http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/04/30/macbook-pro en-us 40 Rolling on Rails <p style="float:right"><img src="http://www.slashdotdash.net/images/macbookpro_17.png" alt="" /></p> <p>Now if I could just find a way of getting £1999 I&#8217;d buy one of the new 17&#8221; <a href="http://www.apple.com/uk/macbookpro/">MacBook Pro</a> laptops to replace my current 17&#8221; PowerBook G4 in an instant.</p> <p>Not only is it supposedly 5x faster (<em>nice marketing spin!</em>) but it can triple boot Windows and Linux thanks to Apple&#8217;s <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/">BootCamp</a> technology. Not that I <em>desperately want</em> to run Windows on a Mac; but it&#8217;s good to know that you can.</p> <p>Suppose I could always try selling my soul on eBay ;-)</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecbusalacchi/sets/72057594129114051/">Unpacking a brand-new MacBook Pro 17</a></p> Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:02:00 +0100 urn:uuid:5729e30f3c64f09fd740e4c8297100d2 ben@slashdotdash.net (Ben) http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/04/30/macbook-pro Apple Mac OS X http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/trackback/14