{"id":642,"date":"2006-07-21T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/a2d72f5b9f17db48c960a6db0a279510"},"modified":"2006-07-21T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T17:14:37","slug":"mac-book-pro-initial-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Mac Book Pro initial thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well my new laptop, a Mac Book Pro 17\" has arrived. <\/p>\n<p>It's disturbing to compare it to the Powerbook 17\" that I've been using for the last three years or more - it feels lighter and somehow smaller, even though there are very few external physical differences. <\/p>\n<p>It does, however, feel fast. Parallels on here is even snappier than on the iMac (which admittedly has a slower CPU, but faster disk). I also opted for a glossy screen to make images clearer and the descriptions I've seen bear it out - for video, photo and high-image web browsing it is amazing, and yet somehow not reflective enough to bug you during use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=nXFm4Y\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=nXFm4Y\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/3902029\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well my new laptop, a Mac Book Pro 17&#8243; has arrived. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s disturbing to compare it to the Powerbook 17&#8243; that I&#8217;ve been using for the last three years or more &#8211; it feels lighter and somehow smaller, even though there are very few external physical differences. <\/p>\n<p>It does, however, feel fast. Parallels on here is even snappier than on the iMac (which admittedly has a slower CPU, but faster disk). I also opted for a glossy screen to make images clearer and the descriptions I&#8217;ve seen bear it out &#8211; for video, photo and high-image web browsing it is amazing, and yet somehow not reflective enough to bug you during use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=nXFm4Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=nXFm4Y\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/3902029\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}