MacBook Pro is Time&#039;s Gadget of the Week

Time Magazine's love affair with Apple continues (Tiger was Gadget of the Week, iPod shuffle was Gadget of the Week, G5 iMac was Gadget of the Week, Intel iMac was Gadget of the Week, Steve in Time's Top 100) as they name the MacBook Pro the Gadget of the Week. Wilson Rothman writes:

"It's easy to talk specs and features, but the MacBook's strengths come to light while in use...It's not easy to watch the highest-definition QuickTime movie trailers on a G4 PowerBook, and on many Centrino-based Windows notebooks, it can look pretty choppy, too. But on the MacBook Pro, 1080p movie trailers are smooth running."

For some odd reason, however, there's still a little voice in my head telling me to wait on purchasing one of these things. Or maybe it's my Powerbook sending me subliminal messages.

Thanks, Pieter!

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Source: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1168798,00.…

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mat

I hear the little voice too. Maybe it's my clam-shell iBook 300mhz calling out from that box in my closet.

March 06 2006 at 5:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Goobimama

How can the macbookpro display 1080p HD video? Isn't its vertical resolution 900p?

March 06 2006 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Ochs

If you need Pro apps, then wait. Otherwise, it's a damn nice machine. Not regretting mine at all, and I'm actually impressed at how fast Universal applications are showing up. Almost all of my internet applications are universal, as are most of my utilities. Productivity apps are lagging, but they run just fine in Rosetta. In my experience, Rosetta gives a "decent" experience - nothing to write home about, but it works without making you too aware of it - and Universal apps just *smoke*.

March 06 2006 at 1:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NetworkShadow

I'm holding off until rev B, they'll work out some bugs and bump the specs. More apps will be Universal by then also. It's very tempting to just order one now though... wow I want one.

March 06 2006 at 12:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

danb

Mine is in the post as it were. I think there is some fair concern particularly if you are a pro app user. I myself encounter photoshop and other adobe apps a few times a week and never for more than a hour so I think I should be fine as long as Rosetta does it's job. Also being a guinea pig as it were by purchasing a first of the line machine can have it's problems.

Never-the-less I am pining for the raw power this machine will pump out; that and the fact that my old 15" is on its death bed.

March 06 2006 at 11:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply