aiks when u posted earlier you said 15inch, which is it 15 or 17?

ok, my Mac Pro's finally out....

looking at either the 17" MBP Core i7 or the 15" MBP Core i7...

I've already got a 24" Dell to complement the upcoming MBP, so now it's just a matter of your guys convincing me which one I should go for...

decisions decisions...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 1 2010, 08:54 PM

haha alrite lah. got gang. awesome awesome. u bought it for personal use or like for coll or smtg?

Ok go for 15inch i7, upgrade to high resolution display and the 500gb HDD to 7200rpm. It'll cost you RM7689 vs MBP 17 with i7, 500GB hdd 7200RPM = RM8315

price difference is = RM626 for 1 additional USB port, pcie slot, bigger screen, heavier laptop. You decide if its worth it or not

17" is really heavy when you travel alot. Consider that instead of the spec. I think both 15" & 17" will perform rather well as a laptop. And please include ACPP into your budget by any means.

This post has been edited by wei: Jun 1 2010, 09:25 PM

I was planning for 17" CTO i7 with 500GB 7200rpm from a reseller, but few weeks without computer to use...

And I've yet to see how good is a HR 15" screen compared to a normal res 15"...

i know wat you mean, my old mb is dying slowly(i give it a few weeks), planning to get a mbp soon 15 at least. but from my experience they take longer hehe, anyways the 600++ saved is half of the ACPP, heed wei's advice!

This post has been edited by nimrod323: Jun 1 2010, 09:37 PM

I've owned 3 Macs so far, neither one of them went without ACPP...

I guess I have to build a PC first while waiting for the MBP... My GPU work is all gonna be on the PC side...

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Jun 1 2010, 09:46 PM

Guess what !!!

*&#$@ ... I returned my MBP for a replacement because it came with a dead pixel.
Now the replacement comes with a dead pixel as well.

Now I have to call Apple Care again tmrw. And I'll have to wait while this unit goes all the way back to China and another unit gets shipped to me. The last time this happens, it took 19 days. @#*&$

oh man this is such a chain of unfortunate events, you must mandi bunga edy haha good luck to you man

I hope my mood is good tmrw morning ... otherwise someone at Apple is gonna get an earful.
I hope they do pray before they go to work.

Hehehe, i would get a 17" for occasional travel + a low end 13" for daily travel, or even an iPad if it get the job done. Even 15" is heavy for amount of stuff I have to carry around. But then again, that's me. One can always disagree. Just aim at what you really need, not want. Laptop get replaced much faster than the desktop. I don't really see the point to invest too much. Unless you keeping for the next 3-4 yrs or don't mind about resell.

In windows, we can terminate a 'hanged' application by accessing the task manager via ctrl+ALT+DEL or ALT+F4 .... how do you do that in MBP?

I installed Windows Live Messenger for Mac and it 'hanged' !!

Search for activity monitor on the search panel

I've been using a Mac Pro for 3 years.... Two Mac Pros in fact... And I've no complain about performance, let alone keeping it for years to come..

The only reason I go portable is because of the shifting in direction of distributive computing from CPU to GPU, and Apple's somewhat PITA about Mac Pro GPUs, plus those crappy drivers and lack-lustre OpenCL implementation - might as well salvage whatever I have thanks to my ACPP on the first Mac Pro, sell it off to build a cheap PC with high-end GPU for that...

Thanks ... you are a life saver.

no la. im getting the 17". =)

agree with u, im kinda regret brought my 15ich mbp... laptop get replaced too fast.. should hv go for 13inch.. save a few K for others

u mean force quit?

another way is to right click on the app's icon on the dock, hold down Option and u'll see "quit" turns to "force quit".

this is just to force quit la, the activity monitor is more like ctrl+alt+del