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I’m all moved into my new MacBook Pro, and my Powerbook G4 has reached the hands of its new owner. So here is my ever so important opinion on the MacBook Pro.

Apple has really been marketing the speed improvements of the new Core Duo processor. Now that I have been using it for a few days, my thoughts are that Universal or Native Binaries do seem to have a speed improvement, all though certainly not the 4x’s Apple has been trying to claim.

Apps that run through Rosseta (PowerPC app translator software for you non Apple people) actually do pretty well. For instance Photoshop runs ok for a casual user such as myself, but I recommend that professional graphics designers wait until Adobe gets universal binaries out….which from my reading should be late 2010!

As for the hardware there are some notable enhancements. The built in iSight camera did a lot better than I thought. I have been thinking about startring a video blog, and it might help me. The system is also a little thinner, which I think also means it is a little bit lighter.

I was afraid that I was going to have a rough transition with apps not working and such, however, so far everything I need to get my work done runs well. I think I’m going to have to try dual booting Windows XP on it at some point though.

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