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One of my fav toys
Only flaw is that the screenis kind of loos, it tend to close if i walk or move it while open.
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Deceptive Marketing Hides Screen Color Capability
From Apple Tech Specs:
"17-inch (diagonal) TFT display, support for millions of colors; optional glossy widescreen display"
Translation:
Supplied LCD cannot display the "supported" millions of colors.
The screen has 1,764,000 pixels. But can only display 262,144 different colors!
8 bit (16,777,216 colors) display technology has been the standard for over a decade. This product is not acceptable for use by photographers or graphics professionals.
Another dirty secret is that Apple's Boot Camp beta expires and you'll have to purchase a new OS from Apple to get your boot camp back. With Apple's track record they'll probably blame it on an accounting standard...
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Apple has it right...
I bought the MacBook Pro last November when a prospective employer gave me the mandate of "learn more about Unix". The fabled Unix roots of Mac OS X, I supposed, would give me an introduction to Unix while offering me a GUI, so I could get my "real work" done. I originally planned to dual-boot Windows on my new Mac, using OS X occasionally until I could wean myself away from Windows.
However, weaning myself away from Windows took no time at all. OS X puts much less strain on system resources to accomplish the same tasks. Users can run 15-20 different major tasks simultaneously without noticing a great deal of lag, unlike on Windows. The MBP's fans also default to a low 2000rpm and rarely step over that mark in OS X, which isn't feasible under Windows.
OS X greatly simplifies computing, in addition to making it more reliable. The GUI is cleaned up, with power-user settings moved to the Terminal interface. OS X's command shell (Bash) allows you to actually get things done easily -- not true of the standard Windows shell. OS X does pretty much everything involving graphics better than Windows, because it's had the video-card reliance that Vista is "learning" built into it since 2000. Graphics effects are faster, nicer-looking, and less intensive.
OS X alone is reason to buy the MBP, particularly with the resource-hogging Windows Vista now your only option in the PC market. Mac hardware, however, is also first-rate. The MBP features native Bluetooth EDR+2.0, 802.11a/b/g/n (draft), 1000 BaseT Ethernet, and a standard "SuperDrive" for CD/DVD burning. The display quality is amazing, and hardware features like keyboard backlighting make the MBP stand out in the crowd. The sound on the MBP is also of good fidelity for notebook speakers, though it's not as loud as many.
The MacBook Pro, like OS X, is simply beautiful in addition to highly useful. The finish is very scratch resistant (I haven't managed to scratch it in three months of heavy everyday use, and my matte black Inspiron looked terrible in the same timeframe).
With early heat problems now apparently solved, MacBook Pro is an engineering mastery that will someday be worthy of its own museum pedestal, much like the Apple hardware that preceded it.
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STUNNING!
As I sat down to write this, I was rummaging through my vocabulary to adequately describe this marvelous computer. All the stock phrases seem inadequate. The display is sharp, intense, and glorious. The processor(s) are lighting fast; the super drive outstanding; the design a marvel. The thing is amazingly quiet, and all this stuff about heat is simply way overblown - okay, it gets pretty warm, but that's not "scalding." Can you tell I love it? And that's just the hardware - what is equally as impressive is the suite of software that comes with the machine, beginning with the OS X "Tiger" OS. It's the stuff that never gets mentioned in that "top product review magazine"; they evaluate things from a WinTel standard. Tiger, the iLife suite, and the ancilarry programs are dynamite, and their value must be in the $400 - $700 range. No, the MacBook Pro does not come cheap ... but it's worth, as the cliché goes, every penny.
