Apple Ahkbar!: December 2007 Archives

So the new MacBook Pro arrived today. Not much time for a big review, but I have to say it's worth it, even though the initial outlay is more than what you might pay for a cheesy Win laptop. This baby is screaming fast--and it's not even the fastest model they have. A new 2.6 GHz model is coming out sometime.

I got a 200-gig harddrive (because it was faster) and I'm going to order third-party memory to upgrade it to 4 GBs of total RAM.

I plan to do all my development and photography on this one laptop, so it's got to everything I need.

The new OS X (Leopard) is not a huge change, like Tiger was. There's a lot of new stuff in here, but I have yet to use most of it. Stacks are nice, despite what I've read. The translucent menu bar is fine, too. I did find a tweak to turn my dock back into 2D, but other than that, I'm very, very pleased.

Now I've got to spend the next several days tweaking and copying files off the old laptop. Getting all my preferences and what not migrated over.

All-in-all, I'm a happy Apple camper (you expected something different?).