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I did not read all the posts but I would buy the Mac Book Pro, not going to get into a big discussion about PC/Mac either. Mac Book pros are just the best laptop with the best OS for photography bar none. They run flawlessly, the OS just smokes all the others, there is no lag times, no crashes, no issues at all. I have 2 Mac Book Pros since there launch I have not used anything else, I have tried a regular mac book ( good just the extra graphic power from a the pro is worth the cost) and I own a HP Laptop that was a gift from a client, top of the line, nice laptop but as far as using it for work it just does not compare.
If a Windows laptop was put on the Market that was on Par with a Mac Book Pro I would consider it, there isn't. The reason it is recommended it because it is the best for this type of work. No professional well paid photographer I know and I know many use anything but Mac Book Pros and other Mac computers, G5, iMac. We all use them for a reason, we are not "Fanboys" we are professionals who make a living and very good ones and know what is best. You think if I could buy a PC computer at less that performed as well I wouldn't? I upgrade on average 12-18 months and I keep an eye on what is out, what is current and most of all what is the best. So it is for a reason your told to get one, ask any top professional what they use and why and 9.9 times out of 10 they use Macs (Probably higher, I don't know one other photographer who doesn't own a a Macbook Pro). I don't know any portrait or wedding photographers so in that area I could be wrong, but those of us who do corporate, fine art, fashion all use Macs because they may cost more, but they are the best for what we do. Nothing to do with marketing, being a "fanboy" it is about using what is the best, the rest of the discussion is just utter nonsense period.
PS: Great move on getting one, you will be happy you did.
My MBP came with a keyboard with crooked keys. I had it fixed and they replaced it with a keyboard with crooked keys. CS3 crashes on my MBP. CS2 never crashed on my Vista notebook, which I've been running Vista on flawlessly since a few weeks after it's release. When I went to push the power button on my MBP about three weeks after having it, it dropped down into the case. Some times, it takes forever for Bridge to load up all the files as viewable thumbnails and I've gotten then spinning beach ball of death on more than one occasion.
If there were no problems, then you couldn't search yahoo or google for "Mac prbolems" and find whole forums dedicated to helping users with issues.
I know plenty of photographers that use other computers than a mac. I know some that got a better deal than buying something like a MBP. You definitely seem a bit jaded, so you'll probably ignore most of what I've said, but if you want, I can find you post after post from forum after forum with mac problems. It's a machine after all. They're not perfect unless you're oblivious to it's flaws. Anything and everything can fail at any point in time.
Ed. Oh, and by "OS smokes all others", you mean Windows right? Because OS X is based on UNIX/LINUX and there's some flavors of LINUX that are just as good if not better than OS X.