MacBook Pro
For my previous post on this: Notebook For College
Basically I was looking for a decent/portable/robust/durable/sexy notebook for when I’m going to college (computer science) later this year. The notebook will be used for the casual internet/music/messenger stuff, but also for my creative things such as software/web development and other new projects.
Currently I’m a happy Windows 7 user and I’ve been using Windows XP and Vista (for half a year) in the past. Next to that, I’ve used Linux distros like Ubuntu etc. But when I started using Apple’s Mac OS X in VMware/dualboot, I fell in love with it. It gave me the same ‘feeling’ of awesomeness that I currently have with my iPod touch. Sure, they have a higher price tag than PCs. ( = Windows) Yes, there is more software/games available for Windows. But when you are looking for a quality thing that just works, supports all the applications that you use and is very sexy… then you can’t disagree that Macs are awesome. 
That, plus the fact that I’m curious for a Mac, is why I have decided that my notebook for college will be the MacBook Pro 13″. It costs €1149 euros here but I’m hoping to get the student discount of €70 euros. Still it’s alot of money for a 13″ notebook with a Core 2 Duo CPU, but I’m willing to pay this price premium because of OS X, the notebook itself (design, build quality) and the excellent battery life. Apple states that it can last up till 10 hours at one single charge, and even when we convert this to real-world values it should still last like 8 hours or something. I spent €230 euros back in 2009 on my iPod touch (2G, 16GB) and I’m still super satisfied with it and I really like that feeling. Maybe it’s what drives Mac-fanboys in their ‘Mac is better than PC’ rants? I hope to find that out soon. 
I’ll be dualbooting it with Windows 7 for the odd Windows-only things like maybe some Visual Studio work. Steam will be available for the Mac soon, and even though my Windows rig + 20″ flatpanel is great for gaming, I hope to play some games like Team Fortress 2 and ofcourse Portal 2 (coming out later this year) at it. Yes, I’m aware that the 15″ and 17″ MacBook Pros have Core i5 CPUs and dedicated GPUs, but there’s a price difference of €600 (!) euros and I’m not able/willing to pay that for 2 inches more screenspace and a beefed up CPU/GPU – specs that I’ll never need on my college notebook, haha. Anyway, when I get my ‘financing’ done I’ll pickup a MacBook Pro 13″ 2010, they refreshed about a week ago or something so I believe that it’s the perfect moment for me to dive into Macs. I’ll also get a sleeve with it, so I can wrap it up in that & drop it in my backpack – it’s compact enough for that.
If you want to support me in my financing (my only income is my parttime supermarkt shelf-fill job that generates around €100 euros per month), you can always do a donation of any amount at this donation page. It will help me with purchasing my first notebook!
I’ll make a post here when I finally get there, so stay tuned.
UPDATE: I went to the Apple Store yesterday and played around with all the MacBooks there. Before I went there, I was worried about the 13″ (1280 x 800) display. However, it was epic & large enough. By the way, I have been on 1024 x 786 for years till I recently went to 1680 x 1050 for desktop. Anyway, this really is the notebook that I’ll be buying. I was tempted to buy it yesterday (as I’m going to the UK for a week @ saturday, and don’t have a notebook)… but because of the ashcloud all shippings are delayed so it wasn’t in stock. Oh well, I would be broke if I bought it now anyway! 
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