arstechnica.com — "Just about a month-and-a-half after Steve Jobs's surprisingly unsurprising announcement at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco that the first two Intel-based Macs to be rolled out would be the iMac and the MacBook Pro—the apparently newly renamed PowerBook—MacBook Pros finally started arriving at eager users' doorsteps."
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tktkMar 2, 2006
@Bandito,For some reason, power cords are highly attractive to small kids. Tucking it under furniture is a good idea, but the first time you forget, the kids will find a way to trip over it.I've seen a baby try to pull himself up to standing via the power cord of one 17" laptop. It was hard to tell if the kid would fall on his ass when the power cord came flying out or if the whole laptop would fall on his head. The dad didn't wait to find out.
obiewonMar 2, 2006
I've read one account of a MacBook Pro that overheated repeatedly. The owner returned this particular laptop. There wasn't any mention of this in the article, so hopefully it is an anomaly.
mvandergriftMar 21, 2006
I thought this review was dead-on esp. compared to a lot of what I've read. I love my MBP but the mag-link connector, in particular, bothers me. I have consulted for a few companies that do not allow video equipment on their premises so I assume this is fairly common. The comparison with the Dell was interesting. I get better XBench numbers running OS X hacked into a VMWare machine than I do on my MBP. I think this will change as Apple's drivers mature and I upgrade to a 7200rpm hard drive and a couple GB of memory. Then again, I didn't buy the MBP for performance...
tolkeinMar 23, 2006
There's a bunch of MacBook Pro review on this page - <a class="user" href="http://www.notebookshoppe.com/?p=19">http://www.notebookshoppe.com/?p=19</a>From the individual conclusions, it looks like the MacBook has serious software issues.