Who here uses their MBP as their main computer

Do you use your MBP as your main computer

  • I use my MBP as my main rig

    Votes: 438 87.3%

  • I use my desktop as my main rig

    Votes: 64 12.7%
  • Total voters
    502
I have been using an Apple Laptop as my "primary" machine for many many years now.

However, the lines have gotten more and more blurred lately. I'd say I almost equally split my computing time between my MBP, iPad and iPhone now.
 
Since around the mid 90's, I've been using an Apple laptop as my primary computer.

I also have a couple of desktop Macs and a PC that I use.
 
Have the original late 2007 alum. iMac 20" with an external 24" dell monitor as a secondary... after getting a 13"mbp and getting tired of having to save things on both computers... I gave my iMac to my parents and use the mbp with the external as my main machine... best of both worlds... huge desktop screen and portability when I need it...
 
I do. 15inch 2009 model MBP. Look at my signature, I don't like Microsoft OS very much.:D
 
I use my MBP as my main computer. I do have an older HP desktop that I try to avoid using whenever possible. I do hook my MBP up to my 22" HP monitor but the color is awful. I also hook it up to my 40" Samsung LCD TV to watch movies on Netflix and Hulu. About ready to cut off my cable company all together!
 
I use mine as a full time rig, it has its own table and I bought some logitech usb speakers that boost the sound and a bluetooth razer orochi mouse with a razer mouse pad. I use my e3000 wireless router for time machine and uhhh yeah thats my set up
 
well when mine comes (whenever THAT will be :rolleyes:) it will be my main computer. until then i'm using the slowest dell known to man. :(
 
Josh.C.123 said:
had an external monitor but the mbp screen is a lot better.
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Oh man, this is why it's so hard for me to bring myself to hook it up to a monitor. I guess when I settle down and can afford an Apple display I'll go for it, but for now these Samsungs can't please my eyes like my Mac :D
 
Yup MBP + 24" ACD

Tried the desktop/laptop combo in the form of an iMac + MacBook but it was quite a pain to keep them in sync and its expensive so now i do laptop and external monitor
 
The other way...

I saw the power in the intel Nahalem processors and had to go that way.

My mid 2009 17" uMBP had a list price of $2500 plus tax. I have built two Hackintoshes, one for home and one for work, for less then the cost of the one MBP. I have about 3x performance or more. Running i7-860s with 8GB of memory, RAID 10, OS X 10.6 and VMware Fusion, I have the best of all worlds (OS X, WinXP-SP3, and LINUX) running concurrently just a mouse click to change spaces.

Of interest these i7 machines run WinXP virtual machines faster then on the MBP Bootcamp. And the suspend and resume is very quick.

I love the 17" uMBP... but it is dated. And the refreshed MBPs are still not where they need to be at in my opinion. 4 cores and 8 threads today, 6 cores and 12 threads almost here and more on the map.

neil
 
If I could keep two machines perfectly synced, I'd like to know how.

I seem like one of those snobs that can't feed their cat anything but gourmet crap.

"Fifi only eats the FINEST livers and steaks."
"Really? Cuz she's munching a turd in her little box right now"
"Fifi no!"

Sorry, but only the Apple display is good enough for my baby ^.^
 
My 15" MBP is my only rig. I bought an external Samsung monitor and have the Apple wireless keyboard and mouse, but I can count on one hand the times I've hooked up my MBP to the external monitor in the last 7 months.
 
niel, what you forget is that Apple will not release a product until it meets their standards.

They could have easily thrown an i5 into the 17" MacBook Pro last year, but then you and everybody else would be ****ing and moaning, "the battery life sucks! It's hot, it's soooo hot! Why is it leaking?!"
 
MrCheeto said:
niel, what you forget is that Apple will not release a product until it meets their standards.

They could have easily thrown an i5 into the 17" MacBook Pro last year, but then you and everybody else would be ****ing and moaning, "the battery life sucks! It's hot, it's soooo hot! Why is it leaking?!"
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I dont think thats why they waited... they were selling the mbp's like hotcakes with last years tech in them... making insane profits off of them... sales were not declining, they were growing... so from apples point of view there was no need to upgrade the hardware just yet... I seriously doubt it had anything to do with performance.
 
I've used a laptop as my main computer for at least the last 5 or 6 years... Just recently switched to Mac and will continue to just use my MBP as my main machine :cool:
 
I used to have a desktop+laptop setup and it just never worked out that well. Keeping both synced with data from work was a chore, and when at home of course the notebook would sit unused in my bag.

My current setup is a 15" i7 MBP and a 24" ACD. The only thing I miss about my Mac Pro is the storage capacity. I'm getting by with 500GB now, but I'll probably be upgrading to 750GB or 1TB in the near future, maybe bump the RAM up to 8GB too. Otherwise, patiently waiting for high capacity SSDs to come down in price.
 
I haven't had a desktop computer in many years. I have only had laptops for over 8 years and of those 2.5 years I've had my current 15" MBP.
 
I do. The ergonomics work better for me than a desktop. The portability helps, too. I've had Apple Laptops since the Powerbook 150, in the mid-nineties. These days, the performance of laptops is good enough that the compromises of using the MBP as my main computer are acceptably small.
 
Mine's completely dead...I'd love to get it back up and running - best computer I've ever owned from form to function.

I was hoping the 13" MBP would give me that 'G4 PB feeling' but it never did :( ...so I've moved on to a 15" as my staple Apple portable size and with the Higher Res screen it's fast becoming a new favourite.
 
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