Should I buy a Macbook Pro or the New iMac 21'. I have the new iPad and an iPhone 4.

I need to buy a new computer soon and obviously im buying a mac. im not sure which mac I should buy. Im undecided between the new iMac or the Macbook Pro 13. Please help.

Fundamentally, do you need a portable system or a desktop system? Do you want something that can move around your apt/house and out and about with you? Once you decide that, the decision is easy. Since you already have an iPad, maybe an iMac would provide a broader coverage solution (I happen to like the larger iMac screen).

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Why should i buy a macbook pro while the i7 windows laptop comes with more features and with a lesser price??

why should i buy a macbook pro while an i7 windows laptop comes with greater specs with less price???????
i love mac but i need strong points for mac to convince my father!!!!

osamawazarat wrote:
why should i buy a macbook pro while an i7 windows laptop comes with greater specs with less price???????
i love mac but i need strong points for mac to convince my father!!!!
For me, presonall, becasue the Mac will run OS X, while the windows machine will run, well, Windows. Seriously, whenever given the option, I greatly prefer to use OS X over windows without hesitation. I buy Apple hardware because I prefer OS X to Windows and have since the OS X public beta. Apple hardware is very good quality, but so are many Windows PC (Lenovo IMO makes some great hardware, if picking a Windows machine).
I use windows at work because that's what they give me, but I'd not pick it if given the choice.

Should I buy a MacBook Pro 13-inch or a MacBook Pro Retina Display 13-inch??

Should I buy a MacBook Pro 13-inch or a MacBook Pro Retina Display 13-inch??

MacBook Pro 13-inch - Compare Mac notebooks
http://www.apple.com/mac/compare/notebooks.html
If you have no use for super drive, buy MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display
with 8GB RAM and higher capacity SSD storage if budget permits.
Best.

If I buy a MacBook pro now, what will happen with it once the Lion OS makes it's appearance? Will I need to buy a new one again?

If I buy a MacBook pro now, what will happen with it once the Lion OS makes it's appearance? Will I need to buy a new one again?

Lion will run on most Intel machines. It will not run on the following machines:
MacBook Pro (sold before October 2006)
MacBook (sold before November 2006)
Mac Mini (sold before August 2007)
iMac (sold before September 2006)
It requires an Intel Core 2 Duo (or later CPU). Those machines listed above were all Intel Core Duo machines and with the exception of one of the Mac Minis, an Intel Core Solo. So we're talking 4+ year old machines. I have not tested Lion on a machine with anything less than 2GB of RAM.
Wikipedia has a pretty good public summation of what's known so far and it's quite accurate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Lion
The biggest thing of note so far is that you cannot install/run Rosetta. Which maybe problematic for some users.

I have an ipod touch but i don't have enough memory and 0I get an upgrade soon for my phone and i want the iphone but the thing is, can i have an ipod touch and an iphone on the same itunes account like can i use my money on my ipod account for my iphone

I have an ipod touch but i don't have enough memory and 0I get an upgrade soon for my phone and i want the iphone but the thing is, can i have an ipod touch and an iphone on the same itunes account like can i use my money on my ipod account for my iphone

Your iPhone and iPod can share the same iTunes account. Apps can be freely shared and used by one or both devices. You can't use money in your iTunes account to pay for your phone, but purchased apps can be used by both the iPod and iPhone.

I have an original iPad and an iPhone 4. If I download the new version of iTunes and the ios6 on my phone will I have issues when I sync my iPad

I have an original iPad and an iPhone 4. If I download the new version of iTunes and the ios6 on my phone will I have issues when I sync my iPad

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Should I buy a Macbook Pro for college? If so which one?

