Apple Macbook Pro

"For clarification, I have the 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo model with 4 GB of RAM

Though this is not the first laptop I have used, it is the first laptop I have owned and I am in love. It was my only computer for this past summer and it performed fantastically and now that I am home again and around other computers, I prefer to use it over my usual machines.

I don't have any real 'cons' to list because, as I said, I don't have much to compare it to but I do want to emphasize that this machine is whisper quiet for me. I actually thought something was *wrong* with it because it was so quiet - I usually have to put my ear on it to hear anything! (Note that I am usually using my MBP in a cool-ish environment). Also I don't find it to be a very hot laptop. Past PC laptops I have used would scald your legs if you sat it in your lap but I can sit for a few hours with this on my lap and it only just gets slightly uncomfortable. So if this is what people mean by "Too hot" then I am impressed. ;)

Other items of note:
. I LOVE the 'chickle' style keyboard with the black keys set apart from one another. It makes touch-typing easier than on older models whose keys bled into one another, making it easy to drift away from proper home row position. And because the keys are pretty much identical to current Apple keyboards, there's none of that readjustment that used to happen when swapping between typing on a clunky external keyboard and a too-small laptop. Also, the backlighting works and looks great, especially with the black keys.

. The multi-touch pad. I love this thing so much I wish I could buy an external one to use on my other computers. The gestures are useful, especially for browsing files (two-finger scrolling and a multi-finger swipe to go back and forward through nested folders, etc). Its smooth *and* you can set up the pad to 'click' with a touch-tap rather than depressing the entire pad (the entire pad is a button and there are no other click buttons). Tapping is much easier on the fingers and I find it frustrating that other laptops (like my sister's plain MacBook) do not have this feature.

Those are just the highlights for me. I'm sure people with much more laptop experience can get into more technical pros and cons but I am satisfied with my purchase. :)"