Sun’s Charlie Hunt has a little screed posted about his experience with a shiny new MacBook Pro. It’s not going to replace Solaris for him when it comes to Java development, but then what would you expect a NetBeans evangelist to say? Besides illustrating his travails with his Christmas present:

But, my experience has been much less than what I would call good. During the first 3 months I had the MacBook Pro, the OS would crash (complete machine reboot) on average about once every 8 hours of usage. And, it would lock up on average about every 4 times coming out of a hibernate. And, I had several web sites that I visited frequently which would not open with Safari, (I even tried using Opera and FireFox too). Not what most of you reading this would have expected from Mac?

Sounds like Charlie needs to spend some time with Dear Leader and have his outlook on the MacBook Pro adjusted.

Instead of waiting for WWDC, Apple’s latest MacBook Pro machines may be available a few days earlier:

Mac4ever.com (French) posts the following from a reseller (roughly translated):

There’s some news. We’ve just ordered the new MBP ! Launch expected for next tuesday… But Apple didnt’t say anything about the specifications. We have to order blind-eyed… If i’ve got some other news, i’ll keep you informed.

MacRumors suggested this could be legitimate, and would line up well with Apple’s Educational Back to School program.