An early step before leaving for business school. I can say without hesitation that this is the nicest piece of hardware that I've ever owned. The new MacBook Pro has only been out for about a week and I've already got it! So much about it is brilliant. Made from a single piece of aluminum in order to save weight and add strength. At brilliant, color-rich screen. A backlit keyboard. A power cord that magnetically attaches. A fast, new, Intel-based processor.But I didn't buy it for the operating system. I'm a Windows guy. So what I've done seems pretty radical but it was actually very easy. I downloaded the RC version of Windows 7 (basically the beta version of the new version of Windows, which should release in October). Then I downloaded a trial version of VM Ware's Fusion product. And so now I'm running a beta within a trial. The result?
What you're looking at is a little window with Windows 7 in it that's sitting within Mac OS X. I'm running both at the same time, which is great, since the Mac OS is actually a little better at some things like music and pictures. I can blow Windows 7 up to take over the full screen and then toggle back and forth between the operating systems (they can share documents, pictures, etc.). You can even run Windows apps within the Mac OS, in a view called "Unity" that is pretty self-explanatory.
I'm not overly technical, so this is pretty amazing to me. And I'm super-excited to see that everything is working. Whoa.
