The day Apple introduced its unibody Macbooks, I have been eyeing it like an eagle looking for the right opportunity to grab it. Their demo video has since then always been hanging around in my iphone. But changing computers every year that too the costliest ones would be too much for a UG student like me. One day Vyas Sir realizes that I have been having trouble with my old machine and like any fortunate incident in my life this lovely surprise came to me without any hope. And now I am on a Macbook Pro 13" unibody.
Its an innovative piece of creation by the maestros. The glistening silver colored body with sleekness personified is a stunning sight to behold. Weighing less than 2 kgs its the ultimate companion for journeys and portable use. The speakers, cameras, LEDs are amazingly well embedded into the aluminum body pushing the unibody idea further high.
The battery backup has further improved and now its 7 + hours.
The trackpad as demonstrated in the videos is very smooth and sensitive and the multitouch gestures are really really cool. The headphone and line in jack have now been integrated into one socket. So now you can use your iphone headphones with built in mics with this machine.
The LED lit LCD display has incredible contrast and brightness with auto adjustment depending on the ambient light. Coupled with the Nvidia graphics card, every piece of crap looks glittering and lovely on it.
By the way all the pros now have a backlit keyboard. The only issue with this machine appears to be the heating issue as compared to the white ones. Being metallic they heat up little faster.
And the 2nd big surprise was the fact that it comes with OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard upgrade DVD. After lot of speculations snow leopard is finally out with almost no new features but still claiming to be the most advanced and stable operating system ever. The startup and shutdown speed has almost doubled. If you are upgrading to Leopard, you get to save an additional 6 to 10GB hard disk space on installation.
The graphics has become smoother and richer. Expose is more magnificent now with quicklook features integrated into it meaning that when all the open windows are exposed, you can hover over a particular window and press space bar to magnify and focus on that window. Now as you hover over other windows they keep magnifying in turn. With the new version, APPLE probably wanted to do away with the Mac-NTFS boundary by incorporating native NTFS read/write support but due to technical issues hasn't made it official yet. However you can do a small hack to enable the write capability. Fortunately I came across this unique app called the NTFS mounter which does this job for me without opening terminal or any other thing like that.
iTunes has definitely become more advanced with more iphone oriented features. But what I really liked as a big leap is Quicktime 7.It comes with many more plugins and codecs. And.... now you can record video movies and audio using the in built camera and mic. What really add flavors is the fact that now one can directly video record screen without any heck.... wow. That means making tutorials or explaining a software is so very easy now. If you also have a windows comp for which you want to record screen.... just remote Desktop onto it from MAC and record .
Second amazing feature is video trimming. Now you can cut out a scene or a song from a movie in 3 clicks. There's nothing breathtaking yet but I am really loving it.
Disappointment:
I loved the quicklook folder view plugin which is no more compatible with 10.6.
1 comment:
check it out
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090912030240376
Its not as cool as folder preview, but is still worth activating
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