From iPod to MacBook Pro: A Switcher's Tale. Robert Movin (~3120 words)By now most of you have read numerous MacBook Pro reviews filled with technical specifications, startup times, benchmarks, battery life, and counts of how many times an icon bounced on the dock when an application is launched. This is not that review. Rather, this is a tale of high drama, low comedy, anticipation, disappointment, and wonder. It's the tale of a switcher succumbing to Apple's vaunted "halo" effect (and not the one with the Master Chief). It's the tale of how someone generally satisfied with that "other" operating system running on a very nice corporate laptop found himself refreshing live Jobsnote transcripts every 30 seconds, breathlessly clicking through the Apple Store, and dropping several thousand dollars on a shiny, new, aluminum, Intel-based laptop. This is my tale. By rmovin@gmail.com (Robert Movin). [TidBITS]
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