I’ll admit I’m starting to get a case of Apple Fever. After moving to an iPhone from the long favored Blackberry and actually finding a way to integrate an iPad into my daily routine I’m taking the next step… I’ve purchased a MacBook Pro.
This is not just any MacBook, this is the 13″ model with the *new* retina display, 8GB of memory and a roomy 256GB Solid State Hard Drive. Having used a 12.1″ Lenovo Thinkpad for the past 4 years the 13″ display on the MacBook seems a lot larger and the resolution (and clarity) of the retina display is nothing short of amazing.
The overall design of the Apple MacBook Pro is very nice. Machined from a solid block of aluminum this thing is as solid as it gets. No plastic to flex or creak and no flimsy screen to move around. I’ve never felt a laptop as well-built as this is.
I mention Windows Functionality in the title of this post. That’s possible because of a virtualization application called Parallels which allow you to run Windows applications right alongside the Macintosh apps. It’s pretty much seamless and, so far, it just works.
I’m still in the “getting to know you” stages of the Macbook but I really like what I see so far. Time will tell if this becomes my primary platform or if the limitations push me back to the world of Windows. There are enough differences in how the two systems work that it’s going to take some time for the Apple Operating System to become second nature like Windows has become.
After I take this thing on an extended test drive I’ll go into more detail and post a more thorough review. Stay tuned…