Should I buy a macbook pro or an iPad 2?

brother/sister,

We are all guilty of wanting new latest and greatest, be glad you have the option!! I really had to dig down and not sell my C2D 7,1 and not get a 2011 MBP and at this point I'm glad I didn't. If you look at the board you'll see the problems people are having. A 2012 MBP will be better, sandy bridge will be more mature and hopefully a graphics card will end up in the 13" size again..I leaned this in college too, when you can't decide DON'T decide because whatever decision you make will be WRONGi IMHO indecision is you brain telling you to stop.

It never hurts to wait, be sure to ***** your needs vs. wants. If your current laptop is doing everything you need it to, then there's no need to get a new machine, only a desire. If you can justify it based on that, and the money can't be better spent somewhere else, go nuts.

At the risk of going on a tangent here, I do know where you're coming from. I had an IBM tower several years back, one of the first Pentium 4's. That machine lasted me a good 6-7 years ( I can probably thank XP Pro for this, **** of an OS without any B.S. "bloatware") before I finally replaced it with an iMac in 2008. Although the last couple years were getting increasingly painful, I was always able to keep the thing running somewhat smooth. You'd be surprised what a difference a re-formatting / re-installation of Windows can make. I backed up what was important, and would start fresh with Windows and installing all my programs as I needed them probably about once or twice a year. It wasn't until about the last 2 years when I was starting to find it wasn't cutting it anymore. I of course had upgraded the RAM and HDD along the way.... Anyway I think you get my point. I had wanted to go Mac for a number of years, but in the end I was glad that I held out as long as I did. If I hadn't, I'd now have a G4 or G5 that is no longer supported as of Snow Leopard... Plus todays Mac's are cooler looking and less iRobot like =)

Just for the record, I have a 13" MBP i7 with none of the issues others are having with some of the new Sandy Bridge MBP's, though it's a good point that the next generation may have some of these flaws worked out or run cooler, IF Apple uses the next generation Ivy Bridge chips in the next refresh. Let's not forget how long they have kept the Core 2 Duo's going.

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I never thought such a device could be such a game changer. At first my wife was questioning why she needed one - I bought 2, one for her and one for me. Now she LOVES it!! Since getting the iPad2, the whole family find ourselves surfing/ browsing on it all the time instead of our computers. We signed up for hulu plus and netflix, plus there are so many cool apps, like flipboard, evernote, garageband, pages/numbers/keynote, ibooks, facetime plus many more. ... and it so easy to download!!! It's too bad about flash, but to be honest, I haven't notice too many sites that give me problems. My nieces and nephews(going to college next year) were all excited when I brought my iPad over this past weekend, even my mom (in her 70's) was interested in it. Because it holds a charge close to 10 hours +/-, it's really convenient to just carry around - think of it as a digital notebook, just on click of the home button and your up and running! Get the iPad2. You won't regret it. Good luck.

Or you can buy them two in one. I'll explain it. You can buy a Ipad 2 from Apple and a case that will make your Ipad a Macbook Pro with touchscreen. You can buy this case on www.stylusenlaserpennen.nl .