I bought a 17" MacBook back when Apple first introduced them (back then they were called "PowerBooks", of course). Five years later, it's amazing to see how far the MacBook has come.

It looks and feels almost exactly like the original, until you begin to notice the subtle details. The magnetic power cord that "pops" off if someone accidentally trips on it. The screen is sharper and has a significant boost in resolution. The processor is a screaming-fast dual-core intel. All wrapped up in its familiar aluminum shell, with a backlit keyboard. Ah, sweet bliss...

Now you can run windows on your beautifully designed mac along side MacOS X. What else could you ask for?

one of my favorite things

The design and construction of the system remain largely the same as last year's model, with a solid block of aluminum carved down, rather than a thin outer shell that has had support struts added to it. It's both lighter and sturdier than the older plastic versions of the 13-inch MacBook.

The new Pro also retains the same oversize trackpad, where the entire surface depresses like a button--although a simple tapping (as on a PC laptop) will also work once you turn that option on in the settings menu. We've become accustomed to the two-, three-, and four-finger multitouch gestures, which let you hide all your apps by sweeping four fingers up on the pad, or bring up the application switcher by sweeping four fingers left or right. Once you get used to that, going back to a regular touch pad is difficult.

According to Apple, the new display offers a wider color gamut, and the screen certainly looks bright and colorful, but we wish the same matte-screen option offered on the 17-inch MacBook Pro was available across the line. The 13.3-inch wide-screen LCD offers a 1,280x800-pixel native resolution, which is standard for screens this size, but we'd love to see Apple try its hand at a 16:9 laptop display.

While the LED screen means a thinner lid and some battery life benefits, the edge-to-edge glass covering the entire display panel grabs stray light rays with ease, making the glossy screen hard to see in some lighting conditions.

Epic computer full of epicness!

I'm a new Mac user and lover! I purchase the 13" MacBook Pro about 6 months ago and I can not live with out it. It's light to tote around with its awesome sleek, thin design. It starts up fast--programs, applications and web surfing is a cinch. Everything is just easier with a mac. The battery life is great! I can usually go a whole day without a charge. The battery is very light weight and is small. I use my notebook for school and business. I also got a pink hard case for it. This was the best investment I've made to date and I tell everyone that this machine is my golden "pink" ticket!

took to it like a duck to water!

Since dec. 2009 I have my first Mac, the MacBook Pro. It's a great laptop. Till now I was a windows user but I'm already fond of Apple with pages, numbers and keynotes. The browser Safari is not my choice, I work with Chrome.