When I watched (or listened) to this, my respect for Daft Punk shrunk a notch…

You might think that I made it move with help from Adobe Flash, but this is an ordinary JPG file. No motion involved…

My favorite tool for web trends, Google Trends, recently started with a new service. Extremely valuable! They added a comparison tool for Daily Unique Visitors for websites. When I found this out, I started comparing all kinds of different sites. Facebook vs. MySpace, news sites vs. dating sites and here… The shocking result above: The porn site youporn.com vs. cnn.com.

 Back to the bugs, watching the DVD I found my favorite bug. A small little critter, who’s mad as hell and takes on opponents, large and small, almost always wins. He’s in this video against a tarantula. Enjoy!

On the front page, there was a nice looking artwork of a vampire. I never gave much more thought to it, went to work and continued my day. On my way home, I started to feel this brotherly erge… I called my brother Fredrik, who apparently was in London, so it was expensive talking - a small chat. He mentioned that his artwork had been posted on the front cover of todays Metro!

Then it all came back to me! I remembered thinking, that it was my brothers style, but a bit different. It was him! A huge part of Sweden had been looking at my brothers artwork this morning! I’m very proud… Salutes to my brother; Fredrik T. Lindberg!

My new Macbook Pro has arrived. Here’s what I think:

It’s completely silent. Gives off no heat. Does it even have a fan? Cause it has never been on. This has to be because of the SSD (Solid State Drive) on 128 Gb. I’m writing this in my bed; my old laptop would be glowing of heat now, probably burst the bed on fire if hold there for to long.

It’s superfast. Graphics card and the Intel Core Duo 2 on 2,8 Ghz. 4 Gb RAM. Photoshop starts from being closed in only 3 seconds, where my old laptop took 30 seconds to open Photoshop.

Some people have been concerned about the glossy screen, including me. I have never used it before, this is my first glossy. I put it next to my older Macbook Pro 15″ screen and my 23″ flatscreen and compare them… They look weak in comparison. This new screen is so bright and clear you completely forget it’s glossy. Well, I actually start to like the glossy, cause this isn’t no plastic glossy, this is real glass. It speaks out quality.

It’s built out of a solid brick of aluminium. Which makes it look very clean and very solid. Professional.

The keyboard. All though some don’t like the black keyboard, I love it. Been waiting for the Macbook Pro to update with a new keyboard for over a year. This is the shit, especially when it glows in the dark. Beautiful.

The new trackpad is also beautiful, all though I haven’t been used to it yet. The button have been removed and built into the trackpad with a real push-down click. I would have wanted a bit more sensitive click, it’s a bit hard to push down. Multitouch is the greatest though. Scrolling, zooming, going back and forth through pages with three fingers. A time saver.

Firewire 400 is gone. I think that is pretty weird, cause in the beginning when you install the computer, OS X asks if I want to move account info from my older laptop onto this new one - with Firewire 400. Which doesn’t exist. How am I supposed to do that? I also have Sony video cameras that uses Firewire 400. Need to buy a converter now, not sure that is very common? 400 -> 800 converter. Also had to buy with converters from the “new screen mini standard cable plug”. To use my Macbook Pro with the 50″ plasma at work, I need to connect a HDMI cable to a HDMI to DVI converter. Then use a DVI to mini-plug converter. Hmm?

Battery life? One of the reasons I wanted to buy a new laptop was because my old one had a battery life of 15 minutes. Tried my new one out, brought it home with the power adapter to see if it could last a couple of hours. It is good for 5 hours, so well done! It will probably get worse over years, of course. But the new screen and the SSD drive takes much less power. The fan never comes on, so that is energy saving too.

Conclusion. This is the most beautiful, powerful laptop in the world right now. And it rocks. SSD was more powerful than I could have dreamed of, highly recommended even if it’s only 128 Gb. You can buy with a portable harddrive for music and projects your not working on at the moment. If you don’t do video and 3d animation, or need the bigger screen for design, I would suggest the cheaper new Macbook.

Anyways, I removed the plugin, so posting comments should work great now. I even added a “Recent Comments” on my sidebar.

Apple just happened to release new Macs and I just bought a new Macbook Pro. Very spontaneous. My mom will be glad, I have promised her my 3 year older Macbook Pro; so we can do video chats, screen sharing and such. Well… When I watched the video with Jonathan Ives about the new Macbook, I started acting like crazy. For a design nerd and quality junky like me, it was almost orgasmic. Ives was hot too (risking to sound a bit gay).

Well, it was really watching that video which got me thinking… If you could afford it, who would ever want to have a Dell laptop, ever again? I guess the thing is you have to afford it, but then you could buy a Macbook instead of an Macbook Pro. And besides, my old one have lasted 3 years now. Heard of PC friends laptops that last only 1 year?

The Mac I bought and ordered was a 2,8 Ghz Intel 2 Duo, 4 GB SDRAM, 128 Gb SSD. It’s got multi-touch trackpad, and 15″ LED-screen. The front is built out of a single brick of aluminum.

http://www.apple.com/macbook/the-new-macbook/watch.html#large