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New Apple MacBook Pro Reviewed
adeelarshad82 writes "As fate would have it, an Intel chipset glitch delayed shipments of almost every laptop manufacturer, save one. Apple, which has typically been last in transitioning to new technology, is now among the first to launch laptops with Sandy Bridge. The Apple MacBook Pro (Thunderbolt) is the fastest laptop out there. Powered with a Quad-core Core i7 processor and AMD Radeon HD 6750M, the MacBook Pro has a lot of fire power to offer. Unfortunately though it is still a bit expensive and there is a lack of Thunderbolt devices to take advantage of the new interface."
You forgot your "Fanboy" tags.
I find it so amazing how mac fanboys can turn every negative into a positive.
"Its not expensive, its just high quality"
"I'll compare it with a laptop which is half its price and point out that my laptop looks nicer"
Cheap as possible components? You mean like Intel chips? Oh right.
I'd say customer satisfaction on macs are higher simply because of the market they target. You're not buying a mac to play the latest games (which don't usually work very well on macs), you're not buying a mac for cheap and quick (you could get better with linux), you're buying a mac to show off the fact that you've got a mac and to feel smug in front of other people.
Of course the fact that all the hardware is chosen by mac and the large price tag means that its obvious that not everyone is going to buy one (that makes it special) and its 'guaranteed' to run on the hardware.
There's a difference between cheap and value, and its a thousand dollars extra or so. You can get a high end windows PC with similar specs for around 1200 instead.
You can find comparable (except the lightpeekyboo) laptops of decent build quality for about $800. You could throw it in the trash every year and buy a new one with the latest greatest cpu, etc. Instead, you pay iSteve. Yes, its your dough now but please don't whine to anybody that you don't have rent money, can't pay the heat or a/c bill, have no money for the kids edukation or are defaulting on your college loans and then come looking for a handout. Before you say 'troll' think about how many of your Apple friends are just managing to get by - or worse hit you up for money - yet dump tons of coin on MBP, iPads, etc.