Macworld's first day with a MacBook Pro

This isn't really relevant to the post, but I just realized something. In a year or so, after most people upgrade to the macbook pro or the macbook, and are all sitting in the coffee shops browsing the internet, anyone could just stand behind someone else, Apple remote in hand, and have fun with enabling and disabling front row on other peoples' computers as they hoplessly try to figure out what the hell is going on.

Posting on a boss's MBP now, it's great. I can't really tell the difference, really. With the type of photoshop work we do, we can't really tell the difference (photographer versus designer). We mostly just do curves adjustments and the such, nothing too serious. We haven't tried hooking up the H2D to it yet though, and we're waiting for the UB of Aperture (hopefully the 28th?) We are running into bugs with it streaming to an airport express though, itunes just stops streaming sometimes without any notice. The hissing is barely noticeable, but its there when its quiet. And the brighter bottom is only noticeable at 45 degree angles from a few feet away really, the dock is there so you don't use that part of the screen for any color calibration anyway. It'll be interesting trying to see how the screen calibrates, its so bright.

They did mention battery life in this review. Playing a DVD with all energy saver stuff turned off lasted two hours and three minutes, and the G4 lasted about four minutes longer.

"I am willing to bet that most casual Mac users won't even know that their iMac or MacBooks have a different processor in them let alone that Intel makes it."

That's the point Apple should be pimping. Really, what, five-percent of Mac users follow Apple-related news day to day. Just give them a faster Mac and they're happy. Make it less expensive and they're thrilled. Give them that and good customer service and they'll tell their friends. Etc. Forget about the processor. It's about the experience, silly rabbit.

why is it that no review, etc. has yet to tell us the one answer we all want? What is the battery life on this!? Sheesh!

I'm not sure I agree that "most casual Mac users won't even know that their iMac or MacBooks have a different processor in them let alone that Intel makes it." At least in the case of the MacBook Pro, I don't think there are/will be many buyers out there that aren't well informed regarding which processor their new Mac has.

Eh? Standard with XP?!
How about Vista, but oh, which one of the 8 versions would you bundle?

I do not think Apple is ever going to bundle a MS operating system.

How about OS X gets some fixes for outstanding issues dating back from OS X 10.0 and a few Tiger (interface/setup) bugs are fixed.

And, then possibly takes a few lessons from the few things which function better in XP or 3rd party applications.

Man, it would rock if apple computers came standard with Windows XP.