Apple’s MacBook Pro has always had a sterling reputation as a dependable, fully functional and user friendly machine. Five years after its initial launch, it’s still as popular as ever.
The MacBook Pro is available in three different sizes: 13 inches, 15 inches and 17 inches. It features an LED backlit glossy or anti-glare widescreen, with it’s native resolution coming in at 1440×900. It runs on a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330m graphics processor and Intel HD Graphics with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM which is shared with the main memory. It offers dual display and video mirroring, as well as automatic graphics switching.
The 15 and 17 inch models now come with the fastest dual core processors available, the new Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. These processors come with Turbo Boost, so if you’re running a program that would run better from a little extra juice, Turbo Boost will increase the speed of it’s cores, boosting it from a 2.66GHz to a 3.33GHz computer.
The new energy efficient generation also features MacBook’s longest lasting battery. With one charge, the 13 inch will run up to 10 hours and the 15 and 17 inch goes for 8-9 hours. What’s even better is the battery lasts up to three times longer than the typical lifespan of notebook batteries.
Not only is the operating system, Snow Leopard, user friendly, the laptop itself is comfortable to use with its full size backlit keyboard and track pad making for a good all around experience.
The MacBook Pro isn’t preloaded with bloat ware like most Windows computers, and it is preloaded with the software suite iLife, which includes a wide variety of useful programs.
iMovie is a video editing software that stores all of your videos in one convenient spot. Most people are familiar with dragging and dropping, and video editing is just as easy as that with iMovie! You just have to drag your favorite movies, audio and pictures, create a few title screens and then you have yourself a masterpiece made by you! iMovie also offers stabilization to video shaky videos, the option to burn your video to DVD and the ability to share it with your friends on Facebook!
iPhoto is a program that organizes all of your pictures. iPhoto has a face recognition feature that automatically detects faces to easily add names to photos and search for photos by person. If you take pictures with your iPhone or any GPS enabled camera, iPhoto will automatically sort your photos by location. If you are a Facebook user, you will love how Facebook friendly iPhoto is. You can change your profile picture, post pictures to your wall and if it recognizes the faces in the photos, it will tag your friends!
The MacBook Pro also comes with Garage Band, which takes the place of a full music studio, iWeb, to create and publish websites as well as iDVD, to burn DVDs.
One of the most beneficial programs that come with your MacBook Pro is called Time Machine. This program automatically saves everything on your computer, including photos, videos, documents, applications, music and settings. After you assign an external hard drive to the program, it will automatically back up your entire MacBook Pro every time you plug your drive in. The best part is, when you buy a new Mac and want to transfer everything over, all you have to use is Time Machine’s Migration Assistant!
If you’re looking for a machine that can handle your life, you’ve found it, and when purchasing a Mac, you’re getting the highest quality product with unbeatable support.