

The MacBook Pro 15-inch still sports an impressive 15.4-inch glass-covered widescreen display, with an eye-catching 1,440-by-900 resolution display. Considerably thicker and heavier is the plastic bodied Toshiba Satellite P755-S5269 ($979.99 list, 4 stars), which measures 1.4-inches thick, and weighs in at 5.8 pounds.

It's the same weight as the Dell XPS 15z (Microsoft) ($999 direct, 4 stars), but just a hair thinner. The MacBook Pro 15-inch's distinctive unibody chassis, milled from a single piece of aluminum, weighs 5.5 pounds and measures just 0.95 inch at its thickest point. There may be one or two areas where competing desktop replacement laptops do better, but the total package is put together so well-design, software, and components are so well integrated-that it earns our Editors' Choice for desktop replacement laptops. It ratchets up the components, with all new graphics and processing hardware, and Apple's-award winning OSX Lion operating system. The Apple MacBook Pro (late 2011) ($1,799 direct) keeps the iconic look of previous iterations, with the same unibody design and backlit chiclet keyboard as seen on the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Thunderbolt) ($2,199 direct, 4 stars).

In the competitive desktop replacement laptop category, there's no question that laptop manufacturers have been gunning for Apple's top spot, emulating every aspect of the MacBook Pro, from its comfortable keyboard and clickpad to its thin, under-an-inch profile. MobileMark 2007 – Standard Battery Productivity Load (hrs:min): MobileMark 2007 – Standard Battery Productivity Load (hrs:min): Lost Planet 2 (DX9) - Middle quality - 1,024 x 768- AA/AF=Off/Off: Lost Planet 2 (DX9) - High quality - Native - AA/AF= 0X/4X:
