I have the latest generation of Macbook Pro, which came as stock with the Intel Core Duo 2 2.5ghz processor, 250gb 5400RPM HDD and 2gb RAM. As standard it was flat-out awesome, incorporating the new touchpad that is seen on the Macbook Air and some of the features you get from the iPhone and iPod Touch. OSX Leopard was pre-installed and is fantastic and a perfect example of what milestone releases should be like: Tiger was great - Leopard has taken that and actually enhanced it, whilst maintaining all the stability and core features you were used to. Unlike certain other upgrades, which took a reasonably stable operating system (XP) and created a whole shitstorm of a mess with its “upgrade” (Vista.)
But if you’re anything like me, then “stock” really isn’t good enough and I was intrigued to know what tweaks and upgrades I could make to really make this beast fly. So here are a few pointers:
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