I have been wanting to buy a macbook pro since last october. I was expecting a version upgrade in december and then during the MacWorld conference in Jan and finally Apple released their new penryn based macbook pro by end of feb. After reading some reviews, I saw that the penryn based macbook pro's are not much different from the prev generation merom based macbook pro, except for some processor speedup and increased memory. The significant difference is wrt power consumption. Since the merom based macbook pro's were $200 less than the latest penryn based laptops, I opted for the former. I got it today and am posting this from my macbook pro.
First impressions -
1. Feels very light compared to my previous dell laptop.
2. OSX switch would take time i guess.
3. I had difficulty in locating all the apps. They have this finder application which has an icon for all the applications in your system. so you have to browse through them unlike a menu as we have in KDE / windows
4. The magsafe power adapter is pretty cool.
5. Welcome screen during first boot up was awesome.
6. Pages can be scrolled by using 2 fingers in the trackpad which seems very helpful.
So this is why I was eyeing and bought a macbook pro
1. My Dell laptop has touched 3 yrs and it is a single core 1.6GHz machine and I wanted to get a more powerful system.
2. Experience OSX. After getting some hands on with OSX, I am planning to install ubuntu. I am still contemplating on whether I should virtualize Ubuntu through Parallels or setup a dual boot with native ubuntu installation.
I'll post more of my experiences with macbook pro / OSX in the coming days.
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