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    New Macbook Pro vs XPS1710 pics

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by raton10, Jan 6, 2009.

  1. raton10

    raton10 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just received the beast the day apple announce the new 17 inches pro...

    i put my XPS side by side to compare. Enjoy.

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    raton10, Jan 6, 2009
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  2. ronnieb

    ronnieb Representing the Canucks

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    Return and buy 17 incher :p
     
    ronnieb, Jan 6, 2009
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  3. jjahshik32

    jjahshik32 Notebook Deity

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    heh nice, the mbp blows the dell out of the water!!
     
    jjahshik32, Jan 6, 2009
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  4. raton10

    raton10 Notebook Enthusiast

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    oh no its too big, im really happy so far with a 15 inches.
     
    raton10, Jan 6, 2009
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  5. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    At first I thought there was 3 laptops there, then I realized it was just the lid of the XPS.
     
    Seshan, Jan 6, 2009
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  6. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Wow. lol.

    One is a brick, the other a piece of paper. :p
     
    ahl395, Jan 6, 2009
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  7. Ice Cold

    Ice Cold Notebook Deity

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    I am gonna take a 5 year old Apple Laptop and place it next to a 2009 modern DELL laptop. C'mon What year is that XPS from 89?
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 6, 2009
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  8. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Umm, no. The new M1730 is a current model and the same thickness as that one, or at least very simmilar.

    The M1730 is abnormally think notebook, the Macbook Pro is abnormally thin. :p
     
    ahl395, Jan 6, 2009
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  9. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    free to do that,since it will look even worse for dell ;)
     
    Xirurg, Jan 6, 2009
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  10. raton10

    raton10 Notebook Enthusiast

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    the xps is a 2004, still trusty for most game today except the high end fps. I play l4d on it and it does very well.
     
    raton10, Jan 6, 2009
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  11. MaX PL

    MaX PL Notebook Deity

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    yeh i dont know why youre comparing a 2004 gaming laptop with a late 2008 release of a mobile laptop.
     
    MaX PL, Jan 6, 2009
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  12. raton10

    raton10 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The main reason why i compare those 2 laptops is because thats the 2 i own... I didnt start this topic to flame the xps, on the contrary i loved that laptop and it still serve me well. Just received the new thing and im excited thats all calm down people...
     
    raton10, Jan 6, 2009
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  13. Ice Cold

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    the Xps line is just abnormally thick and ugly if you ask me. Black with grey keys?

    Once the new 32nm Core i7's Capella arrive in Q3 09 and the new 40nm graphics GPU's from ATI and NVIDIA

    I plan on building a nice Gaming system.

    Apple should also put out some amazing systems with Core i7 and 32nm CPU's and 40nm GPU's

    and that new Battery. Its not new technology simply a bigger Lithium battery.
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 6, 2009
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  14. BlackLight

    BlackLight Notebook Consultant

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    lol lol lol lol lol lol is that 3 laptops in the second pic.
     
    BlackLight, Jan 6, 2009
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  15. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Awesome pics! I am glad to see this thread turned out exactly as I expected o_0.

    I need to take pics of my N6210 vs. MBP(17) I think if I removed all of the Fujtisu's guts it could act as a protective case for the MBP ^_^

    I think the most notable difference is detail of design and build quality. Haha, you could strap 1 or 2 MacBook Airs onto the MBP's back and still have a thinner and lighter machine, plus a networked grid computing system ^_^

    And the battery is new technology by the way, new Lithium-Polymer material and method of controlling how it charges. That is the whole point.
     
    circa86, Jan 6, 2009
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  16. raton10

    raton10 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have a look at the Sagers line, i hesitated between the one of them and my current MBP.
     
    raton10, Jan 6, 2009
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  17. Ice Cold

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    lithium polymer is not new, what do you think is in you cell phone battery.
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 6, 2009
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  18. Ice Cold

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    if its square like Alienware bricks its those round cell's

    if its irregularly odd shaped its Lithium Polymer heck even my new DELL 1737 uses Lithium Polymer.


    all Apple did was make the battery bigger tweak the chemistry make it more dense.


    I was expecting a new battery technology like Silver Zinc.
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 6, 2009
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  19. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    As long as it gets the advertised 8hrs of battery life, I'm not complaining here. :p
     
    Colton, Jan 6, 2009
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  20. raton10

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    you should start a batterie topic...
     
    raton10, Jan 6, 2009
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  21. Mark Larson

    Mark Larson Notebook Evangelist

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    I can't wait for the teardown pics to see what size battery is in that 17" beast.
     
    Mark Larson, Jan 6, 2009
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  22. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Awesome pics OP! :D
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 7, 2009
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  23. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    Man,whats your problem?I bet you wouldn't buy apple even if it put everything you wanted in it...apple is not almighty ;)
     
    Xirurg, Jan 7, 2009
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    Actually, when he bought it, the best Apple could do at the time was a lame G4 processor and they didn't even have WUXGA. That Dell blew the Powerbook out of the water - probably still runs cooler and games better than a much more recent mbp. I had the 17" Inspiron version of that XPS and have a 17" MBP now, so I'm not really choosing sides here. The screens on those old Dells were IPS, I believe, and were very nice.

    By the way, the weight of the 17" Dell Inspiron, even thought big, is about the same as the 17" MBP (not the new one).
     
    dlhuss, Jan 7, 2009
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  25. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    ^really?AFAIK,dell 1710 was introduced in 2006...so if we compare it with prev. gen MBP from 2006,it will lose badly,at least in weight/size category...
     
    Xirurg, Jan 7, 2009
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  26. ahl395

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    No, but the current XPS is pretty much the same thickness. So, not much difference. ;)
     
    ahl395, Jan 7, 2009
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  27. KernalPanic

    KernalPanic White Knight

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    So... benchmarks?

    I know this is probably not the right forum, but it would be nice to see if the new barebones $2700 17" macbook can compete with 2-yr-old PC hardware.

    Sad to see people are more interested in how pretty something is than what it can do or how expensive it is in comparison.
     
    KernalPanic, Jan 7, 2009
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  28. raton10

    raton10 Notebook Enthusiast

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    oups i tought it was a 2004 but you are right its a 2006
     
    raton10, Jan 7, 2009
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  29. hugo525

    hugo525 Notebook Guru

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    the frame of XPS 1730 is much slicker than that of macbook pro
     
    hugo525, Jan 8, 2009
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