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hey guys here is a two-part review of my first couple days the MacBook Pro recorded it a little while ago so you'll notice that it's Pat chopped in half the second part just picks up I haven't learned how to use iMovie well enough to make it a seamless transition here I wanted to get this up for you guys tried to answer most of the questions that you can or most questions that I could any way anything else you guys want to know in always asked I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can it's nice to be able to help people out and trying to buy new computers because I used these videos for for so long trying to buy mine get special thanks to a guy over in England danny is aces his name had some great reviews on his 17-inch MacBook Pro so thanks to him and guys enjoy here's part one hey guys john here again thank you for everybody for watching the first couple videos and all the questions this is just gonna be a quick mini review of the macbook pro and my first two days of it really my first two days with OS 10 altogether there's a lot to be showing you the computer itself some of the programs i've downloaded and some of the cool tricks I learned the computer behind me is the new santa rosa macbook pro excuse me I got some notes here for you it's a 2.4 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4 megabytes of shared level 2 cache it's got 2 gigabytes of SDRAM it's got 160 gigabyte hard drive 15.4 inch glossy screen with a 1440 by 900 pixels the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT with 256 of RAM built in your eyesight video camera the built-in super drive and all the rest you guys know this is the stock model it's picked up from the store to be honest I really didn't want to wait for it to be delivered so let's get down to it let me show you guys the computer ok so here is the computer itself obviously it's sitting here turned on first thing is the MagSafe adapter I'm sure you've all seen it it's just simply magnetic no plugin requires each has a hold it right near report is plugged in automatically so if you walk by and knock it boom pulls out your computer doesn't go falling down with it people have laughs but I've actually tripped over a quarter not a laptop before down so I'm very happy to have this I have an external hard drive plug in say 160 gigabyte Western Digital Drive I'm actually unplug it here plug the MagSafe I just yelled at me for disconnecting it properly or not properly okay so the computer itself you've got your classic Apple logo the real brushed aluminum look it's a real classy look it definitely sets itself apart from other laptops and I think just by the way it looks the front of it it's opened by this little latch it's not magnetic like the MacBooks pushing then opens up little big deal blow right light right there let you know that it's on there is your super drive it hardly even see it on the side right here you've got your DVI port for external monitors I know it'll support up to the 30 gigabyte or 30 gigabyte the 30 inch Apple Cinema Display so if you're really show almost anything Gigabit Ethernet firewire 800 firewire 400 USB port and the lock and you clearly see how thin this I mean it's less than an inch thick and really not terribly heavy at all I mean I would have no problem taking this with me on an airplane or throwing you in the back I mean it just weighs nothing on the back of it here the vents notice so it vents it's just the same with the lid closed if you want using the clamshell mode on the other side here there's a Mac safe I showed you earlier USB port audio in audio al one of them and your Express card slot one thing to know though there are only two USB ports on here that's the only negative up out of their computer two USB ports not enough you're gonna have to buy a USB hub or splitter I forgot what they're called with its own power supply I'm actually gonna be buying one of those so back to the computer pretty pretty standard back that this cool little button will show you how much better you have in it I got a fully charged those two right there pull up and take out the battery and the RAM modules are below it so let me turn it on here and show you some of the programs that I've gone on as well as the OS one other really cool thing about the computer you can't seek to this daylight now as a backlit keyboard it's got an ambient light and sets are built-in so on a computer knows that you're in a dark environment if you were to light up you can't see it there but take my word for it keyboard lights up I'll show you guys one time when it's dark out alright so hopefully you guys can see the screen here well enough first thing I'll show you are kind of the simple things and the fun things that you can play with right off the bat first it comes with this cool Apple remote sure you've all seen it if you haven't it's very sleek slim six button design and what it does is it runs a program called front row which I will show you right now push a little menu button right there loads it up and what it does is it controls all your videos DVDs photos music really everything so if you want to listen to some music and far away click it you know same thing like iTunes shuffle songs it'll access your iTunes library and pull anything up not gonna get too much a detail on it if you want to know more being there comment I'll show you some more but there are a million videos on front row I'm sure you've all seen it so that is front row so first thing I got I'm going to show you guys here is the screen I went with glossy I know a lot of you who think about getting the computer are deciding between glossy or matte I spent a lot of time just adding this probably more and I should have looking at two in the store for hours ask me people I eventually want with glossy just because I thought it looked better and to be honest the glare on the new MacBook Pros I have noticed a glare at all I've got a lamp you can't see it but right above me here when I use it at night with a lamp there's no glare the colors look beautiful I have had any eye fatigue I just think that the glossy just looked better that was one thing I wanted to show you guys the second thing that I want to tell you is I decided to get the Apple one on one it's called it's a hundred bucks you can go to the Apple store once a week and you can sit and talk with the I what they're called geniuses I guess and I did that yesterday really only having the computer for a day and and just that one hour is able to learn it for a hundred bucks it's worth it you're gonna have somebody come to your house they probably charge at 200 bucks or so so you can really go through a scam all the questions you have and I give you one of these no no notebooks I guess to write in any question that you guys have definitely a worthwhile all right so now I'll show you some of the programs that the computer has this is the stuff that that it came with first I'll show you my dock it's got finder right there dashboard what dashboard does it opens up these little mini programs called widgets which are very Angela programs so here the widgets that I have running you can download them from Apple calm or Dashboard widgets calm and they do all kinds of cool stuff I've got yellow pages and Gmail I've got a fantasy baseball email gas prices stats on all your computer know if just kind of cool a tell you know how much free RAM you have that's not being used all kinds of stuff building network connections so I can see what networks are locked or not OS 10 doesn't by default tell you when networks are a lot kind of annoying if you want to hop on a hotspot or anything else you might want to do so that's dashboard I downloaded Firefox it's not the default browser so I was used to it from my PC real quick it looks like regular Firefox everything else is the same Safari is a default