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The MacBook Pro's start arriving MacBook ProDavid Heinemeier Hansson in MacBook Pro: So fast, oh, so fast:

The MacBook just feels freaking fast.
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The MacBook Pro simply rocks.

Rob Williams in Eclipse on MacBook Pro:

First off, this machine is very fast. It is like having a G5 laptop. Apple says 4x over the G4. I was kind of skeptical about that. Not anymore.

Mine is due to arrive Friday morning at 10:30. Unlike everyone that compares their new MacBook to their old PowerBook - I'll be comparing mine to my dual core AMD 64 with 3GB of RAM. The MacBook is likely to lose, but it should put things in a more realistic perspective. Especially since I continue to use Windows and OS X an equal amount.

Thursday, 8:30 AM: From Fedex Tracking: 7:50 AM | On FedEx vehicle for delivery | LITTLETON, CO. Sweet! Looks like I'm going to have to ride into work a bit late. ;-)

Thursday, 9:30 AM: It's here! I'm heading into work with both machines to build it - so I probably won't have any benchmarks until this afternoon. I forget the initial steps to get the best battery life - anyone got those handy. As Julie said a few minutes ago, "No Wheelies!" Posted in Mac OS X at Feb 22 2006, 07:54:24 PM MST 3 Comments

Comments:

you must be really excited!! but please for the love of all that is good in this world let us know what the battery life is like! ;)

Posted by Richard on February 23, 2006 at 03:58 AM MST #

Wait, you are comparing it to a desktop? Not fair. That said, my quad G5, w/8GBs of RAM does not seem faster. Its huge strength is that it can do a ton of stuff at the same time w/out performance buckling at all. Richard, I responded about the battery on my blog: 3.5h. Was hoping for more, but I'll take it.

Posted by Rob Williams on February 23, 2006 at 08:04 AM MST #

It would be just great if you'll compare it to Windows-powered equal Intel hardware. Can hardly wait when you'll share this info here! :-)

Posted by Olexiy Prokhorenko on February 23, 2006 at 08:57 AM MST #

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