A full review over at Macworld News put the 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo laptop through its paces with Henry Norr liking what he found.

Apple's 17" laptops, long the lusted-after portable of choice, have been on the market for two years now and an overhaul was in the works. In this case, the company stuck to a classic design and included a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, replacing the retired 2.16 GHz Intel Core duo processor, included a standard two gigabytes of RAM and beefed up the hard drive from 120 gigabytes to 160 gigabytes. Maximum RAM capacity has been raised from two gigabytes to three gigabytes, albeit with only two memory slots, raising the memory via a one gigabyte RAM chip and a two gigabyte RAM chip becomes an expensive proposition - about $575 through Apple and more through third party vendors.

The review is more than happy with the usual features on the laptop such as the beautiful screen, meaty ATI Radeon X1600 with 256 MB of VRAM, iSight, AirPort Exreme, BlueTooth, ExpressCard, gigabit Ethernet, DVI-out port, illuminated keyboard and MagSafe power adapter.

Norr and the Macworld Lab found the 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo to actually be a bit slower than its 15" counterpart on some tasks such as unzipping an archive, running Unreal Tournament and some Photoshop CS2 tasks but performed speedily nonetheless and roundly beat the fastest PowerBook G4 laptops.

For the full review and details, click here.

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