If you own a recent MacBook (Pro) or just returned from the Apple store where you bought an Apple Magic Trackpad
This update will enable “inertia scrolling” (a.k.a “momentum scrolling”) on your MacBook’s trackpad:
That is so awesome. My Logitech MX Revolution mouse
Ein Freund und ich haben kürzlich unsere MacBooks getauscht. Er bekam mein 2006er 15″ MacBook Pro und ich im Austausch dafür die kleinere, aktuelle 13″-Version des MBP. Bis dahin ist das Ganze ja noch nicht wirklich spannend… 
Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn: ich habe in der Vergangenheit schon ein paar Mal Solid State Disks (SSD) im Einsatz gesehen und war vollkommen platt, wieviel mehr Geschwindigkeit die bei der alltäglichen Arbeit rausholen können. Beim Tausch der MBPs haben wir auch die Festplatten umgebaut. Ich habe meine 320 GB-Western-Digital-Festplatte (5400 rpm)
Was soll ich sagen? Das alte MBP rennt damit wie ein Gaul auf Steroiden. Wir haben keine “echten” Benchmarks gefahren, aber: sein OS X war deutlich schneller hochgefahren als das mit dem aktuellen MacBook Pro der Fall war. Firefox benötigte auf dem 2.0-GHz-MBP mit SSD gerade mal 3 “Animiertes-Dock-Icon-Zeiteinheiten”, während das hübsche Icon beim 2.53-GHz-Modell immerhin 9 Mal durch die Gegend hüpfte, bis ich mal ein Firefox-Fenster zu sehen bekam.
Natürlich sind das keine wissenschaftlich fundierten Messungen, aber es beeindruckt ungemein. Jetzt weiß ich zumindest schon mal, worauf ich mal ein wenig spare — und hoffe auf fallende Preise im SSD-Markt. Die Intel X-25M mit 160 GB
Image: “My new buddie” by Fredrik Smedenborn. CC-licensed.
Well, my MacBook Pro is about 2 years old now and I’ve had… a total of 5 batteries exchanged so far. Of course, Apple has the famous Battery Exchange program that was… recently closed. Grrr.
I hope Apple was only screwing up with their batteries in the past and hopefully does a better job with the recently introduced new MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks.
And if it’s not the battery or some fancy charging-related logic board problem, it must be me who is using the MBP so excessively that all batteries are dying nearly at light velocity.
Update: creativebits and TUAW have both mentioned articles on how to treat your laptop’s battery best. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I did with this battery (fully charge it, drain it, keep it at 50% charge when stored for a longer period of time, etc.). Didn’t help 
Finally, I’m back with the road-warriors again. The last weeks, my MacBook Pro and I were bound to my desk because it was running without a battery. It had died (the computer just went out when the battery’s capacity reached about 30%), so I had to leave the battery at the Gravis store in Munich (as Apple does not [yet] have any official stores in Germany, Gravis IMHO is the best choice).
Since I bought my MacBook Pro in 9/2006 I’ve had 3 replacement batteries so far. This is the forth one. I hope it actually stays alive a little longer than a few months. And (just in case) I was able to buy another Apple battery on eBay for a quite affordable price, so I might now be able to (at least half-way) compete with a certain Thinkpad owner who coded during the whole flight from Germany to San Francisco…
For several days, I was thinking about buying a second power adaptor and a second battery for my MacBook Pro because I’m a) on the way quite often and b) sick of crawling under my desk every morning to unplug the MBP power adaptor, putting it in my backpack, driving to the office and plugging it in again (same thing in the evenings, only in the other direction).
Luckily, this might be the first time I waited long enough for an Apple product (I remember when I bought the PowerBook, the MacBook Pro and the [multiple] iPods it only took Apple a few weeks to come up with a major improved model for the same price). The quite huge power brick for the MacBook Pro has been updated (read: shrunk) and seems to be in a much more conveniant size for travelling businessmen.
