I’ve had my MacBook Pro for a few weeks now and I have mixed feelings about it. I upgraded from a 15″ PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz to a 15″ MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Dual Core. I was expecting dramatic speed improvements, but in everyday usage (with all the junk I have loaded), it doesn’t seem blazingly fast. I’ve made a point to only run Intel native apps, but I’m suspecting that some apps that were just re-compiled for Intel have issues causing slow downs. However, compiling code is so fast that I can recompile an entire project with tons of subprojects in a minute or two.
One thing that is really bugging me is that, despite me having the energy saving preference set to sleep at 3 minutes, sometimes the machine doesn’t go to sleep at all or sleeps a long time after 3 minutes. So, obviously, some program is causing this problem. I haven’t been able to track it down, but I did write a program that logs all the processes running if the machine has been idle to 3 minutes and also logs processes running right before the machine sleeps. All this data hasn’t told me anything, but maybe someone else can shed light on the problem.
The jury is still out in my opinion on how much of an improvement this machine is over my old one; it definitely is an improvement, but I was hoping for more.