Fantastic article on Macbook Pro's from Anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3672

Check it out, Its an awesome article from Anandtech for the macbook pro.

What it covers:

Latest updates
Battery life
Mac construction vs Windows laptops
Cost
Snow Leopard
SSD Issues
Little bit of Arrandale

Anandtech has done a review of the laptops before, but this is a new article that covers everything currently. What I found most interesting about the article is the construction, which for some reason ends up in flames when discussed here.

"My laptop has a core i7 and is cheaper!" Well you're laptop is also heavier and thicker. Not everyone is buying a laptop on hardware alone and I thought Anand made a great point of this. Its simple logic really, yet many still argue over this.

Another great point that the article brings up is the Sata 1.5gb problem MBP owners faced initially. It was fixed with a firmware update, but SSD's still didn't work. I posted a thread about this but no one seemed to care.

At this current time high performance SSD's do not work properly with the newest MBP and you should be upset about this, its your money!

Check the article out, a very good read indeed. It also talks about Safari 32bit vs 64bit mode.

 

Very good article!!!!I repped you up..thanks for this great find!!!

 

There's no question if you want a light, relatively speaking, 17" notebook, the MBP is the real deal. It's slightly heavier than my 15" ThinkPad.

 

yeah, i also like the battery life comaparison between windows 7 and os x. i would have liked to see a battery life comparison using the 9600m gt in w7. anyways. that's a nice article with nice phrasing and words.

 

The price is a bitter pill to swallow. The 13" though is probably the most attractive package.

 

yeah, the 13" is competitively priced with other laptops. the $999 macbooks are also good deals...nice gpu, battery life in a nice form factor.

 

Still wish they would do reviews when BOTH os's are forced to use the 9600 for battery life tests, skews numbers a little too much

 

Thanks! Yeah I thought it was a good recap on the MBPs.

The 17" is pretty expensive, thus I got the 13"

The Macbook is a good deal, but that unibody plastic body gets dinged up way to easily. Engadget pretty much hated the plastic construction. I would pay a lil extra to get the aluminum.

 

I didn't even realize the two OSes were using different GPUs in the review. Gonna have to reread the sucker.

 

most times they dont mention it, win 7 cant use the 9400m for power management. the numbers look right when using the 9400m in OSX.

DID like how they show SL is harder on batteries though. one of my big complaints

 

In the article I guess Anand came to the conclusion that if you run Safari in 32bit mode you get most of your lost power back. I haven't tried it though.

 

Loved the article.....informative pieces like this will be all the more helpful for me when I take the plunge on a 13" (when the tax man gets back with my refund)

 

Nice find, but the only thing I find attractive about a MBP is the battery life. But even that does not justify the outrageous prices. How in the world can you charge $2500 for a 17inch that has that weak of a graphics chipset.

 

I'd say design primarily.....as the 17" MBP keeps the same thin & light profile as the rest of the MBP family.....which is somewhat impressive when you take into account the more bulkier profiles of some Windows machines.

I would mention the screen real estate/resolution....but a number of PC's match this (and are cheaper), so that becomes a non issue.

As for the weak graphics chipset......beefier GPU's obviously draw more energy and put out more heat, two factors that kinda clash with Apple's emphasis on svelte designs (I have seen a few users around gotten pretty decent performance out of COD: MW2 run on a 9600M GT though....).

 

Works as a frisbee I'm sure.

Thin has its reasons there.

I'm finding a lot of laptops that are starting to work well as Frisbees.

 

WAY too many are making good frisbees!

 

Interesting observation on the demonstrable increase in power consumption some of the re-written 64 bit apps require over launching in 32 bit mode.

That alone makes me wonder if some of these 64 bit apps are not ready for prime time and should have stayed in beta.