Hands on: Macbook Pro

MacBook Pro is tempting even for a Rev A, but things will improve. Late '06 is my best bet.

I found a screen protector for it:
http://www.shaggymac.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3_5&products_id=37

Hmm....I shut the lid on a MacBook yesterday, and the MacPerson there didn't say anything. It woke up just fine for me. Maybe I'll have to go fiddle with it some more today.

I would definitely wait 6 months on the MacBook Pro. Resolution is lower than the powerbook G4. And please, I know all about emulators or translators. Rosetta will run apps slower than the G4 or G5. Jobs didn't do a very good sell on rosetta even with his demo. Wait till the programs catch up to run natively on the intel chip. You know there will be an improved MacBook Pro and iMac by midyear. Let's wait to see all the benchmarks and bumps.

Some Italian people at MacWorld has check the battery time on the new IntelBook and the answer is... two hours.

Maybe the ones in show are preliminary versions but I won't trade speed for battery duration.
If I buy a portable I prefer to have a (relatively) slow computer that last for six (or +) hours rather then a very fast one that last for a very short time.

Tita

I was told by an Apple employee at Macworld that the MacBook Pro would ship with a DVI-to-VGA/S-Video adapter, so we will have s-video out using this adapter. In regards to the DL and DVD-R 8X issue, no drives exist that are thin enough to fit in the new MacBook Pro. So we're stuck with Superdrive 4X until thinner drives come out.

I'm a MAC developer, so I'm getting one of the new Intel iMac exchanged for the DTK (Developer Transition Kits). I'm going to test all my PowerPC apps on it prior to deciding if I should upgrade my Powerbook G4 to the MacBook Pro.

I like the fact they offer the 100GB 7200 RPMs drive! Sweet. Now if only we could get Windows XP to run...

I didn't really think about putting a stopwatch to the boot time, but it didn't seem to be much difference in the start time of the mmmmBook and my PowerBook 15". The startup screen looks exactly the same, and the chime hasn't changed either.

I was also prevented from shutting the lid and didn't think of the significance at the time... Far out I've ordered one of these things, having second thoughts now!

what about LCD light intensity, is the display the same or brighter?

---Hey "pwnage" you said that you had to hard reset the macbook......well what was the boot time like? Is there a different start-up sound? Anything new with booting up?

That was one of the issues when I was playing with an mBook (it's gonna catch on, the name mBook). Coming straight from the Apple employee's mouth:
If you close the lid and put it to sleep, the mouse freezes and you have to do a hard restart. I also noticed that the mousepad on two of the mBooks I played with stuttered alot. Granted these things had been manhandled non-stop for hours by the time I tried them. But it was still disconcerting.
The power question is a good one. System Profiler on the mBook said a full battery was over 6000mAh. On the Powerbook DL (Oct 2005), a full battery is between 4000 and 4600mAh.
So there is a sizable difference in the new battery, yet Apple isn't bragging about the battery life, which leads me to think it isn't any better and is most likely worse.
We'll have to wait for February to know these answers for sure. For me, I'm a Rev. B kind of guy. Let the early adopters work out the bugs.