There's one big problem with the PowerBook so far. I think many others have complained about it, too. It's the battery life, which is appalling. So far I've been lucky to get two hours out of it (with full power saving mode on), whereas my iBook will rock out for three or more. OK, the iBook is a G3 with a lower clock speed, but come on, you'd think that Apple would have been able to engineer a reasonable battery life into this $2600 computer, especially when they brag of four hour runtimes. Perhaps there will be an upgrade path for this particular battery someday.

I also downloaded and ran PiXelCheck from MacUpdate in order to uncover any dead pixels on my LCD. Good news! All perfect.

Update

OK, maybe I was a bit quick to judge the battery life on my new PowerBook. Tonight I used it for easily over a couple of hours (I didn't really time it, but it held out much longer than the night before). I guess I should have taken into account the fact that I was using the DVD drive last night to install some software - that definitely drags down the battery. Of course, that doesn't bode well for watching a movie on a plane trip.