Today was Windows’ turn on the MacBook Pro, as I partitioned off some space for Boot Camp, installed Vista into it, and did the usual driver updates, applied SP1, etc., and that part went fairly smoothly.
Some things are still weird when Windows is running, though. You have to double-touch the pad and click if you want to emulate a right-click, which makes it easy to accidentally trigger a scrolling action in the process. And the Alt and ‘Windows’ keys are backwards from where they’d be physically located on a traditional PC keyboard, which is being hard to get used to. I’ll have to dig around and see if I can adjust these, though there wasn’t any obvious settings that I’d noticed.
I also experienced the infamous Windows wireless bugaboos, with the connection cutting out in the middle of a file transfer and Vista refusing to recognize any more wireless APs at all, even though the iBook sitting right next to it could see them all just fine. That also hung the command prompt that was doing the transfer, forcing me to hard-power-off the system since it wouldn’t let me shut down while it was still hung, either. Wheee. That was pre-SP1 though, and it hasn’t reoccurred since, so far.
I still have to get around to installing apps and games on it, now. It’s not exactly blazing fast, as it only gets half the 3DMark06 score of my desktop machine, but on the other hand, the entire MB Pro probably weighs less than just the video card in the desktop… Since I don’t want to be dragging a bunch of discs around with me, I’ll be focusing mainly on games that can run without requiring one in the drive. Fortunately, I’ve got quite a few such games already via Steam and Stardock.