Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch Reviews

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• Keith the Astrophysicist 15th Nov 2009

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  I bought a 15.4 inch Macbook Pro with a 320GB HD, a 2.54GHz CPU, 4Gb RAM and two NVIDIA graphics cards built in. I already owned a 24 inch iMac which I bought to replace a troublesome PC which kept crashing. When buying an Apple laptop you are buying both a machine and dedicated software. The MAC operating system Mac OSX Leopard has proved fast and reliable; a recent upgrade to Snow Leopard introduced a few minor glitches but these have been largely ironed out. The laptop itself has superb build quality, being aluminium and not plastic. This makes it strong (if a little heavy) and the metal body conducts the heat away leaving the fan with little to do (I can never hear it). The screen is LED and not LCD backlit (placing it ahead of virtually all other laptops at the time) so it is incredibly bright yet uses little battery power. Apple's extraordinary claims about battery life do not stand up to scrutiny but, nonetheless, 3 to 4 hours running is good. I should add that my Macbook Pro was one of the last with a removable battery and the new ones run for even longer. However, turn on the 512Mb additional Nvidia card and battery life falls to just over an hour. With the graphics running like this it's not hard to find where the energy goes as the underside of the laptop gets rather warm! To be honest, I hardly use the second built in graphics card, as the standard on-board one is pretty good anyway. Finally a comment about price. Basically, you get what you pay for. I found that matching this machine's spec, at the time I bought it, with an equivalent PC laptop saved around 300-400 pounds but then I wouldn't have got the build quality and a reliable operating system but would have got the hassle of viruses, crashes etc. BTW you can run Windows and Linux on a MacBook Pro by installing them in virtual machines using Virtualbox freeware. This means they run full speed, inside windows, simultaneously with the MAC OS so can be used side by side seamlessly. Who needs a PC?
  

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• nclipse 2nd Oct 2009

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  I currently write this review on said Mac book pro, and let me say that I am incredibly satisfied.
  
  In all honesty. The main reason anyone would want to own a MBP is its aesthetics. The computer is incredibly sleek and lightweight (from its aluminum allow casing) and is very quick in Leopard OS. I dual boot my mac and most often run it in windows mode. I was very impressed by its adaptability. It runs almost all programs in Windows XP at native speed. The only drawback is that the MBP gets very ...

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• adamhornsby 6th Sep 2009

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  I bought the MacBook pro for use at university, after a long search for looking for a laptop. I read magazines, browsed internet reviews and asked for genuine opinions. I shortlisted a Dell XPS, but a student offer on Apple products tempted me.
  
  I never have been a Mac fan, always preferring windows. After some trouble with vista and xp, i thought back to those college days I had been using a mac, where I never had any trouble with the OS crashing or any of the usual windows lagging.
  
  I bought ...

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• Guest 1st Aug 2009

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  Absolute rubbish!!! Apple 15inch MacBook Pro costs a fortune but only works when it wants to, it's really bad!!! i would never recommend this to anyone, in fact I've bought another brand which works impressively better. i am appalled after looking at previous reviews, however Apple were very helpful dealing with my problems and finding solutions.

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