Going to college in a couple of weeks. I was planning on buying a Macbook Pro but I don't really know if I need it or if it's worth the price. I was looking at the 13 inch i5 and i7 versions. If I would buy the i5 one, I would like to upgrade the hard drive to 500G for an extra 50 bucks but was wondering if it was worth just going for the i7 processor version which already includes a 500G hard drive. It would be an extra 250 dollars. Also, if I buy either one of these, will it last me 4-6 years of college? I know that technology goes by fast and would rather spend an extra couple hundred dollars if its going to last me longer. I am majoring in Petroleum Engineering and will not be using much video editing or gaming.
I've been reading many reviews and statements about Macs from all over the internet but I have a few more questions about Macbook Pros. I have always been a PC guy.
Do Macs really stay fast longer? Like doesn't slow down as much.
How limited is the compatibility now days?
Worth the big price tag?
How big of a difference is the i5 and i7 processors?
Can you put a laptop lock on it? It will probably be a big target for thieves and I hear there are many in college.
Should I get Apple Care?
Is there more programs I would need to buy? I am getting a 100 dollar gift card thing to the apple app store but wondering if I need Microsoft Office or something that isn't from the Apple store
The reason I ask these questions is because I would rather have an answer from a community of people with multiple answers and opinions than a biased website or reviewer. Well there will be some biased since this is an apple forum but please answer truthfully and as unbiased as possible please! Thanks!

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Should I buy a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air

I am currently going into high school and have saved enough money to buy a macbook. However, I am debating to if i should buy a MacBook Pro or a Macbook Air. I would use the laptop for these things
1. Basic Microsoft programs(Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. for school)
2. I will also be Parallels on my mac
3. Light amount of gaming (League of Legends)
4. Websurfing/Research ( usually with an abundance of pages open)
5. Studying ( as any student would do)
6. Video Watching
7. Music
I am willing to upgrade the internals of the macbook but have a budget of about 1,250 dollars. Advice about which laptop to pick as well as what upgrades may need to be made for the internals will extremely help. Thank you

In addition to what Japib wrote
You might be able to shave $50 or so via education pricing at online Apple Store
Parallels has education pricing, ditto MS Office. Your school (district) might have some education prices for software.

Should I buy a Macbook Pro Retina 13" now?

Hello, I need to buy Macbook Pro retina 13" to school start. I have already bought a macbook pro retina because I got discount by my county, but I havent received it yet. So, I chose the macbook pro retina, but I know it will come a better Retina soon. Haswell. But is it worth the wait? Okay, there will be more battery life, better performance for the GPU and CPU, but I already have a very good gaming machine that I use every day. Macbook pro retina will just be a second machine, and the gaming machine will come first. So is it worth to wait for haswell, or should I just be happy with Macbook Pro Retina?
Thank you!

We have no knowledge of what any new model may have or when it will be available. Plus speculation is disallowed in these boards, so you will not find that kind of satisfaction here.
As for the incoming Mac you have already purchased, beware that if it is not a customized model you have 14 days upon receipt to return for refund. Since we do not know what your workflow and usage habits are, it is impossible to predict whether the Retina will make you happy on the long run.
Personally, I would never buy any of the current crop of Retinas. In my view, they are expensive and fragile toys and my needs are much better fulfilled by a properly configured and customized regular model. But I am an old curmudgeon with many years of IT experience, managing a datacenter with over 30,000 users.

Should I buy a MacBook Pro now (Jan 2012) considering that a refresh of the MacBook Pro line is imminent? I will be buying the most basic 13 inch MBP and its taken me quite sometime to save up (almost a year!)

I'm not very well off and although I love MacBooks they aren't cheap either, I've been saving up for a long time now and I don't want to regret it if nvidia or ati graphic cards make an appearance in the new macbook pro 13 basics. Advise please!

While you are waiting for the new models to come out you could of been using the one you bought tomorrow all that time.
When Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, Apple, Whoever comes out with new models they will have different thing in them. Faster lower powered CPUs better graphic faster hard drives or SSDs more memory and maybe a better operating system.
So why not wait 1-2-3-4 years. By then the thing may even wash your back and feet for you.
And they wiil be selling at a premium. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

IT student on a budget - should I buy a Macbook Pro?

