I want to get a macbook pro but Im afraid of all these problems

I need to get a new laptop for 3D(Maya) work and some Design.. I want to get a macbook pro but I am very very worried of all these problems Ive been reading about. Whine? Too Hot? sigh....

Well here's a simple solution if you don't feel like sending in your MBP 2, 3, and 4, maybe even 5 times to AppleCare for recurring issues: Wait until the next revision of the MBPs which will hopefully bring about the introduction of the Core 2 Duo (Merom) chips. It shouldn't be too far off in the future and if the new chip is as good as everyone's saying it is, the wait will be well worth it. The CPU whine of my MBP is HORRIBLE and to me it makes the machine utterly useless when I'm working in the lab as I need to concentrate; I'm back on my PowerBook.
I realize that my situation is unique in that I'm working in a sound-sensitive environment. However, I paid the similar price tag on my PowerBook and this machine has been flawless. I bought the AppleCare for it and have yet to send it in for anything. My MBP is maybe 4 months old and has been to Apple's repair depot 4 times. In fact, for the first 2 and a half months of ownership, Apple had my MBP more than I did.
Apple may have fixed the problems by now with their newer MBPs but that's anyone guess, and it's solely a gamble as to what week build MBP you'd get and what kind of problems it will have.
My advice: I strongly recommend waiting if you can. Even if you don't work in a sound-sensitive environment, you will get great peace of mind knowing that your computer will perform, look, and sound like a well-built, $2000+ machine (hopefully).

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In the market for a 15in i5 MacBook Pro but whats up with all th problems?

I'm reading the board and it's making me not want to buy with all these issues on here.

It's worth noting that these Forums are mostly inhabited by people experiencing some sort of issue and are not at all representative of the wider community, many of whom are probably delighted with their purchase and not having any issues at all - i.e. this view is distorted.
That's not to say some hardware and software problems don't happen from time to time but usually Apple move quickly to fix/replace dodgy hardware and release firmware and software updates as needed.
All Apple hardware comes with a 1 year warranty so if you purchase and there's anything wrong you don't have to be concerned about it being fixed or replaced free of charge. You can also extend your AppleCare for an extra two years if you feel this is worth it.

HT1937 I want to register my MacBook Pro, but I don't have the Purchase date.

I want to register my MacBook Pro, but I don't have the Purchase date.

What exactly does this have to do with iPhones in Business and Education, the forum to which you posted?

I want to buy a Macbook pro - but need occasional system 10.6.8. Can the macbook from an external HD to start under 10.6.8?

I want to buy a Macbook pro - but need occasional system 10.6.8. Can the macbook from an external HD to start under 10.6.8?

No. Macs cannot run a system that is older than the hardware. You can however pick up a copy of Snow Leopard Server and run it in a virtual machine using Parallels.

I want to update my macbook pro, but it's showes always the installation failed and i should contact the software manufacturer for assistance. i want to update my OS X 10.8.4

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Not normal. Shutdown and restart.

I want to get a macbook pro...but

Almost a year ago i bought a late 2009 white MacBook. My mothers PC is slowly passing away so I decided i would give her my MacBook and just get a macbook pro. The problem is, i feel like any day now apple is going to come out with their updated Macbook Pros and therefor I would get more for my money. Any input/suggestions would be helpful thanks!!!

Two months after I got my early 2009 15" MBP, the new MBPs came out in June.
Am I sorry? Not at all. I had two months of wonderful use out of a very great machine prior to the new releases. It is still going strong and runs as well as those new ones. Not only that, but when the new ones came out, the 15" dropped two very important items that I use every day - the removable battery, and the ExpressCard slot. I can tell you that I would have been disappointed to have waited for the new ones only to find out that some functionality was gone!
Moral here? New does not necessarily mean better!
I would give you one piece of advice further than what's already been given in this thread... go ahead and buy now, but also buy the most computer you can afford when you do buy it - fastest, most RAM, biggest hard drive you can budget for - so that your machine will stay competitive and functional long after you purchase it. I bought the very top-end MBP available at the time, and after the new models came out, the clock speed and RAM on mine were identical to the new lineup, so mine performs just as fast as those new ones do.
It is VERY very good advice to just buy one when you need it and not worry about waiting. Who ever knows when a company will announce a new lineup or when they won't? And I promise you, six months after you buy yours even if you DO wait, something bigger and better will come out anyway. In the meantime, you will have missed a lot of use and productivity you could have had by just getting one when you wanted to.
Just my 2 cents,
Raji

I want to buy a MacBook Pro, but is it worth it?

