If you read a recent post, you will see that I thought that the new MacBook Pro hype was over and done with. Boy, was I ever wrong! A couple of days later, my young lad motored off to the Apple store and returned hours later with a shiny new 13" MacBook Pro. Being a canny shopper; he bought it as an educational purchase and saved $100 and got a 'free' iPod (horrible mail in rebate). He has since spent all his waking hours playing with his new toy and installing sundry applications and Windows 7 via 'Boot Camp'. I must admit, it is a really nice looking item and is one of the best looking laptops I have seen. The screen is very good and the 'chiclet' keyboard is real easy to work with - reminds me a bit of the old Sinclair I used to have. He's not too happy with OS X, but I'm sure he will soon get used to it. The only issue so far, is the trick needed to integrate it into our wireless network - Windows Vista is a real pain in the nether regions when it comes to networking.
The REALLY good thing about his moving into the Mac world is what happened for Father's Day. I got a nice 8GB iPod Touch to play with. What a good kid! I'm only just getting used to it and still finding out the cool things it can do, so I'll have to get back to you on how it goes.
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