I'm starting Uni next month as an IT student, studying IT for creative industries, and am in need of a new laptop (my poor old netbook is on the verge of falling apart. seriously.)
Here are the kinds of things I'll be doing on the laptop:
Class work (using all the old Office stuff like Word, Publisher, etc.)
Practical IT work for Class (I don't know what kinds of things this will be yet, but I'm sure it'll include website design, graphics, animation, and a lot of programming)
Video streaming (Youtube is my life I also watch a lot of movies from websites like Netflix)
Web surfing
Facebook. a lot of facebook.
Skype
Audio Editing/Mixing (Adobe Audition is my favourite thing in the world )
Video Editing/Rendering (I tend to use Sony Vegas Pro)
3D modelling/rendering (trying to figure out Maya at the moment xD)
Photo editing (Photoshop and all that jazz)
Artworks (I use Manga Studio mainly, and occationally a little Corel Draw and Sai Painter)
A bit of gaming (gotta love the Sims)
At the moment my IDEAL laptop is the Macbook Pro 15" retina... but that baby's gonna cost around £2300 after I've installed Office and Windows (on bootcamp) and stuff! And that's really out of my budget I only have about £1500 to spend at the moment...
I considered switching to the cheaper 13" macbook pro, but its processors are i5 instead of i7, and they use dual core instead of quad core, AND they have a hard disk instead of a flash one... which kind of disappoints me a bit...
Can anyone give me some advice on what to do? Should I just buy the cheaper 13" MBP? Or would it be worth it to COMPLETELY break the bank and buy the 15" MBP retina that I want? Or is there an alterative laptop which I can look at which is powerful enough to handle all the software I use?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!!

To L.L. all I can fathom to say is - "often wrong, but never in doubt"
To the original poster, all I will comment is that I have nothing personally to sell to you but offer you the subjective point to which, as a former computer repairman, and owner of several Macs, both Air, Pro, three Mac Minis etc,.....I can state that subjective bias aside the use of a nice macbook Pro in 15" with 256gig + SSD and 16gig RAM would be a very nice choice given the parameters of what you have stated in your needs list.
If you would allow a personal statement, of the countless people that have made a 1st time Mac purchase that I know, all have been happy and greatly relieved both as pertains the product itself but additionally the removal of unnecessary stress upon either using or switching to same.
As a person who generally is "unimpressed by everything and generally likes nothing" (myself) I wholeheartedly endorse the macbook laptop (and desktop) line over that of other laptops of which I have owned countless ones (and repaired / used far more still).
I say DITTO to what Courcoul said above as per a nice 15" macbook Pro, to which as money allows you can upgrade RAM and HD/SSD at a later date.
Appologies to the OP for the minor drama that occured in this thread following your original post

Should I buy a macbook pro or an air mac?

Hello!
I'm a very light user when I'm at home(only use chrome and watch some movies). I wonder if I should buy an Air Mac instead of a Macbook pro.
Maybe I'll download some games like Sim City.
Thank you

A MacBook Air will the best choice for your needs.
If you can afford, upgrade RAM and SSD storage.
Best.

Should I buy a macbook pro or an iPad 2?

Here's the thing: I want a macbook pro and an iPad 2. I already have a PC laptop that works and looks great and recently bought house computer, but I am an Apple lover at heart. So my question is should I buy an iPad 2 or a macbook pro? Whichever I don't buy this summer, I am going to buy next summer or for christmas. I have also read that both devices will be updated next year. What do you guys think I should do? This stress is started to make my head pound...

If your goal in the end is to have both, but buying one of them sooner, and then another later, in my opinion I'd buy the Macbook Pro first. Seems to me the differences and features added between Apple computer refreshes are less significant than the updates to the iOS devices, particularly the iPhone and iPad.
Ask anyone still using an iPhone 3G with the latest software updates installed how their experience today is. Aside from not having the newer features & functions, I've been told by several friends that the iOS updates have **** near crippled the thing, and it's slow as **** to do any of the basic functions (quite the contrast to when it was originally released).
This is largely due to the rapid increase of CPU speed and amount of RAM on the newer models which has lead to software development that's more demanding of the hardware. No doubt next years iPad will have a dual core chip in it, so I can't help but speculate the iPad 1 will inevitably suffer the same fate, and later on the iPad 2, etc... Oh and it will also probably have a flashy new HD camera similar to the 720P iSight found in the new MBP's for facetime calls instead of the current VGA camera (640 x 480)....again though, I'm talking speculation and opinion here.

