Apple released the 17” MacBook Pro last Monday. In Part I of my Apple vs Thinkpad post I mentioned a few reasons why I’m strongly considering the MacBook Pro. The 17” model adds Firewire 800, 8x super Drive, and obviously a larger screen. If Apple had just added the option for a speed bump in the Core Duo it may have just been the tipping point.
On a side note the MacBook Pro is seeing more and more applications get ported to native Intel and/or Universal support. Just one more feather in the MacBook’s hat.
Kevin Henrikson
Kevin has spent his career making annoying but important things work better at scale: enterprise email at Zimbra, mobile productivity (co-founded Acompli, acquired by Microsoft for $200M and became Outlook Mobile), marketplace operations at Instacart, and now healthcare administration as Co-Founder of Pretty Good AI.