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Macbook Unibody 15.4" - Part 2

Well now I have lived with the Macbook Pro for 9 months or so, I've come to admire the good parts of the design, and to reluctantly live with the bad parts. The good: Speakers are great Screen Brightness and Clarity Hotkeys to easily change volume, tracks, brightness Glowing keyboard at night Quiet when using the 9400M video card I love the Expose feature for switching between Apps. The Dashboard widgets are great - very useful and fun Smooth scrolling, multi-touch trackpad rocks! The screen zoom in any application works very smoothly, and I've used it a lot - Windows 7 has a zoom (windows Key +) but it doesn't work nearly as nicely The built-in screen shot utility is great, although Windows 7 has the snipping tool which works fine as well The bad: Boot camp on Windows 7 64 Bit -- it runs nice and fast, but the battery lasts 1.5 hours - come on! I upgraded my Thinkpad from XP to Windows 7 and got an additional hour of battery life - now I get 4 hours on a 3 year old battery