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Core2Duo MacBook Pros - not a big surprise

Apple has officially announced new MacBook Pro models with the Core 2 Duo (Merom) CPU. This has been in the rumor mill for some time. While the speed bump of the Core 2 Duo isn’t huge, it’s pure 64bit which will have a greater impact when Leopard comes out (which is fully 64bit). For the time being, two other additions make this a very attractive release: they’ve now added Firewire 800 support back into the 15.4″ model, and also made all SuperDrives dual-layer capable.

In the 2.33GHz model, the standard RAM has been upped to 2GB (InfoWorld’s standard for both MBP and ThinkPad purchases) and the max RAM is now 3GB instead of 2GB.

Check out Enterprise Mac for more details, as well as the MacBook Pro page on Apple’s site.