With this 2011 edition of the perennially popular MacBook Pro, you'll get a Thunderbolt port. It's twice as fast as USB 3.0, and you'll be able to daisy-chain devices. You'll also be able to upgrade to OS X Lion (if you happen to get a laptop that has the slightly older Snow Leopard OS). Also, B&H Photo is throwing in a free copy of
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac, which lets you run Windows applications
within Mac OS. Kinda like a Trojan Horse, but in a good way that doesn't involve people spying on you and stealing your credit card info. And you can still fit in with an artsier crowd while running...well, the plethora of programs that are Windows-only that you probably need for your engineering/business job. Take that, Justin Long!
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