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I got one last week and I love it. I was upgrading from a 1Ghz powerbook G4 however, so it was a well deserved upgrade. I'm looking forward to installing winxp on it and playing through Half-Life 2 over xmas break.

It also runs my numerics for HW and things sooo much faster than my old computer its a relief.

The only thing that annoys me is that the mini display port doesn't have an s-video adapter, which I used a lot. I'm still crossing my fingers that they release one, but i doubt it. Probably have to buy some sort of converter.

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seems like a lot of people held on to their g4 pb until this release. I just didn't like their hardware offerings in the intervening four years (too expensive or too cheap-looking), but I love my new al-macbook. my only annoyances: doesn't seem to work well with a bluetooth keyboard and usb mouse in closed-lid mode. also, seems to always forget the brightness settings for my display and keyboard (adjust brightness based on ambient light is a cool trick to show friends, but when I'm working, I don't want things changing based on whether my head is blocking the light or not).

I have this all the time lately when i'm battery'ed up. I imagine I can turn that option off, but it seems useful enough to keep on for now. I'm glad they at least have the ambient light sensor on the iSight camera as opposed to somewhere down by the keyboard or something. The Macbook pro used to dim all the time when I blocked the light to the keyboard with my head and I can't imagine it would have happened if they used the camera.

System Prefs -> Displays -> Uncheck "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes", and I believe that will do it for you.

yes. there is one for the keyboard as well. the problem is that it doesn't remember this for very long (seems to be reset for me after suspending some of the time).

hmm. from a sibling comment, maybe it has different settings based on if you have it plugged in or not, and I mistook this for resetting. will have to investigate when I get home.

I'm upgrading from a PB G4, too.

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