Reviewing the new MacBook Pro

The new MCP are not worth the upgrade from the previous Santa Rosa model because the touch pad multi touch does not work as well as on the Air and the IPhone. I added 4GB of RAM to my MCP and it works great, I rarely have to wait for anything and I have yet to see Office 2008 for Mac crash.

Need your advice on software.....I just got delivery of a mbp, the 17 hi res screen, 2.6 version with 7200 rpm which may be overkill but I wanted a machine I could grow into. I purchased this machine to replace my PC desktop and am accustomed to Microsoft Office. For the mac os, would you recommend the mac version of Office or the productivity software suite from Apple? I'm a new mac user (bought this machine after loving my iphone) so apologize if this is wrong forum.
Thanks in advance

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I am a MBP-only person - doing graphic design on it.

If I were a video person, the horsepower of a tower would be handy. But for me, my almost-year-old Core 2 Duo works great.

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Buying a 17" MacBook Pro enabled me to kill 3 computers - an old G4 PowerBook that I used as much as possible, a Dell Latitude that I used when I needed Windows, and a Pentium 4-based gaming PC. The MacBook Pro wiped the floor with all of them for performance and allows me to run Windows when I need it, so no need for the PCs anymore. This is more than enough computer for me, although that 160GB hard drive isn't as big as it once seemed.

I did almost the same thing. Upgraded from my 867ghz 12" to the new 15". I have a dell and an iMac gathering dust in my spare room. man the 15" is an amazing machine.

I'll come right out and say it. I'm weird!!!

How am I weird? Instead of buying a laptop I bought a travel bag (http://www.ilugger.com/index.cfm?pid=5&kwd=ilugger&gclid=CJ6B2Km0iJICFQaOggodlkyDDg) for my white Intel Core 2 Duo 24" iMac, bought a collapsable hand trunk and take my 24" iMac back and forth to work or when I travel.

True I have to find a power outlet to run it and no it isn't instant on but I only have to wait about 40 seconds for it to be ready to go and finding outlets hasn't been hard for me. I just sit on the floor with my iMac.

I do have a G4 PowerBook which I used to travel with. But I prefer taking the iMac.

"....my iMac is the machine I use to sync my iPhone, make iTunes purchases and upload photos. Other than that, it pretty much just sits around."

This is what i would like to do ideally, but how do you sync the itunes library on the different systems? If you make the itunes purchase on the iMac, how do you enjoy that music on the road with your Mac Book Pro?

MBP, turning users into couch potatoes and imacs into paperweights

At least thats how it goes @ my house

Currently I'm doing this, and am happy with my MacBook Pro (it is even a great gaming machine when in Windows). The only problem is I'm worried about what I'd do if it broke. All computers break, but the small, mobile nature of laptops makes them more open to being broken. I hope to get either a Mac Mini or an Eee PC as a reserve computer soon.