Should I buy a Macbook Pro?

I'm in the market for a new computer, and I kind of want to get a laptop. See, I'm an engineering student, and my four year old HP desktop is driving me nuts.
So, I was researching PCs when I got the idea that maybe I should consider a Mac. I used a Mac in a graphic arts class a couple of years ago and I liked it.
However, people seem to have a LOT of complaints about the MBP in this forum. I'm going to need to hear some "success" stories before I go out and buy an MBP.
So, please: Why should I make the switch? And is a Macbook Pro worth the extra cash?

The good thing is that you will be an informed buyer.
You pose the biggest question of new converts, the reliability of the machine, and unfortunately you came to the wrong place to find it out.
You will see 95% complaints of the machine and barely 5% praise here. Everyone comes here for support, that's what it's designed for... Getting your stupid little questions answered so you don't wait 10 hours on the phone for tech support from a foreigner that can't communicate well with you...
So you have noticed some of the hardware problems that people encounter... I will list for you what I have seen people complain about:
Battery Life
Battery Heat
Computer Heat
Processor Heat
Improper Thermal Paste
Angled Keys on the Keyboard
Wireless signal Dropping
The whine part 1 - processor
The whine part 2 - the screen inverter
The whine part 3 - the Hard Drive
The whine part 4 - the general public!
The whine part 5 - the fans
CDs getting stuck in the drive
Can't burn CDs
Can't burn DVDs
Left side inputs don't work (USB, etc)
Mag safe burned down my house
Dead Pixels
iSight Camera not working
iSight camera mal-aligned
Casing is Warped
Casing doesn't close
Keys on keyboard Stick
Keys on keyboard don't work
Kernel Panics
Won't Turn on
Won't Shut off
Won't sleep
Won't wake from sleep
Hard Drive corrupt
Hard Drive crashes
Apple is repairing my computer x45 days
Apple returned my computer damaged
Apple has replaced my computer 5 times with the same problems
So that's all I can remember off the fly...
So now that we have all the problems on the table... This is the best laptop I have ever owned. Of those problems, I have had only 1 of them, and another which was abnormal wear and tear on my "open button", which were both repaired immediately during the week I was away on vacation (they were non urgent issues).
It's fast, it's reliable, it's dependable, and it has so many great features that I can't shut up to my friends about it.
The fact is that anything that you buy can come with problems, some more then others. Here you see many people talk about them and what they have done to get them solved. What you will see are the big huge posts of major problems that people don't get solved... because those are major topics. What you won't see are the many people that have a problem, is fixed immediately and then the post disappears due to the high volume here.
Apple has been rated #1 by Consumer Reports for service and repair and I agree with that. The fact that there are people that are receiving brand new computers as replacements for some (even silly) problems are tribute to Apple's dedication to customers.
So if you have a problem (which you may not considering there were hundreds of thousands shipped, and only a hand full come here to complain) you will be able to have it fixed quickly and reliably, and if not replaced.
We cannot forget the horror stories that people have, but they are far fewer and between all of the good machines that are out there.
YOu should make the switch, it will be worth every penny. Sorry for all the shocking complaints... just wanted to get them all on the board for you.

Where should I buy a Macbook Pro

I have seen on MacMall the Pro version for about $300 less than in an Apple store. Is there an advantage in buying it in an apple store vs. macmall?

I am in communication with "Small Dog Electronics" in Vermont; they are an authorized Apple reseller and extremely knowledgeable staff; their email newsletters are great. I plan to order from them in morning.
Small Dog is excellent, with a long history of good customer service.
My MacBook Pro is the first computer I've ordered from Small Dog, but I've ordered many other Mac-related items from them over the last several years. I've never been disappointed. The same is the case with my MacBook Pro order from them. I know many people who have had similarly good experiences with Small Dog and no one who has had a bad experience with them.
You just can't go wrong with Small Dog. They don't always have the lowest prices, but they generally have good pricing, and you can feel assured you're buying from one of the most honest and reliable Mac resellers out there.

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