Good or bad time to buy a MBP?

[Tyranicus]

I can't imagine the entire platform not supporting Blu-ray movies though. There has to be some application that can do it on OS X, if it can read BR data discs.

There is. DVDFab will do it, and I believe there are some other third party applications that will play Blu-Ray discs as well.

 

[Koing]

I've only used my dvd drive in my macbook about 5x in the last 5yrs. The last time was last week and then it doesn't even f0cking work now 🙁

Koing

 

[BrightCandle]

Depending on your reasons to buy a MBP you may also find some of the competing solutions from Dell/HP/Sony in this area have improved a great deal. They already released some haswell hardware based laptops. The recent models also have retina pixel density screens along with similar processors/RAM/SSDs etc at comparable prices and sometimes cheaper prices. I was surprised to find that the touchpad on some of the Sony machines is every bit as good as the MBP. Its certainly worth looking at what is out there depending on how much of your desire for a MBP is based on OS X verses getting a good hardware platform.

Although who knows what the next MBP will come with, we might get even more pixel density or something shiny rather than just a refresh with Haswell hardware.

 

[Eug]

If it doesn't run OS X, I'm not interested. Personally, I'd rather just use my 2009 MacBook Pro than use the latest Dell/HP/Sony Haswell ultrabook with Win 7/8.

 

[TheStu]

If it doesn't run OS X, I'm not interested. Personally, I'd rather just use my 2009 MacBook Pro than use the latest Dell/HP/Sony Haswell ultrabook with Win 7/8.

Especially with resolutions above 1080p. OS X on portables, period.

 

[Koing]

If it doesn't run OS X, I'm not interested. Personally, I'd rather just use my 2009 MacBook Pro than use the latest Dell/HP/Sony Haswell ultrabook with Win 7/8.

Same. Win7/8 now just confuses me. I've been on OS X since 2008 and I'd rather go back to Windows XP.

Koing