[Nica]

Well I finally made time to to DB Boss' house and pick up my MacBook Pro, so I phone DB Boss and ask if I can pick up the computer, he sais sure it's been here for a wile now. Just before I head over to his house I get a call from DB Boss telling me I wont be able to get my MacBook Pro becuase he has to send it back due to some recalls, so I started looking for some dirt and came accross this:

MacNN | Apple quietly fixes MacBook Pro issues

JeffreySambells.com » Blog Archive » 17-inch MacBook Pro Battery Expansion (literally)

Well I was quite shocked to read that the MacBook Pro is having so many issues to be honest, but not shocked enough to make me think twice about purchasing. I should be receiving my MacBook Pro on Monday or Tuesday next week..if anything I'm definetly going to purhcase the extended waranty oh just in case hahahahaha.

Any who, those that have a Mac any Mac have you had any issues with it?

Oh since this will be my frist Mac ever, I've started looking for some tips and tricks and found this one:

MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (Early 2008): Useful keyboard and trackpad tips and shortcuts

Perhaps a bit tedious for some of you but for me it was quite usefull

Well any feed back would be greatly appreciated

[FMINUS]

Let me know how you like the MAC! welcome to the club!

Personally I think its overhyped.

[Nica]

Originally Posted by FMINUS

Let me know how you like the MAC! welcome to the club!

Personally I think its overhyped.

Yea, well it's about time to be honest. My poor Sony laptop just can't keep up with the videos I'm doing and the loads of photos I'm doing so I figuired I'd step up to a Mac.

I've been reading lots and lots of about the Mac compared to other high end PC laptops and I'm a bit surprised to see that the Mac barely has an edge over the regular (high end) laptops, I was expecing the Mac to blow everything out of the water to be hoenst but there is one thing that keeps getting mentioned over and over and that's it's speed to do video editing and image editing and that's exactly what I want so I figuired I'll just proceed with the purchase, wont know till I try it for my self

I've already requested a few upgrades for it lol so it should be even faster then all the test reviews I've read

I'll keep you posted on how it performs, I'm quite curious my self to see how I'll be able to adapt to the Mac world

[P1et]

It sounds like you might need a mobile workstation!

[Mindflux]

Nica, That first article is over 2 years old. Certainly a non issue now.

[Nica]

Originally Posted by P1et

It sounds like you might need a mobile workstation!

Yup, I'm getting the laptop version No more deskops for me, can't stand them

Originally Posted by Mindflux

Nica, That first article is over 2 years old. Certainly a non issue now.

Yea, that's why I'm not overly concerned about the recall but the Mac that DB Boss had for me is only 4 months old and it just sat there waiting for me to go and pick it up and he had to send it back as well...something about a chip issue? I haven't been able to find any recalls on chip issues? I'll see if I can track down DB Boss to get the low down on the recall as I honestly didn't have a clue about the recalls

[adriankeith]

The Macbook Pro is an amazing laptop and you can run a program called Parallels to run Windows. I've used it for music editing, a little bit of video editing and a good amount of photo editing. It's a great laptop for visual presentations and you can make some really top notch slideshows/photo presentations with it. The designs are very intuitive and using a Mac is almost too simple. I came from a heavy PC background, always dismissing the Mac, but when my brother brought me home a G5 and the Macbook pro and within about a week I was amazed at how easy everything was.

[Nica]

Oooh cool feed back adriankeith and yes DB Boss told me about the Parallel program but I'm not really interested on the program for now as I want to experiance the full Mac attach lol.

I've been doing a significant amount of reading and I'm surprised that majority say that Macs are quite easy to use and the transition is quite easy and painless.

I'm looking forward on getting my hands on he the Mac attach

Oh I haven't even seen it but I've seen the case/box they come in and it looks good

[FMINUS]

Honestly I feel that Macs are overhyped after my recent purchase, and there are some things that are better on the PC. Its def not a hands down win for the mac.

Overall I am glad I bought one, but its waaay overhyped.

[Nica]

Originally Posted by FMINUS

Honestly I feel that Macs are overhyped after my recent purchase, and there are some things that are better on the PC. Its def not a hands down win for the mac.

Overall I am glad I bought one, but its waaay overhyped.

Yea, I figured as much. I mean I'm sure in certain things the Mac is domenant but I figuired good marketing comes at a price...but I'm quite curious about it. So I figuired I wont know till I try it for my self