It’s cool, the zooming and stuff. But it doesn’t really help improve productivity as yet. I mean, sure you can rotate stuff with gestures but how something of that sort would be really useful while working on Adobe applications. As of now, I don’t see the trackpad showing it’s extraordinary capabilities in non-Apple software. Also, I don’t see the point of not including multi touch trackpads in the Penryn MacBooks.

Anyway, the $999 MacBook is definitely going to be my next computer. The optical drive isn’t something I really need, and if there were a cheaper MacBook without an optical drive I’d really go and get that instead. But sadly that alternative comes at $1699. Right now there’s an overload of Windows Vista PCs at home, trying to get everyone to switch.

While browsing the Apple Store yesterday, I also noticed great discounts on their refurbished product line. For people who don’t really care about having the latest hardware, buying from this section is a really good idea specially because Apple unlike other brands gives you the regular product warranty with every refurbished product. Plus, you can still get AppleCare and extend the warranty to 3 years.

Apple support in India sucks big time, I used Skype to call the toll-free Apple USA number because I was tired of waiting in queue while dialing the local number. They were kind enough to have a local representative call me. Now I wouldn’t be surprised if the support people for both countries were sitting next to each other right here in India.

After seeing several kernel panics in the past week, I was scared they were occurring because of some hardware problem which is the reason I called Apple. They recommended doing an Archive and Install, or a Clean Install of Leopard once again. I don’t quite understand why upgrading from Tiger caused this problem but after I did a clean install my system seems to be pretty stable.