- 2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN FOR MAC
- 2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN MOVIE
- 2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN UPDATE
- 2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN PRO
We are very thankful and excited to see the ‘quiet’ fix for 6Gb/s SATA 3.0 main bay drive reliability as a further benefit of this update.
2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN UPDATE
Nearly seven months after these machines first became available, all indications are that we can now reliably count on taking full advantage of the 6Gb/s capability provided.Īpple has somewhat dodged giving any direct response on the issue itself, but this long awaited solution just happens to be there in this update with the official description on Apple’s support site only mentioning the update as addressing Lion Internet Recovery and Thunderbolt.
2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN PRO
Well, if you ran Software Update this morning, MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.2 appears to be the answer. If you’re not familiar with it, the short form is that in many 17″ 2011 MacBook Pros (and some 15″ and 13″ as well) had problems with SATA 3.0 Revision SSDs such as the Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G- through no fault of the SSD- resulting in spotty performance, beach ball timeout delays, and even complete failure to recognize SATA 3.0 6Gb/s SSDs at all. The MacBook Pros are also full of agreeable extras, such as a backlit keyboard and a magnetic power cord that won't pull your notebook off the desk if someone trips over it.If you’ve been reading the OWC Blog for the past few months, you’re probably well aware of the problems that 2011 MacBook Pros were having with 6.0Gb/s SATA performance. It can't be faulted for performance, its unibody build makes it strong yet surprisingly light and its screen is magnificent, boasting a resolution better than Full HD, along with great viewing angles. With every Mac refresh bringing across-the-board performance improvements in all other tests, seeing no improvement in around two years in the iTunes test is almost embarrassing.Īlthough such a massive performance boost for an extra £160 represents a very good value for money increase, £2,099 is still a lot to pay for a laptop, and at that price, the optional antiglare screen shouldn't cost an extra £40.īut even at the price, the early 2011 17-inch MacBook Pro is worth considering if you're looking for quality and a large screen.
Our iTunes encoding test has plateaued at just under six minutes to rip our test CD, with the optical drive proving the limiting factor. Apple seems to have skipped this particular piece of technology.Ī faster DVD drive would've been welcome, though. We still haven't got a Blu-ray drive, not even as a custom option, but we weren't expecting one. No review would be complete without a few grumbles, but thankfully, there aren't many here. In our own test, we ran the BBC iPlayer's live feed over Wi-Fi at fullscreen for five hours, 35 minutes on a full charge, a very commendable result. These new tests are based on Wi-Fi internet surfing, and better reflect the realities of real-world use. But this apparent reduction is due to a more rigorous testing regime rather than a genuine drop in battery power.
2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN MOVIE
We can quite believe Intel's claim that a full HD movie can transfer in around 30 seconds, and enough 196kbps MP3s to play for an entire year can be backed up in around ten minutes.Īpple says the battery gives seven hours on a full charge, which on paper is down from the eight to nine hours claimed for the previous model. We've been unable to run a time test on the Thunderbolt port because no compatible storage peripherals have been released at the time of writing, but we did see it in action at Apple's launch briefing.Ī large data file was transferred between a MacBook Pro and a prototype Thunderbolt external drive very quickly. The more modern Call of Duty 4, which reached the Mac in late 2008, ran at an agreeable 84.3 frames a second. This is comfortably ahead of the 115.3fps its predecessor achieved with the same settings.
2011 MAC PRO LAPTOP 17 INCHES SCREEN FOR MAC
The 17-inch MacBook's AMD Radeon HD 6750M discrete graphics processor comes into play automatically when running graphics-intensive applications such as games.ĭoom 3, which was released for Mac in 2005, ran at a speedy 171.5 frames per second with its graphical settings at a system-hungry maximum.