Hey MacBook Pro users (I recall there were a couple on the list) - what are your overall impressions so far?
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Kirk L. Thibault, Ph.D.
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Kirk Thibault wrote:
Hey MacBook Pro users (I recall there were a couple on the list) - what are your overall impressions so far?
Hi Kirk,
Here's some info for you. My initial report, posted to radiance-online.org:
http://www.radiance-online.org/pipermail/radiance-general/2006-February/003446.html
I also posted some rants and raves on my website:
http://www.rumblestrip.org/2006/02/27/woohoo
http://www.rumblestrip.org/2006/03/02/good-and-bad
http://www.rumblestrip.org/2006/04/09/windows-on-mac
And you will notice that my system is currently listed fourth fastest on Mark Stock's Radiance benchmark page, here:
http://mark.technolope.org/pages/rad_bench.html
All in all I'm thrilled with it, but the squeal is still there (see my "good and bad" post for details), and I haven't called Apple about it yet. But it's very fast, the display is crisp, and I finally have an OS X computer that can run AutoCAD. I'm hopeful that Parallels gets their act together and figures out how to allow the virtualized windows disk to share with the Apple filesystem, but it also sounds like Apple's working on their own solution for this.
- Rob