Customer Rating: 
Summary: Everyone should own it...
Comment: This is not just an appliance computer, as some Windows fanboys would have you believe. I work with computers for a living, which means everything from RHEL file servers, to Windows Citrix servers, and everything in between. The nicest part about the Macbook Pro is the fact that this machine can either be just an email appliance for your wife or mother-in-law, or a serious Unix machine and professional workstation (read: command line tools, development, audio production, multimedia production such as photoshop, etc.).
Both my wife and I bought identical machines (Macbook Pro, 15" matte screen, 2.4 Ghz Processor, 2 GB RAM, 200GB HD, etc...), and we both absolutely love these machines!
Besides the fact that they are just amazing to use on a daily basis, the fit and finish is beyond compare (IMHO) to any other laptop on the market (aluminum case, great lcd, decent video card...although beware to NVIDIA GPU CUDA developers, the 8600 mobile chipset isn't the best...still decent, but there are better for strict GPU computation)
As with anything, there are cons to this machine....first and foremost, it runs HOTTTTTT! The case is aluminum, and therefore conducts heat amazingly well. When running vmware inside the Mac OSx, the computer will become incredibly hot. Second thing that I personally find rather disappointing is the web based multimedia capabilities out of the box...quicktime just isn't up to par with Windows Media Player. And finally, the lack of support for mainstream games can be a little annoying, but running windows xp under bootcamp usually solves this issuee...although, I don't like that I have to boot into another OS to play games.
Anyway, overall, I would say that everyone should seriously consider owning this machine. The price is a bit high for most people, but I can honestly say that I would have happily paid another $500 for this machine, as I believe that you get what you pay for, and Apple has done a great job when engineering the MacBook Pro.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth the cash
Comment: I picked this up a few days ago with very high expectaions. 2,000 dollars worth of expectations. I don't feel like the laptop you are getting is worth all of the money; it's just far too expensive. The bells and whistles are great, the system runs well, and I have no problems with it other than the price tag. I will be returning mine, as I sinply cannot justify spending 2,000 dollars for this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: another flawed machine
Comment: I've owned 2 of these machines, and one of the original macbook pro 17s. I've had nothing but grief... When they are running, they run great, but it seems after a few hours they begin to slow down and hang. Programs freeze, and sometimes can't be force quit. Mail program is still buggy, and occasionally all of your messages are lost and need to be reloaded. Crashes when waking up from sleep. Seems to have mysterious invisible files clogging up the hard drive.
I bought this machine loaded with 4GB ram, high res screen, etc to replace my previous machine (which broke and had to go to apple care). In the "old days" I could always get a couple of years of good service from a g3 or g4 laptop. Now I am burning up 2 of these each year, and they are not fun to use with all of the crashing, freezing and lock ups. What happened to apple? They used to be a great company. Now you have to pay $100 per year to be able to walk into a the store where you bought the machine and get service. I've had it. My next computer is going to be a PC...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Promises a lot and delivers headache
Comment: I bought MacBook Pro from Newegg and it came with obsolete operating system and without support. It took three days to resolve support problem and update operating system. IMovie crashes repeatedly. The worst thing is that when it does you have to wait up to an hour for the system to go through its paces to do anything else. Generally there are delays in any application and one never k nows if the system got stuck or it is doing something. Most of the time there is no indication what the system is doing. I do not think I will ever buy another Mac again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great!
Comment: I used to be a Macbook 13" but I'm a Macbook Pro now. There's a huge difference in performance and hardware. Specially because I'm running with 4gb RAM. Congratulations to Amazon: 1day for delivery time and the on-line Rebate.
Summary: Everyone should own it...
Comment: This is not just an appliance computer, as some Windows fanboys would have you believe. I work with computers for a living, which means everything from RHEL file servers, to Windows Citrix servers, and everything in between. The nicest part about the Macbook Pro is the fact that this machine can either be just an email appliance for your wife or mother-in-law, or a serious Unix machine and professional workstation (read: command line tools, development, audio production, multimedia production such as photoshop, etc.).
Both my wife and I bought identical machines (Macbook Pro, 15" matte screen, 2.4 Ghz Processor, 2 GB RAM, 200GB HD, etc...), and we both absolutely love these machines!
Besides the fact that they are just amazing to use on a daily basis, the fit and finish is beyond compare (IMHO) to any other laptop on the market (aluminum case, great lcd, decent video card...although beware to NVIDIA GPU CUDA developers, the 8600 mobile chipset isn't the best...still decent, but there are better for strict GPU computation)
As with anything, there are cons to this machine....first and foremost, it runs HOTTTTTT! The case is aluminum, and therefore conducts heat amazingly well. When running vmware inside the Mac OSx, the computer will become incredibly hot. Second thing that I personally find rather disappointing is the web based multimedia capabilities out of the box...quicktime just isn't up to par with Windows Media Player. And finally, the lack of support for mainstream games can be a little annoying, but running windows xp under bootcamp usually solves this issuee...although, I don't like that I have to boot into another OS to play games.
Anyway, overall, I would say that everyone should seriously consider owning this machine. The price is a bit high for most people, but I can honestly say that I would have happily paid another $500 for this machine, as I believe that you get what you pay for, and Apple has done a great job when engineering the MacBook Pro.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth the cash
Comment: I picked this up a few days ago with very high expectaions. 2,000 dollars worth of expectations. I don't feel like the laptop you are getting is worth all of the money; it's just far too expensive. The bells and whistles are great, the system runs well, and I have no problems with it other than the price tag. I will be returning mine, as I sinply cannot justify spending 2,000 dollars for this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: another flawed machine
Comment: I've owned 2 of these machines, and one of the original macbook pro 17s. I've had nothing but grief... When they are running, they run great, but it seems after a few hours they begin to slow down and hang. Programs freeze, and sometimes can't be force quit. Mail program is still buggy, and occasionally all of your messages are lost and need to be reloaded. Crashes when waking up from sleep. Seems to have mysterious invisible files clogging up the hard drive.
I bought this machine loaded with 4GB ram, high res screen, etc to replace my previous machine (which broke and had to go to apple care). In the "old days" I could always get a couple of years of good service from a g3 or g4 laptop. Now I am burning up 2 of these each year, and they are not fun to use with all of the crashing, freezing and lock ups. What happened to apple? They used to be a great company. Now you have to pay $100 per year to be able to walk into a the store where you bought the machine and get service. I've had it. My next computer is going to be a PC...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Promises a lot and delivers headache
Comment: I bought MacBook Pro from Newegg and it came with obsolete operating system and without support. It took three days to resolve support problem and update operating system. IMovie crashes repeatedly. The worst thing is that when it does you have to wait up to an hour for the system to go through its paces to do anything else. Generally there are delays in any application and one never k nows if the system got stuck or it is doing something. Most of the time there is no indication what the system is doing. I do not think I will ever buy another Mac again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great!
Comment: I used to be a Macbook 13" but I'm a Macbook Pro now. There's a huge difference in performance and hardware. Specially because I'm running with 4gb RAM. Congratulations to Amazon: 1day for delivery time and the on-line Rebate.
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