Karls Blog

Well, had my shinny new MacBook Pro for almost a day now, and I must say IT ROXS! I love it. Such a sexy, solid lappy!

Things achieved day 1:

 - Played in Mac OSX land for a while - its nice, just different, will try and get used to it a bit more

 - Installed Boot Camp - allows you to dual boot OSX and Windows / Vista.

 - Installed Vista - this is my first full time use of Vista, so will be interesting. Install went off with out any issues at all (SWEET!!!)

 - Installed the Boot Camp drivers for Vista

 - Installed Office 2007

So what are my thoughts?

 - This thing is AWSOME! Windows Experience score of 4.8 (Processor = 5.3, RAM = 4.8, Graphics = 5.9, Gaming graphics = 5.5, Hard drive = 5.2). I'm waiting on a RAM upgrade to 4GB, so this score should increase. I also picked the fastest drive (160gb) and I'm glad I did.

 - Keyboard layout takes a bit of getting used to and to right click, you need to put 2 fingers on the touch pad and click. Hard at first, but getting used to it.

 - THE SCREEN IS AMAZING. 1920 x 1200 BABY!!!

 - Its blindingly fast and for all the power packed in, very light

 - Keyboard backlight is unreal!

A few issues that I hope to resolve in time

 - Couldn't get wifi working (WAP-PSK) at home - authentication time out - will need to look into that.

 - Built-in iSight camera drivers are not yet working

 - Boot Camp only has 32 bit drivers - would love to run 64bit on this thing!

 - Power usage in Windows was a bit poor, but just installed this so we'll see.

 - Can't access Mac OSX partition yet, but apparently drivers exist, so will play with those

All in all, a absolutely amazing machine, I can't express how happy I am. Nice job Apple ;)