What are the must have apps for a MacBook Pro you couldn't do without?

[eeclipse16]

iStats, as previously mentioned is really useful. Nice to know which apps are hogging your CPU.

Jitouch. How did I ever live without it. Adds in a whole bunch of multi-touch gestures such as switching between tabs, closing windows, etc.

Note: I technically don't own a MBP (yet), but...close enough.

I can't get that to work on my rmbp.

 

[doh123]

gfxCardStatus
the normal 2.1 won't work on the MBP-R, you need to find the 2.2beta, or if 2.2 is out by then... it seems to work fine.

It lets you see if the Intel or the Geforce is in use and lets you lock which one is being used. I have mine set to lock the Intel on always when on battery, and when I plug it in it pit the geforce on all the time. I find that much better than auto switching, because some games have issues starting up or running right if the intel was active at first, and sometimes things your doing on battery will turn the geforce on for no good reason when the Intel can handle it fine and kill your battery life. Of course with gfxcardstatus you can quickly change which one is active or set it on dynamic and just be able to see when it switches.

 

[The "Dude"]

I'd be quite interested to know whether transmission (which I'd not heard of until now) should be used over uTorrent, and if so for what reasons.

Not to muddy the water, but Usenet is much safer and exponentially faster than torrents. My Usenet client of choice is NZBvortex, available in the Mac app store.

 

[Hidendra]

I'd be quite interested to know whether transmission (which I'd not heard of until now) should be used over uTorrent, and if so for what reasons.

nicer UI (IMO), and also no begging you to buy "premium." although this is coming from a guy used to linux so i've always used transmission

 

[VacantPsalm]

BetterTouchTool. My Mac is not a Mac to me until I get this set up.

3 finger swipe left/right opens/closes tabs or windows. (Desktop switching moved to 4 fingers.)
Rotate fingers turns volume up/down.
3 finger tap is middle click.
3 finger swipe up is home.
Two Finger tip taps switch tabs.

Sometimes I try other gestures, but these I always need to prevent me from going crazy. It also lets you make Keyboard Shortcuts and you can turn on that window snapping thing from Win7 if you want.

 

[whtrbt7]

Aperture, Photoshop, LightRoom, Final Cut Pro X, Dreamweaver(hurray for color coding), Motion, Illustrator. For everything else, there's iPad.

 

[dukebound85]

Better touch tool
App cleaner
Dropbox
Istat menus
Last pass
Perian
Ifunbox

Are the main ones that come to mind in terms of everyday use

For me, productivity wise, also
Matlab
Ferret
Pages
Cyber duck
X11
Adobe illustrator