The horror! The horror!

Heh. Postin' atcha from Internet Explorer on Windows Vista on MacBook Pro. I thought I'd give it a go so I could

• see what the Bootcamp setup experience is like;
• see what the Vista setup experience is like; and
• see what Vista is like on spanky new hardware.

In order, then:

• Bootcamp setup is fairly but not completely straightforward. You'd think that the Bootcamp Setup Assistant would create a Windows-ready partition for you, but no: you have to select "Advanced Options" in the Vista install, and format as NTFS. When you've booted into Vista you're supposed to insert the Leopard CD (for the driver pack) but it's actually not totally obvious how to eject the Vista CD you've got in the drive! (and no, the eject key doesn't work). And even once you've installed the driver pack you then have to explicitly go in to Control Panel and enable Aero and Glass and all that jazz.
• Vista setup: pretty awesomely slick in actual fact. Fast, and trouble-free. Took me a while to figure out how to get on the (SSID not broadcast) wireless at home but now I am everything's tickety boo.
• Vista itself? Yeah, S'OK. Certainly looks modern and shiny (I was there at PDC in LA when they launched Windows XP... I can barely believe that was over six years ago) and I can see why people say the MacBook Pro is the best Windows laptop in the world. I'm here to Switch, though, so I'm headed back to OS X. Vista can be my vacation home or something.

Next up I expect I'll be looking at moving many years of photos, music and (crucially) metadata over here.

The trackpad is still not feeling right.

Yikes.