I disagree with his opinion of the MacBook Pro glass screen. I think it looks great, it's very easy to clean, and it simply doesn't scratch. It's one of the main reasons I went with a MacBook Pro.
Between the all-aluminum enclosure and the glass screen, you'll have a laptop that will always look almost as good as the day you bought it, and that means great things for resale value.
On the other hand, my original plastic MacBook looked very aged after two years of heavy use.
Man you must treat your MBP pretty delicately. My MPB looks like it got in a fight with a baseball bat and an angle grinder, and I carried it around in a padded laptop backpack for only a year.
Thank goodness I almost never put disks in the drive the case around the opening is so bent I don't think I can anything in or out of there.
(The screen still looks pretty good even if I can't ever seem to get the brightness to where I want it).
I put mine in a panier on the way to San Diego, and a loose screw drilled a hole in the aluminum lid. I put a github sticker over the hole, and things still work great.
I wish I knew. I do know when the drive got wrecked, it was after sitting in my carry on after a 16 hour plane ride overseas. I don't even take it out anymore I'm so scared about the fragility of it. I have to say this, overall it looks better after a year of hard use than most of my Dells.
My other notebooks look terrible too, but I attribute that to cheap plastic. Little pieces broken off on the corners, battery that won't stay in place, etc.
Before my MBP I had a black MacBook. It was nice but much closer in durability to a PC. The matte surface got shined up in the corners a lot worse than the Thinkpad T before it.
At this point, I doubt I'd buy another laptop without the all metal unibody construction.
My MacBook Pro (non-unibody) has taken a couple of tumbles, one of the corners is bent inwards, on the side the metal is all crumbled because it hit a corner while in my backpack.
It gives it character, and so far every time that I have been at the Apple Store they have looked at it, I've had to tell them that no that was there a long time before the issue I am there to fix appeared and they should replace the hardware that is failing (I've had bad luck with the Nvidia graphics card in it).
Still works perfectly and looks a hell of a lot better than the Dell laptops and HP laptops my friends have. It also has stood the test of time MUCH better than any other laptops I've owned, including various IBM ThinkPads, Toshiba's and whatnot. I love my MacBook Pro to death. People keep telling me to buy a new Windows based laptop but I refuse :P
Between the all-aluminum enclosure and the glass screen, you'll have a laptop that will always look almost as good as the day you bought it, and that means great things for resale value.
On the other hand, my original plastic MacBook looked very aged after two years of heavy use.