Good to hear you finally got yours as well I've been playing around with mine for a while now and I'm quite happy with it. Even brought it along to a LAN Party last weekend (FEAR, UT2004, CoD2) and everybody was impressed with the performance and the look of my MBP The funny thing was that if I served a FEAR game (over a bridged AirportExpress to LAN connected windows desktops) the gamers had a better ping than when connected over LAN to some lousy windows server [/edit]Hey Osprey; I just thought I would check this thread to see what was going on
Also, it does not run too hot either. I think it's even cooler than my -previous- PowerBook G4 1.67 (2nd last revision); however my PowerBook only startup up the fans when it was getting hot while the MBP always has it's fans on at 2000rpm (so my PB was more quiet). I only find the trackpad sometimes a littlebit less responsive compared to my PB trackpad with 2 finger scrolling. Other than than; I'm very happy
As I'm a web developer for profession I set up MAMP + virtual hosts modification + subversion last sunday in order to work locally. Works excellent and much faster than on my old PowerBook
Enjoy your machine
[edit]Koops also lurking here?
) on which I have Samba (=windows filesharing) configured. Connecting from my MBP to the Linux box works like a charm and I did not have any issues connecting to real windows machines either. I assume it's the Windows machine that's having problems; maybe something in access rights or the MS firewall? Works great Hmmm I have a (Gentoo) Linux box (Gateway/Firewall/Fileserver/Webserver/FTPserver/Hobby box/etc
Also, if other people have a Linux box at home as well; have a look at mt-daapd. It can share your mp3 collection on your network using Apple's DAAP protocol; your music will show up in iTunes as 'shared music'. So I store all my music on my Linux box which saves me a lot of harddrive space
I don't know if any of you "original" guys are still reading this thread, but just in case, I thought I would update you. I didn't cancel my order and Apple was good to their word. It took exactly six weeks to ship, but I finally received my MBP today. It is a week 29 build and a LG screen.
I am sure that this will come back to haunt me, but I can't seem to find anything wrong with mine (and believe me, although I am somewhat ashamed to admit it--I have tried very hard to find something wrong). I do a lot of photography, I am a watercolorist, and I do some video so I think that I am pretty good with color. When I first received the MBP, I could see the yellowish hues from an angle. I calibrated using the Eye-One to get a more accurate color display. For the life of me, I can't even fault the viewing angles that everyone criticizes. I have one corner, (the lower, right hand) that has a small triangular shape that is a little darker than the rest of the screen. No problem, I just moved my dashboard to the right hand side of the screen. Besides, when I am editing, it won't be from the corner, it will be from the center of my screen. I am sure that there are those who will tell me that I just can't see the yellow, but it just isn't there. Not even when viewing from an angle since I calibrated. Also I seldom use my MBP at full screen brightness and I have absolutely no flickering. Someone suggested that if you tilted the MBP and looked at the top you would see white light shining through and at the bottom you would see yellow light shining through. I have also tried this and just can't see it. It may be there, but I can't see it (honest).
Oh just remembered. The only fault that I can really find is that my internet with this thing is a whole lot slower to load than on my other machines. It shows that I am getting excellent reption, it just takes everything a long time to load. I thought it might just be Safari, but haven't really tried anything else yet.
The machine does feel a little warmer than my previous laptops, but I guess I really expected that and I can live with it. I haven't started editing video yet, but I think this computer is going to work for me. I guess time will tell if my assumptions are correct, but for right now I am extremely pleased and relieved.
