Picked up new Macbook Pro 13"

Gotta say I love Apple's store a lot. Very helpful and it was kind of painless.

At the very end I got a girl who was at the genius bar doing my check out. [Mod Edit] ...she had this nasty attitude and wouldnt even smile.

She looked out of place as everyone else working there smiled like their life depended on it.

I got also got the iPod touch and she dropped it! I asked her if I could get a new one and she gave me the dirtiest look...Very pleased with Apple though! Love my new laptop!

 

Did she give you a new one?

 

i'll like to know too!

 

She better have... or I'd have told her to get her manager.

 

I thought you already had a 13" MBP? Are you upgrading or was something wrong with your other one?

And sorry to hear about the checkout clerk. I hope you got a non-dropped iPod, as well!

 

So after a couple of days I am really really in love with my new Macbook Pro but, does anyone else feel kind of iffy on the specs?

I did some searching and found a lot of the competitors like Dell have managed to squeeze a Quad Core into a 14" laptop with powerful graphics (1GB)...For around the same price as the Macbook Pro...

I am going to keep my Macbook Pro but I am always going to have that in the back of my mind...That the internal hardware will be outdated VERY soon...I highly doubt Apple is going to update the Macbook Pro until February I want to say?

 

sure.. cram a desktop quad core into a machine and get 1 hour of battery life. Even the mobiles are usualyl slower than the dual core counterparts. So if you run software that only uses 1 or 2 cores, the quad cores around the same price will actually run slower... you'd have to have software that can use 4 cores to see the difference, or just be multitasking so much and benchmark the multitasking.

1GB doesn't mean powerful graphics. Ram for graphics is secondary to the actual GPU it is. There are many low end GPUs they throw 1GB of ram on just to make them look good so people buy them, that the GPU sucks so bad it cannot use that much effectively. I remember seeing some benchmarks (you'll have to look around) where some low end cards you could benchmark the difference in 256 and 512, but the benchmarks from 512 to 1gb were identical.

If you bought a 13" Macbook Pro for raw computing power, then you bought the wrong machine... there is much more to a computer than that.

 

Compared to competing 13-14" notebooks, internal hardware was outdated when the machine was released. But Apple sticks to a pretty rigid "one major update a year" schedule, so if you're worried about it being replaced by a new 13" Apple notebook in the coming months, I don't see that happening.

In general, you don't buy Macs expecting good internal components for the price, because that is simply never going to be the case. You buy them for the unquantifiable "personal preference" things like OSX, aesthetics, trackpads, and that sort of thing. There are always going to be faster or better built PCs out there for the same price. But they won't be Macs, and for some people, that's enough.

Somebody's never heard of TurboBoost. Running single- or dual-threaded applications on an i7-720QM, the chip overclocks the active cores up to 2.8 GHz and downclocks the inactive ones to compensate. Combined with the newer architecture, hyperthreading, and the vastly superior memory controller, the 720QM will run circles around the P8600, even in single-threaded applications.

 

i said dual core.. not Core 2 Duo

 

I bought the Macbook Pro 13" for the build quality, screen, and overall packaging. It is an industry best in my opinion. I'm not a big power user. I just don't want my computer to be outdated within a year and have to end up selling it to get a newer product.

I plan on keeping this one for 4-5 years at least. No doubts in my mind the hardware will last.

 

But this thread is about the 13" MBP, and he specifically mentioned other 13-14" notebooks using Core i7 quads, and...

Never mind, I'm just getting trolled here, aren't I?