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    my macbook pro...

    ...just shipped from shanghai.

    too stoked right now.
    "...And my quarter is ruined. My business lost about 200K in revenue.

    On a positive note, I did save some money on car insurance by staying with GEICO..."

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    mine is going to be here in a week no more waiting for ages to compress video with H.264!

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    hopefully yours won't ship back and forth across the country like my powerbook did

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    My MBP is the best machine I've ever had.

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    I'm on mine right now. It's my first mac and I love it!

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    Very nice. I'm on one as well and has been a pretty painless switch from windows. I wanted to wait for the Core 2 Duos to be releases but unfortunately school didn't let me wait long enough.

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    Before my MBP, my previous Apple was a IIe back in the day. I love my MBP, run linux & windows on it thx to Parallels. Quite versatile and Open Office has finally been ported over as well.

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    my MB shipped from Suzhou, China, last month, wherever the hell that is. Pretty amazing that these things are being fed-exed direct from China to the States, no intermediary warehouse or anything.

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    I just got a new one a couple weeks ago. 2 gigs of ram makes me happy.

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    Yeah i've been on mine for about 7 months and i love it.....i run both OS X and Windows (parallels)......i got the 2.16 and 2 gigs o ram.......macs rule

    Enjoy......

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    I'm about to order the 20" imac with the 2.33 processor, 2 Gigs of RAM, and the upgraded graphics card since I'm using it for film editing, and it's way bigger/cheaper than the MBP.

    Other than portability is there any reason why I should consider the MBP over the imac?

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    Quote Originally Posted by robokill1981 View Post
    I'm about to order the 20" imac with the 2.33 processor, 2 Gigs of RAM, and the upgraded graphics card since I'm using it for film editing, and it's way bigger/cheaper than the MBP.

    Other than portability is there any reason why I should consider the MBP over the imac?
    Apple portables usually have a better resale value than the iMac. (+1 MBP)
    The Macbook Pro was *just* upgraded (7 days ago) whereas the iMac is mid-product cycle (55 days old of ~150day cycle) (+1 MBP)
    The iMac tops out at 2GB of RAM, whereas the MBP can have 3GB (+1 MBP)
    Larger internal HD capacity with the iMac (+1 iMac), however this can be met by having an external HD, which you should have anyway to back your shit up (Push), however the MBP has a FW800 port whereas the iMac does not (+1 MBP)
    The iMac has a faster DVD Burner (barely), (+1 iMac)
    Both can have 256MB of graphics memory (Push), however the MBP with 256MB has a 2.33GHz processor (+1 MBP)
    Macbook Pro is Portable, has a backlit keyboard (which is nice), and all the power of the iMac. (+1 MBP)
    Comparable MBP is $659 more than iMac (+1 iMac)
    MBP increases your chances of getting bowed down on 5x, whereas the iMac is 0x (+1 MBP)

    MBP (7)>>iMac (3)
    iMac: Macbook Pro:


    I might have worked for Apple at one point. Or I might just be a geek doing everything possible to delay studying for my exams tomorrow.

    Cheers.
    ...so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

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    That's some solid info there Kristof and definitely saved me a trip to the apple store. If I have the 2.33 with the 256mb graphics card on the imac isn't that the same was what's offered on the MBP? I just checked again and the iMac can go up to 3Gigs (for something like $600) though. For editing purposes though I think the 3 inch larger screen for $700 less seals the deal on the imac for me...although if I could afford it I'd get the mac pro and an even bigger screen.

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    Oh yeah, I suppose I forgot to include the screen size. +1 iMac

    There are slight differences in the graphics chipset between the Radeon X1600 in the iMac and the Radeon Mobility X1600 in the MBP.
    ...so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

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    I got my MB about a month ago, went back and forth between the black MB or the 15" MBP, decided I had no need for all that power. First mac and I love it.
    Go Sharks.

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