Bought my Macbook Pro...

[Atty]

Ordered it today (or well, will be, whenever I stop being lazy)...

E:
MacBook Pro, 15-inch, 2.4GHz - $1,908.00
Part Number: Z0EY
Accessory Kit
MacBook Pro 15-inch Glossy Widescreen Display
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
200GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
Backlit Keyboard (English) / User's Guide
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
Apple Remote
AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro - $239
Canon PIXMA MX300 Office All-in-One Printer - Free
iPod touch, 8GB - Personalized - Free

All in all cost, $2,150, but it'll cost me around $2,500 until my rebates come in (which I'm told are nearly painful with how easy they are to obtain.)

Will post pics of it when I get it.

[Sel]

My laptop is crying. :(

[Patrickssj6]

Cool. So, how is this topic any different to Buckshot's ones? I don't want to be a ranting bitch but you people were those who complained about his posts in the first place.

Heavily overclock that 8600GT...I overclocked it around 25-33% and it's still stable. You can do it also temporally while inside Vista with the Nvidia control panel. Overclock when you need it; quite handy.

I hope for you that you get the 64-bit version. 2GB, even though I don't know what exactly you do but I rarely hit 100% usage. Though it idles at ~51% in my case (also 2GB RAM).

I love the Hackintosh/Windows Vista combo even though you could also run Windows as VM inside Mac.

[InnerGoat]

Cute macbook, Atty

[Zeph]

Lol, at that price, do you really think the iPod is free?
:p
No real need to upgrade the RAM on that thing.

[Atty]

Yeah, I know the iPod isn't "free", I'm basiclly paying for it when you compare the other shit. Honestly though, the Laptop it self is $2,100 and the Dell I was looking at was $2k with the same warranty Apple is giving me, only difference is I'm getting better battery life (5+ Hours on the Mac) vs Less than 3 on the Dell without Wireless. I'm getting the same specs, if not better on the Mac, than the Dell.

I'll be getting a 1400x900 LED res screen mac vs a 1680x1050 Dell, 8600GT Mac vs 3100 Dell (intel integrated hurr), and then everything else is the same. So I'm really not doing that bad.

E: Zeph, with DDR2 prices the way they are why not throw 4GB in that thing?

[TheGhost]

They will when they refresh it in a couple of months. Mine is starting to get dated (still has OSX 10.4 lulz). Really, my only complaint about it is the screen resolution. They could have at least put some WSXGA+ in there.

[Atty]

I've heard no news of a "refresh" please to be informing me.

[TheGhost]

It's inevitable that they will be coming out with something. I expect November-ish. My brother is in the same situation. He needs to get one in the next 20 days or so before school starts, so he can't wait for a new one.

[Heathen]

Tell Z0EY I said Hi.

[Atty]

It's inevitable that they will be coming out with something. I expect November-ish. My brother is in the same situation. He needs to get one in the next 20 days or so before school starts, so he can't wait for a new one.Yeah...oh well, I'll just bite the bullet I guess. It's not like I'm not getting something functional.

[Zeph]

E: Zeph, with DDR2 prices the way they are why not throw 4GB in that thing?
Look at the rest of the hardware. What are you going to nee 4GB of RAM for? If you decide to do some light gaming, the resolution is low enough that you wont need a large amount of RAM.

[Llama Juice]

Yeah, I know the iPod isn't "free", I'm basiclly paying for it when you compare the other shit. Honestly though, the Laptop it self is $2,100 and the Dell I was looking at was $2k with the same warranty Apple is giving me, only difference is I'm getting better battery life (5+ Hours on the Mac) vs Less than 3 on the Dell without Wireless. I'm getting the same specs, if not better on the Mac, than the Dell.

Umm... as for battery life on the mac?

Turn down your screen brightness to the lowest it'll go (then keep turning it down that low because the thing'll want to brighten itself up to suit the room's lighting.) Turn off your bluetooth thing... and if you're not on the internet turn off the wireless card.

