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Apple MacBook Pro

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Pros
Thin and light for a big notebook
Cons
Hard drive isn't user-accessible

Performance: Good: 70
Features: Good: 71
Design: Very Good: 83

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Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	439
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	372
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	677
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:44:49 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	110.7
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	141.53
Firefox 2	334
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	371
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	236
Multitasking	410
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	655
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	225
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	254
WorldBench 6 Score	88
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Fair

What You Should Know about the MacBook Pro

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.

Reviewed by: shoppy

Duration of ownership: 4 Months

Strengths: A superb light weight laptop that is pleasure to use. Very powerful, I run Crysis, Half life and Bio shock at great frame rates through boot camp. Fast, light, back lit keyboard is great for me, screen is fantastic I have two of these the same spec except one is glossy and the other matte.

Weaknesses: If anything that they did not introduce high res screen option previously my one other compliant is the region locking by the OS.

Overall Evaluation: This is now my 20th pro apple laptop I have been buying and upgrading al the way back from my 12, 15 and 17" Powerbooks right to my first 1.83MBP. I love the machines, I prefer them to my sony vaio, for ease of use and just sheer reliability. I have the 17" 2.6C2D, with HIgh Res 2 gigs of ram and a 720rpm 200gb hard drive and the machine just leaves my other laptops behind.
Reviewed by: SteveBallmer

Duration of ownership: 2 Days

Strengths: Will run Vista at acceptable rate!

Weaknesses: Not made by Microsoft!

Overall Evaluation: Compared to a real PC it is a weak laptop. http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com