MacBook Pro speed bumps

As reported at Gizmodo and elsewhere, the MacBook Pro has gotten a speed bump. The original announcement listed two models, 1.67GHz and 1.83GHz. Now, before even shipping the first one (they reportedly start today), those numbers have been bumped to 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz respectively, with a 2.16GHz configure-to-order option.

That makes the top about 18% faster than before; significant, but not exactly exciting (unless you’re easily excited by this sort of thing).

What’s big, in terms of sales psychology, is that they’ve broken that 2GHz barrier. The top of the line in Mac laptops has been in the 1GHz range for over three years, and even PowerBook diehards had pretty much lost hope of getting to 2GHz. (Correctly so – given the name change, 1.67GHz PowerBooks like mine are now and forevermore the fastest stock PowerBooks).

Now, bring on a tiny one please!

Paul commented :

Just wanted to note that, per my closing comment about wanting a tiny Apple laptop, Apple did finally bring it. Five years after this post, I’m the proud and happy owner of a 13" MacBook Air.