Item : B001P05NJ2 Customer Reviews Wonderful by .. Karen S. Hurl (York,pa) Thank you to the person who sold the Apple laptop. It was sent and recieved in great timming and was brand new as stated. 3 stars just because is not preloaded with ilife 09 by .. Hugo E. Bautista () The new macbook pro for my opinion it's one of the best laptops around. I'm no t going to be so specific about this wonderful notebook because other reviewers made a good job reviewing it. I just want to say that i don't give 5 stars to this magnific electronic piece just for the dissapointing issue that at this price this 15 inch macbook pro it's not preloaded with ilife '09 as Imacs do. Even the white macbook ($1300 less) comes preloaded with ilife '09. I have to spend about $60 more if i want to enjoy Ilife '09. We paid a lot more of cash and we have to pay more if we want to see running this software on our notebooks. Is not fair. I think we have the right to expect at least a free upgrade from Apple or Amazon. Don't know if i'm missing something or if i'm wrong but i just insist that is not fair. Best notebook computer ever by .. Wilbur Goltermann () I've owned eight laptop computers over the past 15 years and this is, without question, the best available. Its screen is very bright and easy to read; it is easier to read than even that on the Apple MacBook Pro 17", even though the screen is somewhat smaller. The new multi-touch trackpad is a vast improvement over trackpads of the past, though it takes some getting used to using the pad as both mouse navigator and mouse button. I can't say enough good about this computer. Impressive size, fast, solid feel, but with a caveat... by .. Twiddles42 (MN, USA) I do a lot of photography, graphic design, and web design. I recently bought a 24" iMac (the $1799 model with the 120GTX discrete video RAM) and am loving it. I had a choice: Spend $2500 for a Windows license of my Adobe products... or replace my Windows laptop with a Macbook. So I bought this Macbook. Vista turned me off of Microsoft for good. System requirements are asinine, which also means higher power requirements to do the same things I can do on the Mac. I've worked with PCs ever since Windows 1.0 -- and loathed the registry in Win95. But I digress... no more Windows. I throw an Apple and broke the Windows. :) I only mention price as a downer because the laptop has only 2GB of RAM and whose display contains a TN panel. I was hoping for a M-PVA or better. Still, looking directly at it, color shift is minimal. Still, my iMac's H-IPS panel monitor blows it away in terms of gamut and shadow detail. Not that 2GB is _bad_ or anything, but the screen was a disappointment for a $2000 notebook. As usual, OS X rocks. RAM is inexpensive, so to up this to 4GB is no ordeal. And I'll be honest: This thing is light and has a very solid feel. A comparable Windows laptop (think $1300) is twice as thick and needs far more than 2GB of RAM to make use of it. I'd rather have efficiency and quality for a higher price than another piece o' junk to be upgraded all the time. I'll keep major photo editing on the iMac because of its superlative display (no $500 PC monitor even comes close; more TN garbage but larger so the flaws become even more apparent), but this is capable of most design work that doesn't require pinpoint color manipulation. And there's plenty of that that can be done too. Perfect mobile workstation for a designer by .. Brian Ward (Dayton, OH USA) I bought this to replace my PowerPC G5 tower, but it's much more than a replacement, it's a big upgrade. I'm a web/motion designer, so even for projects at home I need some decent power. A Macbook Pro is pretty much the only way to go. Pros: I love how small it is, but the uni-body design also feels very sturdy. The LED-backlit screen is amazing and surprisingly bright. It's pretty fast using Adobe CS3 programs. I never have any trouble getting a strong connection to wireless networks. Cons: I didn't have an option to configure the laptop. It would have been worthwhile to me to upgrade to a 7200RPM hard drive and more RAM. But the cost savings were so great, I sacrificed these minor upgrades. I can add them later anyway if need be.