Hm! I had been very busy this week, did not get enough time to check my new mac book pro out. First, I was away in NYC on the weekend. The visit bled over to Monday and I was late to get to work, and the usual snafu followed. Anyway, here are my first impressions of mac book pro and OS X

Ups

• Ease of use - things just work (may be it is so in Windows too;but prolonged use of Linux makes me say this)
• Beauty - everything is beautiful
• Scrollpad - very very very innovative way of user input
• Speed - very fast, and very smooth graphics
• Very sleek

Downs

• Heat - the core duo gets hotter and the SMC fans wont cool it down until it is really hot. I can not think of using this in a country like India.
• Font rendering - I find Apple's font rendering ( sub-pixel smoothed) a little inferior to Microsoft's Cleartype.

A passing thought

As I am switching to Mac Book, I would like to register my high regards for IBM's T - Series Laptops - In "wintel" world, IBM is the best laptop one can get.
I had/have a T42p, pimped up with 2GB RAM; the computer came with default 7200RPM 60GB Hard drive and 2.0 GHZ Pentium M. Though the video card ( ATI FireGL Mobility T2) was kind of lower end, I happily completed "Far Cry" and "DOOM 3" on this laptop.
I just love the Hard shell, hinges and parts of IBM thinkpad, Minimalistic and professional design, innovative track button located above the 'B' Key, which is very very useful once you get used to it. I may miss this one in Mac.
Love you thinkpad!

At last..

Today I ordered a 15" Mac Book Pro. Lately, I had been checking out so much of Apple related stuff, that I had to succumb to the temptation. I had been frequenting the Apple stores so many times - enough to create suspicion for the security guards.
Strange coincidence, Ubuntu has released their latest version of Linux - Feisty Fawn - today. Though Ubuntu being my favorite OS, I am not going to install this version. Instead, I am waiting to start my life on Mac. Anyway, this month on, my life is going to change in a big way :)
May be when Apple releases leopard in October and if it is very highly priced, I will think of dual booting Ubuntu on my pro.