My new Apple Macbook Pro
Posted by salvo on July 22nd, 2006
Well, I finally took the plunge and moved off my older Windows Laptop that at one point in time had Ubuntu, Suse and Windows on it.
I did my research on Apple Mac OS X and decided to go for it. I also decided to go for a bigger laptop rather than one as small as my previous Acer (12″).
17″ was too big for me, so I settled on the 15.4″ – as I wanted the Macbook Pro and not just the Macbook. I wanted the dedicated graphics card as well as the funky keyboard that lights up – yeah, I’m a gadget guy 
OK, first, let me deal with the specs of the latop I purchased: its a 2.14Ghz laptop, 2GB of memory, 256MB X1600 graphics card and a 100GB SATA drive. Now thats a kick ass laptop, its very fast, and has loads of space and can handle almost any kind of graphics I throw at it.
Secondly, let me deal with the operating system. I must admit – that the OS sold me on this laptop. I must admit that I am a long standing Windows guy, who played a LOT of games, used the Windows OS since Windows 3.1 and am looking forward to Vista.
So, to move over from Windows on the laptop was a very difficult decision for me. I could have gone for the latest Acer which would have cost the same amount as the Macbook Pro I wanted.
The operating system is awesome, it’s unix underneath, but unlike all of the other Unix’s it was usable and worked very well out of the box. The thing with MacOSX is that its designed to work with only a handfull of hardware designs as opposed to Windows and all of the other unix’s that needed to work with a million other harware combinations out there. This is the thing that makes MacOSX work so well.
I found equivalent applications I used on my Windows laptop for MacOSX and even my killer app – Mind Manager had a MacOSX version – awesome!!
Needless to say I am totally hooked and absolutely love the new laptop, with Tiger and I still have to try out BootCamp, which will allow me to dual or triple boot my Macbook Pro with Wndows Vista or any other Unix version
I must admit that I have not had the need to dual boot as I can do everything on my Macbook Pro I could do on my Windows Laptop.
Obviously, I still have my Windows XP gaming desktop that I use for ALL my gaming needs, as all my chat, email and video watching on the Macbook Pro.
I love my Mac