Apple MacBook Pro 17" Laptop

Price: $3,044.00
Apple MacBook Pro 17" Laptop (2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD SuperDrive)

Stylishly and intelligently designed for mobile professionals, Apple's MacBook Pro now includes Apple's Multi-Touch technology (which debuted with the MacBook Air), allowing you to pinch, swipe, or rotate to enlarge text, advance through photos, or adjust an image. And it gets a serious speed bump from Intel's latest 2.6 GHz 45-nanometer Penryn series Core 2 Duo processor (with 6 MB L2 cache), which also helps to reduce power requirements and save on battery life. This model (MB166LL/A ) also has a mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display measuring 17 inches and a state-of-the art NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card with 512 MB of GDDR3 video RAM.

Meticulously designed and encased in sleek and sturdy aluminum, the MacBook Pro measures just 1 inch thin and weighs 6.8 pounds. Your hands have room to spread out on the full-size keyboard with crisp, responsive keys, and the MacBook Pro has a built-in ambient light sensor that adjusts the keyboard and display brightness so it’s easy to work in low-light settings. Other standard Apple "extras" includes a built-in iSight video camera and Apple's magnetically connected MagSafe power adapter, which safely disconnects when under strain.

It's pre-loaded with Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, which enables easy backup of your most important data via Time Machine, a redesigned desktop that helps eliminate clutter. It also comes with the iLife '08 suite of applications--including iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and iTunes--and the newest version of the fast-loading Safari web browser. Other hardware features include a 250 GB hard drive, 2 GB of installed RAM (which can be upgraded to 4 GB), an 8x combo Superdrive (for burning dual-layer DVDs as well as CDs), built-in Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed networking, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), FireWire 400 and 800 ports, DVI video output, and an ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot for expansion solutions such as 3G wireless networking.

• Professionally designed aluminum Mac with 17-inch screen and new Multi-Touch technology
• 2.6 Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6 MB shared L2 cache; NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video with 512 MB of memory
• 250 GB hard drive; 2 GB of RAM (expandable to 4 GB); 8x Superdrive (burns dual-layer DVD and CDs)
• Three USB 2.0, one FireWire 400 and 800, built-in Wi-Fi (802.11n draft plus 802.11b/g), Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• Preloaded with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system and iLife '08 suite of applicatoins