Macbook Pro, consumer grade?

dbcooper · June 6, 2014

Are Macbook Pros "consumer grade" laptops? Or do they have better quality hardware?

Please, Mac/PC fanboys, step aside..

PhantomChevron · June 6, 2014

Well, they are technically aimed for consumers anyway, so yea, it is a consumer grade product

Lyons · June 6, 2014

They're whatever you want, they cater to both consumers and pros. The 'Pro' moniker is just a carry on from the original Macbook Pro models that was used because back in 2006/2007 they were considered very high end laptops and were used typically by professionals - but thats not to say they aren't used in the same fashion today.

Features that cater more to pro/prosumer are:

- PCIe storage

- High PPI screen

- Multiple Thunderbolt ports

- Relatively powerful terminal input ability

- FCP/etc., great content creation tools and ability

They're just really good laptops. As for the hardware itself, the CPU's and GPU's, motherboards, etc. are all made in the same factories and uses the same processes as any other laptop.

jezza39 · June 6, 2014

The 13 inch isn't very 'Pro', the 15" is though. They're not designed for gaming, you won't see any GTX870Ms etc. A good quad core, an OC'ed GTX750M for Cuda acceleration, Iris Pro for Open CL. They are fantastically build with a rock solid OS (if you don't want to game), but are very pricey.