TechRadar checked out the new 17" MacBook Pro and awards it with four out of five stars. It's fast, has a good build quality and offers excellent battery life, but it's obviously very expensive and the HDD and optical drive are a little slow.

"The 2011 MacBook Pro refresh is far more radical than it might seem. At a glance, the aluminium unibody Apple MacBook Pro line-up – including this top-of-the-range 17-inch model – look pretty much the same as their predecessors. But under the hood, they feature significant and very welcome advances. Intel's new second-generation Core series processors (Sandy Bridge) are used throughout the MacBook Pro range, even the 13-inch model, which missed out on the first generation of Core series CPUs due to a mix of legal disputes and practical issues."



Link: Techradar