When you get it let me know your battery's mAhs (apple icon in the top left ->about this mac -> more info -> power... it's in there.

Look at your fully charged mAh. I'm on my 2nd battery (after a cycle count of 84....) My roommate's battery is being useless now (94 cycle count with a full charge of 1000-1500 mAh) Another guy I know said his battery is failing hard and only gets like a 20 minute charge now. (Which is what mine used to be when I sent it in)

My new battery.. when I got it had a full charge of 5600 mAh, and now is down to 5574 mAh. It's been fluctuating around the 5600 mark for a while... sometimes going higher.. sometimes lower. I have a cycle count of 11.

Aparently you're supposed to allow your battery to die entirely, let it stay dead for 5 hours... then charge fully about once a week to calibrate your battery.

With applecare you get a 1 year warrenty on your battery (otherwise like $120 I think... or $160 for a new one...)

Best of luck.

[legionaire45]

The battery on my Mom's first gen Macbook Pro has been working fine with heavy use since she got it. She charges it basically whenever it needs to be charged and it still holds a charge for 1-2 hours with power heavy features turned on (backlight is turned down). I haven't bothered checking the cycle count but I'm sure it's pretty high by now.

The reason we were riding on Buckshot was because he was posting threads like this every two days minutes. Atty is allowed to post his shiny new laptop. I'm sure I would do the same myself if I had one :3.

[Llama Juice]

I know, I made the "How expensive is buckshot's toothbrush" thread.

Thing is, is that buckshot actually usually gave a review of the product while subtly basically saying "lol i has expensive toys"

Atty is coming straight out and saying "YES I HAS MACBOOK PRO" so... he's kinda worse than Buckshot in that respect.

[Atty]

Do you have absolutely no brain?

Everyone posts when they get something nice and shiny, it's E-law. I'm not bragging, well, not intentionally. I would give a review if I actually had the product and you know these threads are also helpful because you can get user feedback.

[SnaFuBAR]

Atty is coming straight out and saying "YES I HAS MACBOOK PRO" so... he's kinda worse than Buckshot in that respect.

Uh, no. He's not making himself out to be better than everyone else based on his national pride and being braggadocios about every single thing he has and how wealthy and well off he is. Buckshit is a total snot when he posts about his crap, which is what got him the reputation. I guess you must've missed that in just about every single topic he posts.

Nice buy, Atty, congrats.

[Llama Juice]

Yea, I just saw it as "I got something nice and shiny."

Buckshot would get something new and shiny but list off every feature. I saw that as a review, rather than him stroking himself over it. He was informing us of some new crazy technology.

I'm not saying Atty is stroking himself, I'm saying that I judged how Buckshot made his threads differently than how Atty did it.

Not that it really matters anyhow.

[Mr Buckshot]

it's a macbook pro thread, not a "thread-making-style" thread, dummies.

Looks good, and I totally agree with Zeph - at the price you paid, the iPod can't really be considered free.

Hopefully, you're actually going to use the Mac OS's features (there are quite a few idiots I know who bought Macbooks just to Boot Camp them, without actually using Mac OS), otherwise, you really are wasting money as a comparable notebook can be had for at least $400 less. When you can shave off the equivalent of an X360 for the same technical specs on a Windows laptop, you better make sure the purchase is worth it.

The stock battery on Macbooks is impressive, given how powerful the laptops are. And there's the fact that the laptop can stay thin and light even with all that hardware. My 13.3" LG P300 packs a Geforce 8600M GS with a C2D T8100, is loud as hell, is fairly thick, and the standard 6-cell battery only lasts marginally longer than that of my old laptop.

[Dr Pepper]

I hate macs

[Warsaw]

I don't hate Macs, I just hate Apple...:-3

Though I may need to get a MacBook (Pro) myself come next fall, since graphics design, etc. love those things. It'll be interesting to see what hardware they have in them by then.