APPLE now able to Run Windows XP as well...tough choice.

[stephenaron]

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/05 ... /index.php

[egibbs]

Macbooks are pretty. Upgrade the HDD on one and you'll run screaming back to a Thinkpad.

I can pop my drive in and out in 30 seconds. On a Macbook it's major surgery.

Which is not to say the Macbook is not a beautiful, elegant design. It's just that the requirements given the engineers were different.

Ed Gibbs

[christopher_wolf]

That and the only other requirements I would like to have on a MacBook are the following:

1.) Turn the Optical Drive into a bay; swap 2nd HDD and port expansion peripherals in and out

2.) Put a very well designed Trackpoint on the keyboard to compliment the touchpad.

Other than that, the MacBook Pro is a very well designed notebook computer, as you would expect from Apple.