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Mar 28, 08 - 10:28 am Comment from: TowerTone

Cisco Cheng? Isn't that Cheech and Chong's love child?
(but I kid. It was a good review)

Mar 28, 08 - 10:33 am Comment from: M. T. MacPhee

"For that, it retains the Editors' Choice for MAINSTREAM laptops."

"I can't think of any MAINSTREAM laptop other than the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Penryn) that does as good a job of combining fabulous design elements with top-of-the-line performance parts."

Whoa! Did you feel the disturbance in the Force?

Mar 28, 08 - 10:46 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Schwinnngg!

just my take, but the switch to Intel changed the fight from Mac v. Windows to Apple v. Gateway/HP/Dell - by skimming the most profitable sales from them, Apple finds itself battling against progressively weaker competitors

tactically, that was a nice move

"frustrated Windows users"

That just about sums it all up. I installed Vista on my new Penryn 15.4" MBP 2.5GHz just to see what all the excitement was about. I haven't used it once in the two weeks I've had my new machine. Probably just end up deleting it.

Mar 28, 08 - 11:07 am Comment from: Cubert

Mikey-Boy,
I hope you realize that the Blu-Ray drive in these laptops is READ ONLY. Tack on another $200 if you want to burn. Tack on more to bring the hardware specs up to even MacBook levels and you have easily a $1800 laptop (and way more to bring it up to MacBook Pro specs). Let's see what Apple charges for their laptops when they come out with Blu-Ray.

Mar 28, 08 - 12:20 pm Comment from: nekogami13

You want blu-ray burning, buy one of these:
http://fastmac.com:16080/slim_bluray.php

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10867

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRFWU25582T/

http://www.addonics.com/products/external_cd/mobilehd_dvd_rrw.asp

"Whoa! Did you feel the disturbance in the Force?"

That's just gas.

Physical media is dead. Next versions of the macbook and macbook pro aren't going to have dvd or bluray drives.

Mar 28, 08 - 03:21 pm Comment from: flappo

i agree

bye bye blu ray

"Physical media is dead."

Slapstick or pro wrestling?

Mar 28, 08 - 04:02 pm Comment from: Spark

From the full article:
"With all the time spent on perfecting the MacBook Air 's design, it's surprising that Apple did little to enhance the looks of the MacBook Pro 15-inch (Penryn)."

It's not surprising to me. Even after all these years I cannot think of a better looking laptop. The MB Air is a different beast. The MBPro cannot fit into that sleek form factor. I, for one, am not bored with the MB Pro design. And frankly, I respect Apple more for not making an attempt at artificially boosting sales by changing the exterior looks year after year. My MB Pro Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) may not be as fast as the new Penryn models, but a least it doesn't look obsolete (which it is not).

Mar 28, 08 - 06:53 pm Comment from: Olmecmystic

Where's my Penryn 15" MacBook Air?

Come on, Steve! Get the design elves busy!

Peace.
Olmecmystic

Mar 29, 08 - 11:08 am Comment from: 84 Mac Guy

For all you young folks out there, only a few short years ago the word "Apple" could never be found in PC Magazine.

Soon Windows will barely be visible in the rear-view mirror.