Feb 21
So far I have been pretty happy with the MacBook Pro. I have been waiting a long time to have an OSX laptop that matches my PC laptop speed.
It isn’t all honey though. I have run into a few issues:
- Left shift key was a bit sticky at first (I really don’t want to have to send this back!)
- Of course, a lot of software hasn’t been updated to Universal Binary yet. E.g. fink
- A few strange errors. For example, when running % svn checkouts I sometimes get IO errors which is very annoying
I was expecting a few tough times, yet over time it will only get better.
I am just happy to be able to run IntelliJ IDEA with snappiness.
And iPhoto does scroll like butter.
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:06 am
I’ve been using SVN on my Intel Mac for about 8 months. Did you recompile it or are you using Rosetta to run it?
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 am
Hi Dion,
what’s the battery life like? Apple’s website doesn’t even mention it yet, so I’l really curious to know.
Best regards,
Geert
February 22nd, 2006 at 3:24 am
you mean, – like ‘a hot knife through’ butter..
scrolling like butter is not a good thing :)
February 22nd, 2006 at 7:00 am
Apple screwed up my order. I had ordered the day after the keynote, so I was expecting delivery this week. When I checked my order status Monday night, it had finally updated… with a new ship date of 3/21. Somehow I was booted to the end of the queue. People ordering that day were getting 3/21 ship dates. Apple “customer service” told me there was nothing they could do.
Apple effectively took a big crap on my belated Christmas, so I canceled my order. I was pretty disappointed.
Oh well. Another few years with another Dell for me.
February 22nd, 2006 at 7:15 am
Mark,
Not to rain on your parade but Apple did the same thing to a lot of people, namely Me (I order an hour after the keynote) and I got a shipment notice 3 days ago at midnight. I think they just did that “to be safe”, anyway my MBP gets here tommorow.
I would like to add that if you cancelled an order for a potentially $3k laptop out of anger, you probably didn’t need it in the first place and are better served keeping that money in your wallet.
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Try Darwin Ports instead of Fink, I find it’s a lot simpler and more reliable:
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/
February 24th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Why does everyone feel the need to defend Apple for unacceptably crappy service? Feel free to tell me that you’d have waited for one, but don’t tell me what I should have done.
You’re right though, I didn’t really _need_ a $3k MacBook Pro. A sub $2k Dell with better specs will do just fine. I was buying the MacBook as a toy, which is why I was willing to pay the premium, and why once they ruined the fun, why I was OK about cancelling it.
I run IntelliJ IDEA, Firefox, and Photoshop. My current Dell does all of those well, and the new one will surely do it better/faster.