Xr382cqk Driver For Mac Book Pro 15 Inch 2011

The Good Powerful updates to the CPU and GPU. Excellent battery life. Still the best touch pad and gesture controls of any laptop. The Bad Upgrades can get expensive. Thunderbolt is an unproven technology with as-yet no compatible products.

Still no dedicated HDMI, Blu-ray or other wished-for options. The Bottom Line It's a hefty investment, but the combination of new high-end Intel processor options and AMD graphics makes the 15-inch MacBook Pro an all-round powerhouse, with the new Thunderbolt I/O port as an added bonus.

Visit for details. The 15-inch MacBook Pro moves from Intel's original Core i-series CPUs to the latest second-generation chips, formerly code-named Sandy Bridge. Not only that, you can forget about seeing an Intel Core i5 CPU in your 15-inch (or 17-inch) MacBook Pro — these use high-end quad-core Core i7 chips now. Our step-up AU$2499 review unit had a 2.2GHz quad-core i7, with 4GB of RAM and a huge 750GB hard drive (at only 5400rpm, however). The biggest surprise is the 15-inch MacBook Pro's graphics processor.

Instead of the Nvidia GeForce 330M graphics card previously found in these systems, the GPUs now come from Nvidia's long-time rival AMD. The base 15-inch model has an AMD Radeon HD 6490M, and our review unit had an even faster 6750M.

With Intel's improved integrated graphics in the 13-inch models, that means that Nvidia has been completely ousted from the MacBook Pro line. The iconic unibody aluminium construction remains, as does the large glass multi-touch track pad. Most of the ports and connections also remain the same, with one very notable new addition. Where the Mini DisplayPort connection used to be, now an identically sized port is marked with a lightning-bolt icon.

The 15-inch MacBook Pro is made of aluminum and other materials highly desired by recyclers. The chart below details the materials used in this model. Material Use for 15-inch MacBook Pro Packaging The packaging for the 15-inch MacBook Pro uses corrugated cardboard made from a. Apple quietly updated the components of all MacBook Pro models on 24th of October 2011. The 15-inch models now feature Core i7 quad core processors with a 100-200 MHz higher clock rate and faster.

That’d be a computer you could leave running all the time and even access your media server remotely over the Internet. You’ll also need to run your own home server for this. Ps3 media server mac download. You could also set up a dedicated server system to run the server, of course. If you have a Chromecast, remember that you don’t need any special Plex or Media Browser app on your TV — you can install the appropriate app on your smartphone and then use it to cast media directly to your Chromecast. If you have a desktop PC or laptop and are happy just accessing the server while your computer is running, you can just install the server software on your desktop computer.

That's for Thunderbolt, Intel's new high-speed powered-port technology for data transfer and displays. The Thunderbolt tech is envisioned as a sort of future unified successor to USB, FireWire and DisplayPort, allowing peripherals to carry data and video at 10Gbps (in the video above, we may have had a slip of the tongue and said Mbps, but we meant Gbps). For now, at least, that promise is hypothetical. We have very little idea of exactly when Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals will be available (although Apple says the first ones should show up in Q2 2011), how much they'll cost, or if Apple will be adding the technology to future displays or iOS devices. For now, it's a wait-and-see gamble on a future technology. The lowest-cost 15-inch MacBook Pro is AU$2099, following the usual Apple trajectory of adding faster, more powerful components.