I've got a 2.16 and I was the 50th post in this forum... Why 300 bucks for it you ask? I had a feeling it was soldered in and I wanted to get the most for my money, was it worth it? Too early to tell, maybe not, who knows. It is kind of neat to have a more powerful (sure it's the pro-version) laptop then the consumer desktop of apple's, when was the last time that's happened? Has it ever?? Oh well, it was 270 more with student discount so I guess it wasn't quite 300, but where else do you have to go after the 7200 hard drive and 2 GB of ram (the second is on its way as a present from the mrs. since I KNOW I can get another gig for less than what apple charges, the ram's not soldered in, and I should easily be able to add more myself). Anyways, I got a 2.16 on Feb. 22nd at 10 A.M. and it is by far faster then a 1.9 ghz 17" G5 iMac w/512 ram (universal apps of course), 1.33 ghz 14" iBook (with 768 of ram), 1.42 ghz Mac Mini (with gig of ram), and the 15" 1.67 ghz PowerBook final rev. Of course this isn't using rosetta but word goes just as fast as the iBook and Mini, and adobe CS2 about the same. Although the 1.67 PowerBook and 1.9 iMac have a noticible improvement over adobe in rosetta on this MBP. I don't have benchmarks, but just using all of them - you learn to be able to tell and guesstimate.
Edit: I believe it was a hatachi, but others got seagates so maybe mine is one to and I have forgotten in this period of roughly 5 hours waiting for it to sleep long enough to calibrate the battery. So it could be a seagate but I thought I read hitachi, is it possibly for apple to use different drives in different models? For example, a 7200 seagate in one persons and a 7200 hatachi in mine. I could be very wrong, I'll try to write back tomorrow to clear up this mess I've made, sorry
