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Sexy. Supah Sexy.

So, let's out of the way with the bad stuff:

• One mouse button. Trackpad. I knew these would be there. I had hoped to force myself to use them until I got used to them. I lasted about four minutes, and I ripped the free MSFT Notebook Optical Mouse out of the Thinkpad and stuffed it into the USB port.
  
• The Superdrive is really irritating in the way it accepts and ejects discs. It apparently tries for a smooth ejection with a stuttered series of pulses. It just looks crude and jittery.
  
• Moving Outlook XP objects via a file-based mechanism is gross. I bought Outlook2Mac, and it made the general task easier than it should have been, but it was still nasty, hamhanded, and inelegant.
  
• The finish on the keys is coarse, and if one hasn't cut one's nails to the nub, the scratching can drive one up the wall.
  
• Cross-protocol IM client support sucks, especially if you need SOCKS proxy support.
  
• Safari and HTTPS proxying. The Suck.
  
• Proxying in general sucks. The exception is the working application, in this case.
  

The Good Stuff:

• That mouse thing? There are USB ports on both sides of the laptop. This is good.
  
• The UI, of course, makes it difficult to look over at the ThinkPad running XP. XP is nice, and prettier than Windows-That-Came-Before, but it's so...icky.
  
• You know when you look down at a piece of paper in soft lighting, and it looks yellow, but you know it's really white? That yellow is the TP screen, which is one of the best notebook screens, and the really white is the Powerbook screen. And wide!
  
• The Dock is back. I have missed it in the years since I left NeXTStep/OpenStep.
  
• Entourage. This is what Outlook wishes it could be. The Lookout team should be fired and replaced with a team who focuses only on porting Entourage to Windows. They could port it to the new iPoddy Beetle and call it Entouareg. Oh, serendipitous typo.
  
• Bluetooth and the T68i. Love!
  
• Being able to turn on ftpd made it insanely easy to move the files from the TP.
  
• Backlit keyboard.
  
• I am the N3rd L0rd. All geeks pee their pants in my presence.
  

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