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Apple MC373LZ/A MacBook Pro Notebook with
English Keyboard, 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy, 2.66GHz Intel Core i7
processor with 4MB shared L3 cache, 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3
memory, 500GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics
processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, iSightiSight camera, 8x slot-loading
SuperDrive (DVD+/-R DL/DVD+/-RW/CD-RW), AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless
networking, Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless
technology, 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector), Stereo
speakers with subwoofers, Omnidirectional microphone (located under left speaker
grille), Audio line in minijack (digital/analog)
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General Information |
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Manufacturer |
Apple |
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Manufacturer Part Number |
MC373LZ/A |
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Product Name |
MacBook Pro Notebook with English Keyboard |
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Marketing Information |
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
MacBook Pro was created. With its patented 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 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 thickness of a notebook display depends on the technology inside.
LCD displays typically use cold cathode fluorescent lamps, or CCFLs, to
create light and project a picture onto a screen. But that poses two
problems. First, these lamps require more space, so the display can be
only so thin. Second, just like the fluorescent lights in your home or
office, the ones inside a CCFL display take time to warm up before they
reach full brightness. That’s a lose-lose situation. And it’s why Apple
engineers chose LED backlight technology for the MacBook Pro.
An LED backlight creates the same amount of brightness in less space. So
you can make the structure that houses an LED display much thinner. And
unlike fluorescent lamps, an LED backlight reaches maximum brightness
instantly.
Look at the MacBook Pro display and you’ll see another big difference.
Glass. That edge-to-edge, uninterrupted glass display does more than
look good. It also adds structure to the LED display beneath it.
The trackpad has no button because it is the button. That means there’s
more room to track, more room to click — left, right, center, and
everywhere in between — and one less part. Apple designers and engineers
spent countless hours considering things like sensitivity (how much
pressure triggers a click?), audio feedback (what does the click sound
like?), and friction over the smooth glass surface (what does it feel
like?).
And that’s just the hardware. Apple software engineers had a large part
to play in the development of the trackpad, too. They incorporated
Multi-Touch gestures — including swipe, pinch, rotate, and four-finger
swipe — and even more natural inertial scrolling. The result is the
largest, smartest, most ergonomic MacBook Pro trackpad ever. It’s one of
many details considered and reconsidered during the design process.
There’s a story behind each part. Take the thumbscoop, for example. It’s
the indentation that allows you to open the display. If the scoop is too
deep, you put too much pressure on the display to open it. If it’s too
shallow, you struggle to open the display. It may seem incidental, but
if the thumbscoop is well designed, it makes the difference between a
bad experience and a good one. The challenge of the thumbscoop was to
create a crisply machined scoop that was still comfortable to use. The
designers at Apple worked on hundreds of versions of the thumbscoop —
even examining them under an electron microscope — to get it right.
Then there’s the sleep indicator light. An indicator is functional only
when it’s indicating something. Look to the right of the thumbscoop. You
see nothing. Until you close the display and your MacBook Pro goes to
sleep. Then an LED glow appears from inside the enclosure. How? During
the CNC process, a machine first thins out the aluminum. Then a laser
drill creates small perforations for the LED light to shine through.
These holes are so tiny that the aluminum appears seamless when the
light is off.
The marriage of electronics and mechanical design makes the MacBook Pro
as advanced on the inside as it is on the outside. The internal
architecture has been reengineered from the silicon up, with a
cutting-edge logic board, chipset, and graphics architecture.
The 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro models now deliver the perfect
combination of graphics performance and long battery life, thanks to
automatic graphics switching. For everyday tasks like email and surfing
the web, MacBook Pro uses integrated Intel HD Graphics. But for
graphics-intensive 3D games and applications like Aperture and Motion,
MacBook Pro automatically switches to the new NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
discrete graphics processor for amazing performance. There’s no need to
log out or restart: The transition takes place behind the scenes, based
on the applications you’re running. So you don’t have to lift a finger.
Because Apple designs both the hardware and the software for the MacBook
Pro, it’s easier to improve things like energy efficiency. Software
tells the hard drive to spin down when it’s not in use. It tells the
display and battery indicator lights to dim in low-light conditions. And
it helps decide whether the CPU or the graphics processor would be best
suited to the task at hand. That’s the kind of smart, integrated design
that sets MacBook Pro apart from other notebooks.
Top-to-bottom integration also makes MacBook Pro greener than ever.
Complete control over how the MacBook Pro is designed, how it’s
manufactured, and how it’s packaged gives Apple an environmental edge.
Take the MacBook Pro display, for instance. Conventional CCFL displays
use mercury to create a backlight and arsenic to prevent irregularities
in the glass. The LED-backlit display on the MacBook Pro, on the other
hand, is both mercury- and arsenic-free. LED backlight technology also
conserves energy: This display requires up to 30 percent less power than
a CCFL display.
Many computer manufacturers have only pledged to eliminate polyvinyl
chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their
enclosures and circuit boards. Apple is removing not only PVC and BFRs,
but all forms of bromine and chlorine throughout the entire MacBook Pro.
