I got a new MacBook Pro today. (Long story. I wasn't supposed to get one for another year. Lucky me.)
The screen is, at least initially, the biggest disappointment. It's very glossy, and at the office, under fluorescent light is extremely reflective. On the other hand, here at home, it's not reflective at all, so I guess it has a lot to do with the light. From what I've read, it's pretty good in outdoor sunlight, too, but today hasn't been an outdoor kind of day.
The transition from my old laptop was, as always, painless. This time, I did the transfer from a Time Machine backup, which was even less painful than the FireWire cable transfer last time.
The click-anywhere trackpad took almost no time to get used to. I had heard and expected bad things about it, but it's very nice, and matches the way that I think about a track pad anyways - click where your finger happens to be at that moment. The multi-finger shortcuts are also very cool. I think I'll get used to that pretty quick.
The speakers are considerably louder than the ones on the previous generation. That's nice for us, since our DVD player broke several months ago, and we watch all our movies on the laptop.
Unfortunately, the DVI connector is now a mini-DVI connector, so I need to go buy new widgets to connect to my other widgets. Fortunately, these widgets are all pretty cheap, but it's still annoying. On the plus side, it means that all of the ports are on one side of the laptop, so I will no longer have cables sticking out of both sides when I'm docked at work.
On the whole, very pleased, and I think I'm going to enjoy it.
DrB,
Is this the latest 17" goodie? Or have you been forced to endure a 15"?
I am looking forward to getting myself a 17" one, I just want to wait out the initial problematic period with new hardware, not to mention the inordinate costs.
Tony,
It's a 15". 17" is just too much to travel with. At least, so it has always seemed to me.
Now, it turns out that the video out isn't actually a minidvi, but is a new DisplayPort format, and the local Best Buy doesn't carry any cables for it yet. So I'm not able to use my secondary monitor for the moment. Oy.
I got on 15 inch too. Its awesome. I installed Windows on my mac, so now I have both MacOS and XP. While running XP on this Mac has not been without its problems, for the most part it's the same as running XP on a similarly powered pc. Furthermore, the superior audio and video hardware, and the overall design make it a pleasure to use.