Ah, yes. Looks like a toy. Well, sometimes when working it can be nice to at least feel like you're playing with a toy. A toy that can accomplish Real Work.
I'll tell you a little story (here at the MacForumsBlog) of my day with my Macbook:
My wife is currently in the hospital undergoing some surgeries. Yesterday morning I took her to the hospital for admittance and while we were waiting for the next step in the medical process we took out our Macbooks to while away the time. I started watching a DVD I had brought in anticipation of a lot of waiting. She checked some important medical documents emailed to her by the hospital staff to refresh her memory of what she would be going through. Then she watched a DVD (one of many) that she had brought in anticipation of a long hospital stay.
Shortly thereafter, we were called into pre-op so we closed our toys, which promptly went to sleep to be put into bags to tote to the next step. Since they are so lightweight, carrying them everywhere is little effort. She went off to surgery (and her Macbook went to the trunk of our car, asleep, to wait for her to wake it later to keep her company during her stay after recovery.)
Meanwhile
I went to the surgical waiting room and woke up my Macbook to continue watching the DVD I had started earlier. After awhile I decided to go out and see if I could get a WiFi connection since I knew there were some available in this section of the city. I went down to the second floor of the parking garage, was able to acquire a WiFi WAP, check my email, get some updates from some websites, and chat with my father to give him an update on his daughter-in-law. Then I launched Parallels workstation which booted into Windows XP so I could check what was happening at the office. I logged into the VPN, and launched Lotus Notes to catch up on the work email to make sure there were no emergencies. There weren't so I logged into the corporate Sametime connect IM client (on the Parallels VM.) I was able to converse with my co-workers to inform them that my wife was in surgery, and I was on the corner of XXth and YYYYYYth looking down on traffic while standing in a parking structure communicating with them on my Macbook (one of them covets my Macbook, so he asked "are you talking to me on MY laptop?) I'm taking vacation days for this surgery, but might as well see what's up in the office.
The rest of the day was spent showing my brother-in-law all of the really useful aspects of the MacOS on a Macbook (this was a 7+ hour surgery, so much waiting took place) because he had ordered one based on what I showed him the night before. He will be spending the time today looking to ambush the express carrier who will be delivering via overnight shipping. It's going to be a (toy) white Macbook Core2Duo, 80Gig HDD, 1Gig RAM, with a mighty mouse and he sprung for Parallels so he can also run Windows should he wish to run the odd Windows application. He is completely in love with Mac OS X, however, since this evening he observed me running all the standard applications a Mac user would use (Addressbook, Safari, Mail, iTunes, TextEdit, iCal, Dashboard, Photoshop CS1, DVD Player) and some that only a more intrepid user would run (Audacity, UT2004, PhotoBooth) without any lag while switching around the desktop. Exposé functioned beautifully while even the beta multiple desktop switcher I use, VirtueDesktops, rotated around to four different virtual desktops with their own applications with a 'cubic' effect. He is looking forward to taking possession of his new Macbook and getting some work done without the OS getting in his way.
He is also looking forward to having video-conferencing sessions with his sister and her husband as she recuperates in the hospital; later we will be able to video-conference from wherever we might be with an internet connection.
So the short version of this story is: The Macbook is no toy.
It is indeed too bad you could not get past that, but such is life. See my earlier post. Unfortunate that the number 2 point couldn't even get a chance since the Macbook is actually a quite useful, powerful, and capable machine despite their toylike disposition.
And they still run Windows....