Nick762

A couple of months ago my laptop finally gave up the ghost and I looked at speccing up a new one. I used to enjoy this but there seems to be so much choice now I really couldn't be bothered. I had looked at a MacBook when I bought my old laptop but was put off by the cost for a sufficiently high spec machine.

This time I looked again and with a choice of half a dozen or so configurations it was a lot easier and I finally bit the bullet and got myself a 15" MacBook Pro. I'm very pleased with it so far although it's early days, I've also got a Windows 7 desktop to compare with so time will tell.

The bundled software is quite impressive and I started off using OpenOffice (freebe) although since my wife has decided she needs to use it I'm going to have to buy M$ Office instead. The purists would say go for iWork but as I've never used that I didn't want to learn yet another application so I can't comment. The bundled backup app Time Machine is in my experience a lot less hassle than anything that was bundled with Windows. I also use the Mac versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. A number of my favourite PC progs like World of Warcraft come on disks that are dual format so I didn't have to buy them again.

The build quality is impressive and if the worst comes to the worst I can always go back to Windows...