Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT

Advantages: nice screen, good battery life, fast specs
Disadvantages: large size (price?)

...Apple mac-books, where to start... ok, so to start, it is an apple, that means you get a solid quality product and on the whole very good customer are. this particualar apple is deffinatly more suited to being a media center than other laptops. At first glance you realise that it is a fairly large laptop, this allows for a big screen, which being an apple ffers clear vivid displays, unfortunatly the big screen increases the overal size and also uses more battery, however, the 4.5 hour yattery is still very good for an entertainment laptop. The laptops technical specs include a very fast 2.5 ghz dual core proccesor which is very fast, the dual core allows it to tackle multiple tasks quicly as well as increasing the overall speed of the laptop. The price is quite steep however, but i believe, if given the money, it is...

pieceofmind 29.04.2008 (30.04.2008) · Read review
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Apple Macbook core 2 duo 2ghz 13"

Advantages: sexy fast different simple
Disadvantages: could take a bit of getting used to

...After thinking what laptop to buy for over a year I kept falling back on the idea of buying mac! I had wireless set up and off I went to buy a laptop. I fell in love with the macbook very sexy and simple (bit like myself)! I'm not here to bore you with specs (you know what you need you just want to know how well it performs). I opted for the 13" as its smaller and cheaper £699! Its a very competant little machine that can do everything you want it too, its wifi is very good and stable. Its amazingly simple to use far less complicated than windows! I love the two fingers on the mouse pad to scroll down pages, also the quality of the display and the way it works out when you mistype (somehow apple have made it work out sausage finger typing and it doesn,t put that letter in). The operating system is fast at booting up...

nickyg63 12.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 2 GHz - 13.3" TFT

Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 13.3" - I'm a convert

Advantages: Stylish, flexible, super fast startup
Disadvantages: Pricey compared to a PC

...I got my MacBook a month ago and, despite having been a heavy PC user for the last 20+ years, I'm a convert. It's just great. I got it because of all the good stories I'd heard about them; usability, security, availabiity of applications and it's stylish looking too, not like the lumpy almost invariably black Windows laptops out there. It's not cheap at £700 you can get a lot of PC for that, but I really like my Mac, so I'm not going to linger on that side of things. The 13" screen is crystal clear, the keyboard feels nice and it doesn't take long to get used to the trackpad style mouse. It's super fast to boot up and shut down, less than 30 seconds from 'off' and probably less than 5 from 'sleep' mode. That's stunning compared to my other machines that can take anything from 5 to 20 minutes to do the same. It was initially a bit...

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Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz - 13.3" TFT - excellent!

Advantages: portable, runs very fast, large storage with TimeMachine application for backing up your work
Disadvantages: some problems with using Safari, though this may be due to the wireless network I am using, costs!

...In my opinion, the Apple Macbook Pro is an ideal laptop. As a student, I find that it meets all my needs - I can store plenty of music, photos etc even though I bought the cheapest one with the smallest memory. The system operates very fast and comes with both Firefox and Safari. My only criticism is that it only comes with textedit and so you have to buy iWorks for around £65. However, despite this it is good value for money and I don't regret spending my 2 years worth of part-time earnings on it! It has everything I want from a laptop and is ideally portable and good for watching films despite the smaller screen size. Another feature I particularly liked was that it has a light up keyboard for when you are in darker rooms - you can adjust the brightness of the keyboard the same as you can for the screen. Looks very impressive! It is...

mairig1 24.10.2009 · Read review
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At the Core of Apple

Advantages: Made of metal, better battery, better overall compared to previous models
Disadvantages: Expensive, underpowered

...Manufacturer- Apple Features Processor- 2GHz Pentium Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB cache Memory/RAM- 2GB ? 2 x 1 GB sticks 1067 MHz DD3 Hard-drive Space- 160GB Graphics chipset- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 256 MB DVD Superdrive Screen size- 13.3 inches TFT, Widescreen USB- 2.0 x 2 Ethernet Adaptor Airport Bluetooth Audio input socket Inbuilt microphone Inbuilt camera Mini display adaptor- unfortunately it doesn?t come with a lead Mag-safe 60w lead Operating System- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard This model doesn?t come with a remote as standard- which annoyed me because I had to sell my other one as it was part of my other laptop?s original accessories. People ?s main complaint with Apple is that their products are way too expensive, and that having a Mac is far inferior to a PC- but this is mainly down to the fact that they were poorly powered yet...

