The time finally came to step up in the world of laptops. My Fujitsu P5020D was showing its age, lack of memory, and single core sadness a lot lately. Linux left me wanting quite a lot on my old laptop, and WinXP didn’t exactly make me want to do backflips either. For a while I had kicked around the idea of getting a Mac, even though I have traditionally been the most anti-Mac person on the face of the planet. That changed today when I brought home a 15″ Macbook Pro sporting the 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, and a matte screen (reflections make baby jesus cry).

What brought about the change? Mostly my continued interest in photography and videos, but a number of people I know wouldn’t shut up about how great OS X has become, so I figured I’d give it a test drive. For the test, I went to a friend’s house and in 20 minutes whipped up a very nice photo video/slide show completely with a nice menu and plenty of bling. The machine was identical to the one I bought this morning, and it chugged through multiple tasks without a hitch. Everything was ridiculously easy to do, and that would definitely be a plus.

So now, here I sit blogging from my brand new Macbook Pro, and things are good. I’ve got the vast majority of my applications running and don’t feel like I’m missing anything at all. Earlier, I ran batches side by side on my fujip and the mbp – it took the poor little 1GHz Pentium M 3:32 to do the job, the 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo smoked through the batch in :42. I can dig it.

Macbook Pro