Apple MBP - And That Is Why You Fail!

Im a recent mac convert, having had a love / hate relationship with my MBP for the last two years. I love the screen & build quality, using and developing for OSX and just how well it works in general. I hate their notebook keyboards, lack full 1080p screens and especially form over function.

My biggest gripe about the unibody macbook pros is the sharp edges. I can honestly say my MBP is the only computer to ever draw blood and you really have to watch how your wrists are on it or you might just slit them if you play games for extended periods.

I develop for windows and mac and do 3d animation work so on paper the macbook pro was an idea option. I've used it the past two years, hoping they would fix the design flaws... and the new air models with their angled keyboards solved them so I thought apple finally got it. So I held out for the latest refesh hoping for... an angled design like the new airs, an i7 quadcore processor and suitable graphics, something like a nvidia 550m or 555m with optimus to exetend battery life.

What we get is a mild refresh, finally moving to the i7 processors which Im all for an its overdue, no changes to excellent form but compromized function case, lackluster video and a higher effective apple tax than ever.

So, at least for me they fail. I'll be leaving apple as my primary machine. Keep my pro for doing mac dev / testing unless i dump it for an air as theres just no reason for me to buy one of the new pros.

I can get a number of different model pcs with i7qm sb, 8gb, 500gb, nvidia 460m on 1080p screens in the 1200-1500 range. You get so much less with apple.

For a 'user' computer where you do light gaming, email, web, itunes and the like the macs do great... they aren't good for extended typing due to the case cutting into your wrists and the graphics arent exceptional. The funny thing is that pretty much describes an ipad, good for light gaming, email, web, itunes and not alot of typing. So i'll use my ipad for that and spend my production computer money on something more substance over flash.

 

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