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Design and features It has a 17-inch high-resolution back-lit glossy wide screen display, which supports millions of colours. It also supports number of different resolutions with different aspect ratios for various applications. On the left side of the laptop, there is one Magsafe power port, Gigabit Ethernet port, Firewire 800 port, three USB 2.0 ports, SD card slot, Audio in/out slot, a mini display port and a battery indicator. While on the right side, you will find the slot-loading optical drive (dual-layer DVD burner) and a security-lock slot. The silver case, dominated by an aluminum shell with just one seam around the underside, feels plenty solid. Also, the case snaps shut with a magnetic latch, which makes it easy to open without compromising the durability of the laptop. On the top of the laptop, you will find an Apple logo that lights up when the laptop is in use. The keyboard of the MacBook Pro (17-inch) is well-spaced, comfortable and pleasant to use. It is backlit keyboard, which means you can see it easily even in low light and is useful as the lettering on the black keys is white. Moreover, there is a button-less trackpad with a glass surface; the entire surface acts as a button that allows you to press anywhere to perform a function. Apple’s iSight camera lives in the middle of the top of the screen, together with a camera-indicator light, which illuminates when the camera is on. Performance MacBook Pro (17-inch) has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, which makes it possible to view the FullHD videos and movies without cropping. The graphics system has changed dramatically with a new NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, which is auto-switched by the Operating System with an Intel GMA 4500MHD with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM integrated graphics when the dedicated graphics are not required. MacBook Pro is powered with a speedy 2.53 GHz Intel i5 processor, together with a 4GB DDR3 of RAM. With 4 MB of shared L2 or L3 cache, it launches programs much faster than its predecessor, and every bit of processing feels noticeably faster. The l5 and l7 models now feature the latest Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, the fastest dual-core processors in the market, which reach Turbo Boosts speeds up to 3.33 GHz. Specifications
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The 17-inch MacBook Pro is the top model of Apple’s notebook series and along with the MacBook Pro 15-inch, the strongest notebook with Mac OS X. This aluminium notebook has also been upgraded and now features a Intel Core i5 processor. Graphics processing now switches automatically between the integrated Intel HD graphics and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 512MB of GDDR3 memory. It is completely different from 13-inch and 15-inch model in storage capacity, processing speed, size, and also price.