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What’s inside Apple’s newest pro portables? A whole lotta performance courtesy of Intel, nVidia and even some custom silicon from the mothership itself.

It seems that nothing can slow Apple down — not even that little dust up with Adobe over Flash. The Cupertino, California-base Mac maker’s latest coup is the MacBook Pro, which was just released yet has been warmly greeted by users and reviewers alike.

Bearing out Apple’s battery life claims is ComputerWorld’s review, which states that, “Battery life is where the MacBook continues to wipe its competition off the board.”

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In a similar vein, News.com adds that “It’s the seamless switching between GPUs that interests us more, as it lets you take advantage of the discrete graphics for HD video and gaming, but won’t run down the battery when not in use.”

And, yes, Apple’s April 2010 MacBook Pros do all of this all the while providing even better performance courtesy of Intel’s i5 processor and game-crunching nVidia graphics.

Is there a new MacBook Pro in your budget?

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