Posted on Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 12:15 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
MacWorld posted a Q&A about Apple's new Intel-based MacBook Pro.
But I heard that some of the MacBook Pro’s features are actually inferior to the PowerBook’s. Is that true?
Yes. The MacBook Pro’s optical drive is slower than the PowerBook’s (4x, instead of 8x), and it won’t burn dual-layer DVD discs. Apple says this is because, the company has to use a new ultra-slimline optical drive in order to get the MacBook Pro down to one inch of thickness. Currently, the 4x DVD burner with no dual-layer capacity is the best drive in that class. (But fear not—the drive will still burn single-layer DVDs and CDs, and it plays back all your DVDs and CDs just fine.)
The PowerBook’s built-in S-Video port is also gone, although you can buy a $19 adapter to convert the output of the MacBook’s DVI port to either S-Video or composite. And, oh yeah, the MacBook Pro doesn’t have a modem.
You can check out the full article over
here.
