Ok, so I meant to post this earlier. Not like it matters since at this point I figure Joe is the only other person reading this anymore. For now I’m going to pretend people still read this and continue. Anyhow I finally got my new MacBook. I can finally say I have my own ICBM! I have to say I have almost no complaints about it. It really is an amazing machine. There were a few things I was nervous about when ordering it. First the new keyboard. And while I’m still getting really used to it, I can’t say it really bugs me. It’s not the best notebook keyboard I’ve ever used, but I can deal. The glossy screen worried me. If I’d had an option I probably wouldn’t have gotten it. Screen glare usually really bugs me. But so far, having used this machine under a bunch of different lighting conditions from natural light to a halogen lamp right over my left shoulder, and I haven’t noticed much in the way of bothersome glare. Which surprised me a lot since it is really glossy. I can see reflections in it when it’s off. One thing I have noticed is that the viewing angle is narrower then my old PowerBook. The other thing I was quite nervous about was the integrated video system. I’m a bit of a gpu snob and always turned my nose up at the integrated video solutions. But I also have to admit to being pleasantly surprised. Now it’s worth noting that I’m comparing this to my old 867 MHz PowerBook Titanium with it’s radeon mobility 9000. So not the hottest graphics going. In fact it didn’t support that cool wave effect for new widgets and played even remotely modern games rather poorly. So I can say that so far for every game I’ve tried, the MacBook does as well or better then my old PowerBook. And I’m talking about in Rosetta. Which brings up the really impressive cpu performance. The thing really is fantastic. I’ve also found it to be quiet, and not significantly warmer then the old Ti. So I’ve nearly got everything setup (even Windows… though since I despise rebooting I’m trying out Parallels virtual machine option… it’s cool, but the video is slower then I expected). Overall I’m really impressed with this machine, add the built in iSIght and man this thing rocks. I even ran StratWars in Rosetta using saverlab and it ran faster then on the old PowerBook (ok I’m saying that a lot). Oh and I got the Saver to build as a universal binary, and it runs amazingly. The only drawback is that I’m errr… still in the middle of implementing my damn vertex manager, so there are a couple of glitches that still need to be worked out before a release. But I gotta say the performance boost on these machines is impressive. Ok enough for now.

-SDZ

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