- Closing thoughts on my MacBook Pro ExperiencePosted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on Feb 27, 2007 9:35 AM Subscribe Alerts

- Well, the MacBook Pro has been packaged back up into the cardboard and styrafoam cocoon that it came in from Apple and gone back to their PR department (I was...[Read the rest]
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