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 ;)