The computer I buy is going to be my computer through High School and hopefully College, but a MacBook Pro is around $1000 to $1300 dollars right? So is it worth the cost?

ConnorJ777 wrote:
The computer I buy is going to be my computer through High School and hopefully College
A MacBook Pro will last about 3-5 years depending upon use and abuse about the same with a quality PC laptop.
AppleCare will cover factory defects for 3 years, after that your coasting on your wear and tear upon the machine, which the keyboard, trackpad, ports and optical drive would likely suffer the most it has been in my experience.
In my honest opinion, being a Mac user from day one and using PC's, unless you buy the near top end model Mac's, your really screwing yourself with the lower priced models.
So anything 13" and under in the Mac laptops you can do a HECK of a lot better with a Windows 7 laptop PC of the similar specifications. Instead of paying $1600 you could be paying $400-800.
The trouble with PC's you have to do your home work to make sure your getting a quality product, a high resolution screen on Windows 7 looks fantastic just like it does on OS X.
So unless your willing to spend over $2000 for 15" or 17" MacBook Pro + Windows 7 to keep your skills up, you likely should just get a Windows 7 laptop PC to begin with.
Better to "fit in", at college you can do almost what you want as long as you pass the classes, but when you apply for a job you need to play the part and have a appropriate looking machine to match, as the choice in platforms tells volumes about the person.
Usually creatives use Mac's, that's their symbol. Engineers use Windows for CAD/CAM and it's hardware is based a lot on interfacing with Windows and generic PC's, which a Mac is not, even though it can run Windows.
So a engineer using a Mac would be sending a signal your a administrative engineer, one who has experience already and is now telling others what to do, as you don't need to interface with CAD/CAM or other hardware and thus can afford to carry a status symbol around, being a expensive Mac. Naturally you haven't reached this stage yet as your not even in college yet, so arriving on the job with a Mac would be the wrong choice for a recent college engineering grad.
However arriving on the job at a top ad agency with a Windows PC insted of a Mac would be viewed as inappropriate, because Mac's are viewed as the creatives choice for generating content.
So when choosing a platform your also sending a signal, so it's likely best to have both skills under your belt, question you need to ask is what do you want to do, what are your skils. Then you can get a idea which platform is best for you. I advise both, but I don't advise ignoring Windows, only do that if you can afford to do so.

Simply accounting want to get new macbook pro and run this software anyone use it with success?, simply accounting want to get new macbook pro and run this software anyone use it with success?

If anyone is useing this product I would love to hear from you. I want to change over to macbook pro for our small company but we are useing simply accounting on our current windows based pc

I don't believe this program runs on a Mac. if it does it would be running using a Windows emulation program like Parallels or VMWare or running in Windows directly through a Boot camp partition. In any case it's running in Windows so you have all the experience you need.

Wanting to buy a MacBook Pro, but...

I got two questions. My wife it's a hard core gamer, but she wants a MacBook Pro for "work" which for now isn't geared towards that type of tech. In reality she wants something she can use while sitting at the couch and be happy instead of being anchored to the iMac...
I was looking at the 15" ones, without retnia display.
Here are the two questions.
1. What specs should I be looking at for someone who realitically won't be doing anything heavy except a little photoshop, at best, and mostly facebook, and writing?
2. Why can't I seem to buy, customize, or anything else on the store online?

