Macbook Pro and gaming

Well, if the fans would work in windows I would love it. For the most part you won't notice much differences between OS X and Windows. There small things you take for granted in Windows that aren't there on the Mac. Like being able to resize a window using any edge and right click dragging. I really miss middle click in firefox to open in a new tab. The macbook's multitouch trackpad is nice. I prefer actually pushing the trackpad down to click instead of tapping. No accidental taps. It takes some time to get use to the gestures. The other thing to get use to is where files are located. Mac hides alot of the underlying filesystem. When you install a program it may be put in several locations. The main executable will be in Applications but supporting files could be spreadout. It makes me uneasy about uninstalling an app. They say you just drag it from the Applications folder. Is it then smart enough to delete the support files in other folders? When using hte 9400 gpu the battery life is nice. I can get about 6-7 hours just surfing the web and such. It is really quiet. The hardware for the most part is thought out. However, why Apple didn't put an esata port on the 17" I don't know. I had to buy an express card adaptor for my 1tb drive (which I use for time machine and is awesome). With this particular model the windows side says there aren't enough resources to use the esata card so I have to use usb. I don't like the usb port arangements. They are too close to each other. I can't plug my two thumb drives and wireless mouse in at the same time. Definitly get the antiglare screen. You can see the screen outside on a sunny day. The only software you really need to get is Office. OpenOffice sucks. I haven't tried iWorks. My benchmark is being able to open my resume and it look nice. My resume uses tables to format the sections. Most programs screw that up. Now, I mainly got it for programming. As far as programming goes Apple is about 8-10 years behind Microsoft in terms of ease of use and doing most of the work for you. Part of that is it is a unix system and they use unix tools that have been around for ages. However, I thought Apple for have made them easier to use. For version control software Apple recommends subversion (already installed) or cvs. Those are old command line version control software. I would have thought they would have made it simple integration with xcode. At least with Microsoft SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server are seamlessly integrated with Visual Studio. Overall you are paying for all the software that you get with it. That part is impressive. But for the same price I could have got a windows laptop with a faster cpu, 9800 gpu, dual harddrives, esata, hdmi, and memory card ports with a labelflash or lightscribe dvd burner or bluray player. I haven't had to download much for apps. I am finding Firefox is buggy so I am using Safari. I've downloaded a couple of system preference add-ons. Fan Control to adjust what temps and rpms the fans run at. Startup Sound to disable the starting chime. And Xbox 360 controller driver which is better than Microsoft's! I use that with Mame OS X to play arcade games. Adium is a great IM client. The mac google notifier not only works with gmail but also google calanders. Because of the fan problem I am using VirtualBox vm to run windows in OS X. I need access to Office for my resume. Once the fan control issue is resolved I will use the windows side for job hunting. My favorite feature of the macbook is the backlit keyboard. kbcovers.com. I picked up an ultrathin keyboard cover. It doesn't affect typing much.