That’s right! Yesterday afternoon I picked up the new MacBook Pro :)

I’ve had about a day to play around with it and it is pretty cool. Hardware wise, the glowing keyboard is very sleek and it feels very nicely built, much better than most of the PC laptops I’ve used recently. The two finger scrolling and right-clicking with the touchpad is very cool, makes the touchpad much more usable, and means I won’t feel the need to have to drag an extra mouse around when I’m out and about.

As for the software, OS X is very nice. The are a few things that I’ll need to get used to, but overall it looks nice and most things just seem to work. A quick example is when I plugged in an external monitor this afternoon, OS X automatically detected it and extended the desktop onto that monitor without me having to do anything, which is something that I have never seen Windows do. I have found quite a few cool little applications that can do all sorts of stuff, but I’ll write about those another day.