I have a 17 inch MBP so clearly I am not bothered by it's thickness which I did not know existed up until this point.
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The MacBook Pro is an ultra thick laptop. Aren't you bugged by it's thickness?
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compared to most other laptops i have help, the macbook pro is ironically the lightest out of all those i have ever lifted....
if you don't like the weight then get a macbook air!
if you don't like the weight then get a macbook air!
It's like somebody all of a sudden tells u your trophy wife is a little thick in the middle.
I kinda agree with OP, but in a less emotional way
The MBP looks a little thick maybe because u can see the whole thickness of it, most of the other notebooks they taper off like the casing of the iPhone1.If u want thin, just wait for the next aliiteration, that's what Apple is good at.
I thought my sub-inch VAIO was thin until I got the AIR, now I can't stand the VAIO! That stupid Air carries like a tablet!
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Yes. He said miniaturization, haha. Not sure why but I feel like that adds to the ridiculousness of it.
It's like somebody all of a sudden tells u your trophy wife is a little thick in the middle.
I kinda agree with OP, but in a less emotional way
If u want thin, just wait for the next aliiteration, that's what Apple is good at.
I thought my sub-inch VAIO was thin until I got the AIR, now I can't stand the VAIO! That stupid Air carries like a tablet!
well she is getting thick in the middle, time to get a newer model
Last time I checked, My MBP was pretty thin.. I think OP's skull is 'Ultra thick'.
Take the thickness of your current machine, and even eye balling laptops I see people carrying around, these are still the thinnest of course not counting 'netbooks' or MBAs and their knockoffs (Dell XPS)
Take the thickness of your current machine, and even eye balling laptops I see people carrying around, these are still the thinnest of course not counting 'netbooks' or MBAs and their knockoffs (Dell XPS)
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I just picked up a late 2011 15 in MBP. It does not seem thick to me but I rarely plan to carry it around. It sits on my desk next to my external monitor. I do plan to copy all my files from an external powered FW drive over to a FW powered external HDD so that if I do decide take it somewhere, everything works including my 400+ gig of multimedia (photos/music/movies) stuff.
I spent a few minutes on dell.com, hp.com and lenovo.com comparing sizes of laptops. Dell and Lenovo didn't list thickness. HP listed thickness of 1.22 in for the Pavilion DV6 "quad series" laptop I consider "similar" in intent if not in quality to the MBP. So at 0.95 in, the MBP is 20% thinner than a somewhat similar HP machine.
I think this entire thread is misguided. The excellence of Apple industrial design is accepted as a universal truth not only by Apple users but by Apple's competitors. I had to pull the bottom off of my MBP to upgrade my RAM and I was very impressed. If you think the MBP is too thick, I'm afraid I have to flatly disagree. Go ahead and get an MBA or a rMBP (at 0.71 in thick) if that's what you want but to call Apple's computers "fat" is an insult to an excellent industrial design.
I spent a few minutes on dell.com, hp.com and lenovo.com comparing sizes of laptops. Dell and Lenovo didn't list thickness. HP listed thickness of 1.22 in for the Pavilion DV6 "quad series" laptop I consider "similar" in intent if not in quality to the MBP. So at 0.95 in, the MBP is 20% thinner than a somewhat similar HP machine.
I think this entire thread is misguided. The excellence of Apple industrial design is accepted as a universal truth not only by Apple users but by Apple's competitors. I had to pull the bottom off of my MBP to upgrade my RAM and I was very impressed. If you think the MBP is too thick, I'm afraid I have to flatly disagree. Go ahead and get an MBA or a rMBP (at 0.71 in thick) if that's what you want but to call Apple's computers "fat" is an insult to an excellent industrial design.
The Macbook Pro line has got to be one of the thinnest form factors you can get at 7-8 hours of actual usage battery life.
If anything I find the rMBP a bit anorexic.
Yeah, it does. Lifting a 13 Inch makes me feel like I'm lifting a huge brick. Lifting the MacBook Air feels like I'm lifting a feather.
The rMBP is heavier than expected, but the point is, the 13 Inch is super fat. Apple should redesign it, a complete thinner redesign.
The edge of it is an illusion. The parts with the ports isn't the real thickness. The real thickness is somewhere near the middle. It gets thicker. That's it's true thickness.
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Try opening a MacBook Air...
I honestly thought that the opening post was 100% sarcastic. I thought his second post was sarcastic as well, and just trying to get a rise of out people. I'm sort of saddened that doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm not that old, but I remember the days when laptops were fairly new. My first laptop weighed seven pounds, and we didn't even talk about how thick or thin they were back then. My first Macbook Pro (non-unibody) weighed a bit over five pounds, and was much thinner.
Everything is relative, I suppose.
I'm not that old, but I remember the days when laptops were fairly new. My first laptop weighed seven pounds, and we didn't even talk about how thick or thin they were back then. My first Macbook Pro (non-unibody) weighed a bit over five pounds, and was much thinner.
Everything is relative, I suppose.
The MBP provides a LOT more than speed. The benefits of a MBP include a better screen, better graphics card, more ports, and better upgradability. When you render things, it's not 10 seconds which doesn't matter. It can be seconds per clip, which translates into minutes. Per render. Then there's the fact that the Macbook Pro can handle larger hard drives or more screens. If you want a facebook machine, an air or even an iPad work great.
If you want a work horse, there's nothing better than a macbook pro (within the mac family) and it's really not thick at all.
I like how you state an opinion as a fact. If you don't like the thickness of the 13" MacBook Pro, buy the 13" MacBook Air.
Why is this even a discussion?
The reason why Apple sells multiple models of computer is so consumers can pick and choose what they like. OP, if you don't like the MacBook Pro, DON'T BUY IT. I'm sure you'll be happy with your $2200 11" Air, while I'll be happy with two 13" refurbished Macbook Pros that I can buy for the same price. And guess what, with both those computers, I'll have more than twice the processing power of your Air!
I wish OP knew HD and CPU differences and how to judge performance. ∞ facepalm.
Wasn't it less than a few years ago 1" was an amazing revolutionary thinness for a laptop?
Wasn't it less than a few years ago 1" was an amazing revolutionary thinness for a laptop?