Apple's finally refreshed their notebooks now -
http://www.notebookreview.com/defaul...k+pro+2010+new. I'd still recommend buying the older versions though, as the performance gains are probably something along the lines of some applications opening in 5sec instead of 4sec, and others opening in 0.5sec instead of 0.4sec, if you know what I mean. I'm still not convinced by the power saving claims, but if you want to be sure, wait for the above site to do a proper review of the new units, and compare them to the reviews of the old line.
Remember, however, that I'm still an advocate of FOSS, and I consider OS X only a little better than W7 - OS X is UNIX based, and releases some of its source code as Darwin (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_...ting_system%29), but still uses closed components and charges high premiums... heck, most FOSS projects are free of charge, because if developers charge for them, some smart cookies will usually buy the software, take the source code, recreate it, and legally redistribute it free of charge. Case in point - Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs. CentOS (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS).
Don't forget that plenty of open-source apps run on OS X if you'd still prefer it to a Linux distro, for example OpenOffice (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org) and, of course, Mozilla Firefox (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox).
And, no, I'm not preaching, I'm simply showing everyone the little-known alternatives. It's up to you to take the initiative and make the switch, but I'm always more than happy to help make it easier.
