Seventeen Inches on the Subway

Just as an FYI for anyone interested, you *can* indeed use a 17” MBP on a Manhattan subway pretty close to the rush hour. I had a thought I wanted to code up quickly and an email to respond to, so opened up and fired up the MBP on the subway. I think the very fact that it's clearly fairly valuable kept people further away than when I'm typing on the more diminutive eee. That said, I was glad to put the MBP safely into its backpack and to pull out an eee to blog about the experience . . .

I'm pretty sure the MBP will be fine at airports, won't work when flying economy and will be OK on a train providing it isn't too crowded, but I'll try all of the above in May and report the findings for anyone interested.

As a side note, I'm really loving the MBP. Just pulled it out as part of a presentation this morning. It was just a “sit round a conference table with a few people” kind of presentation, displaying some comp's they'd provided us for turning into HTML/CSS and it was impromptu, but having the 17” screen definitely made the experience better for both our resellers and us.

Definitely loving the 17” so far . . .