Apple MacBook Pro MB990B/A Reviews: Mac OS X Leopard 13.3" Screen Laptop computer

+ High performance and excellent design, with a great battery life.

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+ Everything....size, weight, built in software, lit keys, battery life, etc.

- Price, occasionally the heat but it's not a massive problem, only the same as any of my previous laptops

+ Great build quality, Battery lasts well and lovely screen.

- Aluminium marks easily, need to unscrew to access battery if needed.

+ Ease of use.

- Just taking time to get used to the change from Windows to Mac

+ Small sleek and well-engineered.

- Price point.

+ Fantastic first impresion and never stopped impressing fast reliable simple and just looks so good.

- there are some things that are still not compatible with apple although not much.

+ beautifully simple design, very well made, super fast - shuts down in 4 seconds! Boots up in 15. glass touchpad works really well.

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+ well designed.

- electric current runs through the shell when charging.

+ Aesthetically superb. A very well made laptop, sturdy and well designed. Easy to use, quiet as a mouse (incredibly silent: a real joy. Fantastic apple software.

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+ Excellent design, much faster and more simple to use than windows, and a great battery life. Once you buy a MAC you will never want to go back to windows again, it's just that good.

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+ Simple to use, boots up quickly, the Macbook pro does everything a PC does but faster and smoother. Having one company overseeing both Hardware and software development makes a massive difference to the performance. I think a PC laptop with a bigger spec would struggle to out perform it as there are so many conflicts (between OS and hardware). .

- A little light on RAM and the Hard drive will need replacing but at least I know that in a couple of years I'll still be enjoying this machine once they are replaced.

+ Beautiful design, great screen, fantastic trackpad, nicely weighted and spaced keyboard, Snow Leopard has fixed Leopard annoyances and is faster, excellent battery life with light use. In summary, better than old macbook in nearly every way, SD card slot also very useful (and about time), generally a pleasure to use.

- Battery drains much quicker under heavy use, base also gets very hot though does not burn like old macbook, case is fairly scratchable, speakers can vibrate through keyboard and are unbalanced due to subwoofer on right, CD drive needs disk pushed almost inside case before they are drawn in. All very minor points which prevented a 10/10 score.

+ Apple at its best Design, operation and Quality at is best

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+ layout , easy to understand been struggling for years with all the changes in Microsoft have stuck to Windows XP. Thinking of buying another one

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+ Wonderful design, like the fact ii is sturdy but quite light. Very easy to set up

- Hate the operating system, have been using Windows since it was invented so difficult to change over.
Hate the fact cant fiddle with it, have been trying to remove Safari as terrible search engin.

+ After having used a PC based laptop previously all the design features on the Macbook Pro are a delight - the touchpad, integration of right click for us ex pc ers, glass screen, superfast start up, silky casing, magnetic power connection etc etc etc.

- I've not found any yet.

+ everything is fantastic-its a mac

- it's still very expensive comared to the PC, especially with windows 7, which is getting closer to the mac design everyday

+ Stylish and good looking. Keys light up at night which can be useful.

- Expensive. Aluminium body cold when left in cold place

+ Superb design and build quality with truly fantastic battery life makes this product feel very special. Feels fast when using it for all tasks, thought the keyboard might have been difficult to use but no problems there. Replaced 2005 12" Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz

- Screen resolution by now 13" screens should have a native res of 1400 x 900

+ The macbook pro is a really good laptop....the only draw back is that is relatively expensive to purchase. Otherwise highly recommended.

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+ Lightweight, great design, good value for money at the price offered by Dixons (£787.00).

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+ Owned for nearly 2 months, purchased after upgrading from a 4yr old Apple iBook laptop. My work laptop is a HP 6530b with Vista. This laptop came bundled with Mac OS X Snow Leopard - very fast and much easier than any Windows operating system. Very good finish and battery life is very good. Even with heavy usage (backlit keyboard, bright screen, Skype over WiFi, bluetooth on etc) it lasts about 3 hours. For simple web browsing it can last 8 hours. Bought a clear Speck case for it which clips on and really adds to the attractive design while saving it from scratches. Overall better end product compared to the plasticky Windows alternatives.

- Glossy screen is very reflective and shows marks easily. A bit heavy compared to white polycarbonate Macbook of same size, but it feels more sturdy for it. That's all.

+ All of above + easily transportable

- Glossy screen. Flat finish would have been better.

+ fast delivery, excellent product

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+ Excellent build quality and superb operating system and software included.

- Relatively high cost.

+ Well, I had switched to the Mac world about a year back, and really enjoyed working on my Macbook (white 2.16GHz Intel Core2Duo). In my opinion, it's not so much the looks or the finish of the hardware that's important. It's just that the Mac OS X is far far superior to anything I'd seen, and certainly better than Windows - in terms of ease of use, performance, stability, anything really.
When I saw the new line of Macbook Pro, in the lovely aluminium body, 7hr battery life, illuminated keyboard, SD card slot, I just couldn't resist the temptation to upgrade. Not that I needed to, but it just seemed so... yummy :-)
What can I say, I just love my new Macbook Pro 13, even though it's the lower spec of the two in that range.

- A bit expensive compared to Windows laptops of similar hardware specs. But not as much if compared to a similar VAIO or ASUS. Anyway, I think Apple's market share is going up and could further get boosted if the prices are brought down a bit more.

+ At last a computer thats a pleasure to use. it's even a pleasure to look at! It came with the latest (Snow Leopard) operating system installed although this was not mentioned on the website. My old printer and scanner were instantly recognised and the right software downloaded automatically. An HP printer which wouldn't work under Microsoft Vista now works perfectly. The installed software package, iLife, takes care of all my photo, audio and video needs. The only software I've needed to add was a combined WP, spreadsheet and database package. I used Open Office which is not only a FREE download, but is recommended by Apple and recognises Snow Leopard. It also recognises all Microsoft Office documents even the latest versions. So for the cost of just the laptop I now have a superb facility which outperfoms my previous Vista, Microsoft Office setup. Start up and Shutdown are so fast that I don't always use the Sleep Mode. As a consequence I only need to charge the battery every 3 or 4 days.

- None so far although I must get a slip case as the beautiful finish of the laptop makes me over protective and worried about scratches!

+ Quality product!
Aluminium case and nice backlight keyboard.
Great ilife package included includes GarageBand!
Excellent performance with Snow Leoppard OS better than Windows 7.

- No Blu-ray drive.
Screen resolution only 1280 x 800, however still excellent quality display.
Hard drive size 160 GB small, however this is easily upgraded.

+ Great computer set up was easy and effortless. loving learning new things..

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+ everything its the best thing i have bought i have also recommended it to many people

- get a little bit hot after a long time