MB vs. MBP, not like all others, read on...

[Draythor]

I'm headed back to school in the fall and am leaning towards the MB for my first Mac

The portability was big issue for me--I'm going to be lugging it to class everyday and need something as small as possible. Although I'm somewhat disappointed to see that the difference in weight between the MB and MBP is only half a pound.

The footprint is quite a bit different though. I know two people who have a mac at school, one with a MBP and the other a MB. The guy with the MB seems to have an easier time carring it around in his main bag, where as the other guy has to keep it seperate

 

[drumforfun19]

The footprint is quite a bit different though. I know two people who have a mac at school, one with a MBP and the other a MB. The guy with the MB seems to have an easier time carring it around in his main bag, where as the other guy has to keep it seperate

I put my MBP in a messanger bag. And when I need room for my books it fits neatly in my medium sized backpack (while in a incase sleave).

and at 5.6lbs it's not that heavy... at least compared to my last laptop at over 10lbs. I'm just saying, I find the MBP easy to cary around reguardless of where I go.

 

[mmoran27]

Why not just get both?

I bought a 15 inch Macbook Pro C2Duo 2.33 and a Blackbook. Both are good laptops but there are quality control / Design issues:

Macbook Pro

1) Lack of a center support rubber dot on the bottom causes the middle to sag.
2) Very easy to scratch.
3) Battery issues - Believe it or not I am on by 3rd battery. They seem to work for a while then crap out. (Mine says its charged 100% - never drops below that! and won't take a charge). Apple replaced all 3 of them.

Macbook
1) Fingerprint Magnet
2) Screen Flicker (Solution, believe it or not is to remove battery and re-install).
3) Those Plastic Strips on top of the screen (Who is the design genius who thought this up). These cause the famous palmrest cracks. Why not use rubber? Like every other laptop manufacturer? Duh. Soulution - Get some rupper Dots or use a cloth to pad the screen and the laptop when you close it.

That is it. Hopefully I will not have any more issues.

 

[jotadeo]

I bought a 15 inch Macbook Pro C2Duo 2.33 and a Blackbook. Both are good laptops but there are quality control / Design issues:

Macbook Pro

1) Lack of a center support rubber dot on the bottom causes the middle to sag.
2) Very easy to scratch.
3) Battery issues - Believe it or not I am on by 3rd battery. They seem to work for a while then crap out. (Mine says its charged 100% - never drops below that! and won't take a charge). Apple replaced all 3 of them.

Macbook
1) Fingerprint Magnet
2) Screen Flicker (Solution, believe it or not is to remove battery and re-install).
3) Those Plastic Strips on top of the screen (Who is the design genius who thought this up). These cause the famous palmrest cracks. Why not use rubber? Like every other laptop manufacturer? Duh. Soulution - Get some rupper Dots or use a cloth to pad the screen and the laptop when you close it.

That is it. Hopefully I will not have any more issues.

Thanks for listing the issues you've had with the MBP...mine'll be here in a couple of days and it's good to know this stuff. Here's my take on some of the issues:

MBP:
1. Sounds like an easy fix - just get a rubber foot pad at your local hardware store and glue it to the bottom of the machine right smack-dab in the middle.
2. I just got an aussiebag sleeve. It may be a little pricey with shipping (comes from Australia, hence the name), but it seems like a great solution...I can't confirm it yet since mine is due to arrive on Wednesday (it's in Alaska now ).
3. N/A (=nothing to add ).

MB:
1. Get the white one to avoid the fingerprints and also save some $$$ so you can get an external HD for much less than charges you for the 40GB extra on the blacbook.
2. N/A
3. N/A

jdo

 

[PDE]

[/QUOTE]Macbook
1) Fingerprint Magnet
2) Screen Flicker (Solution, believe it or not is to remove battery and re-install).
3) Those Plastic Strips on top of the screen (Who is the design genius who thought this up). These cause the famous palmrest cracks. Why not use rubber? Like every other laptop manufacturer? Duh. Soulution - Get some rupper Dots or use a cloth to pad the screen and the laptop when you close it.

That is it. Hopefully I will not have any more issues.[/QUOTE]

Can you tell me more about the flicker solution please? My girlfriend's macbook has the flicker after sleep for 10 seconds or so, then i goes away. How is it solved? Removing the battery and reinstall OS? Are you sure? Anybody know what that does? Always thought it was the inverter....

Thanks

 

[mmoran27]

Flicker or screen flutter

I noticed this after using one day. It looked like the screen was fluttering or flickering.

I tried resetting pram, etc. to no avail and was ready to bring it to apple store.

i tried completely discharging and recharging the battery, etc.

Nothing worked.

Then I tried removing the batttery and re-inserting. No reinstalling of the OS. Lo and behold the flicker went away.

The next time this happened I did same thing and flicker went away. Maybe it is a bad inverter but this seems to fix it.

Maybe a temporary fix for a failing invertor?

I don't know but it has only happened twice. If i keep having to do this I will bring it in.

 

[jellomizer]

The primary thing you are paying extra for on the MBP is a better video Card. a 64 Meg Shared Memory card vs. a 256 Meg Dedicated Video RAM. Never underestimate the Video on computer configurations. OS X uses the Video rather intensivly to improve performance. It is nothing to sneeze at espectially if you wait 4 or more years between upgrades. Having a good video card can improve the useful life of your system for an extra year or two. If you upgrade every 2 or 3 years I wouldn't threat much you will probably save more in the long run. After 4 1/2 years I upgraded my Powerbook mostly because of a broken screen but it was still usable after all that time, I wouldn't say the same about the iBooks of the time.

 

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Hey, hope you enjoy your BlackBook, it sure is a nice machine! I've just pulled the trigger also, getting my MBP tmrw before 10:30am (as it says on FedEx website). So excited!!! (but I wish they had 13" MBP though coz I need the dedicated GPU, otherwise I'd totally go for the BlackBook)