So, I used to think the whole wide screen laptop thing was stupid. Mostly because I don't like change. I didn't like it when DOS was dropped from Windows, I didn't like it when Apple changed the look of the Finder in OS8, I didn't like it when the switch from the trackball to the trackpad happened on the PowerBook line. But I've grown to accept and even enjoy all these things, well, I still miss DOS. The wide screen is no exception. It's a great substitute for having two monitors. Two monitors of course would be cumbersome and fairly annoying on a laptop. But the wide screen lets me have two windows open next to each other fairly comfortably. It also makes playing most games very nice. The only time I don't like it is when games do not support the widescreen format, then you have the annoying black bars on the sides.

Anyway, I very much like my new laptop. It's a 17" MacBook Pro. Here are the specs for you tech types:

- 17-inch (diagonal), 1680 x 1050 resolution, TFT widescreen
- 2.33ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 2 gigabytes of DDR2 667 MHz RAM
- 160 5400 RPM SATA HDD
- 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- Ports - 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, 1 Firewire 400, 1 Firewire 800, 3 USB 2.0 and an - ExpressCard/34 slot
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and dual-link DVI
- Combined optical digital input/audio line in, combined optical digital output/headphone out, stereo speakers, microphone
- Built-in 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme (802.11g); built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
- Apple Remote; full-size, illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor; scrolling trackpad

Anyway, it's nice to have, I can run Windows and OS X on the same machine, so I get games when I want to play and OS X when I want to do anything else.

Ok, Back to homework! Woot!