If any of you would like to follow along with the summer climbing season on Everest, the FirstAscent Team and their blog is the place to go. Here's why:
I've got that same machined aluminum MacBook Pro in the 15" and 2.66 gig version. I've owned dozens of computers over time, but this just smokes anything and everything, including the desktops I've owned. The only thing remotely comparable is the previous generation MacBook Pro I owned.
I will never, ever go back to PCs.
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I don't mean this to be confrontational at all, but as a climber, I've always gotten a bit frustrated that Everest is seen as the pinnacle of climbing accomplishment.
Everest has been largely tamed by the massive technical expeditions, oxygen, fixed ropes etc…
I'm far more impressed with small alpine style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_style) teams undertaking technically hard and complex objectives than people flogging Everest into submission.
I don't know much about the team whose blog you linked, and do not mean any disrespect to them. I don't know much about them one way or the other. But, I do know that it has largely become possible for non-climbers to buy their way to the summit and be lead up despite lacking the experience or ability to do it.
Sorry about the rant, and yes MacBook Pros rock. I'm typing this comment on one.
Macs definitely own PCs when it come to performance and reliability. My only complaint is that there is not a wide variety of software available. Will that change? I doubt it because price is still the determining factor. That said, the $2000 we spent on our MacBook Pro was worth every penny!
I'm on my second one. BTW, here's my post about my switch in Oct '07 and an update as I progressed:
http://www.freetheanimal.com/root/2007/10/its-time.html
http://www.freetheanimal.com/root/2007/10/mac-update.html
Before this, I had my desktop PC at the office, one at home, one at the cabin, and a notebook. Now, I still have the PC at the office, and my MacBook Pro that goes with me everywhere. I traded my 30" cinema display at home in for the 24" LED display with the clean integrated cords. Love it.
Oh, about software, well, though I still have MS Office installed, I never use it. I use iWorks, which I think is just brilliant. I also dumped Entourage in favor of Mac mail and I really like that.
In all, I can't think of anything I really need to do for which there's not software.