Just how green is the MacBook Pro? Every MacBook Pro model is ENERGY
STAR 5.0 compliant, which means it meets the government standard for
energy efficiency. All models have also earned EPEAT Gold status, the
highest standard for environmental performance in the electronics
industry.1 And every MacBook Pro is shipped in packaging that’s 34 to 41
percent smaller than the original generation. That translates to fewer
trees used for boxes and less fuel used to transport more systems on
fewer planes. And at the end of its long, productive life, you can
recycle almost all of your MacBook Pro.
Only Apple could make a notebook like this. Hardware and software.
Design and engineering. Production and manufacturing. They’re all part
of a single process at Apple. When you start using your MacBook Pro,
you’ll discover what that means. The light and sturdy unibody protects
the components inside. The LED-backlit display — along with the graphics
processor that helps power it — gives you faster games and a brilliant
canvas for your photos, movies, and more. The glass Multi-Touch trackpad
feels as good as it functions. From the smallest detail to the biggest
engineering breakthrough, the MacBook Pro truly is the next generation
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Features |
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Precision
aluminum. The new gold standard.
Carved from a single block of aluminum, the MacBook Pro is a true
engineering achievement. Its patented unibody enclosure is the
product of precise machining. From the thumbscoop to the
now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t sleep indicator, no detail is
unaccounted for. The end result is a notebook that’s not only
breakthrough, but thin, light, polished, and refined. The unibody
also makes MacBook Pro more durable than ever. So you can throw it
in your briefcase or messenger bag and pull it out at an airport, at
school, at the office, or on location without a second thought.
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The
longest-lasting Mac notebook battery ever.
The new energy-efficient architecture in every MacBook Pro, along
with automatic graphics switching in the 15- and 17-inch models,
gives you dramatically longer battery life. On a single charge, the
battery in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to 10 hours (8 to 9
hours on the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro). And you’ll get up to 1000
full charge and discharge cycles — that’s nearly three times the
lifespan of typical notebook batteries. Advanced chemistry and
Adaptive Charging allow the battery to maintain charging
capabilities longer and determine the optimal way to charge the
battery’s cells. Because the battery lasts up to five years, MacBook
Pro uses just one battery in the same time a typical notebook uses
three. That makes for less waste. And that, in turn, makes for one
environmentally friendly battery.
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Powerful
graphics, two ways.
MacBook Pro gives you more options for high-performance graphics,
starting with the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics
processor in the 13-inch model. It’s up to 80 percent faster than
the previous generation and is even more energy-efficient for
everyday tasks like writing email and surfing the web. The new 15-
and 17-inch MacBook Pro models give you even more power for
graphics-intensive 3D games and pro applications, and longer battery
life for everyday tasks like checking email or surfing the web.
Depending on which application you’re running, these models
automatically switch between the blazingly fast discrete NVIDIA
GeForce GT 330M processor and power-efficient integrated Intel HD
Graphics. So you don’t have to compromise performance for battery
life — and vice versa.
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A display of
brilliance.
Every MacBook Pro has a pristine LED-backlit display with wide-angle
viewing and a color gamut usually seen only on a desktop display. So
whether you’re watching a movie or making one, you’ve got the
perfect canvas. The ultrathin, seamless glass enclosure makes the
display strong and durable. And because it’s power efficient and
free of mercury and arsenic, this display is greener than ever.
Ready for something even more brilliant? The 15-inch model is now
available with a high-resolution 1680-by-1050 glossy or antiglare
screen that gives you 36 percent more pixels.
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Even the keyboard
is advanced.
The rigid aluminum keyboard webbing has been cut precisely to hold
the keys. And the keys are curved to perfectly fit fingers. The
result? Pure typing bliss. The keyboard is also illuminated, so when
you’re in low-light settings, such as airplanes or conference rooms,
you can always see what you’re typing.
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It all just
clicks.
The first thing you might notice — or not notice — about the MacBook
Pro trackpad is the button. The entire trackpad is the button, so
you can click anywhere. Without a separate button, the spacious
trackpad gives your hands plenty of room to move on the large, silky
glass surface. Use two fingers to scroll smoothly up and down a page
with inertial scrolling. Pinch to zoom in and out. Rotate an image
with your fingertips. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your
photo libraries. Swipe with four fingers to show your desktop, view
all open windows, or switch applications. If you’re coming from a
right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure
a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch
trackpad, the more you’ll wonder what you ever did without it.
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Everything fits.
Each MacBook Pro comes standard with a large hard drive offering up
to 500GB of storage capacity,5 so there’s plenty of room for your
photo libraries, video projects, and files. Or, for enhanced
durability, you can order a solid-state drive with no moving parts.
Choose 128GB, 256GB, or even 512GB. MacBook Pro also features ample
high-speed 1066MHz DDR3 memory, with support for up to 8GB of RAM,
so you can run more applications at once and quickly access your
data and media.
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Nothing but
speed. And more speed.
The MacBook Pro lineup starts with advanced Intel Core 2 Duo
processors running at up to 2.66GHz. And things only get faster from
there. The 15- and 17-inch models now feature the latest Intel Core
i5 and Core i7 processors — the fastest dual-core processors on the
market — which reach Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.33GHz. With up to
4MB of shared L2 or L3 cache, MacBook Pro runs applications up to 50
percent faster than before.
