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Aluminum macbook...

As many of you already know, I bought an aluminum macbook (yes the new one) a couple months ago and have been using it as my primary machine ever since. Even now I'm writing this on it.
My first impression was great, as we all know that it looks extremely sexy, and Apple knows how to do design.
Then I started using it. Leopard is great. A good OS overall, and since it's unix-based it means I get to do many of the things I need almost straight out of the box (or with small tweaks). I like the new casing, and I often find myself just running my fingers on it, cause, well, it feels GOOD.
That said, battery life is quite bad, I can get about 3 hours when I'm really lucky and I have to run at minimum brightness. Compared to the 6 of my iBook (when it was new, mind you) that is a huge difference. Then there's build quality. To be honest, apart from the main features (unibody, multitouch and glass screen) the rest is the usual Rotten Apple. The superdrive is noisy as always, the keyboard feels weird, and just recently my right arrow, right shift key and right alt started getting stuck and clicking noisily. Which is where the real trouble starts. You see, this thing is made of one single piece, so you can't pull out the keyboard and clean it. No sir, you have to pull out every key one by one. Not that that solved the issue either. It seems to be the mechanics of the keys. The "Genius" at the Apple Store will be able to tell me that because they're built by overworked children in the people's republic they sometimes screw things up. The glare on the screen is bearable and I have to admit it's quite bright, but you can see dirt mount up on it pretty fast.
The multitouch trackpad is very cool and sometimes useful. But other times just plain annoying. I don't find myself zooming or rotating that much, and when scrollingweb pages , I sometimes end up with smaller fonts. Other times, if I rest my thumb like you would do on a normal trackpad, I end up with a right click. Not that it's very messy, but sometimes it does get on my nerves.
The machine is a lot more robust, and the graphics card does a pretty good job, but sometimes I wonder if we could get something that's been thought through a little bit more. After all, I have spent a considerable amount of money on it...

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