MacBook Pro is machined from a single piece of aluminium, an engineering breakthrough that replaced many parts with just one. It&rsquo. s called the unibody. And the first time you pick up a MacBook Pro, you&rsquo. ll notice the difference it makes. The entire enclosure is thinner and lighter than other notebooks. It looks polished and refined. And it feels strong and durable &mdash. perfect for life inside (and outside) your briefcase or backpack.

Everything Apple designers and engineers do, they do for a reason. They chose LED backlight technology for the MacBook Pro because it makes the display instantly bright and allows it to be incredibly thin. They used edge-to-edge glass not just because it looks beautiful, but because it lends structure to the display. And at the top of the screen, they hid the new built-in FaceTime HD camera. So you see your friends and family in big, beautiful widescreen &mdash. and as little of the camera as possible.

The Multi-Touch trackpad has no button because it is the button. That means there&rsquo. s more room to track and more room to click &mdash. left, right, centre and everywhere in between. Apple designers and engineers spent countless hours considering things like sensitivity (how much pressure triggers a click?), audio feedback (what does the click sound like?) and friction over the smooth glass surface (what does it feel like?). The result is a trackpad that just makes sense to you &mdash. and your fingers.

The connections and ports on MacBook Pro &mdash. MagSafe power, Gigabit Ethernet, Thunderbolt, USB, SDXC and audio in/out &mdash. are all smartly integrated on the same side of the notebook. So your cables stay neatly organised, and connecting and disconnecting your devices is easy and convenient.

Thunderbolt lets you connect high-performance devices and high-resolution displays to a single compact port. It even supports Mini DisplayPort devices &mdash. such as your Apple LED Cinema Display or an HDMI adapter for your television.

Complete control over how the MacBook Pro is designed, how it&rsquo. s manufactured and how it&rsquo. s packaged gives Apple an environmental edge. LED backlight technology preserves energy. Glass and aluminium are highly recyclable. MacBook Pro is free of most harmful toxins. And the 17-inch model ships in packaging that&rsquo. s 34 per cent smaller than the original, while the packaging for the 13-inch model is 41 per cent smaller. That means fewer trees used for boxes and fewer planes, trains and lorries used for transport.