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Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:40:15 -0000

I'm loving mine, as you well know.

@brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.

Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It's not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.

I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don't have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.

Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

brad — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:06:54 -0000

any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD's on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.

Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

christian — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:57:48 -0000

congrats, thats awesome!

ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love...

i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)

Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

Daniel Miessler — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:47:55 -0000

That's sick, man. Keep in mind that you'll get less battery life with the faster drive (that's what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I'd suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.

Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

brad — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:33:13 -0000

dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec "whatever I wanted", so I got this:

15" MacBook Pro
2.4 Ghz Dual Core
4 GB RAM
256 MB video
160GB @7200 rpm

I can't wait....this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.