MacBook Pro - I'm waiting..

steve@waits.net (Stephen Waits) — Wed, 03 May 2006 23:54:47 -0500

Ok.. I’ve waited now, basically a year for the MBP’s. They got here, then I decided I’d wait for a) some kind of bonus check from work (still waiting) and b) for the details of the new MBP to shake out. Well, I’ve now come to the decision that this iteration of MBP just isn’t for me.

Why would I wait? Here are a few reasons why..

Many of the MBP’s where making weird noises …
And overheating like mad - I went and felt one at the Apple Store and it actually burns …
And battery life is no improvement over the previous generation, and I’m a battery life nutcase …
And sometimes the fans aren’t working …
And trackpads have been flakey …
And screens are unevenly backlit …

But probably more important than all of those (except maybe the heat thing), is that Intel’s Merom is due out this Fall. With Merom, we should get about the same, or maybe slightly less performance (though still plenty), at a considerable power savings. That should fix the battery life and heat problems.

For now I’ll stick with my Mini and my crusty old Laptop, now sporting Kubuntu. Since Cathy’s got her own laptop now, that eases things on me a bit, and I can get by just fine. After all, for most of what I do I just need Opera, Thunderbird, and a text editor, along with various compilers and interpreters - and I’ve got all of that on all three of my personal PC’s.

Cathy just says, “you’re being very patient”.

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MacBook Pro - I'm waiting..