Thumbs up from a new MPB owner

After 18 months of research, and subscribing to Macworld and Maclife and spending alot of time in my local Apple stores ---- I made the move this past Saturday to a stock 2.16 Ghz MBP Matte display.
I have been using it every day since Saturday and it runs/looks flawlessly. I just applied all of the latest patches, including OSX, and no problems. It runs quiet like a church mouse and no heat. I don't bang the CPU so I may not be the best to speak about non-heat, but I had it on all day Sunday and the top cover stayed nice and cool.
I did buy the extended warranty as my sales person put in his student ID to give me a discount, and also .mac as I was using the demo and I liked what it had to offer. My experiences at the Apple stores by me (NJ) are always great, very friendly helpful people, never try to push more than I need. He even said the 2.16 with 1GB of memory would serve me better than the 2.33 model.
So ---- just wanted to give a heads up that my new system runs like a charm, and I'm very happy I switched to a Mac. I'm a person that likes diversity and I always enjoy using different operating systems. I do like the Mac better than MS though !!
Cheers....
Bob

Sweet Bob, have fun and enjoy! Check out the speck case, the snap on, to protect your investment! I love it and it make it more tolerable to have on your lap when working, and being lazy!
N8
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