First off, this whole Leopard thing has me a little confused...I understand you can use either Operating Systems but will all your files and the way theyre organized be the same in both Windows and OS X? to be completely honest I would probably use Windows more simply becuase Im so used to it
another thing.....im getting a macbook in the next few weeks but im a little upset about one thing.....theres no backlight on the keyboard??!?!!! Thats the one thing I love about the Pro but I dont think paying an extra $500 is worth a backlight....I knwo this may sound stupid but is there any possible way i can get myself a damn keyboard backlight on a regular MacBook?
Leopard hasn't been released, so I'm gonna guess you mean Tiger. A beta of a program called BootCamp is available from Apple which allows the user to create a dual-boot machine. OS-X and Windows. Part of the installation creates a new partition. If it's 32GB or larger, it needs to be formatted as NTFS. OS-X can read from either type of Windows partition format, but can only
write to the FAT32 partition. So, you ability to directly share files through a shared harddrive partition can be limiting.
From either OS-X or Windows, you can setup shared network folders/volumes.
Have you worked with OS-X? You're buying a Mac so, well - it's there. There are too many threads already out there about why you should go with OS-X as your main OS, so I won't get into that much here. But, aside from anything else, I can say: stable & secure. OS-X is based on an inherently more secure OS architecture. That's about it for the OS.
Another option is Parallel's virtualization solution. With this, you run Windows "along-side" OS-X, so you don't need to re-boot. You can run it within a window or full sreen and switch to another app normally. The negitive is mostly the lack of full hardware graphics acceleration. If you're running 3D games in Windows, you'll want BootCamp's dual-boot solution.
As for the lack of keyboard light: It's a mostly marketing product tier thing. Also, the keyboard and keys are totally different than the MBP's. Don't see it happening unless there is something else to take it's place in MBP's feature set. The $500 gets you a lot more than just a keyboard light, though.
Integrated, less capable, graphics GPU w/ 64MB of
shared RAM, higher res screens, ExpressCard/34 expansion slot, FW800 lower res screen, larger harddrives, faster burners. Think I got most of them. Oh yea, the same ambient light sensor which controls the keyboard light ALSO controls the screen brightness. More included RAM.
Hope this helps sort things out. Enjoy your Mac - also, you will enjoy the Mac OS.
