Customer Rating: 
Summary: MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz 4GB RAM
Comment: I use the MacBook Pro 2.5 GHZ for graphics processing with Adobe Photoshop CS4. I can process files in the 500MB size using high resolution scans of 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film from an Epson 4990 Photo Pro scanner. I have the MacBook Pro connected to a 23 in. Apple Cinema Display via the DVI output on the laptop. I upgraded the RAM to 4 GB by purchasing the Kingston 4 GB package sold on Amazon.com for approximately $50., instead of the $300 upgrade from Apple. The entire system works flawlessly and it fills my needs for fast, accurate image editing. What more can I say? I'm quite satisfied with the entire working system.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great computer
Comment: I'm a first time mac user and i found this computer to be very user friendly. The graphics are incredible, probably too much computer for what i need but i couldn't resist. I would highly recommend this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: MacBook Pro--Mostly Good
Comment: I replaced my five year old iBook with this MacBook Pro because I did not want the glossy screen of the new MacBook and because the Amazon price after rebate for the early 2008 version of the Pro was close to the price I would have had to pay for the late 2008 MacBook.
The Pro is a great machine and, of course performs much better than my old iBook except in one respect--wireless reception. My iBook never had any issues anywhere in the house. The Pro is MUCH weaker. At first I thought the Pro was defective, but after a call to AppleCare and a visit to the Apple Store Genius, I saw that it just required a stronger signal. Since I don't take my laptop out of the house, that's not as big an issue for me as it might be for others.
I've repositioned my modem/router and I'm considering buying a 'n' router to replace my 'g' version, hoping it will work better.
I do think that Apple should have been more attentive to wireless performance. I'm wondering if the new metal-cased MacBooks will have the same weak-kneed wireless reception.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mac is great!
Comment: After a big divorce with Win XP, I'm happy again. I never imagine computing could be this much fun.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I Got My Baby Back
Comment: Sometimes you do really stupid stuff. And sometimes you do it because you're never satisfied. I've always been the kind of person who was on the lookout for something better. A laptop smaller, faster than the one I have. A zoom, wider, longer, lighter than the one I have. A better iPod, better speakers, lighter, studier Nikes. Newer, better, faster Photoshop. There's always something better coming out just before Christmas. I'm looking at a Blu-ray video player. That new Tamron 18-270 is looking mighty sweet. That new MacBook, really the cat's meow that was.
As soon as I saw Steve Jobs' presentation I began to think my MacBook was getting long in the tooth. How silly I was. I didn't know that then, I know it now. I mean this beautiful machine had a 320 gig hard drive, 4 gigs of ram, a gorgeous matte screen you could look at and love forever, connected right up to my really, really gorgeous 23 inch Apple Cinema display. It ran Photoshop at almost the speed of light. Lightroom too, it blazed through. Excel, it opened those files before you could blink. I had Vista installed on a Bootcamp partition and it ran XP and Ubuntu via VMWare's fusion at almost native speeds. I had XP skinned, running in Unity, so all my windows programs looked just like they were running natively in OS X.
I had over two hundred gigs of music in my iTunes library. Hundreds of hours of Bob Dylan live, George Harrison and John Lennon too. This was a rock and roll machine that loved to do the blues. My MacBook loved and played Billie Holiday. Family photos, travel photos, work photos, all there to be seen on that wonderful screen.
And I threw it all away for that new machine Steve Jobs was touting, because I'm never satisfied, because I'm always looking for something better. I was so stupid.
I sold my baby on eBay, got the new machine, hated the glossy screen and it seemed heaver too. I wanted my baby back, oh how I wanted my baby back.
I called the guy who won my baby on eBay and I swapped him my new MacBook for my old one. He was more than happy to do it.
Apple had a winner with this machine. I truly believe it's the best laptop ever made. Better than its replacement, better than anything out there today. I'm going to keep this machine for a long, long time. I've learned a lesson, a real lesson. No more replacing those Nikes until their worn out. New lenses do not a better photographer make. Blu-ray not yet, I've got a very nice 43 inch Sony Bravia, which shows beautiful movies on my hundred dollar Costco Panasonic combo VHS/DVD player. Adobe just came out with CS4, but I won't be upgrading, not this time.
