Apple MacBook Pro

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

User Reviews for Apple MacBook Pro

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
Reviewed by: Wawax

Duration of ownership: 5 Months

Strengths: Display is so great,bright and contrast is awesome. Display can adjust the brightness depends on lights too. Performance is fantastic, the fastest laptop i ever know (which is not all laptops i know). Firewire port, illuminated keyboard, magnetic adapters, the trackpad, the sound, all is great. The design is unmatchable, simple and elegant

Weaknesses: Optical drive always frustating me. It can't read many CD or DVDs, and failed when burning. The temperature is cooking me out. sometimes make me worry about the components inside. the webcam is bad. if my CD/DVD stuck, i can't get it out by force. Always a lot of pray, with push eject button and type drutil thingy in terminal

Overall Evaluation: Performance is great, very comfortable on any situation. Have a sleek and stunning design, but also powerful. It's a great Notebook
Reviewed by: Foxstorng

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Strong and powerful

Weaknesses: large

Overall Evaluation: It is not hot as the 15 inch one. I like it. I bought it only $1900 from Apple, when they made a clearance it. I love it.
Reviewed by: CoyoteCreative

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Sleek design, totally awesome operating system (Leopard) and speedy processing. Doesn't overheat. Love the Time Machine and Dashboard features.

Weaknesses: Any 17" laptop is kinda heavy.

Overall Evaluation: Very impressive little machine! I was a little worried about the computer heating up because of blogs/reviews I'd read. Apparently Apple has taken care of this issue, because my MacBook Pro maintains a very comfortable temperature. As stated above, the speed of the processor (along with the 4 gigs of RAM I had installed), Leopard OS, and the elegance of the entire Apple interface - ROCK! It's all the nice little amenities that Apple includes that make this laptop the one I love.
Reviewed by: mainomega

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Thinner than most laptops with these features. Lightweight. Great Display. Firewire 800. Great Upgraded Graphics Card. Built In Camera. Remote. Small powerbrick. Santa Rosa chipset. Great Battery life

Weaknesses: Still gets REALLY hot. Some people have reported problems with their screens.

Overall Evaluation: This is my second MacBook Pro. I've owned the 2.33 and bought the 2.4 because we love these laptops. The SantaRosa chipset was supposed to provide cooler temps but the temps are still high. The iSight camera was reduced in size but is now 1.3 megapixels (You won't be able to take a highres snap will Leopard though). 802.11n is now standard and works great. Max memory has been increased to 4gb but the standard config is 2x1gb SODIMMs instead of the better option of a single 2GB SODIMM. The instructions to upgrade your ram are included in the manuals so use pricegrabber.com to buy yourself some cheaper (compared to Apple) ram. Now for the two big selling points. First you can now get a 'Hi-Res' screen which will allow you to run a 1920*1200 pixels. With Leopard being resolution independent it'll look even better. The second point is the upgraded video card. Apple ditched ATI and went for an Nvidia 8600M GT. We play games using Bootcamp 1.3 with Windows XP and can run C&C3 with ALL the eye candy on at 1680*1050 and it runs amazingly good.This is a great machine it has a tendency to heat up... a lot so make sure you don't plop it on top of a pillow... buy one of those laptop cooling trays.

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.

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