| | 2.16GHz MacBook Pro -- my first impressions.
Box is cool, nice and thin, gives one a true taste of what's inside. I like that, makes sense to set the tone right.
Inside? The remote surprises right off the bat (even though one knows -- back of the mind -- that it'll be there) and was at first mistaken for an iPod by me. I'd rather it was an iPod. Don't need the remote.
The bag around the toy takes forever to take off, very tight. Let's get on with it!!
Opened, it looks pretty much exactly like a PowerBook.
Powers on with a new Welcome, of course, yawn, but only just a couple of screens later comes the prompt to transfer stuff from the old computer. Took about half an hour to do that, from my 30GB drive in the G3 700mhz iBook.
Heard people rave about the screen. Looks OK, but if I'd not heard people rave about it I'd have never noticed. A tad wider and a tad shorter than my iBook, other than that it's, um, a screen. Moving along, nothing to see...
Keyboard is the same size and feel as my gal's PowerBook. My iBook's keyboard skin fits [ thinkdifferentstore.com ] so it now belongs to the MacBook and it's time for a beer... Cheers baby, to you, to your long life in perfect health!
Registration took a few more minutes and has a fun ending: making a self portrait with the built in camera. Love that! Hey, excuse me, I am a photographer, so, you know, this is a weak spot... (g)
It was a pleasant surprise to find my old folders on the new desktop, pointer moving at my old speed, and dock looking and behaving exactly as before, in short: everything the same at first glance, except the wallpaper. Mine was gone, Apple's was in. Hmmm. Well, didn't take long to change that in Preferences, and hey, you know what? The screen IS better. Now I see it.
OK, let's take a look at the Dock. Aha, OS9 app icons have a no go crossed circle on them, might as well trash them this minute.
First test -- been dying to do it: remove noise from a 5MB JPEG file using Noise Ninja. That took 5 minutes minimum on my old machine.
31 seconds.
OK, I'm happy! This is Rosetta we're talking about here, in a few months in Universal this will happen twice as fast!
How hot does it run? About twice as hot as the iBook. Gonna be a bitch in the summer, no doubt about that.
Battery? Donno yet, haven't unplugged. When I do, it will be at night, before going to sleep, to let it run all the way down, so I can condition it.
What else? I donno. What do you want to know? |
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