 "Excelente laptop..!!" | 2009-11-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2D41848KO1O4S |
| Esta laptop es increíblemente bien hecha, todo profesional sin duda debe comprar este modelo.. es muy resistente y la uso todos los días para trabajo duro de alto desempeño.. es muy confiable.. tiene un moderno y seguro sistema operativo.. el precio es un poco elevado pero creanme estarán mas q satisfechos cuando la tengan, personalmente la recomiendo 100%. |
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| "Incredible defined" | 2009-11-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A8QEERDHIPF90 |
| In short, this new apple laptop gives ultimate performace while delivering a model of aesthetic beauty. I am perhaps guilty of drinking the kool-aid, but one drive on this machine will turn most as it has with me. Those who want the finest operating system, which is very easy to use as it is completely intuitive, can use the snow leopard installed, and those who want to use another product can use either bootcamp to boot natively, or use an emulation program to run windows in another window. Everything on this machine works seamlessly and easily. Where I once spent hours installing drivers, connecting to routers after being dropped, or trying to share files, this laptop did without requiring any mental anguish on my part. For that Apple, I salute you. |
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| "Windows Lovers: This Thing Does NOT Crash! No more blue screens of death!" | 2009-11-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: AOK5TN04A2C65 |
Put me in the column of rabid Windows defenders who discovered the new MAC OS and the new Macbook Pro 15.4" laptop. For more than 30 years, after my first Apple-2 experience, I swore that I would never have another Apple computer.
In short, with my Windows-based PC, every time I went to use it to edit photos, make a music mix, copy some home video to DVD: I would have to download and install a bunch of updates, then reboot, then try to figure out what they meant when they said my simple little program won't work because of "giffelflexbot.dll not found." Once I found and fixed a problem, Microsoft would then demand that I re-register my operating system or it would stop working altogether.
I was beginning to stabilize my Windows XP SP3 system -- until Microsoft announced that they would no longer support that system. So, I had just upgraded to Windows Vista when Microsoft announced that I will now need Windows 7. Oh yeah, and the Vista system wanted me to buy a whole slew of new peripherals.
Shopping for a the newest Intel-based PC, I came across the Macbook Pro systems. The looks and the features, plus the Intel-based board, made me go ahead and spend $1,699 in the hopes that the MAC would outperform my old machine.
I've been using this Macbook Pro 15 for five months now, and the best comment I can offer to skeptics is that IT DOES NOT CRASH! No more blue-screens-of-death. When something does go wrong, the Snow Leopard system finds a way to FIX the problem and get me back on track in a matter of minutes.
At the same time I bought my Macbook Pro for myself, I bought a high-end PC-based Dell laptop for my wife. She complains about all the common Windows problems a lot, and I still have to fix them. I actually had to dumb the Dell Vista system down to 32-bit so her apps will work. Clearly, her next laptop is going to be a Macbook.
Sure, I love the LED display, and I love the backlit keyboard. And of course I'm a bit perplexed that I have to buy some new cables to use the Firewire 800 and mini-display ports. I'd think for a $1,699 laptop that Apple would supply a few odd cables to make buyers happier.
I can't believe my laptop didn't crash, and didn't have any encounters with internet viruses and trojan horses, while I wrote this review.
Again I say, THE MACBOOK PRO DOES NOT CRASH! |
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 "Laptop is fine, service is a joke" | 2009-11-03 |
| - Reviewed By mmberro |
| As a long-time (20+ years) PC user, I had to buy a Mac to develop apps for the iPhone. Although the keyboard is still more limited than I would like, I was able to become accustomed to the "Apple" way of getting things done (function follows form with them). The hardware is nice and solid, although one expects that for something costing twice as much as the competition. However, Apple customer care is sadly lacking, and you'll get differing answers when you ask about getting a repair. For them, the customer is always wrong. |
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| "Never back to PCs" | 2009-11-01 |
| - Reviewed By goetzkuno |
This is my second Mac, an upgrade in size and disk capacity from my first Mac, a MacBook Pro 15 with Intel processor. There was nothing whatever wrong with that old Mac - after 3 1/2 years I just needed more area on the screen for my work and did not mind the much greater disk capacity of the new model The most telling aspect of my first Mac had been that it never "crashed", unlike generations of PCs I had used. If I managed to do something really "naughty" to my Mac, it sometimes closed a software program - but without noticeable loss of data. In stark contrast to my PC days, I never had to scramble to recover data. The worst I ever did was to inadvertently delete some ancient email messages. They proved easily recoverable from the external backup. Yes, initially it took a few hours to re-learn keystrokes that are different on the Mac than on PCs. I saved that back in no time, then received big dividends because my Mac never crashed. It just always works as it is designed to do.
