What are you replacing when you get a revised MBP?

[chrisb46]

To all those people who

a) are replacing a Mac and aren't still currently stuck on Windows
b) have something vaguely "nice"

PITY ME! Dell Inspiron 5150, four and a half years old, EIGHT POUNDS!

A big, heavy, ugly old lump that unfortunately still works, so I'm waiting for the revised MBP to replace it.

Anyone better that for age / cruddiness?

 

[mynameismatt89]

Replacing an iBook G4 1.42 GHz and 768 MB of Ram. Not as bad as a friend of mine who's iBook is less than 1 GHz and 256 MB of Ram. Common MacBook Pro!

 

[andrewdale]

Toshiba M45-S265

It's dying.

 

[SystemZERO]

2.8 ghz Pentium D Dell XPS desktop. It's not terrible, but boy would I love a Macbook pro a whole lot more.

 

[BrittQ]

To all those people who

a) are replacing a Mac and aren't still currently stuck on Windows
b) have something vaguely "nice"

PITY ME! Dell Inspiron 5150, four and a half years old, EIGHT POUNDS!

A big, heavy, ugly old lump that unfortunately still works, so I'm waiting for the revised MBP to replace it.

Anyone better that for age / cruddiness?

I'm replacing the same machine. Had it for the same amount of time too.

 

[Paix247]

White MacBook Core2Duo 2.0GHz

When the iPhone came out, I sold my original Core Duo MBP and got an iPhone + MacBook, but I want the Pro back!

 

[design-is]

Anyone better that for age / cruddiness?

I'll be replacing my 2002 (now 6 years) Evesham Pentium 4, 2.8gz desktop PC

I can't wait to use an up-to-date machine!!!!

let alone a mac...

 

[Ryox]

It'll take the place of my 12" PB as my primary laptop.
I'll probably still use my 12" now and then.

 

[marklight]

The 867mhz Powerbook G4.

Yea I really can't even watch movies on this thing anymore so I'm pretty pumped to upgrade...

 

[matperk]

upgrading my MBP (top one in specs). I looked on apple's site and the benchmarks say that the current models are 73% faster than the 2.16, and i only have the 2.0! Looking forward to that kind of speed!

 

[bayol05]

upgrading my MBP (top one in specs). I looked on apple's site and the benchmarks say that the current models are 73% faster than the 2.16, and i only have the 2.0! Looking forward to that kind of speed!

I am updating this exact same older MacBook Pro.

 

[pna]

upgrading my MBP (top one in specs). I looked on apple's site and the benchmarks say that the current models are 73% faster than the 2.16, and i only have the 2.0! Looking forward to that kind of speed!

I suspect you know this, but Apple's benchmarks are notoriously cherry-picked to represent best-case scenarios, and rarely correspond to real-world gains that you would notice. Unless you have some software that you know is going to take advantage of the particular benchmarked improvement they've posted, don't expect anything near that kind of improvement. More noticeable gains are almost always felt by upgrading the hard drive speed, adding more ram, etc, than moving from one revision of a machine to the next.

 

[esvee]

A highly modded pentium4 3Ghz with 2.5gb of ram I first built in 2003.
Overclocked to 3.4
Watercooled
Painted chassis
2 line LCD display on the front of the case
Had a 5900 ultra at one time

Its been upgraded quite a few times, and then the disaster happened.

Around this time last year, one of my radiator fittings corroded and snapped off (completely my fault, water cooling is great, but I put together a frankenstein of a system) and poured an inert cooling fluid into my computer at 80 gallons per hour.

Since then I've had several major crashes, never lost any data (I fix pcs for a living, so this wasnt an issue), but came damn close, learned to backup constantly, lost two graphics cards, ghetto rigged a regular air cooling system, my usb ports dont work all the time, seems the cooling fluid caused corrosion everywhere, the side of my case is constantly off because things like to stop working so frequently it makes more sense to have it off, and doing intensive graphics work makes me fear for my life because I cant tell you how many days worth of hard labor I've lost when this thing just turned itself off.

Been waiting for a mbp since august, and I made sure to have the money by macworld. I did, but didnt get a mbp.

I need a new computer. Bad.

 

[tanjacob]

Getting a MBP to replace my Dell XPS M1210 from July 2006. The Dell will go to my brother for general use (desktop died a few months ago), playing Warcraft and WOW, etc. The GeForce Go 7400 card in it will do nicely.

 

[mediumofmeaning]

I will be taking my fairy-tale non-existent MBP and replacing it with an all new, top of the line imaginary MBP.

 

[matperk]

I suspect you know this, but Apple's benchmarks are notoriously cherry-picked to represent best-case scenarios, and rarely correspond to real-world gains that you would notice. Unless you have some software that you know is going to take advantage of the particular benchmarked improvement they've posted, don't expect anything near that kind of improvement. More noticeable gains are almost always felt by upgrading the hard drive speed, adding more ram, etc, than moving from one revision of a machine to the next.

Yeah, I know they are. But it makes me feel better about spending that kind of cash.

I am going to start doing a lot more work in Final Cut Studio and I think that'll be a pretty good boost in speed. Plus, from what i've seen, virtualization has a great boost in speed. At this point, running a VM really slows down my system, even with low resources allocated.

 

[Koolio27]

Powerbook G4 1Ghz (Al)....and my P4 1.8Ghz custom/self-built Vista PC.

 

[El Phantasmo]

i'll hopefully be replacing my iMca/iBook combo (see signature) with a revised MBP... haven't decided on 17 vs 15

 

[iBunny]

I will be replacing my current SR MBP 2.4GHz Machine Because I have to have the latest and greatest.

I will be selling it here for a significantly reduced price

 

[chrisb46]

I'll be replacing my 2002 (now 6 years) Evesham Pentium 4, 2.8gz desktop PC

I can't wait to use an up-to-date machine!!!!

let alone a mac...

Ok, I think you definitely win

 

[djellison]

1.83 Ghz C2D MB with Combo-Drive (upgraded to 2 gig + 250 GB WD drive )

With two chunks of missing palm rest, and dreadful creaking hinges.
Doug

 

[hayduke]

PB G4 1.67GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB Drive.

I think the upgrade should feel nice under my fingertips.

 

[ajx22]

My dying 3.0GHz P4 / 2G RAM - HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop

Still awaiting the revision specs (resolution) to decide if it will be the fastest proc in the 15" or 17" model though.

 

[chrisb46]

I'm replacing the same machine. Had it for the same amount of time too.

I may be sick of the size and ugliness, but I have been impressed with what a trusty machine it's been, especially considering what I paid. So I shouldn't be too mean to it

 

[macthille]

First generation MacBook here.
It's working fine despite the problems I've had with it (random shutdowns && logic board replacement / yellow top case and weird mousebutton (replaced) && melting power cord that sparked a bit (lucky me I was there at the moment) && dead fan (replaced it myself)).
It's a fine computer now, the screen is a bit dark and the battery dies after 30-45 minutes or so..
Despite the problems its the best computer I've ever owned, thanks to OS X.

Looking forward to a new MBP! I wish it won't make me crazy with hardware problems =)