I've been well and truly blessed. I've got a lot and I've finally learned to be satisfied with what I've got.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
Summary: MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz 4GB RAM
Comment: I use the MacBook Pro 2.5 GHZ for graphics processing with Adobe Photoshop CS4. I can process files in the 500MB size using high resolution scans of 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film from an Epson 4990 Photo Pro scanner. I have the MacBook Pro connected to a 23 in. Apple Cinema Display via the DVI output on the laptop. I upgraded the RAM to 4 GB by purchasing the Kingston 4 GB package sold on Amazon.com for approximately $50., instead of the $300 upgrade from Apple. The entire system works flawlessly and it fills my needs for fast, accurate image editing. What more can I say? I'm quite satisfied with the entire working system.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great computer
Comment: I'm a first time mac user and i found this computer to be very user friendly. The graphics are incredible, probably too much computer for what i need but i couldn't resist. I would highly recommend this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: MacBook Pro--Mostly Good
Comment: I replaced my five year old iBook with this MacBook Pro because I did not want the glossy screen of the new MacBook and because the Amazon price after rebate for the early 2008 version of the Pro was close to the price I would have had to pay for the late 2008 MacBook.
The Pro is a great machine and, of course performs much better than my old iBook except in one respect--wireless reception. My iBook never had any issues anywhere in the house. The Pro is MUCH weaker. At first I thought the Pro was defective, but after a call to AppleCare and a visit to the Apple Store Genius, I saw that it just required a stronger signal. Since I don't take my laptop out of the house, that's not as big an issue for me as it might be for others.
I've repositioned my modem/router and I'm considering buying a 'n' router to replace my 'g' version, hoping it will work better.
I do think that Apple should have been more attentive to wireless performance. I'm wondering if the new metal-cased MacBooks will have the same weak-kneed wireless reception.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mac is great!
Comment: After a big divorce with Win XP, I'm happy again. I never imagine computing could be this much fun.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I Got My Baby Back
Comment: Sometimes you do really stupid stuff. And sometimes you do it because you're never satisfied. I've always been the kind of person who was on the lookout for something better. A laptop smaller, faster than the one I have. A zoom, wider, longer, lighter than the one I have. A better iPod, better speakers, lighter, studier Nikes. Newer, better, faster Photoshop. There's always something better coming out just before Christmas. I'm looking at a Blu-ray video player. That new Tamron 18-270 is looking mighty sweet. That new MacBook, really the cat's meow that was.
As soon as I saw Steve Jobs' presentation I began to think my MacBook was getting long in the tooth. How silly I was. I didn't know that then, I know it now. I mean this beautiful machine had a 320 gig hard drive, 4 gigs of ram, a gorgeous matte screen you could look at and love forever, connected right up to my really, really gorgeous 23 inch Apple Cinema display. It ran Photoshop at almost the speed of light. Lightroom too, it blazed through. Excel, it opened those files before you could blink. I had Vista installed on a Bootcamp partition and it ran XP and Ubuntu via VMWare's fusion at almost native speeds. I had XP skinned, running in Unity, so all my windows programs looked just like they were running natively in OS X.
I had over two hundred gigs of music in my iTunes library. Hundreds of hours of Bob Dylan live, George Harrison and John Lennon too. This was a rock and roll machine that loved to do the blues. My MacBook loved and played Billie Holiday. Family photos, travel photos, work photos, all there to be seen on that wonderful screen.
And I threw it all away for that new machine Steve Jobs was touting, because I'm never satisfied, because I'm always looking for something better. I was so stupid.
I sold my baby on eBay, got the new machine, hated the glossy screen and it seemed heaver too. I wanted my baby back, oh how I wanted my baby back.
I called the guy who won my baby on eBay and I swapped him my new MacBook for my old one. He was more than happy to do it.
Apple had a winner with this machine. I truly believe it's the best laptop ever made. Better than its replacement, better than anything out there today. I'm going to keep this machine for a long, long time. I've learned a lesson, a real lesson. No more replacing those Nikes until their worn out. New lenses do not a better photographer make. Blu-ray not yet, I've got a very nice 43 inch Sony Bravia, which shows beautiful movies on my hundred dollar Costco Panasonic combo VHS/DVD player. Adobe just came out with CS4, but I won't be upgrading, not this time.
I've been well and truly blessed. I've got a lot and I've finally learned to be satisfied with what I've got.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
Apple MacBook Pro MB133LL/A 15.4-inch Laptop (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD SuperDrive) Reviews: Page 5 of 26
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