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I Bought a MacBook Pro

This past Tuesday my new 15″ MacBook Pro arrived in the mail. I bought the base model of the new multi-touch line announced last week. There is an Apple retail store about 20 minutes from my house, but I had to order online to get the 7200RPM hard-drive upgrade.

First impressions of the MacBook Pro are extremely impressive.

It is (obviously) light-years faster than PowerBook, but I am surprised at how comparable it is to the Mac Pro’s performance. I bought it with zero intentions of turning it into my main machine (hence why I bought the 2.4GHz model), but after just a few days with it I am seriously considering selling the Mac Pro.

Since I got it I have been in process of writing a full review of the thing which will include (totally unofficial) benchmarks comparing the new MBP’s performance to my 3.0 Quad-Core Mac Pro and my previous portable, the 12″ PowerBook G4.

You can read the full-length article here.

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