To start off, I love Apple. I have been using their computers since I received a blueberry iBook Clamshell when I was 4. I loved it. Now I use a 15.4" MacBook Pro with Leopard installed. I have to admit, Leopard does have a-lot of bugs. For example, in iTunes, whenever I want to delete a song from a playlist, it crashes all of a sudden and quits (this occurs to me, and maybe not to you). Oh, and iMovie, that crashes all the time. Whenever I press a wrong key, it quits instantly. So, enough criticizing Leopard, and on to the MacBook Pro. (I can talk about Leopard in another post)
Battery Life:
On the 15.4", it can last up to 6 hours, but that is probably with the LEDs backlight off and with a brand new battery. I found out that if you have a year old battery with the LEDs backlight turned up to full brightness, the battery can last up to about 2 hours. On the 17", battery life can last up to about 5.75 hours according to Apple.
Display:
As I said earlier, there are two display sizes, 15.4" or 17" (diagonal measurements). Both have the option to have a glossy screen. Also, they both feature a TFT LED backlit display. There's nothing much else to say about the display, besides that its fantastic.
Keyboard and Trackpad:
All MacBook Pros have a full-size keyboard with 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys, with 12 function keys, and 4 arrow keys, plus an embedded numeric keypad. Both have a backlit keyboard, which is very helpful typing in the dark, but of course, it does make the battery life suffer. The trackpad is very helpful when it comes to scrolling down documents and webpages. All you need to do is place two fingers on the trackpad and move them up or down. The trackpad also features tap, double-tap and drag capabilities.
Audio (input and output) and Storage:
Both models have built-in stereo speakers, a headphone output, and a microphone input, plus a built in microphone. I wish the built-in speakers could get a bit more louder, but almost all the time I use headphones. The 15.4" has the option to have 120GB or 160GB SATA drives, or if you want to do what I did, you can buy a hard-drive with a bigger capacity (200 or 250GB). I purchased the 250GB one, and with my previous data backed up on an external drive through Time Machine, transferring your data is a snap. The 17" has a minimum storage capacity of 160GB, and just like the 15.4 inch, you can have the option to replace the hard drive with bigger ones (200 or 250GB).
These are just the few specs. of the MacBook Pro, for more details go to Apple's Detailed Specifications
2 comments:
Would you recommend the Pro to your casual computer user (ie internet, wordprocessing, music downloading)? Or is the extra money only for people (advanced users) looking to run programs like adobe CS3 and do a lot of sound editing?
I would recommend the Pro to the advanced users, those who do a lot of picture editing, movie editing, video editing. That's basically any Adobe program available on the Mac. Thanks for your comment.
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