Cyberpawz wrote:
My wife isn't a hard core gamer, but she wants a MacBook Pro for "work" which for now isn't geared towards that type of tech.
1. What specs should I be looking at for someone who realitically won't be doing anything heavy except a little photoshop, at best, and mostly facebook, and writing?
2. Why can't I seem to buy, customize, or anything else on the store online?
Well that's better.
If her work involves Windows (or not) and PhotoShop, then I suggest one of the 15" MacBook Pro's, preferably the top end models, the non-Retina high res-anti-glare would be best for a laptop and the option to upgrade.
She is going to miss the large screen of the iMac and the 15" MBP, for comfort, will have to be sitting on a small table near the couch. If she uses the laptop on her lap for long periods, it's going to be very uncomfortable also the laptop will be more prone to liquid spills and being dropped.
So to extend the keyboard from the small table where the laptop will sit, she will need either a wireless or wired keyboard, and a wireless mouse.
I don't know, but if she is going to use the computer at the couch all the time, then why not just move the iMac there on a table next to the couch instead?
That's what we do here with our 17" MacBook Pro's, they are perched on tables next to the couch/lounge chairs so we can also watch TV and socialize. Wireless keyboards and mice.
A 15" screen is too small to be on a table on the side, it's going to force being used on the lap which is uncomfortable and dangerous for the machine. A 17" is ideal for siting on a small table, but Apple discontinued them.
Just find a table low enough that the iMac screen sit's at eye level and no need to have to purchase a new machine.

I want to buy a 27" but I'm afraid with all these problems...

I've been on the fence all week about buying a 27" iMac. I've been reading these forums all week about these problems everyone is having with their new iMacs, the magic mouse, etc. Should I wait until these issues have been fixed? I dont want to go and buy one and have problems with it and have to call AppleCare about a brand new machine.

I've been reading these forums all week about these problems everyone is having with their new iMacs
If "everyone" is having problems, Apple Discussions' servers would have melted down by now. Please keep in mind that Apple sells Macs at a rate of over 10 million per year. I don't know how many new iMacs have been sold (it is probably a large number), but "everyone" is not having problems. Only people who are having issues will bother to post a new topic to report a problem; customers who are NOT having problems will usually not post just to say they are happy and everything is great. So for every person who posts about a problem, you do not know if there are 100, 1000, or 10,000 people who are NOT having any issues.
So even if it is as low as 1000 to 1, there will be hundreds (eventually even thousands) of people who will potentially post a topic about a problem with the new iMac. If you use posts on Apple Discussions as your primary "research," you will get a warped view of reality. I have a +Late 2006+ iMac. According to posts I have read on Apple Discussions, it should have had a problem with its video card or optical drive by now. But instead, it has been perfect.

I really want to buy a macbook pro, BUT...

BUT, ...
I'm in love with the size of my 12" powerbook. I travel for work all the time and I can't part with (the size of) my PB
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I disagree; there are many users out there that need or want the ultra-portibility of a 12" screen and Apple knows this. While the MacBook has been released initially to "satisfy all", it seems only sensical to me that Apple would introduce the much-speculated MacBook Thin (see the thread here: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=296061 or here: http://www.macosrumors.com/). As I said in my post, don't expect anything in the near future, rather I would expect to see a MacBook Thin with Intel's new Core 2 Duo ultra low-wattage chips. It has been speculated that the Core Duo chips that Apple is currently using were released to merely bridge the gap between the aging Pentium line and the 'future" and to begin building on the platform of multi-core processors. (Some amazing things can happen once profits start slipping!) It seems most likely to me that these first MacBooks were also released to "bridge the gap" between the aging Power and iBooks of years past and the future of powerful, mobile computing and to allow for a platform for Apple to test out and begin its transition to Intel chips, and a new line of notebooks. Once the final kinks are worked out and the new chips from Intel are released, I would be shocked if Apple didn't continue to expand the MacBook family.
Of course this marketing theme doesn't exactly parallel the iBook vs. PowerBook of years past, but it most certainly seems plausible that Apple is going to expand the MacBook line even more. The difference between a 14" and 12" screen is a mere 2", and the difference between 12" and 13.3" is even less, but perhaps Apple will try to shave off dimensions elsewhere, say by taking out the iSight camera in an ultra, ultra portable unit?
All of this of course is mere speculation, something which is strictly forbidden by the Apple powers that be But nonetheless, to the original poster, I'd still say to wait for these new chips to be released by Intel and then to ultimately see Apple place them into their computers. The future should be interesting...

