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Did you "NEED" or "WANT" a MacBook Pro?
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My reasons:
- Battery life
- Music Production ( Logic & Superior Latency in comparison to any Windows PC )
- Anti-glare Screen. Let's face it, Anti Glare screen is a must on any laptop. Apple offered me the option of a high quality Anti Glare screen, so it pretty much eliminated all other competitors.
For the rest, PC laptops do their job jus as good if not better.
I originally wanted a white macbook, but It didn't get updated, so I opted to get a baseline 13" MBP. Glad I did!
Needed and wanted. I wanted a reliable notebook for video encoding, some gaming and for school.
I think the main reason for a Mac is OSX. For me, it's the best OS there is. Also the multi touch gestures are amazing. Working on a MBP is always a great pleasure.
I think the main reason for a Mac is OSX. For me, it's the best OS there is. Also the multi touch gestures are amazing. Working on a MBP is always a great pleasure.
I needed a laptop, for college, something that could take notes and edit basic HD footage. I realize now that the HD3000 could handle some FCPX, so I could've gotten by with a 13", but since I got the 15", I now realize that I could've been fine with the 2.0 instead of the 2.2. Oh well, it really wasn't a big deal and since I did, I will truly enjoy it for the next 4 years, which is as long as this computer needs to last me.
Want; I never really had any problems on my HP dv2000 once I installed Win7. But I wanted a Mac, and now don't really think I could(well, I could, but wouldn't want to) go back to using Win7 as my main OS, nor give up the build and features of a MBP.
But it's completely want, a laptop that cost half of my 7,1 was before upgrades would work fine for me, but I enjoy my Macs.
But it's completely want, a laptop that cost half of my 7,1 was before upgrades would work fine for me, but I enjoy my Macs.
I bought the first one to compliment my windows gaming desktop and learn final cut pro. I felt it was a "need" for my desired career path.
A year or so later, I no longer have windows machines and just ordered a new $2300 MBP.
It's more of an obsession than a need now, but I love it
In my humble opinion and for my specific needs, I don't think there's a better computer than a well equipped macbook pro.
A year or so later, I no longer have windows machines and just ordered a new $2300 MBP.
It's more of an obsession than a need now, but I love it
In my humble opinion and for my specific needs, I don't think there's a better computer than a well equipped macbook pro.
I'm an IT consultant whose company supports networks that use both Windows and Macs. I really liked the idea of having an Air (for portability), but couldn't get over the fact that I'd have to use a USB Ethernet adapter, and that the Air's RAM can't be upgraded.
The Pro gives me in-built Ethernet (for configuring network devices, working on client networks that - GASP - don't have wifi, and running protocol analyzers), with the added power to easily run Windows in a VM hypervisor. I use Parallels on the MBP, Fusion on my iMac.
I also like the fact that I can play around with music apps like GarageBand, Logic, and (some day) Final Cut on the weekends.
One final note is that I was really tempted to wait until a new MBP came out (hopefully with Ivy Bridge and a new case design), but finally decided that the Sandy Bridge models are plenty fast for my needs. I'm also actually quite attached to the current design. To me it has a kind of 'timeless' quality, like a really nice car design. Not something you see often in the world of computing.
DJ
The Pro gives me in-built Ethernet (for configuring network devices, working on client networks that - GASP - don't have wifi, and running protocol analyzers), with the added power to easily run Windows in a VM hypervisor. I use Parallels on the MBP, Fusion on my iMac.
I also like the fact that I can play around with music apps like GarageBand, Logic, and (some day) Final Cut on the weekends.
One final note is that I was really tempted to wait until a new MBP came out (hopefully with Ivy Bridge and a new case design), but finally decided that the Sandy Bridge models are plenty fast for my needs. I'm also actually quite attached to the current design. To me it has a kind of 'timeless' quality, like a really nice car design. Not something you see often in the world of computing.
DJ
Not a chance.
I needed a computer with the horsepower to run through hundreds of line of Matlab code, that could handle 3D modeling and fine-mesh Finite Element Analysis, as well as flow condition modeling. I needed all of that in a package that I could carry around, had decent battery life, and was fun to use for my more normal tasks. The latter part could have been accomplished with a standard Macbook, but the former required the horsepower of the Pro and there was no side-stepping that. I had an i7 Quad Core Dell Studio XPS16 before this computer, and the MBP walks all over it in every category.
If I wasn't an engineer, I'd probably have just gotten the standard Macbook.
I voted that I "needed a MacBook Pro" as I had been suffering using an inadeqaute Acer computer rather out-dated by the standards of modern day computing. I remember I originally wanted a Mac Mini to test the waters of OS X however I gradually became enamoured with the MacBook Pro. Occasionally I get frustrated over the odd app freeze but I have to say I'm incredibly happy with my MacBook Pro and I'm hoping to get another Mac in the foreseeable future!
Well i dont' "need" any computer. I wanted the MBP as it's the best computer Apple sells (in terms of value IMO) and paying 150 more (1099/1250) for the MBA with lower specs just doesn't seem logical.
I wanted a MBP for a while after wading through three or four supposedly high-end Windows 7 equipped laptops. I needed to get rid of those Windows 7 laptops because I can only use one laptop at a time and my Wife didn't see any point in me having multiple laptops lying around the house!
I still have a Windows 7 desktop but the MBP 15 I have now runs rings around it. At 61 and retired, I enjoy finding something new to learn and learning the Mac OS X is certainly an interesting but not daunting task. I also run Windows 7 using Bootcamp so I really feel that I still have two laptops in one.
I still have a Windows 7 desktop but the MBP 15 I have now runs rings around it. At 61 and retired, I enjoy finding something new to learn and learning the Mac OS X is certainly an interesting but not daunting task. I also run Windows 7 using Bootcamp so I really feel that I still have two laptops in one.
At the time, when i bought my first MBP, I needed a new computer. My desktop got the blue screen of death, and I lost a ton of info. My buddy talked me inot trying a Mac, and I've been stuck since!
A little bit of both. I had an HP Pavilion laptop that was about 3 years old and it was running Ubuntu. Once I was on Ubuntu I never wanted to go back to Windows but the laptop didn't support it fully and it wound up giving me all sorts of problems. So I got a 17" MacBook Pro two Christmas's ago and have been more than happy with it since.