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Although it's early, I find myself impressed at the smoothness with which this transition seems to be taking place. Switching architectures is no small feat, and Apple seems to be doing it with it's characteristic ease, grace, and flair...(I'm no fanboy, I don't even own a mac)

We can all agree, though, that apple has made tech news a bit more interesting as of late...

No mention at all of when Intel Mini Macs are coming?

It's very disappointing. Users can't refresh their blogs made by iWeb with the software. They have to upload the whole site each time with images, etc.

> I'm having a hard time trying to find the usefulness in adding a webcam and Front Row to a laptop targeted at professionals.

While Front Row is a bit useless for Pros, VoIP and Video calls are very important in many modern working environments and so the webcam is useful.

The other thing is, people who buy MacBook Pros are not just professionals, but people who want just a high-end laptop, so for them Front Row can appeal. Besides, it's not a problem if you pack more features into a product, the problem is when you remove them (like they removed modem, s-video, fw800 and worse screen resolution and burner, compared to the Powerbook).

Front row with keynote support sounded like a great idea for a Macbook Pro... until they removed svideo.

And I'm pretty sure I've hooked up a TV and second LCD to my powerbook to be using all 3 screens at once (admittedly I might have imagined it, im tired right now).

Is there at least a converter for dvi-svideo?

And where the hell is my firewire 800, just include the converter cable for 2 firewire 400 connections and it would be fine. Seems like they wanted to put this laptop together quickly. Its the same size, lacks a lot of old features, doesn't seem to include any that should take up much space on the pcb, and still haven't told us about the battery life.

But damnit, I want one.

While it's not necessary on an Imac since most serious users have broadband I find it a bit harsh not to have a modem on the laptop. If you're on the way it's always easy to find a phone line but not every town has free WIFI.

It would have been nice if they included these on the new MacBook Pro, but it's not a huge deal. You can pick up a S-Video adapter for $20, and apparently they're going to release a Express Card/34 card that will provide FireWire 800.

On the topic of Rosetta not loading iMovie plugins, I would just like to note that in my experience with the new Intel iMac any PPC spotlight importers and automator actions will not load with Rosetta.

> especially iPhoto '06 is so much faster than its predecessor (which is close to unusable)

It seems I am a god, I use it every day (and it is usable)...

I hope that this new Macs are sucessful on the field. However I won't be having one for the time being.

My laptop was 500 euro, cheaper than the MacBook Pro and beats it in every feature.

I would like to own one, but my OS experience allows me to use a dual boot laptop quite comfortable. So no upgrade for the time being.

Yes - Firewire 800 rocked speed-wise but it was significantly more expensive and rarer than USB2 and Firewire 400 devices. This can be explained by the fact USB2 has been in every Intel PC for years and Firewire, especially Firewire 800, in hardly any. Now, the Apple version of USB2 sucked pretty hard - it ran at about half the speed of a good PC motherboard implementation - so their Firewire 400 was the faster/better option to get data in and out of their system for the money. There was even some speculation that the Apple USB2 implementation was soo bad that it might have been purposefully sabotaged to promote Firewire. However, my guess is that on the MacBook pro, since they are using stardard Intel guts, it is far closer to the PC approach and just about equal with Firewire 400. Considering how much more prevelent and cheaper the USB2 interface is these speeds will be more than acceptable for most people... See the review/benchmark below.

"The Windows PC implementation of USB 2.0 puts the Mac to shame. Today we tested the same USB 2.0 drive/enclosure on a Windows PC (3GHz Pentium 4) with built-in USB 2.0 on the motherboard, similar to Apple's approach. We measured 33MB/s READ and 27MB/s WRITE."

http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html