Intresting review of the new 2010 MBP here, In summury i fully agree with many of the points made, they seem to fully support what i have been saying . The Author generally praised the new mac book pro, although note the final paragraph:
the specification is stingy, the keyboard mediocre, the lack of graphics switching in Windows is a killer blow,
and the cooling system borders on the unworkable. We're long past the days when Apple did style like no other, and we've seen far better laptops in recent months - such as the VAIO Z11 - to recommend this one.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/laptops/357568/apple-macbook-pro-15/2#ixzz0oHZOULHP
interesting reading.
I don't get paid to write reviews to help sell magazines, so take this with whatever grain of salt you wish.
-I no longer bother with Boot Camp, so I care little for how my 2010 MBP performs in Windows. Windows itself has so many issues I've no desire to bother with this. I do run Windows via Parallels and have no issues with graphics or performance there.
-Specifications aren't stingy for my uses via OSX. They may be stingy for uses as a Windows laptop, which frankly needs far more horsepower to feel as peppy. I can lift the lid of my MBP and be typing in Pages before my Win7 laptop even comes out of sleep mode. And that assumes it DOES come out of sleep mode. Really, I've always found that I need more computing horsepower just to do basic things on Windows ever since Vista was introduced. So 'stingy' is relative. For OSX, 4G of ram, i7 processor and the graphics card is more than capable of powering common business tasks.
-I dont understand the complaints about the keyboard at all. I have a nice Lenovo Thinkpad and yes, I think its got a great keyboard. But the one on my MBP is just as good. And the trackpad on the Mac more than makes up for any keyboard issues that someone might complain are lacking. The Mac keyboard + trackpad combination are simply the most ergonomically sound duo I can imagine and I've got literally dozens of laptops in my company. Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony, Mac (older gen), MBP. For ANY GUI these days, complaining about the keyboard without taking into account the navigation capabilities of the pointing device (trackpad) is a rather glaring oversight.
-Cooling issues? What cooling issues? Even while using Handbrake to do batch level conversions, pegging each core at over 100% for hours on end, my i7 MBP never tops out past 170 degrees F. The fans work fine.
Basically, all their complaints are from the perspective of what a Windows user wants/needs in a laptop. And I'd agree, as a Windows laptop, the Macbook Pro line isn't the best. But as an OSX laptop, the Sony Vaio/HP Envy totally suck.
