New MacBook Pro adds power, graphics might

Almost eight years ago, Apple introduced the Titanium PowerBook, and with it the company ushered in a wave of industrial laptop design that in many ways, is still unmatched. Although the 2003 and 2006 refreshes to the lineup changed the material (from titanium to aluminum) and processor (from PowerPC to Intel), the basic design has remained essentially the same.

It's time for a change. Last night we got a tip showing off the new design (a design that closely mirrors the leaked Deutsche Telekom images from last month), now we finally have the hardware details. Apple did mention that the rumored "Brick" manufacturing process is, in fact, what they are using for the new notebooks.

15" MacBook Pro

Price: $1999

Specs:

• 15.4" LED-backlit display

• 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo (with 3MBs of L2 cache)
  

• 2GBs of DDR3 RAM
  

• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 256MB

• 250 GB hard drive

• Slot-loading Super Drive

15" MacBook Pro

Price: $2400

Specs:

• 15.4" LED-backlit display

• 2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo (with 6MBs of L2 cache)
  

• 4GBs of DDR3 RAM
  

• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 512MB

• 320 GB hard drive

• Slot-loading Super Drive