The latest MacBook model, which is even on sale in eBay already (see eg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-13-3-MacBook-Pro-Computer-w-Retina-Display-MF840LL-A-Early-2015-/201416353314?) as well as other common Apple purchase channels, brings up more flesh on the bones of the successive and progressive story of the Apple laptop devices. As loyal to the annals of the history, this new MacBook introduces some new features in the diligent and smooth manner. All the details and new features are presented as well integrated, mature and indeed in the way that it seems that all of them already existed long time before and that they have a place in the product line and the use case, rather than being sexy and trendy as such.

This particular aspect is maybe one of the major things that many other mainstream Windows laptop manufacturers fail to accomplish. When new features are introduces on the other side of the fence, they are more often completely unfinished, not integrated to the product and yet often fully driven by the motivations which are not user-centric.

The new MacBook pro comes up with a new Trackpad, which enables a whole new gesture. Under the hood there is brand new processor, for the performance needs of the mobile devices. This processor architecture is something long being waited for, and this model is one of the very first products to provide it fully integrated and good. And as expected from the brand loyal product introduction, all the relevant features remain, and the performance and capacity has been increased slightly on all levels.

Good luck for the new MacBook Pro!

With the built-in 5400 rpm hard drive, the ratio between the gigabytes and dollars will be excellent. The rapid disks are running in full speed and in perfect concert, enabling the best possible read and write times for any business critical applications. Some of the new laptops are equipped with the SSD disks, however when there are no moving parts in them, they can actually be slower to write to, and cost you a lot more than the mature and well developed traditional disks.

The Toshiba Satellite C55 laptop has received good customer average rating 4/5, and for a reason, since it includes all the essential features one could expect to find in a midrange laptop like this.

For those customers who need productivity tools, the laptop comes with 1 month free trial for Microsoft Office together with a wide range of other utility applications.

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Asus has a new version of the N550 in stores, called the N550JK

It’s identical to the JV tested here, with one major difference: it bundles and Nvidia GTX 850M graphics chip, as opposed to the GT 750M chip on this one. And that translates in better gaming results, as the *50M is closer to the GTX 760M than to the 750M. Even so, I’d expect 10-15% better numbers in most games, so the gap is not impressive.

Overview – exterior and looks

We’ll start with the looks. Asus slightly redesigned the N550 and more importantly, made it thinner and lighter than last year’s model. As a result, while this is not as sleek as an ultrabook, it still is a fairly portable 15 incher.

The N550 also looks good and feels sturdy, reliable, mainly because aluminum is used for the entire casing. There are some darker sheets of metal on the hood and on the belly, while the silver interior is cast from a solid piece of the same material.

Asus took special care of the details as well. There’s a backlit logo on the lid, the same beveled edges we saw on the bigger N750 and also the same punctured patterns around the two buttons found above the keyboard. The one on the right is the Power button, while the one on the left launches the Asus Console, but can also be configured to launch an app of your liking, if you want to.

Screen

A very good one by the way, that reacted snappy and accurate to my touches. Of course, having a touchscreen brings along the glossy glass on top of the actual panel, with its reflections in strong light, but since the N550 is going to live most of its days inside, that shouldn’t bother you that much.

As for the actual panel, Asus bundles a 1080p IPS one on this laptop (hardware ID: LGD0323 ), the same they offer on the Zenbook UX51. It’s a bright enough display that offers fairly good colors and contrast, so definitely a big leap from the TN screens we’ve seen on Asus multimedia laptops in the past. Of course, most IPS screens come with light bleeding around the edges and there’s some visible on this particular unit as well. You’ll probably only notice this when watching movies flanked by black bars and you’ll eventually grow to ignore it. At least I did…

Thus, if you own a N56, there’s little reason to upgrade to the N550. But if you’re considering choosing one over the other, unless the older version is a lot cheaper, I’d go for the new N series member. As for how the N550 stands next to its rivals from Dell, HP, Lenovo and others, I’ll hold any judgement until I get to spend at least some time with those.

And that pretty much wraps this out. Bottom point, I liked the N550 and I do think it’s a worthy successor for the N56. But I’d love to know what do you guys think about it too. So leave your replies, and questions if you have any, below.