MacBook Pro Review Mashup

For all of you out there looking for reviews on the new MacBook Pro laptop series, wondering if it is worth your money, I have compiled a list of a few resources you might want to read before you make that final decision.

Mike Rundle and his article entitled MacBook Pro: Not Pro Enough chimes in saying:

I’m as big of a Mac fan as anybody else, but the new Apple MacBook Pro just doesn’t sit with me as well as I thought it would. I never expected that Apple’s pro-level laptop would be one of the first machines with an Intel chip in it, but I, and many rumor sites, were wrong. I’m currently in the market for a new laptop since I sold my previous PowerBook and iBook, and I was seriously looking into purchasing the new MacBook Pro but I’m a bit turned off after sniffing around a bit.

Perry Longinotti from NotebookReview.com says:

The PowerBook was a powerful brand, so it is a little bit surprising that Apple would abandon it. The shift from ‘Power’ to ‘Mac’ might be seen across the board as Apple works harder to differentiate their products from those of Dell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba and others. Even Apples can run Windows natively (as soon as Vista ships) but only Apples can run the MacOS so it makes to underline this distinction in the naming conventions.

I am not a product manager at Apple, but I will try to articulate their target audience for the MacBook. It does not appear that Apple is shifting its focus, they are clearly targeting this notebook at the same crowd the PowerBook was designed for: mobile professionals.

Lastly we have a small snippit from the review on ZDNet where they had this to say:

Bar none, the best thing about the MacBook Pro is that Apple has shelved IBM’s plodding G4 PowerPC processor in favor of Intel’s new Core Duo. We’re also psyched to see a decent graphics card onboard, ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of memory, along with x16 PCI Express architecture.

Overall the attitude towards the new machine is mixed, though it seems there are a few more people ready to put it down than praise the new changes, but I found those articles mostly shortsighted, save for Mike Rundle’s piece. It should be interesting to see how the MacBook Pro plays out, and if as many people that loved the PowerBook, are converted into MacBook lovers.

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