The most amazing experience with the new Mac was the transfer of my "stuff" from old to new Mac. I went at it with some trepidation because it had taken seemingly endless hours to migrate "stuff" from old to new PCs. By contrast, everything had migrated from old Mac to new Mac in less than one hour via firewire - and all worked perfectly. By 'everything" I mean not just all data - files, records, contact information, photos, calendar, etc.- but also all software I had installed on the old Mac. And, everything was exactly where and how I was used to it, and everything worked as it should on my brilliant and larger new Mac. It is now backed up by even greater memory and processor speed, and runs on Snow Leopard - which is just as flawlessly reliable as the previous operating system but faster and more efficient, with a few neat new features strewn in.
I can still hardly believe that it took years, no decades, before I got fed up and dumped PCs and their flawed operating systems and incompatible software and data bases for something that works. A student in my family just "took the plunge" to Mac when she inherited my first Mac - she is thrilled. Before that I had loaned it to friends - decades long PC users - who promptly made me a nice offer for it and who have since bought new Macs from the local Apple Store. They are extremely conservative and frugal folks - but it did not take them long to figure out that one Mac every decade that always works is better than a new PC every three years that frequently "crashes". Macs serve their owners and serve them well. PCs work sometimes and expect their owners to serve and service them.. Who is master and who slave? There is never a doubt with a Mac! |
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| "Vast improvement over Windows" | 2009-10-28 |
| - Reviewed By heartopensky |
It is a pleasure to return to a Mac after a 14-year hiatus as a "business person." As a stay-at-home-mom, with a new Vista laptop I was ready to hurl through the window, it occurred to me, why continue to suffer?
Overall, I love this machine. I can have 4-5 applications open at a time with no slow-down and no crashing (this includes memory-hungry photo and music apps). Eureka! I can group photos together and pop them into an email without checking five-gazillion times whether or not they went through, nor having to wade through yet another reboot, praying Vista will *then* have enough RAM to do what I'm asking it to do (yeah, I had 1G RAM on the Vista laptop - pathetic). And BEST of all, as a busy Mom, I can shut the lid, putting the machine to sleep MULTIPLE times (I mean, around 20??) and not have it hang, crash or slow down. Fellow Mom's of two-year-olds know: if you have 30 seconds to do something, that's all you have. If your machine doesn't do what you ask of it in that time, Grandma doesn't get her photos, husband doesn't get his Amazon order, bill doesn't get paid, etc., etc., etc. This machine virtually NEVER lets me down. Hallelujah!
There are some minor annoyances:
--Firefox crashes a bit. The underlying Mac OS never does, but I do have to relaunch Firefox a surprising number of times. Not true of Safari, but there are a few antiquated bill-paying sites that do not play well w/ Safari, so I have to go to Firefox (Macy's charge?? Hello!).
--I love the track pad and dislike it too. Scrolling and zooming are super cool, but I am constantly accidentally doing things I do not intend. Probably user error? But physical documentation is slim unless you want to wade through the Apple sight (I have no time for this). And I CANNOT consistently master the PC equivalent of right-clicking. Very frustrating.
--THough I feel stupid writing this, the Mac's delete key only works when cursor is in front of what you want to delete: i.e., like a PC's Backspace key. What is the Mac equivelent of a PC's delete key? I.e., put the cursor in front of text, and "pull" text in front of cursor backwards into oblivion. This drives me nuts.
--Pages (Mac equiv. of Word) and Numbers (Mac equiv. of Excel) have really "pretty" document templates that are way sexier, but the apps themselves are clumsy, counter-intuitive and difficult to use (I couldn't BELIEVE what I had to do to set the print area in Numbers, for example, nor how long it took me to find the solution in help). Pretty lame, esp. as I paid extra for these, and now plan to partition my drive with Bootcamp to run Windows on the side for Excel and Word. This is rectifiable with the work-around, however.
--Compatbility issues with silly/cheap USB devices you wouldn't expect: my daughter's Elmo phone, my digital photo frame, etc. Have to wait until I can use my husband's PC. That said, stupid Vista wouldn't recognize my 2003 digital Cannon Powershot 45 camera, and my Mac zipped my photos right into iPhoto without me doing anything except plugging it in! NICE. Also, Mac recognized my 2001 HP printer with no problems and automatically had/used a simple driver which prints just fine. SHOCKING to a Windows veteran.
--Changing default print preferences is so counter-intuitive I cannot believe it is an Apple process (PC equiv. is Start, Control Panel, Printers...).
Otherwise, no major problems. Some things are different/frustrating, but the pros FAR outweigh the cons. And I figure, when my daughter turns three, maybe I'll finally be able to read the manual online! lol |
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