What's your reason for puchasing a MBP?

I've been seeing a lot of MBP threads lately and I just wanted to know what everyones reason was for purchasing their MBP.

 

It's a Mac; I didn't have one yet.

 

the specs look good and i really just want to try os x after years of windows

 

The specs are what really hooked me, also a relative recently purchased and I found that the quality and looks were much better than others.

 

specs and design for me here. Going to use it to run Vista to play games mostly, whatever else i'll probably do in osx

 

Adobe finally got off their fat butt and released CS3 native for Intel.

I sold my dual G5 when Apple announced the switch to Intel, then Adobe mailed it in, so, I was out of Mac for a pretty long time there.

 

I use the glowing Apple to light the path for my late night trips to the fridge. My MBP is a flashlight that doubles as a notebook.

 

I have it for working in OS X, gaming in Windows, and looks for colleagues with bulky laptops

 

I was just tired of using a pc although I do like to play games. I have an old iBook G3 and flat panel G4 iMac that were my favorite computers to use. I did buy a couple of Windows machines the past couple of years. Within the last week I purchased a new MBP 2.4. I like the fact that Apple is using Intel processors and that you can use boot camp for windows. I have always liked Mac OS X and this seemed like the right time for me to buy another one. Now if the iMac line would get updated my conversion back to Mac's would be complete!

 

I needed some sort of metal rectangle to write on after I lost my clipboard. My MBP allows me to make my shopping lists with ease!

Oh, and I guess it's got some sort of operating system on it, according to the box.

 

I said to run OS X, but I'm also going to be gaming on xp. The main reason I got the MBP instead of a G1S/dell etc. is because of OS X.

 

OS X and Design. Since I dont game much I ran out of excuses not to buy a Mac.. Also possibility to use windows softwares in Mac OS X with parallel or VMware was the last reason to buy a Mac.

Why to buy a pc if you wont game much... and you can get "the best of the both world" with Mac OSX and virtual machine(parallel/vmware)

 

I really liked the iMacs, but wanted a machine a bit more powerful. When the Intel MacPro's were released, I bought one. Then, very shortly after, Apple released the 24" iMac. Now I'm tempted to buy one even though there's no room anywhere in the damn house to put another machine. Luckily, I'm not married; my girlfriend would let me do it without ever telling me that I'm a knucklehead and as dumb as a rock for doing so.

 

Where's the option for "all of the above?"

 

Was always into games and also a huge Mac fan. So once Mac launched the intel processor equiped Macbook's was working to save enough money to buy one

 

It acts as a nice paperweight for my vista manuals...

 

Ricey 20, how much space are you allocating to each OS? I'm planning on doing exactly what you are doing but don't know if the 120GB HD is enough space.

 

For me it was the specs. Light (for a 15.4), decent graphics card, matte screen with the perfect resolution (IMO) were the things I was looking for in a Windows machine but never found.

Plus the MBP looks amazing.

 

i'll probably be using 100gb for vista and 60 for osx. Its going to be a gaming machine first then whatever else i do can be in osx like browsing and email.

 

I'm ready to make the switch. I still don't have my Macbook yet but once I do get it (hopefully by this month) I'm never going back to Windows again.

I've worked with OS X and I have admit its much easier compared to Windows.

 

I got one because it is the best of both worlds. I get the ease and stablity of OS X, and the gaming on XP (Half-Life 2 Episode One looks amazing and plays flawlessly!).

It is also a heck of a lot easier to lug around than a PC equivalent.

And it's shiny!

 

I love mac because it is stable, virus-free, human-based.

 

interesting that everyone complains when someone posts about buying a mac to use primarily as a windows machine, but according to this poll almost as many people buy mbps to use windows on them as people buying to use OS X with them.

 

probably a mix of all 3; OSX/Windows/Design. Just goes to show how well rounded the macbook is since they started using intels and released bootcamp.

 

i will be using windows 75 percent of the time when i get mine. Just using OSX for internet browsing and probably have my music on that side, cause no viruses from my downloading addiction.

ill be using xp sp2 for a while til i get vista a bit later.

going MBP casue of the design and specs and I do want to learn how to use OSX casue ive never used it much

 

Where's the all of the above option?

