind including Bluetooth, a 10" (25 cm) LED, backlit, 1024x600 screen, and an Intel Atom processor — the first netbook to offer the processor.

A number of other netbooks followed, and by late 2008, Netbooks had begun to take market share away from laptops and sales are projected to increase up to 50 million by the year 2012. In Q3 2008, netbook sales overtook iPhone sales by 900,000 units.

It is estimated that 11.4 million netbooks were sold in 2008, up from 400,000 in 2007. For 2009, sales are expected to grow 189% to 21.5 million. Early January 2009, two companies introduced ARM architecture based models.

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Laptop Computer

A laptop computer, also known as a notebook computer, is a small personal computer designed for mobile use. A laptop integrates all of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device (a touchpad, also known as a trackpad, or a pointing stick) and a battery into a single portable unit. The rechargeable battery is charged from an AC/DC adapter and has enough capacity to power the laptop for several hours.

A laptop is usually shaped like a large notebook with thickness of 0.7–1.5 inches (18–38 mm) and dimensions ranging from 10x8 inches (27x22cm, 13" display) to 15x11 inches (39x28cm, 17" display) and up. Modern laptops weigh 3 to 12 pounds (1.4 to 5.4 kg), and some older laptops were even heavier. Most laptops are designed in the flip form factor to protect the screen and the keyboard when closed.

Originally considered "a small niche market"and perceived as suitable for "specialized field applications" such as "the military, the Internal Revenue Service, accountants and sales representatives", battery-powered portables had just 2% worldwide market share in 1986. But today, there are already more laptops than desktops in the enterprise and, according to a forecast by Intel, more laptops than desktops will be sold in the general PC market as soon as 2009.

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Windows 7

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next release of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media center.

Microsoft stated in 2007 that it is planning Windows 7 development for a three-year time frame starting after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista, but that the final release date will be determined by product quality. Unlike its predecessor, Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware. Presentations given by the company in 2008 have focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements. Some applications that have been included with prior releases of Microsoft Windows, most notably Windows Mail, Windows Calendar,^{[citation needed]} Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Photo Gallery, are no longer included with the operating system; they are instead offered separately (free of charge) as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite.

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