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With the arrival of the Intel platform plus Bootcamp, the time finally seemed to be ripe for THAT switch. XP was aging, Vista a pain in tha a**, and very little decent and stylish PC notebooks on the horizon. Unfortunately, time becomes a black hole in the process, and loads of unexpected difficulties arise. So just before you are about to realize that your girlfriend is gone (bad) and your fridge is empty (worse) you can rightly state: “switch carried out, all machines ready to fire”. But by then, the next generation of MacBook Pros has arrived… But lets start from the very beginning.

It was a thrilling notion on one of the first warm spring days last year, me using a notebook as my principal machine again. The power of most laptops being completely adequate today, the first choice was a Sony to begin with. The design, well, slightly organic, but somehow stylish enough. Plus the hardware insight was top for early 2007, a 200 GB disc, 2x 1024 MB RAM, plus a reeeally bright display.

But a “ready for the coffeehouse” batch doesn’t mean it can live up to the necessities of studio work. The reflective display design did indeed reflect all the other LEDs etc. in our otherwise rather dark studio atmo plus the 1280 x 800 pixel resolution is just not enough for 15,4’’ screen – certainly it’s not PRO. But that wasn’t enough to make me seriously think about a change. The thing that really mattered was the keyboard. The letters on the keys completely zoomed out in our studio because of the light grey keys with WHITE lettering on it. That could already become a problem on a normal grey day – well designed, Sony. So that was how it actually started. And after a lot of research it just had to be a MacBook Pro, since at the time being that seemed to be the ultimate hardware. And why not striving for the best - as we do with our music…?
On another beautiful day this wondrous thingy finally lay in front of me, a Core Duo first generation MacBook Pro. The design, plus the look and feel made me and zu Fuss almost bow in respect. What a simple yet refined elegance. But alas, the joy didn’t last long…

Second part coming soon

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