Bro just got one. 17" This thing is AMAZING. When booted up as a PC, it runs games faster and better than a lot of my friends' custom built gaming computers. HOLY CRAP I WANT ONE

Wait a month.... 64 bit.

=O

damnit, I'm running on a four-year-old 800mhz ibook..

*drools over smittens brother's keyboard*

is it a white one?

That's the Macbook. The Pros are all aluminium.

I think he's asking if it's white or black.

No, it's silver.

Oh I thought you were talking about the MacBook for some reason lol

I hear the MacBook Pro is having heat dissipation problems, or rather, it generates a large amount of heat. Anyone heard anything about that?

My bro complains about it getting hot, but I haven't seen/heard about any problems due to this...not yet at least

well if burnt fingers aren't a problem...
actually it gets really too hot, works fine but it's not a laptop anymore... unless you never want to have childrenn that is. :)
I have the 15inch 2.16 GHz and it is a crazy machine, really powerfull, but it is hot :D

Keep your fingers off of the area right above the function keys. Gets really hot there.

Just got one.... SCOREXORS! No more crappy 6-yr old comp to play VO with... No more framerate issues...

YEEHAW

FARK! Just what Shape needs, better equipment

Even if he has better equipment now, there are other ways to deal with him....

JUST GOT ONE!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a MBP, 2.16GHz, 2GB
it really is amazing, windows, or mac it blows everything else out of the water.
and... the 17" screen is nice too

Specifications:
* 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
* 120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
* ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM
* SuperDrive 6x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
* MagSafe Airline Adapter
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
* Accessory Kit
* AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro/PowerBook (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll

Getting it tomorrow evening.

Ok, so I'm starting to hear rumours abounding that the new Macbook Pros are 64 bit, with the Core2 Duo. Apparantly they aren't advertising it as such because the motherboard ram pipeline can't handle 64 bit amounts of traffic, still at 32 bit levels. But apparently it can still run at 64 bit and will therefore be able to fully take advantage of Leopard.

Anyone have any information confirming or showing this to be wrong? I'm very curious.

64-bit, in the context of current AMD and Intel processors, doesn't really have much to do with how much data gets moved around at once, it's about how much memory is directly addressable by the CPU without swapping or paging. 32-bit processors are limitted to a 4GB address space without using techniques like virtual memory or memory paging (which allowss the OS to shift the current visible address space within the actual address space present in hardware). 64-bit and larger data paths, registers and instruction units have been common to mostprocessors for several years, though AMD/Intel x64 processors do gain additional instructions for working with data in larger chunks as part of the x64 upgrade.

The Core 2 Duo processors are 64-bit capable. However, Apple isn't advertising the 64-bit angle for their laptops and iMacs (which use very similar components) for two reasons:

1. It doesn't impact their target market for those machines very much, because cramming more than 4GB of RAM in a laptop would be expensive and/or require cutting other features to make room for more RAM sockets. Home users aren't really aware of what 64-bit computing actually means, and professionals who can actually make proper use of a machine with >4GB of RAM probably want other workstation-class hardware to go with it, meaning a Mac Pro.

2. The "motherboard issue" that Apple and several other manufacturers (Dell and IBM that I know of) are having, namely that the chipsets (not the processor) they are getting from Intel for the Core 2 are limited a 4GB address space (32-bit), which negates the benefit of the processor being able to address up to 64-bit. This results in a 3GB physical memory limit when you throw in the reserved address space that the OS uses for libraries and whatnot.
More info on the chipset/OS limits here and here