[Macworld]

Post your comments for MacBook Pros (13-inch, Mid 2009) here

[Chickenhawk212]

I love that they made the pros smaller, and i definitly missed the firewire card...im not sure how i feel about the SD slot in place of the express card slot though, i definitly use my express card slot.

[Troyallen]

Well, on the previous Macbook models, they never had an express slot to begin with, so it's not a big loss. The 15" pro models had the express slots.

[StorageMojo]

Does it boot any faster from the SD card than the disk?
Also, 7200 rpm, not 7400.

[oldmanca]

Isn't the back-lite keyboard new for the 13" aluminum? I don't remember hearing (or reading) that the aluminum MacBook had that previously Pro feature.

All in all, a nice machine. Good feature set, firewire 800, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 802.11 N, all hard to find in a Windows laptop. A pity my MacBook, an early 2008, white, 2.4 GHz, is still plenty for my needs.

[maestroman123]

I, unfortunately, was one of the suckers who purchased a 13 inch unibody MacBook "Amateur" back in October 2008.
When is someone in the Macworld community going to comment on the fact that for as along as I can recall, the unibody Macbook is the ONLY Macintosh computer to have a feature removed (firewire) only to have it resurrected when the computer is re-labeled a MacBook Pro 9 months later?
I guess I am now the proud owner of a collector's item. No other Macintosh, from the Mac Mini to the top-of-the-line Mac Pro has ever not been with the feature of firewire.
Apple realized their mistake, and customers like me are left in the dust.

[bjojade]

The MacBook Air also lacks a firewire connection.

[monsterfreecity]

The MacBook Air does not have Firewire.

[maestroman123]

Excellent point! I stand corrected. I guess my larger issue is with a critical feature being taken away and then added back only months later to a computer that still for all intensive purposes is the original unibody Macbook.

I guess I should amend to say that no other "Macbook" or even iBook (at least back to the G3 version) has been without firewire.

Thanks for calling me out on that.

[pln]

Lots of people (like my wife) have the original 1.83GHz CD MacBooks. It's hard to see how the new ones compare since these reviews only compare the most recent models. (I know, you don't have all the older models lying around to test).
So I looked back at the review from 2006 - http://www.macworld..../mbookmain.html
It scored 154 in SpeedMark 4.5, which (comparing with another couple of MacBook reviews where the 2.16GHz C2D MacBook was tested with SpeedMark 4.5 and later with SpeedMark 5) seems to equate to 140 in SpeedMark 5. So a nice benchmark improvement.

[mr_josh]

I bought one of these the day after they were released, to replace my 12" PowerBook. I absolutely am in love with it. An excellent upgrade to the unibody MacBooks at a price that I simply couldn't argue with (been looking to make the switch for a while).

[Don_Quixote]

I would rather have eSATA than FireWire.

[j1h15233]

I wish I could justify replacing my old Powerbook G4 with a new Macbook or iMac but Apple builds their stuff too well! I'm going on 4 years old with my computer and don't feel behind in tech unless I sit down next to a new Macbook. Well done Apple.

[richmack]

I got a 2.53 last week and have been very happy with it so far. We all wished our gadgets had this or that...for me Apple addressed all the shortcomings that the original 13" unibody MacBook had so I'm happy.