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Apple has also boosted the base amount of memory for the standard 14-inch MacBook Pro from 8GB to 16GB, which should improve overall performance if you opt for the standard configuration.
The optical drive was shrunk to fit into the slimmer MacBook Pro; it runs slower than the optical drive in the PowerBook G4 and cannot write to dual-layer DVDs. [6] [8] Both the original 15- and 17-inch model MacBook Pro computers come with ExpressCard/34 slots, which replace the PC Card slots found in the PowerBook G4.
Optical disc drives became common in full-size laptops around 1997: initially, CD-ROM drives, supplanted by CD-R, then DVD, then Blu-ray drives with writing capability. Starting around 2011, the trend shifted against internal optical drives, and as of 2022, they have largely disappeared, though are still readily available as external peripherals.
Apple discontinued the 13-inch aluminum non-retina MacBook Pro on 27 October, 2016. Immediately prior to its discontinuation, it was Apple's only product still on sale that included an optical drive and a FireWire port, and it was the only notebook that Apple sold that still had a spinning hard disk drive and an Ethernet port. [49]
The Surface Laptop is a line of laptops marketed by Microsoft, as a sub-brand of their Surface devices. Several models have been produced: Surface Laptop (1st generation), released in 2017; Surface Laptop 2, released in 2018; Surface Laptop 3, released in 2019; Surface Laptop 4, released in 2021; Surface Laptop 5, released in 2022
Black polycarbonate MacBook (early 2006) White polycarbonate MacBook (early 2006) The original MacBook, available in black or white colors, was released on May 16, 2006, and used the 32-bit Intel Core Duo processor and 945GM chipset, with Intel's GMA 950 integrated graphics on a 667 MHz front side bus.