 

Some of the reasons why people are complaining is:

1) This is a Mac forum and for someone to want to get a Mac user's opinion about running Windows on a Macintosh computer is like why? Windows is not our choice that's why we post on the Mac OS forum.

2) It's not enough that Windows has over 90% marketshare and now Windows users want to virtually change a Mac computer into a Windows computer. The percentage of actual Mac install base will not grow. We will continue to live in a Windows world forever, what happened to choice? That's what the Mac OS is for.

3) Apple's computers are Macintosh based, Macintosh designed and Macintosh at heart. An earlier poster put it best, people buy Mac computers to run Mac OS X and not just for the pretty hardware.

One last note, if anything it's best to get used to using the Mac OS, Apple is now the king of multimedia and their products (iPhone, iPod, iTunes, QT) will always connect and run better on Mac OS X. Not a Mac with Windows installed on it.

 

For better or for worse, it doubles as the forum for discussing Apple hardware (with any OS).

LOL... Choose any OS you want, as long as it's Mac OS.

True... at least for many and I believe most people who buy Macs.

I know... I always solved this problem by avoiding iPod, iTunes, and Quicktime and using alternatives. I was perfectly fine with that, until the iPhone came out, which really does rock. Actually it's the first Apple product that's really impressed me since the MBP. Fortunately it costs more than I'm willing to pay anyway. I'm hoping that by the time there's a cheaper iPhone, there'll be some good alternative products.

 

i think its funny all the people who take offense to mac buyers that want windows... is it that big of deal that windows people realize that mac does have THE best looking and designed laptop ever??

I mean I will try osx and use it half the time, but im not going to go without my games on XP.

im pretty sure people can run what ever OS they want on their own comp, no matter which OS its "made" for.

 

well. mostly you can...

but you can't run osx on any machine other than a mac without breaking the license agreement.

 

For me, it was a mix of things.

1) It made making my lecture notes easy. Through keynote, I made beautiful, functional notes. Sometimes I would spend my whole weekend making notes because after I finished each one, I would go "Wow, this is amazing, I did this."

2) I have to say I enjoy using OSX. Windows is perfectly fine, but using OSX I have more fun doing so. Im not saying either is better than the other, as I have both a PC and OSX computer.

3) My third reason may only apply to MBPs...but in the midst of so many Dells, HPs, Toshibas, I never see any MBPs on campus. There are plenty of Macbooks, but not very many MBPs. So I guess being "different" is another reason.

 

are you telling me that you "can" run OSX on a pc, its just illegal?
like if I stick my OSX software for my new intel based mac into my PC it would allow me to load OSX on my PC ... not that I would if it is illegal and all

 

and chicks dig the MBP, i bet its awesome when they just stare at you and your comp, then you wink and are able to say, "yeah, its a pro"

then some queer next to you with the black emo macbook looks down at his inferior macbook and realizes that he gets no chicks and his life sucks.

but ... you have the pro, so your legit.

props




i gettin mine soon

 

I chose all of them. I also got it to do school work on since I will be going to college in the upcoming fall semester.

 

I voted for everything. Those are the reasons why I bought mine, and of course, the looks/performance!

 

i'm buying one because I do some VBA development, and like to make sure code is compatible for both mac and PC versions of MS office. right now I've got two machines, and the mac (a 350 mhz G3 running OS X) is in desperate need of an upgrade. This will allow me to have just one machine - and, in terms of the weight-to-specs ratio, the 15" MBP is hard to beat.

 

64+ audio tracks in Logic thanks to mac-intel.

supports osx and windows

virus free and pron friendly

 

I allocated 120GB to OS X and 0GB to windows. I'm so sick of windows and its crap.

 

Well... all of the above, I guess.

#1 reason: I needed a portable and I love OS X. I use OS X for all my everyday needs.
#2 reason: To play games when I feel like it (which, admittedly, is much less often than I thought it would be - though that has other reasons as well). Boot Camp lets me do this and I can still use OS X for everything else. Win-win.
#3 reason: The Macbook Pro is totally unrivaled design-wise. I just love it.

 

I'm sick of Windows as well, thats why I want to switch to OS X.