Thunderbolt MacBook Pro: “The Last Notebook You’ll Ever Need”

Is that sort of like “The Last Whole Earth Catalog?” Well, at least the last notebook you’ll need to buy for three to five years.

InfoWorld’s Tom Yager says if the new MacBook Pro and its amazing Thunderbolt don’t blow your mind, you’re not paying attention, noting that from the outset, Apple’s MacBook Pro has been the standard-bearer for professional notebook computers with Apple’s “go the extra mile” engineering setting the bar for performance, durability, build quality, longevity, ergonomics, battery life, and connectivity. Yager observes that for the past several years, Apple has had only itself to outdo with each new generation of MacBook Pro, yet has still managed to set and advance the pace, such as with its one-piece machined aluminum frame and dynamic GPU switching being among many unique and jaw-dropping innovations, and with the new Thunderbolt MacBook Pro, buyers will realize double, triple, and order-of-magnitude level improvements that can justify spending $1,799 to $2,499 on a notebook in a dodgy economy — a brand of magic that can’t be (or at least hasn’t been) conjured up by Apple’s competitors – Yager contending that what Apple has wrought with metal, glass, genius, and OS X can’t be replicated with plastic and Windows, and that Mac notebooks are faster than PC counterparts isn’t Apple fanboy mythology. It’s by design.

You can read this enthusiastically effusive, thorough, and technically detailed review here (highly recommended if you’re a MacBook fan, and especially if you’e equivocating about whether to purchase or upgrade to an early 2011 MacBook Pro):
http://bit.ly/gIKjZR