Mbp 13

Man I have been looking at this. For college students, or business people who need or want a new Mac, this is it. It has great specs, up to a 2.53 GHz processor, 3 GB RAM, and if your not a big gamer then the 9400 is great. It is now even harder to say that the upgrade to a 15 is harder to say is worth it. All I have to say is that this is a great comp by Apple for their best price ever. I think Apple did great on this one.

 

I bought one for my wife, I think it's nice.

But I think today with the price of $1000 there are lots of comparable choices.

For example, my Dell E6400 2.53GHZ 14" LED back-lit LCD, 3GB, 160GB HD, also back-lit keyboard and fingerprint reader for only $579 refurb w/3 yr warranty.

Brand new for about the same price of around $1000 or less after coupons.

Had Apple not released this, they would be seriously behind other laptop makes in offering.

 

True for sure. I was mostly referencing this around other Macs. Compared to a PC..let's not get In to that debate.

 

I received mine today and can't stand it. Yes, the back lit keyboard is a first on a 13 inch apple computer and yes the firewire port is awesome, but I give the computer a BIG no on the display. (Also, yes, I love that I'm still calibrating my battery six and a half hours later.)

My older unibody MB 13" had a nice display, seemingly the same exact thing, except not. My MBP's display is odd. Blue colors are now blue purple. I spoke to APL CARE and they said that because of the different type of display used in the MBP 13" computers this is normal. I'm going to take it in for a second opinion soon though seeing that I can't stand these odd colors. (Brown looks a lot like brown-orange too).

Besides that, the new notebook is awesome.

 

HMMM that is strange. I would get another opinion too. Sucks to hear that if its no good.

 

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4231/addressbook.png

if you're at all interested. Left side is MBP 13", right side is Dell Inspiron 6400. I don't have my MB 13" on me so I couldn't compare the two.

Both photos were taken in the same exact environment both with full brightness.

---notice how the color fades away on the address book. This is not the picture that's the problem, it's the screen.

 

Hope thats not what apple meant by the new screens having more "pop" than previous models.

 

I bet the icon on the right hand side is about 10x smaller. Unless Macbook has 10x the resolution of what dell E6400 has, the comparison is hugely flawed.

 

I agree with the OP.

I have not considered a macbook seriously until now. $2k for the price of entry was just too way out of reach.

Now that the 13" is affordable and closer to $1k, its much more reasonable. After owning a dell 1520, I vowed to never buy a bulky laptop ever again. I don't care how powerful it is. Its a huge PITA going through college and walking through campus with a frickin brick.

 

Would you mind expanding on that? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this? I took both photos from almost the same distance from the screens of the notebooks, but I did resize their resolutions to fit a 7x5 (or whatever the default size is) photoshop document.

 

LOL.. I feel your pain. I can even feel my 2LB laptop in my backpack. Everybit of weight adds up. My backpack with all my textbooks weighs around 40 pounds.

 

I think he meant that the resolutions on the screens are different.

 

Ah, I see. If that's the case I must add that both screens are 1280x800. 6400 isn't glossy though...

 

From the pictures, the right side, each pixle is about 9x (let's just call it 10x)bigger than the one on the left.

 

I bought a 2.4 macbook last week that I returned for ~$1650. Ended up ordering the new 2.26 mbp, 500gb hard drive, hp monitor, keyboard, printer, and 4 gb ram for around the same price. On paper it seems well worth the trade, guess I'll see early next week when it all arrives.

 

Why sure it's a good trade!

Both are great notebooks, and I'm sure you'd be happy with both of them.