10 Reasons I Love My MacBook
Arguably the Best Designed Laptop Out There
2. It's really light. I can put it in a backpack or a briefcase and walk around with it. Very easily. Some of my friends have IBM Thinkpads, which are like a MacBook that doesn't work glued to a biology textbook.
3. Battery life - My favorite coffee shop has no outlets, but my MacBook lets me sit there and work for hours. It's great.
4. Preloaded software - it comes with everything except PowerPoint. Need to watch movies on the MacBook? It already has the program. Need to manage photos on the MacBook? It already has a program. Need to edit and produce a feature length DVD with all original soundtrack recorded in your garage, burn the whole thing to DVD, design nice cover art for it, and put up a professional quality website to promote the movie? The MacBook already has the program(s)
5. The F9 key. On Mac, if you press F9, all of the windows separate and shink, so that you can see them all and pick the one you need. F10 does the same thing, but only effects windows that are associated with the current application, and F11 hides everything so you can get to the desktop.
6. The mouse - The mouse on a MacBook is great. It's responsive, and best of all, if you touch it in any two places and move your fingers, you can scroll in any direction.
7. It's fast. Most consumer level laptops are painfully slow, like old lady crossing the street in front of your car when you're already late for work slow, or like the president writing a speech on foreign policy slow. The MacBook is fast. Like the Energizer Bunny on crystal meth.
8. It's reliable - I've had it for over a year, and it HAS NEVER CRASHED. period. not once. I can seldom get through a day without my windows computer crashing, or at least needing to be restarted.
9. The power cord. Have you ever almost killed a laptop by tripping over the cord and pulling it off your desk? Come on, you know you have. Maybe you were drunk? Anyway, now you can drink in the presence of your laptop to your heart's content. The power cord on the MacBook sticks on with a magnet, so if you pull hard on the cord, it just comes off, and doesn't pull your laptop to a painful and early death.
10. The physical feel - Although you may think by this point my article is bordering on creepy, and may be about to tell my MacBook and I to go get a hotel room, I think I should mention the sleek physical appearance and the texture of the MacBook. It just feels right in my hands like, umm, that simile doesn't have anywhere good to go. But my poin is, after using a MacBook, other computers feel hopeless odd and bulky. Like a pillow made out of bricks, or fishtank. full of nails.
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Post a CommentI recently switched to Mac again after many years ( I once owned the first laptop with color screen - the Mac PowerBook over ten years ago). This MacBook Pro 13" is wonderful in so many ways, and would strongly recommend the One-to-One program they have - for a hundred bucks you can schedule one-to-one coach, group, and project sessions for an entire year, I've already been there three times learning to ins and outs of utilizing iVideo, and you can do that for other software and to learn all the cool features of your equipment. The system is intuitive and easy to use, but it really saves time to have a coach with you, and allows you to get the most out of the mac experience. Overall, I am in love with this laptop!
Three cheers for the Macbook pro!! I am feeling the same way. I bought my macbook pro in 2006 and haven't regretted one cent that I paid for it. Last year, it had it's first malfunction when one row of keys on the keyboard didn't work. I was able to resolve that for $200 and now it's like new again. I know that I have not utilized this great tool to its maximum potential but I always feel comfort knowing that if I need something, my macbook pro will be there. It's odd but I too have this deep appreciation for how reliable it has been and now I hear myself talking to it...saying things like "good job buddy" or "wow, you really are an awesome piece of equipment". Anytime I go on a PC, I have no clue as to why people like them. No matter how "stylish" they try to be, they always feel cheap, like plastic and just require too much work for simple functions. Nope. I like my "Mac & go". When I took it to get fixed, a couple of yo
Im typing this on a macbook and absolutely love it and you know what they say once you go mac you never go back and i think that is true :)
In #8, you mention your Macbook hasn't crashed in a year. My girlfriend's Macbook's hard drive crashed (total crash - the very expensive data recovery company recommended by the Apple store could not even recover the data). This of course came after 4 warranty visits to the Apple store by her to find out why her laptop kept shutting down randomly - the morons reinstalled OS X, thinking that was the issue! Geniuses my behind. You can actually google it.
After charging her $200 to replace the hard drive - the laptop didn't die until just after the warranty period had ended - one of the nutjobs at the apple store finally recognized that there was a systematic failure to diagnose the problem, and they replaced her laptop with one of the new, shiny aluminum macbooks. It's unfortunate she had to lose everything she worked on in graduate school in order to get to that point.
Yeah yeah yeah, she should have backed it up, blah blah blah. Point is that Macs are not infallible. I wil
All so true, I have a 2009 Macbook Pro and I love it. Before that I had a 13 inch black Macbook and loved that too. Even after 3 yrs of use I found myself still looking at the Macbook in awe and finding new reasons to love it. Now with my Macbook Pro, which I've had for 6 months, I'm still discovering more reasons to love it. From the design to the OS X stability, there is very little not to like about Mac. Let the haters hate, but Mac OS X couple with stunning design and good hardware beat a hobbled together PC that runs like garbage within a month.
It's so true! I am a student and I had to use my roommate's dell a couple days ago cause my printer was out of ink. It just felt so different and so much more difficult to use. I have the newest Macbook pro (the 13 inch with backlit keyboard). I've loved it since the day I got it. Yes, it cost more than a PC, but there's no doubt it was worth it.
I could not agree more!
I am a student using my computer for a great variety of things. I have been a hardcore Debian user for a few years but the lack of proper edge cutting software took me back to Windows. The macbook is great; it looks good, the os is incredible fast and if I haven't finished my paper while working in the train I just close it, get my bike to take me to the University, open it again and it just resumes whatever it was doing.
Really love it, on all domains; design, productivity, responsiveness, weight, durability. I also use it often for developing JSF applications using Netbeans and MySQL. This does not seem to cost the macbook any effort.
Have used it for over a year now and still no crash or a single error in Apple's design that I could discover.
Wish I'd bought one earlier....
I love my Macbook too! I switched from PC this month and feel alive for the first time in a long time! Dual boot, Intel Chip, Parallels, Fusion, XP and Vista running in VM ware while everything important is running under the rock solid bsd platform!!!! oh my, what took me so long??? I put my IBM Thinkpad on the shelf and haven't even looked at it. I'm so happy with my Macbook. yay!
Um... honey? I think you like your MacBook more than me.