ASUS UL20A-A1 Thin and Light 12.1-Inch Silver Laptop - 7.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)
Unibody Macbook Pro - Solid Performer! Best Price Cheap Apple MacBook Pro.
Apple MacBook Pro MC118LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop Reviewed by T. J. Oh (Boulder, CO, USA)
Satisfied Rating (10/10)
I switched to Mac about 5 years ago and I used different Mac (PowerBook G4 1.66 GHz, 2.0 GHz Mac mini, MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz (pre-unibody), unibody MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz). I manually update the MBP with Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm (not anti-shock version) 500 GB and has been great so far. The monocoque design appears to be significantly better build quality than previous versions and larger trackpad is a joy to use.
I compared the response of the system with the standard 5,200 rpm and 7,200 rpm hard drive and found that 7200 rpm hard drive significantly improves the performance of this machine. I have heard that solid state drives offer even better results, so if you can afford, you can consider the option SSD. For the 7200-rpm hard drive, make sure you purchase an anti-shock, shot HDD (in the case of Seagate, the G-models), because there are enough stories about how the anti-shock HDD technology is at odds Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor.
The appearance of the laptop is nice and all is well constructed (inside, outside). On top of that, it runs Mac OS X 
This is the best laptop I've ever owned.
Pro: Use Mac OS X, solid build quality, excellent battery life, 4GB of memory standard
Cons: you need to buy mini display port - DVI, VGA adapter separately, stains on screen keyboard, trackpad, not a line in the middle regarding the space bar
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