VaibhaV Sharma (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} vaibhav) wrote,@ 2006-02-21 17:19:00 |
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Its here!
... and I dont have time to work on it as of now. FedEx delivered my MacBook Pro a day in advance.
First impressions:
- It is very sleek and light. Almost as light as my Thinkpad even after the screen size being larger.
- Mac OS X interface is sweet, smooth and pleasing.
- It is incredibly easy to do a lot of usual things like configuring a printer, getting online, etc. Most of the settings are filled up automatically as and when available.
- The light sensor based change of keyboard light and screen brightness is very cool and useful.
- The MagSafe power connector is a very cool feature. Contrary to my estimation, the magnet on the connector is very powerful.
Disappointments:
- The machine heats up a *lot*. More than my thinkpad does even after I am thrashing the CPU and the gpu with high end graphics games. The reason for it might be the aluminium case as it conducts heat outwards to keep the internal parts cooler. Particularly, the left side of the machine gets very hot. I am yet to talk to Apple about this to find out if this is the way its supposed to be or its a design flaw. Most of the time this is not a problem but then the heat gets to irritate you once it reaches very close to the left-bottom part of the keyboard area, under the speaker.
- Battery life seems to be an issue. In the first full charge, I was able to use the machine for 2.45 hrs. That might improve with me not copying large amounts of data on wireless or USB.
- The battery charge indicator is not able to correctly display numbers sometimes. At this moment, the AC is plugged in and it is displaying "Calculating..." for the past 2 hrs.
Occasionally, I can see things not working properly.
- Photobooth got stuck once when I clicked a pic and then tried to delete it, it wont let me delete it.
- As of now, I have not found an easy way to *lock* the screen if I wish to move away from the machine. You can make the machine "sleep" but then thats not what I want. Maybe I need to do some reading up on the shortcuts.
- iChat dosent let me get online on more than one jabber accounts. I have to "switch" between accounts. Not very useful if you have multiple accounts. Also, it creates three different windows for 3 different accounts instead of a single contact list like gaim. I thought Apple would have taken care of these basic UI features.
No pics yet. Maybe when we are back home.
... and I dont have time to work on it as of now. FedEx delivered my MacBook Pro a day in advance.
First impressions:
- It is very sleek and light. Almost as light as my Thinkpad even after the screen size being larger.
- Mac OS X interface is sweet, smooth and pleasing.
- It is incredibly easy to do a lot of usual things like configuring a printer, getting online, etc. Most of the settings are filled up automatically as and when available.
- The light sensor based change of keyboard light and screen brightness is very cool and useful.
- The MagSafe power connector is a very cool feature. Contrary to my estimation, the magnet on the connector is very powerful.
Disappointments:
- The machine heats up a *lot*. More than my thinkpad does even after I am thrashing the CPU and the gpu with high end graphics games. The reason for it might be the aluminium case as it conducts heat outwards to keep the internal parts cooler. Particularly, the left side of the machine gets very hot. I am yet to talk to Apple about this to find out if this is the way its supposed to be or its a design flaw. Most of the time this is not a problem but then the heat gets to irritate you once it reaches very close to the left-bottom part of the keyboard area, under the speaker.
- Battery life seems to be an issue. In the first full charge, I was able to use the machine for 2.45 hrs. That might improve with me not copying large amounts of data on wireless or USB.
- The battery charge indicator is not able to correctly display numbers sometimes. At this moment, the AC is plugged in and it is displaying "Calculating..." for the past 2 hrs.
Occasionally, I can see things not working properly.
- Photobooth got stuck once when I clicked a pic and then tried to delete it, it wont let me delete it.
- As of now, I have not found an easy way to *lock* the screen if I wish to move away from the machine. You can make the machine "sleep" but then thats not what I want. Maybe I need to do some reading up on the shortcuts.
- iChat dosent let me get online on more than one jabber accounts. I have to "switch" between accounts. Not very useful if you have multiple accounts. Also, it creates three different windows for 3 different accounts instead of a single contact list like gaim. I thought Apple would have taken care of these basic UI features.
No pics yet. Maybe when we are back home.
