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MacBook Pro Deleted From Best Buy Inventory

With the recent Core i7 MacBook Pro Geekbench scores being leaked, it certainly seems like we’ll be getting an update to Apple’s line of MacBook Pros. Now reports are going around that Best Buy’s inventory system is showing current MacBook Pros in its system as “deleted”, so does it mean that stock is unavailable for the moment, or are they just gearing up for a new version of the MacBook Pro? Hopefully an update is just around the corner, after all, who wouldn’t want to a laptop powered by Intel’s Core i7 processor, right? Have you thought about what new features you’d want in an updated MacBook Pro?

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New MacBook Pros launching soon?

An unidentified rumor monger informed NowhereElse of a new MBP model, 6.1. The Pro was apparently tested using GeekBench and is running Core i7 M 620 at 2.66GHz. Rumor has it that these new MacBooks could launch as early as tomorrow.

Not much else to really write home about. It’s odd that they would test the [...]

Is a Core i7-based MacBook Pro strutting its specs in the wild?

For your viewing pleasure, we present the latest Apple rumor doing the rounds this Saturday afternoon — namely, GeekBench results for a “new” Core i7 MacBook Pro. According to the results, what you’re looking at above are the numbers for the MacBook Pro 6,1, sporting a nastified Intel Core i7 (dual core, not quad) 620M (Arrandale) percolating along at 2.66GHz. Other curious points here are the 4.8GHz FSB, which sounds a little screwy to us, and a final GeekBench score of 5260, which makes current MBPs clocked at the same speed look like your grandfather with a walker (those ranges hover around 3700-4000 on average). The laptop in question is also allegedly running a fresh version of Snow Leopard (build 10C3067 of 10.6.2), which certainly makes sense if someone is out there benching a new Apple product, though it’s not a number we can verify. Still, if you were using a new Apple product, would you be dumb enough to publicly share this info? Probably not, which of course raises the question that this might just be a hackintosh or some other clever spoof (even if we did see a suggestion of new MBPs on the way recently). In the meantime, you can dream of having your pants burnt off by the above monster, and we’ll let you know if this thing starts looking a little more real.

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Core i7 MacBook Pro Geekbench Scores Revealed

Are you thinking that Apple’s MacBook Pro line of notebooks is in desperate need of a refresh? Well, a Geekbench scoring has surfaced and it seems that it was created using a Core i7 M620 MacBook Pro, running an unreleased version of Mac OS 10.6.2. According to the benchmark results, the Geekbench results of this MacBook Pro 6,1 provide a nice little boost compared to the current line of MacBook Pros. If you need a comparison, the current range of MacBook Pros usually clock in about 3700-4000 points, but this time the score is listed as 5260 points, which is really a significant result. The version number of 6,1 hints that there is most likely going to be a significant change, as the first unibody MacBook Pro was listed as 5,1. With that in mind, you might want to hold off buying a new MacBook Pro for the moment, and wait to see what new version of the MacBook Pro Apple comes up with next.

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