MacBook Pro? Is it teh sex? Yes, yes it is.

I placed my order on the fifth of July for my 15″ MacBook Pro. This was after months of scrimping, scrounging, saving, hustling, and daily checking of the Apple store. Finally, I made it. And then I had to wait two weeks. Apple is currently underproducing the 15″ MacBook Pro, so there is a 7-10 day wait for ‘em. But finally it shipped, out of Shanghai. I followed its voyages across through the jungles of the Philippines, doing god-knows-what in Mindinao, then across the Pacific to Anchorage, rooming the the stalwart Inuit on the frozen tundras, before trekking through the wilds of Canada down to America Proper, stopping for a quick jaunt to Indianapolis before coming home to sweet old Lincoln.

I was very excited to open the box. This machine is awesome. The brushed aluminum is simply gorgeous in person. The screen is wonderful (no dead/stuck pixels). Two gigs of RAM make the machine pretty damn fast. And the 120 gig hard drive gives me plenty of space to play around with. The wifi works fine, which was a concern due to somebody else having an issue with that. In fact the only issue I’ve been having involves the auto dimming of the screen and keyboard. Every now and then the screen or the keyboard dim just a few notches without any import from me. I know that some machines have a sensor that automatically dims the keyboard in bright light to save battery, so I’m guessing I’m somehow triggering that. As it turns out, there’s a setting for this. Score one for actually checking System Preferences. Also, there’s a little dent in the keyboard bevel, between the space bar and the cmd key; whether that’s a manufacturing defect or supposed to be there I’m not sure. I could easily imaging a wire going under the raised bit. Confirmation from The Queen that her MBP doesn’t have a dent, so it’s just mine. It’s okay though, chicks dig scars.

I love sitting on the couch and being able to VNC into the iMac to check the news reader/email. The iSight is fun to use on the road. Two-finger scrolling is a joy to use. Everything about this machine makes me love owning a Mac all over again. Be sure to check the Flickr stream for more photos of this sweeeeet machine.

By the way, I’ve got five Pownce invites to give away if anybody wants one. Pownce is the new social-miniblog-file-sharing-networking-2.0-twitter-like dealie from Kevin Rose and a bunch of other people who weren’t on the cover of Business Week magazine. It’s kind of like Twitter, but offers the ability to share files, photos, and links with friends. It’s also more stable, but probably just because it’s in private beta. But ask away if you want in on it.

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