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With my trusty iBook approaching it's fifth birthday and my desktop windows machine starting to suffer for it's lack of dual core I decided it was time to buy a new notebook computer. There was only one choice for me - a Macbook Pro - a computer I've lusted after for years (in both Powerbook and Macbook Pro guises).

I played the waiting game for a bit as the current revision of MBP has been out a while but on the day apple announced the latest refresh on the 5th of June I put my order in for the 2.2Ghz model using the apple online store. I probably won't be doing that again as their choice of carrier, TNT, is atrocious. It took them two weeks to deliver it after it shipped from the factory with all kinds of issues like a broken plane (it was just sat on the tarmac in Pundong airport for 3 days), lost customs papers and the inability of TNT to follow even basic instructions correctly.

Eventually it arrived and I must say that it's amazing. By far the best computer I've ever owned - I can't believe it's so thin. It blows my desktop machine away performance wise. I have both Vista and OSX on it. I've installed Vista because of OSX's achilles heel - games. WoW runs better in Windows and most others don't run at all. I've thus far got WoW, Steam (HL2 etc) and C&C 3 installed and they all perform very nicely. For everything else however, I'm going to revert to OSX.

Now I've obviously had a machine running OSX for almost five years now - but it has never been fast, even when it was new - and for the last few years hasn't done much but browse the web and display video. I took it to India to process my photos and use Skype but it was painfully slow. So to be honest I've never really had the full OSX experience, not for three or so years at least and the platform and available apps have matured greatly since then.

OSX on my Macbook Pro flies and the available apps are just outstanding. Thus far everything I use in Windows I've found an equivalent and it's usually a superior experience. So apart from booting into Windows for the odd game (and WoW under OSX isn't that bad) I think I'm going to spend most of my time on the OSX side of the fence. I really can't wait for Leopard now.