Global Reset

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Finally got my MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz…. And it is fast, fast, fast. It blows the piddly G4 in my Mac Mini completely out of the water.

I had a little bit of a fright when I first powered it on. I had read a review on TUAW that said there was a high-pitched hiss coming out of the back hinge area. I’m kind of sensitive to those sorts of hisses (my doctor tells me I’m a ferrari, high performance and very sensitive to improper care) and I tend to get headaches pretty easily. Well, as soon as I powered up the MacBook Pro, it was unmistakable. I could feel the whine in my teeth. For a second, I completely sank… But I figured once I cleared my desk and found a good place to dock it, I might not notice it anymore. Well, I’ve been using it for a couple of hours straight and I haven’t heard the whine come back since the first few minutes after startup.

The new iPhoto is crazy fast… Quicksilver is so fast that I think it’s reading my mind. I’ve had a little bit of fun playing around with Photo Booth (see pic above, click image to see a few more). Not much else to report so far… It took over an hour and a half to move my music, photos, and movies over. I do like the 2-finger scrolling on the trackpad. I do not like the fact that the bottom of this thing gets pretty damn hot… Kind of makes it a “laptop” in the loosest sense of the word “lap”. Won’t be in my lap during a Texas summer.