This is my first Mac and to say I am amazed is an understatement, this laptop is simply the bomb, everything you could wish for, Fast, Cool and very nice to look at. It has a lighted keyboard making working in low light conditions a breeze. It has 2 USB ports , a FireWire 400 and 800 port and a DVI Port for the best connectivity possible by current standards. The included software is superb, the Magnetic Power Connector is nice and makes using it near animals or small children no problem, if the brush past it, it simply pulls out without risk of knocking the laptop off.
This is the Core 2 Duo version of the MacBook Pro that is Cooler and Slightly faster than the Previous model, the other major differences between this and the older models is the Cache 4 Meg vs 2meg and the addition of 128 Bit SSE making this equal to greater than the Famed Velocity Engine in the Power PC based Macs this makes applications run faster and enables a much richer multimedia experience.
It also has Draft 802.11nWireless Networking for greater Speeds and Range when Comared to 802.11g, this makes streaming movies over a home network a reality and greatley improves Networking.
You get ilife 06 which includes iPhoto, iMovieHD, iDVD, iWeb and GarageBand for the best multimedia experience possible enabling you to create websites, home movies and produce podcasts and music. you also get Address Book , Calendar and Safari(Like internet Explorer), the software bundles in OS X is amazing and great value, Windows has and will never have such a rich software base to get you started.
FrontRow is the icing on the cake giving you the slickest of interfaces for your music, videos and photos all this is possible with the easy to use apple remote. It also has a built in iSight webcam which is nice, you can have hours of fun with friends and family using PhotoBooth to make amusing pictures of yourself.
Dashboard is a sort of heads up display which you invoke by pressing F12, here you can add sticky note widgets, weather widgets and calculator widgets, there are hundreds more available for download.
Expose` enables you at the press of a hotkey to see all windows on the desktop at once and scales them all to fit.
It all works flawlessly out of the box with no hassles to worry you, no crashes, no viruses and most importantly its not got windows on it.
Since moving over to the Mac Platform i have found myself being so much more productive, not having to worry about drivers and the like. If you are thinking of buying one, stop. Just go and get it you will not regret it.
In the box you get a MacBook Pro or course :) a 85W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord a Lithium-polymer battery a Apple Remote a DVI to VGA adapter the install/restore DVDs and Printed and electronic documentation.
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(+) cool and quite robust trackpad, good display,64-bit windows 7 (-) few connectors,dell drivers only, not realy for gameing (most models), finger print prone!
Quite a good Review but I think that it needs a lot more information and detail to justify a higher rating. Computer Reviews are actually quite difficult in ther sense that you havet o provide a lot of technical information in a way that non techies, like me, understand. You might find it helpful if you read and rate some other peoples’ reviews that have been rated VH or E. It might give you an idea of the sort of things you need to include. It might also be helpful if you had a look at the Ciao guides to writing Reviews and Rating I found them really useful. If I can be of any help feel free to put a note in my gb. Rich
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Advantages: lightweight, long battery life, ready to go video editing, powerfull machine Disadvantages: Video card could be stronger, average speaker sound
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