17″ MacBook Pro goes live before Apple keynote kicks off

Posted by Zach Epstein on Jan 6, 2009 11:55 am 11 comments

Filed in Apple, Laptops

Oops! We’re minutes away from Apple’s keynote featuring Phil “I am not Steve Jobs” Schiller and we’ve already got our second major bungle. The team back in Cupertino apparently got a little trigger happy and let the 17″ MacBook Pro page go live a tad ahead of schedule. Woo! 4GB of RAM out of the box, 320GB+ hard drive, up to 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor… This baby is a killer! You’ve also got a Firewire-400 and a Firewire-800 port so none of those MacBook complaints are an issue for Pro users. Hit the read link for the live page and get ready for more Apple goodness coming any minute now.

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Tags: 17", 17-inch, aluminum, Apple, keynote, MacBook Pro, MacWorld, Phil Schiller

11 comment(s) for this post.

On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:01 pm, Jeremiah Said:

That looks like the same MacBook Pro as we’ve had for years now…

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:06 pm, Jack Said:

It’s the same macbook pro 17 inch. Dig deeper on the links too and you’ll see it’s the same one we’ve had for years. Good job!!!

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:12 pm, GMoney_21 Said:

All that for the low low price of $5000!!! ANd it has WiFi

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:18 pm, MiniMe Said:

And you can get faster Dell out-of-the-box for just 1/3 of the price.

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:19 pm, 216 Said:

wifi?!!!! These Mac guys are onto something

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:21 pm, What? Said:

Thats the old version. That page has been up for months.

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:57 pm, Syd Lawrence Said:

BGR I think what you mean is:

Oops! We’re minutes away from Apple’s keynote featuring Phil “I am not Steve Jobs” Schiller and we’ve already got our second major bungle.

The team back in Boy Genius Report apparently got a little trigger happy and created a fake news story about the currently available 17″ MacBook Pro claiming that it is the new one.

Either that or Apple has really stooped low releasing an old product as new.

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 1:15 pm, Sal F Said:

They just announced the new one. Matte screen!

Engadget was FTW on this one, sorry BGR

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On Jan 6, 2009 @ 6:25 pm, Rod Said:

<3

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On Jan 7, 2009 @ 12:32 am, Steve Jobs Jr. Said:

This doesn’t have BOTH Firewire 400 & 800. It only has ONE Firewire 800 port. Please get your apple fanboy facts right.

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On Jan 14, 2009 @ 6:32 am, MAc Daddy Said:

Yup, only the one Firewire port on the 17″ version…

But it has an extra USB port. WHY OH WHY DIDN’T THEY REPLACE THE EXTRA USB WITH A FIREWIRE 400?!

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