By: Mark in LA

Mark in LA — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:30:15 +0000

I replaced my TITANIUM laptop last month. Bought the new 17″ 2.40 ghz Core 2 Duo version of Macbook Pro. Amazing portable and the little sucker is FAST as all hell. I opted for a 17″ screen because my old round-base 20″ Mac is still plodding along and I’d planned to keep it for another year. Then the new iMacs were released. I couldn’t resist. Five minutes with the new iMac and I was whipping out the card that still was without a balance on it. One swipe through their portable scanner the saleperson was holding in his hand and my reciept printed, they handed me the box and I was out the door. Being a long-time Mac owner, I’ve always opted for Apple Care and never used it. This time I skipped buying the warranty extension. Just felt like with most of Apple products – I probably won’t need it. The new iMac was set up at home in record time, a few cross connect cables to my old iMac and the migraton process was nearly automatic. My cable modem connections, the passwords to a thousand different web sites, my private bank info, etc., was all duly sucked out of the old and installed into the right places on the new machine. A few pieces of software didn’t not move or re-install properl and they were put in an isolated folder awaiting my human intervention. I upgraded both my MS office and my Adobe CS2 to CS3 for another few hundred dollars and then installed the upgraded versions on the new machine. I gotta tell you – this baby is amazing! And my desk is uncluttered for the first time in years. The wireless keyboard and mouse have appallingly short battery lives, but I keep a corded verson in a desk drawer, just in case the wireless goes dead when I’m out of batteries someday. The networking is flawless. I have a small 1000 meg/sec switch at home and with the portable and the new iMac both sporting the uber-fast ethernet, passing data and files from one machine to the other is about as fast as loading it from the internal hard disk on either machine. Even my TWC Cable Modem seems faster in terms of uploda and downlads on the new beasts! I know that is not the case, but it certainly seems faster! Was it worth being now some 2700 in debt (that includes the upgrades, new software I bought, taxes, etc.) Yes, it is and was! I have noticedhoweverthat the 1″ is a bit clunky to hauld around town with me. Maybe I’ll pick up the neww but not yet released Apple tablet computer in a few months just to round out my colection of Apple at home. I cannot recommend tese computers highly enough. Apple as always takes state of the art teh and makes it siiple to use! Which is why I’e been buying Appple computers since the 1980’s and their stock since their IPO.

By: LKM

LKM — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:40:46 +0000

> limited upgradeability

Well, it’s basically a portable without a keyboard, so that is to be expected…

By: Glenn Wolsey

Glenn Wolsey — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:20:11 +0000

Very detailed review, I really want one of these new iMac’s.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:44:26 +0000

Nope, the screen is not glossy and is only offered in matte.. which is good for a desktop. For a mobile machine, that’s a different situation.

By: Michael Vincent Wood

Michael Vincent Wood — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:25:14 +0000

i love the look but i wonder if it has those high-gloss screens?

By: Blake Robinson

Blake Robinson — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:06:38 +0000

Yea I’m waiting for the new Macbook Pro to drop.

By: Bassam

Bassam — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:58:06 +0000

Man, it’ll take some time to save up enough for this baby, but it’ll be well worth it.

I recently switched to a Macbook Pro, and this would be a fantastic desktop comanion.

By: webonics

webonics — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:44:21 +0000

I just got one last Thursday. It’s pretty enormous to say the least.

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