MacBook Pro Family

Redesigned. Reengineered. Re-everythinged.

To build something truly different, you need to work in a truly different way. Apple designers and engineers work together through every stage of product development. It’s a partnership that makes innovation possible. And it’s exactly how the new MacBook Pro was created. With its breakthrough unibody enclosure, industry-first features, and environmentally sound design, it’s a revolution in the way notebooks are made.

 

Until now, all notebooks were designed the same way. By assembling multiple pieces to create a single enclosure. But once you include all the necessary parts, you add size, weight, complexity, and more opportunities for failure. Solving a problem like this required more than an incremental change. It required a breakthrough. To create the MacBook Pro, the design and engineering teams devised a way to replace many parts with just one. That one part is called the unibody — a seamless enclosure carved from a single piece of aluminum.

Of course, building only one part creates its own set of challenges. When you have multiple parts that are fastened together, tolerances don’t need to be perfect. You have wiggle room, both literally and figuratively. But when one part is responsible for many functions, it’s critical to manufacture that part with absolute precision, down to the micron. Every time. Millions of times over. There was only one way to achieve this level of precision: mill the unibody from a solid block of aluminum using computer numerical control, or CNC, machines — the kind used by the aerospace industry to build mission-critical spacecraft components.

When you pick up a new MacBook Pro, you immediately notice the difference. The entire enclosure is thin and light. It looks polished and refined. And it feels strong and durable — perfect for life inside (and outside) your briefcase or backpack.

 

The longest-lasting Mac notebook battery ever.

Every new MacBook Pro features an advanced built-in battery that lasts up to 7 hours (8 hours on the 17-inch model) on a single charge.²

 

Carved from a single block of aluminum, MacBook Pro is slim, light, and durable enough to take anywhere.

High-performance NVIDIA graphics.
High-performance NVIDIA graphics combine with a vivid LED-backlit display to give you a stunning viewing experience.

 

Smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad.
Even more room for even more gestures. Now the entire glass trackpad is also the button, so it’s clickable everywhere.

 

 

 

¹ 1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.

² For the 13-inch MacBook Pro: Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using preproduction 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based 13-inch MacBook Pro units. For the 15-inch MacBook Pro: Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using preproduction 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro units with a Better Battery Life setting. For the 17-inch MacBook Pro: Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using preproduction 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro units with a Better Battery Life setting. Battery life depends on configuration and use. The wireless productivity test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing various websites and editing text in a word processing document with display brightness set to 50%.