I have been on a MacBook C2D 2.4 GHz (with 6 GB of RAM) for the past three years and wanted to upgrade and MB Air seemed to be the way to go. Selling iPhone and MacBook Air and get 13 "w / 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD, to be exact. Apple Store, I realized that the MacBook Air (at this point) is really old technology in a stunning form factor, but I did not feel forced to spend $ 1,800 on the same processor, which I had for three years already. then the new MB Pro showed up and after 72H with it, I'm super happy.
This MBPro with the new i7 2.7 GHz CPU is about twice as fast as the 2008 MacBook I had. It got 6800 points on Geekbench. Installation of Mac Office 2011 and Adobe CS3 was super fast and I look forward to have VMware Fusion running much better than the older MacBook. I saw all iPad2 Keynote (1h) through wireless on the battery, plus an hour's surfing, said battery 4h still, awesome! I have already changed the hard drive of a 320GB/7200 and after 6-12 months, I could go SSD, but now I will stay with regular disks. There are some big 750GB / 7200rpm drives now for around $ 100.
It's easy. I love the illuminated keyboard, finally, smaller pro machine. The touch pad is awesome. The new LED screen is super sharp and clear. The new HD 3000 graphics chip is really good, and enough light Photoshop work. I can only recommend it. If you think that the MBP 13 ", go for the fastest processor that this (2.7 i7) and get all the other upgrades later. Extra RAM is cheap these days and better hard drive and soon the prices of SSDs will come down as well. Replace the hard drive is easy and just like all Pro models of the past two years or so. I can not wait to put the 500GB SSD in this for 1-2 years and have it fly ... love this machine, the best Mac ever (for PowerBook and MacBook 2).
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