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Mini DisplayPort.
The Mini DisplayPort delivers a pure digital connection to external
displays — even large 30-inch displays — quickly and easily. It
gives you plug-and-play performance with the Apple LED Cinema
Display and supports VGA and DVI, as well as the latest multimedia
standards such as DisplayPort and HDMI.
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Your studio to
go.
With the latest 802.11n wireless technology built into MacBook Pro,
you’re always seamlessly and effortlessly connected to the wireless
world out there, at home, and at work.8 MacBook Pro automatically
finds available networks and allows you to join them with just one
click. Bluetooth wireless technology is also built in, so brilliant
accessories can become your wireless accomplices. With a built-in
battery that lasts longer than ever before, you can do everything
you need to do, where you need to do it.
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Burn DVDs
superfast.
After editing and applying the finishing touches to your home movie
masterpiece in iMovie and iDVD, use the ultrafast 8x SuperDrive on
your MacBook Pro to burn it to DVD. And because the SuperDrive also
writes to double-layer discs (DVDs with nearly 9GB of space), it’s
great for backing up data.
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Be everywhere at
once.
Cleverly integrated — almost hidden — at the top of the MacBook Pro
display is an iSight camera. Use it with iChat, and you can be
anywhere without actually being there. Video chat with up to three
of your friends, share a video with a colleague, or present to a
client. Use iSight with Photo Booth for fun photo effects. And
there’s no need to waste valuable primping time installing software
or configuring the camera. Like everything Mac, iSight just works.
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Specifications |
Display
- 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit
glossy
- Supported resolutions: 1440 by 900
(native), 1280 by 800, 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500
pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by
480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by
480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio stretched; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2
aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio stretched
Processor and memory
- 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 processor
with 4MB shared L3 cache
- 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz
DDR3 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
Storage
- 500GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard
drive
- 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD±R
DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- Maximum write: 8x DVD-R, DVD+R; 4x
DVD-R DL (double layer), DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD-RW, DVD+RW;
24x CD-R; 10x CD-RW
- Maximum read: 8x DVD-R, DVD+R,
DVD-ROM; 6x DVD-ROM (double layer DVD-9), DVD-R DL (double layer),
DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD-RW, DVD+RW; 24x CD
Connections and expansion
- MagSafe power port
- Gigabit Ethernet port
- One FireWire 800 port (up to 800
Mbps)
- Three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480
Mbps)
- Mini DisplayPort
- SD card slot
- Audio line in
- Audio line out
- Kensington lock slot
Communications
- AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless
networking (based on IEEE 802.11n specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g
compatible
- Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
(Enhanced Data Rate) wireless technology
- 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
(RJ-45 connector)
Audio
- Stereo speakers with subwoofers
- Omnidirectional microphone
(located under left speaker grille)
- Audio line in minijack
(digital/analog)
- Audio line out/headphone minijack
(digital/analog)
- Support for Apple iPhone headset
with microphone
Graphics and video support
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics
processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
- Intel HD Graphics with 256MB of
DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
- Automatic graphics switching
- Dual display and video mirroring:
Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in
display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both
at millions of colors
- iSightiSight camera
- Mini DisplayPort
Pure digital video output
- DVI output using Mini DisplayPort
to DVI Adapter (optional)
- VGA output using Mini DisplayPort
to VGA Adapter (optional)
- Dual-link DVI output using Mini
DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter supports 30-inch Apple Cinema
HD Display (optional)
- HDMI output using a third-party
Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter
Input
- Full-size backlit keyboard with 78
(U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 function keys and 4 arrow keys
(inverted “T” arrangement)
- Multi-Touch trackpad for precise
cursor control; supports inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe,
three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap, and drag
capabilities
Battery and power
- Built-in 77.5-watt-hour
lithium-polymer battery
- 85W MagSafe Power Adapter with
cable management system
- MagSafe power port
Electrical and operating requirements
- Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC
- Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz
- Operating temperature: 50° to 95°
F (10° to 35° C)
- Storage temperature: -13° to 113°
F (-24° to 45° C)
- Relative humidity: 0% to 90%
noncondensing
- Maximum operating altitude: 10,000
feet
- Maximum storage altitude: 15,000
feet
- Maximum shipping altitude: 35,000
feet
Software
- Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
(includes iTunes, Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight,
Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD
Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
- iLife (includes iPhoto, iMovie,
iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)
Size and weight
- Height: 0.95 inch (2.41 cm)
- Width: 14.35 inches (36.4 cm)
- Depth: 9.82 inches (24.9 cm)
- Weight: 5.6 pounds (2.54 kg)
What’s in the box
- MacBook Pro
- Display cleaning cloth
- 85W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall
plug, and power cord
- Software DVDs
- Printed and electronic
documentation
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A-20101109-1622-130-L
*This item is BRAND NEW -
not refurbished. It comes with all manufacturer supplied accessories, and full
manufacturer's USA warranty.
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