Apple were kind enough to exceed expectations with an even earlier delivery of the MBP. I've been using it now two weeks, and I'm quite happy with the upgrade. Some thoughts:
- It's bigger than I expected. Yeah, 15 is bigger than 12, but the widescreen caught me a bit by surprise. Everyone who has seen the MBP has more-or-less asked the same question: "is that 15 or 17 inches?" Strangely enough, for how big the screen is, the laptop is bloody thin -- slightly thinner than my old PB12. On the positive side, I appreciate the extra screen real estate, but I tend to favour smaller notebooks.
- Man, is the screen bright! I'm pretty sure I'd have no issues seeing the screen in the noon day sun.
- I'm loving Parallels. No more am I having to go to a PC on the odd occasion when I need a Windows app. Due to patching and other Windows niceties, it actually took me about 3 times longer to set up the Windows guest compared to installing and getting Mac OS X up and going with my apps and patching.
- Obviously it's a lot faster. Everything is more or less instant, I'm guessing due to the excessive amount of memory configured (4 GB). Rosetta does a pretty nice job with PowerPC apps. Office2004 opens very quickly, not even considering the system is having to do binary translation. Even when I flick between desktops to my Windows XP virtual machine, it's literally instant and responsive after the key press of the shortcut.
- The MagSafe connector has been handy, which is suprising because it looked like a useless feature to me when Steve first announced it on stage. In the last two weeks, I've avoided near-calamity on at least 3 occasions with people tripping over the power cord.
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