Apple - MacBook Pro with Retina display (Latest Model) - 13.3" Display - 8GB Memory - 512GB Flash Storage - Silver

Incredibly fast - super graphics and sound is good! Light weight is a plus in going to and from school.

The BEST computer, the BEST deal ,the BEST BUY!!!!!

Well I spent weeks doing my research, and most importantly trying to decide if I wanted to change from my old Toshiba laptop to a MacBook. I knew there would be a learning curve to get used to the small differences that there are between a PC and a Mac. I don't have a tremendous amount of free time and I surely didn't want to spend it learning how to transition and operate in a new format. Ultimately I decided it was best for my wife and I that we have a MacBook as it would work well with our iPhones. Of course I didn't quote know what that meant. I was very wary of the difference in price - the MacBooks were quite a bit more expensive than a PC. I was told that Apple uses "premium" components in building their computers. That's all fine and dandy, but had a hard time paying nearly double and not getting the highest processor, the highest hard drive, as well other items. Having an old PC that was so slow it was painful, I couldn't much of a difference between the fastest PCs and the MacBook I ended up with. I asked a lot of questions to the sales staff, and found they weren't well equipped to answer the main question of what the main difference was between the PCs and the Macs. I took my research to friends and online forums. Ultimately there was too much online and my friends gave the best advice and info on how they are different. So I won't do it justice here, but there are MANY ways in which the MacBooks are superior to PCs. The biggest knock against a Mac is that they are less customizable. Well I couldn't care less about manipulating my computer - I just want it to work. The MacBooks make most things more simple. From organization, to functionality, it just works better. They offer the same level of simplicity (in the right ways) as the iPhone does. Setup was very easy. I thought I would need Geek Squad to help, but the migrate assistant was very easy. I did make one mistake though, when transferring data from my PC to the Mac, I plugged the two computers together via ethernet, but instead I was supposed to plug them both into my router. After quite some time of online research I finally realized they were supposed to be put together through the router. I was glad I bought the ethernet adapter (there is no ethernet port on this laptop) because I don't know if I would have been able to transfer my data from my old PC if not for it. Aside from this setup was very easy. I was annoyed that all computers and laptops no longer come with a CD-ROM / DVD drive. I did purchase an external BluRay player, which I am please with. It works well and I really don't use it much. So having it external makes the actual laptop more portable. I purchased Microsoft Office when I bought the laptop, as there were discounts to do so. I am happy I have it, and it works well. Looks just slightly different, but works the same. I was surprised to find that my text messages link to the MacBook, so I can send and receive them. My yahoo email also works nicely through their program. It reminds me of having Outlook run your email although it doesn't operate the same. I just like it. As expected the iPhones link simply and quickly through the MacBook. I also LOVE the HDMI port. I like using it to connect to the TV to run Skype and it will work well with other streaming media like Netflix and Hulu (don't have now, but will in the future). I wished the hard drive was bigger. I know it will fill quickly as everything seems to be taking up more space as time goes on. Overall I'm very pleased with it. If you are on the fence between the two, I would strongly recommend going for it, especially if you are already and iPhone user. Many programs/apps are the same for both. It helps to make a transition more simple. I can't remember all the different ways in which it's better, but it's just a lot of little things that make the experience better. If you are new to Apple, be prepared to be a bit more patient while you learn the differences. On occasion things will come up that annoy me because I knew how to do them on the PC, but will have to look online for answers. Also don't worry so much about getting the top of the line processor, I have the 5 and it's plenty fast. In my opinion though it's worth paying for the hard drive space. I have owned this MacBook for 2+ months and am feeling pretty good about how everything works.

I purchased this because my old 15" Macbook is now 6 years old and the hard drive was getting full and I wanted something a little smaller for travel. It was so easy to transfer everything over from my old one to my new one; I didn't even have to connect the two although that would have made it faster. On the downside, there is no optical drive on the new Macbook. I didn't realize that until I went looking for it when I wanted to burn a CD. I will have to buy an external optical drive which isn't a huge deal considering how infrequently one uses those anymore. But if you want to watch movies regularly from a DVD, you should consider that. Also, I do not like the new "Photos" software which replaces iPhoto. iPhoto is way better and luckily I didn't make the mistake of updating Yosemite to 10.2.3 or I would have lost it. If you update to Yosemite 10.2.3, be warned that your iPhoto will be replaced with Photos. I am going to use 10.2.2 for as long as possible to avoid this. I made the mistake of updating to 10.2.3 on my old Macbook and now I have to use Photos on that computer and it is awful compared to iPhoto. I am a photographer so this is a big issue for me. They removed a lot of the editing features that I frequently used, in the new software and I really hate it. Other than that I am very happy with this new Macbook.

This is the first MacBook I've ever purchased and I have to say that it's the best laptop of any kind that I have ever owned. I always thought Macs were too expensive and total rip offs until I started seeing that all the Windows laptops that I wanted to get were the same price. So I figured if I'm going to spend that much I might as well get a Mac. I love the new OSX and updated it to El Capitan. The battery life on OSX is amazing. I also installed Windows 10 on it to run Visual Studio 2013. Installing Windows was super easy through the El Capitan boot camp. You don't even need a flash drive. El Capitan will locate the windows file on your computer and install it automatically. The build quality of this machine is unlike any other I have owned. All real metal and beautiful resolution screen. At first I was skeptical of what looked like a lack of ventilation but under OSX the laptop doesn't even get that hot. The trackpad is a thing of beauty and feels really well built and professional. I was going to get the new Magic Mouse but the trackpad is a better experience as there's no force touch on any magic mouse. I didn't like that there were no CD drives or ethernet ports. However upon browsing the Apple web site I saw an adapter that goes into one of the thunderbolt ports that will support an ethernet cable. This is great because it doesn't even take up a USB spot. Also, Apple sells an external CD/DVD drive but I haven't had a need for that yet. Especially since El Capitan's new boot camp capabilities. I really like this computer and would definitely buy another one in the future. The only thing I didn't like was that there was no gold version like the New 12" MacBook. I hope that future MacBook Pro models will come in gold. Other than that, I am very happy with my purchase and am a new fan and customer of Apple.

The Macbook Pro 13 (Early 2015 Model) is lightning fast. The new touchpad is extremely easy to use and has a very unique feel to it with the Taptic feedback settings. You can now push harder on the touchpad and it acts as a new click (3 finger gesture control was the same). You will get an extra 1 hour of battery life from this version and the 2014 model (I tested to confirm). The screen has the same brightness (around 300 nits). The SSD card read and write times have doubled from last year. The memory is faster at 1867 MHz and the Graphics is a new Intel Iris 6100 using 1.5MB of RAM. If you have a 2014 model this might not be the greatest update for you but if you have the 2013 or older this is a huge upgrade and easily worth the money. If you are on a budget but need a work horse and you like the Mac OS then you could also consider the 2014 model since it is now $150 cheaper. You can also do some gaming on this and if you have a Steam account you can also stream from another Mac or PC to this laptop with no problem. This will be the laptop I get my son when he leaves for college in the fall. I was going to get the Macbook Air for him but since the battery is now just as long on the Macbook Pro and the extra power, it's the right choice.

I am a long time customer of Apple computers and products and continue to be but not without some protest. If you are thinking about getting this laptop I would seriously consider making sure you figure out which hard drive size you need as any hard drive size below 512GB can quickly become full, especially if you are not one to keep your computer clean of old files and have lots of media such as music and pictures. There are products on the market such as Tardisk which is great for helping with issues like lack of space. I however am a power user and with a dual boot system and solutions such as this do not allow me to use Windows and Mac on the same system. Overall this product will be the most reliable computer you will have had if switching from Windows. Be advised that what you buy is what you get, so make sure to do your homework to find out the computer you need.

I love my macbook pro. I purchased it primarily to use for school, and since I have a while to go before I finish school, I chose apple because the life span of their products is probably by far the best over any other companies , and I do have a windows pc still but it is up there in age and thus it is so much slower in processing than I like. My macbook is one purchase that was well worth it. It is so fast compared to my windows, the space on here is great, it's so reasonably light to carry and I love the preinstalled features such as the blue tooth technology, which allows me to send text messages to other iphone users and to answer phone calls to my iphone right on my laptop. This feature is great for the times when I am downstairs on the couch doing homework, but I left my phone upstairs to charge and people are texting and calling me. I also love how much easier it is to manage and keep up with compared to my windows. It's just so simple. The only complaint I have is that I didn't realize that it doesn't have a built in CD drive before I got it and additionally, it doesn't have the number short cut key pad off to the right of the key board like my windows does. I only like the CD drive idea because about half of my 1000+ songs in my itunes library came from CDs, and I do still occasionally buy some CDs today to download to the music from to itunes library, so needless to say, my itunes library is still on my windows pc because I cant figure out how to get all my music that came from CDs onto the mac without a CD drive (my back up hard drive device does not work either for moving my library from the pc to my mac), and as far a the number pad goes, I have quite a few passwords that involve several numbers and I just like that the number pad is so much easier and quicker to use than using the numbers that are overtop of the letters as they are on it currently. Other than that I am glad that I bought it and it's a great buy!