Re: [PLUG] First 24 hours with MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo)

["W. Chris Shank" <shankwc@acetechgroup.com>]

only time backlight turned on so far was when I cover the sensors with my hands or last night when I turned off the light. Not sure why the keys would be harder to read with the light on. The letters are transparent so it's almost unnoticable in daylight.

I plan to test battery next. I wanted to let them get a chance to charge for a while.


----- Original Message -----
From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2006 12:11:26 PM GMT-0500
Subject: Re: [PLUG] First 24 hours with MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo)

On 11/4/06, W. Chris Shank <shankwc@acetechgroup.com> wrote:
> I thought some folks may be interested in this since the laptop discussion
> seemed to have a lot of interest.
Yes, some of us are. :)  You're making me drool BTW.

> Display is beautiful. Backlit keyboard had me baffled for a while until I
> figured out that a light sensor detected ambient light - so it's not even
> activated unless it's dark.
I don't know if your laptop is better at sensing light or not, but you
may notice the backlight turing on occasionally which makes the keys
harder to read.

> Gnome or KDE environment running on X11, I may forgo installing Linux all
> together. I've got the apps I need and I'd rather not have to deal with dual
> booting if I can avoid it.
If you don't mind plunking down the $80 for Parallels Desktop for Mac
you can get your Linux lovin sans the dual boot annoyances (and give
us a review :).

> Overall, a pretty nice experience so far.
Battery life test please!

thanks,
Amul
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