sirmitchalot 25.07.2009 · Read review
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Macbook core 2 duo 13.3 inch aluminium casing

Advantages: Stylish design, solid case, light weight
Disadvantages: gets a bit warm under windows

...quality and apple provides free software to use. The operating system itself runs really smoothly the laptop barely heats up underr casual use. Apple provides a selection of free applications to use with your mac which are fun and helpfull for everyone who wishes to use, they also provide free learning activities and such to help with the transition from windows to mac if you have never used a mac before and for all the people out there who wish to use windows applications which arent available under mac you can install windows on your mac with bootcamp, apple provides drivers and software to make it run smoother on your laptop. This is one area which apple clearly stands out in when i installed windows xp on bootcamp my macbook heated up more than it had doing anything under apple os x....

bryan_t 12.05.2009 · Read review
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Apple of My Eye!

Advantages: Robust, ease of use, compact and portable!
Disadvantages: None

...the more traditional approach of a mouse. With 2 USB ports you can instantly plug in an Apple USB Mouse or any other for that matter! In terms of speed and storage the Macbook serves up 1GB RAm (upgradable to 2GB for around £125 via Apple) which is great if you have invested in your MacBook for the long-term. The massive 120 GB Hard-Drive is also upgradable to 160 gig if you require additional memory, however 120 Gig is huge for a laptop and unless you are replacing a home PC its doubtful you'll necessarily take up all the memory on your Macbook with just personal usage, then again it depends what you are using it for. I currently have about 12 gig of music on mine! The Apple MacBook Pro 2 GHz Core Duo Laptop uses the very powerful Intel Core Duo processor with a processor speed of 2 GHz and the operating system used to run the Laptop is...

lisacallow 17.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 2 GHz - 13.3" TFT

Old design hides great new features

Advantages: Huge, High res display. Very quick, great processor, ram, high capacity HDD
Disadvantages: No unibody design, some features only available on SMALLER model, Still no Blu-Ray

...unibody machines). It is, as it's name implies, designed around the large, 17" display. The whole machine is only slightly larger than the display itself, approximately 1/4 of an inch larger on the left and right side, and 1/2 of an inch larger on the top and bottom. The computer is a shade less than an inch thick when closed, and around about 3 KG. It is a large laptop, but is about the thinest and lightest large screen laptop available. It's specs are impressive, what you expect from a top end mac, a dual core 2.5GHz processor, large 320GB hard disc, 4GB ram as standard and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory make this a powerful road warrior laptop. It includes most of the additional features you find on high end computers too. 802.11 B/G/N wireless networking, gigabit ethernet, bluetooth 2.1 EDR...

bitesizepankakes 18.11.2008 · Read review
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Macbook Review

Advantages: Fantastic operating system and programs, great features, portability style
Disadvantages: inbuilt graphics

...'t really like it. There is about a 1 mm space between each key. However, this has really grown on me. I find myself making less mistakes when typing on this, compared to conventional keyboards. Apple laptops, including the Macbook come with the MagSafe power connection. Basically the power cable is connected to the computer via a magnet. This is quite useful. If somebody trips over the cable while the computer is on a desk, the cable will simply come out of the computer, as apposed to sending the computer flying across the room and against a wall. The Macbook comes with WiFi inbuilt. This allows you to connect to wireless hotspots and browse the internet. The Macbook also has bluetooth inbuilt. This allows you to connect to bluetooth devices such as mobile phones. Apple's wireless keyboards and mice also connect to the Macbook using...

AndrewSteele 04.02.2009 · Read review
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An Apple today keeps the hardship away

Advantages: Lightning speed, intuitive workflow, simple to use, beautiful to look at.
Disadvantages: Expensive, limited compatable software, poor screen visibility.

...a converter. Another problem is the lack of available software. As said earlier, this is not the fault of Apple or the Macbook; it is simply that people don't tend to make as much software for Mac OSX, even though it is much more flexible. Life's a beach. Then, of course, there's the pretty poor monitor. But if you want to splash out, you could always buy a separate monitor and a converter. If not, you'll have to cope with a not-the-best screen. It's not awful- don't get me wrong- it's just not that good. So I would highly recommend anyone to buy the MacBook from Apple. It's an excellent laptop and an excellent operating system. Just make sure to upgrade to 2gb of RAM! (although less than that is still fine, it's just not quite as lightning fast...) I believed I would never move to the bright-white-dark-side, but I was wrong; I have been...

matt_fletcher 15.05.2007 · Read review
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