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1. Two finger scrolling. I LOVE it! Whenever I pick up another laptop now, especially browsing the internet, my heart sinks when I remember that swiping two fingers down the trackpad won’t scroll the window.

2. Spotlight. I’m blown away with the search facility. I’m used to a dog that spends hours using a magnifying glass.

3. Exposé. Flicking all my windows up to the top of screen with four fingers is so efficient. (I also want to mention that typing the é to write this paragraph was so much easier using ‘insert special character’). I love F9 or swiping four fingers down too.

4. Unibody. This laptop is just so beautiful. It looks and feels like it’s worth even more than I paid for it.

5. System Preferences. So much easier to find what you’re looking for on a mac. The search bar at the top is extremely useful.

6. My Airport Express with Airtunes. My mate told me to get one of these and I love it. I can stream music to any old speakers. It works great and the system ‘bleep’ comes out of the Macbook speakers while my tunes are playing wirelessly through my hifi. Airfoil is a great 3rd party app too.

7. The dock. Adding and removing stuff from it is a breeze. I put my applications folder down there too and all my apps pop up in a grid. Love it.

8. Detect Displays. Works brilliantly with my HDTV. I’ve put my display preferences in the menu bar.

9. iPhoto. It’s great and best of all it’s free! Detected my camera no prob, faces is great fun, the slideshows are a really nice way of showing off what your mac can do.

10. Photo Booth. I know it’s silly but isn’t this what’s life all about? A computer that’s a pleasure to use. Photo Booth is the epitome of my MBP – beautiful, fun, but at the same time useful!

The audio jack doesn’t glow because it’s disabled, it glows because the stereo mini jacks on Macintosh computers also double as an optical audio port.

This allows you (with the right amplifier) to have true surround sound coming from a single port on your mac. It completely eliminates the need for an external sound card. It’s genius.

DoubleCommand will probably allow you to remap the keys you want in OS X, although it doesn`t seem to be as flexible as Sharpkeys in XP..

I`m not a Maximize Windows kind of Windows-guy though, so you`ll get no understanding there. The Mac-people got that right, just wait and see, but there are some serious issues with OS X:

*) Finder – It`s crap. Path Finder may be a bit better, but doesn`t integrate properly with the system, or can`t replace all the functionality of the Finder, like mounting discs (at least I couldn`t find that option when I last tried..) How frustrating should cut and paste files be? Or how frustrating should it be to find the parent folder, or the whole parent-structure, of the current Finder window? Consistency of double clicking in icon view and list view? Simple things, which Path Finder (for more money on the table) may help with, but should`ve been there in the first place in Finder. Due to integration issues and feature-lack (wow, is that possible?), Path Finder doesn`t work for me though.

*) Poor selection of open source / free software. Please. Don`t come and sell me X and fink. The selection of real and free 3rd party software on the Mac is abysmal. Your choices then bogs down to stealing serial-numbers or paying even more for alot of software, which you end up throwing away because of lack of features (No, simplicity doesn`t mean you should throw away features, try again). When you need 10 such small programs to have a decent installation of OS X, and each cost you about 10-20$, you`re paying more than the original OS and included software!

*) Crashing. If you`ve never crashed OS X, or made the machine unresponsive, you`ve just not tried hard enough. This has happened to me about 6-7 times in the last 2-3 weeks. Call me back when you can be called “Power User”, because this is something that can happen in any OS. Hint: Try installing Snitch and have fun when it halts your entire computer while installing more software for instance..

Ok, maybe not kernel panics, but this usually only happens in XP due to bad 3rd-party drivers. Can`t really blame MS for that..

*) Zealotry: Try raising your opinion, or experiences, and you`ll hear the same old tired arguments repeated again and again. I guess Mac-people like to stick their collective heads in the sand, and then praising Apple when they finally fix it. Proof of point: Before Core 2 Dual, Mac people said that Core 2 wouldn`t give much improvement (about 7-10%) so the Almighty Apple Was Right In Delaying Core 2 Dual. Then it came, and suddenly it was “up to 33% performance improvement”! This is just one of many examples, and you should admit it and just laugh about it. I know, because I know enthusiasm can make you blind sometimes, but it is important to see this I think.. Or you will alienate many new switchers.. Also important so swallow criticism, because otherwise you`ll not be heard.

My conclusion is the same as you: All in all. Best hardware for the money. I will continue to use OS X, but there are issues that should be resolved, not between monitor and keyboard, but in OS X itself.

Since this is a laptop, I haven`t used the command-line, server-options much. Would rather stick to Linux for servers, although I like your statement about how OSes are not so important these days. They are very much alike these days.

Writing this from XP in Bootcamp I must also say that XP seems more responsive and faster, although OS X is certainly the more mature OS in every way, maybe even comparing to Vista. Having a FreeBSD-core helps alot for us “Power Users”, or whatever you call us that manage to crash every OS out there :P (I`ve had my fair share of lock-ups in Linux too ;-O)

now, I agreed with some of the complaints about the mac, and agree some are just a matter of getting used to. Except one: the extra ENTER key versus the lack of FORWARD DELETE. If any of you know how to remap these for the MacBookPro, it would really make my life easier. I could actually use a key that otherwise I would never touch.