I want to buy a macbook pro but ???

i have posted a thread here in 17/12/2008
but it doesn't show up i waited three days also doesn't show up
where does my post go ????

well there are 2 different MBP threads one for the original MBP which you would have posted in and then there is this one for the later 2008 MBP

I'd like to get a new computer but I'm not certain about getting a Macbook Pro vs a Windows PC Helpppppppppppp

I'm shopping for a new computer. I've been a Windows user for a long time now. I've been shopping for a laptop so I can be portable. I really like the design and features of the Macbook Pro with Retina and it would do what I need it to do for audio recording and other things musically. I've been told by musician friends that its much easier to work with a Macbook Pro when it comes to audio recording, photos, and movie making. I've read this in many articles online as well.
I'm convincing myself more each day to get a Macbook Pro, but that reservation keeps holding me back because of my Windows experience. I know I can purchase Parallels or VMWare Fusion 5 and run Windows so what I am worried about it? lol
I'd like to read some feedback on those Mac users that converted over from Windows. How has your experience been with a Macbook Pro? I like the idea that Apple will be bringing the manfacturering of their systems to the USA. I also like the fact that Apple does their own research to build great products for all consumers to enjoy. I guess that's why the products cost so much. You're paying for care and quality.
Ok Mac users honestly convince me that I'm making a solid and sound decision by diving into a Macbook Pro.
Thanks and take care,
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I have used PCs for years, and still do at work. But, last year my wife bought me a 15" MBP with the anti-glare screen (I was getting ready to buy for myself). It took me all of 1 week to completely get used to the UI for OS-X, and now I really prefer it over the Win7 UI. I have no experience with Win8. Here are my thoughts:
1) You can get a good computer using either a Win8 machine or a Mac.
2) You will pay less for an equivalent PC. But not as much less as some would have you believe. You need to take into account the all aluminum body of the Mac (vs most PCs being plastic) and the size of the display. And, don't forget that there is a lot of bundled SW on the Mac that you will actually find useful and would have to purchase for the PC.
3) You can probably do everything you need on the PC platform with the right SW (you probably already know this since you are using one already).
That said, I think some things are easier on the Mac. For example, GarageBand is a standard part of the Mac SW installation. I got up and running recording directly from my bass into a track with a song imported from iTunes on another track in a snap. I only had to purchase a Jam adapter ($99) for the bass so I could come in over USB instead of using the audio in port (which did work, by the way). You can do the same on a PC, but you have to purchase the SW from somewhere. And, it probably isn't cheap.
I use VMware Fusion to run those Win programs I already owned because it was much less expensive to buy Fusion than to replace them.
I would not return to a PC for my own use, given a choice. But, I would be very careful about getting my wife a Mac without careful thought as she is not as tolerant of learning new things as I am.
So, there you go.

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i have to get a new computer i want to get a macbook pro non retina but i use my computer alot with school i have lots of files and picture but what should i get 4gb or 8gb

You need storage space for your files. You need RAM in order to run programs. They are not the same.
1. Get 8 GBs of RAM.
2. Get a large hard drive or SSD to store your files. The bigger, the better.

I downloaded and bought a movie from iTunes on my iPad and now want the same movie on my MacBook Pro but its not offering me to download it, it giving me the options of buying it which I already did. How I get the movie onto my MacBook?

I downloaded and bought a movie from iTunes on my iPad and now want the same movie on my MacBook Pro but its not offering me to download it, it giving me the options of buying it which I already did. How I get the movie onto my MacBook?

You can connect the iPad to your Mac's iTunes and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases, that should copy it over to the Movies part of your library.
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