New 17″ MacBook Pro Announced

The new MacBook Pro has been announced at the 2009 Macworld Conference. With only limited details so far coming live from the speech, Apple suggets this MacBook Pro has the best display they have ever made to date. This comes at a price however, with non glossy screens being an additional $50, or around £35.

There are however, some potential drawbacks with the batteries being non-removable but are suggested to have upto 8 hours battery life. This is however, only limited to a 1,000 charge cycle – or the equivalent of 5 years use!

The MacBook Pro will be much faster, but comes with a non-removable battery.

Other details also found so far for the MacBook Pro 17″:

2.93GHz with 6MB L2 cache, up to 8GB RAM. A spec of With a system of 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB drive costing $2799 (£1,800).

0.98 inches thick

6.6 pounds heavy

Sound like the new system will be a powerful unit, but with some limitations. View more live updates over at MacFormat.