Video of MacBook Pro in action

While our own Scott McNulty got his hands on a MacBook Pro at Macworld, this is what I've been waiting to see: honest to goodness video of a MacBook Pro in action. TUAW readers Kevin and Peter from theory.isthereason have a video of an Apple rep on the Macworld show floor demonstrating opening, running and closing various iLife applications (with an obligatory iPhoto demonstration bug). The first 1/3 of the video or so is an overview of the hardware and (lack of some) ports, so skip ahead for the juicy performance stuff. Granted, it isn't a rigorous Photoshop benchmark test, a Doom 3 run-through or an FCP HD demo,
but it's definitely helpful to actually see how blazingly fast iPhoto runs, and how quickly and effortlessly the resource-intensive GarageBand opens. Safari, as Jobs demonstrated with the Dual Core iMac on stage, almost fully-loads a site before you finish clicking on a link, and iDVD doesn't even break a sweat while swapping themes on the fly.

So far, I think it's encouraging to finally see some MacBook Pro action, but a couple of bits at the end of their post worry me: 1) the rep confirms that Apple hasn't finished testing the books to release a concrete battery rating, which fuels the question of whether they're truly ready, and 2) Peter and Kevin say the MacBook Pro feels as hot to the touch as 12" PowerBooks can get. On the flip side, the rep does state that the book has been running for three days straight, but still: the implication that these books could run extremely hot to the touch wouldn't bode well for Apple, since they've touted this switch as heralding in an age of low-power, cooler-running chips.

All of these issues aside though: stop reading this post and go check out a MacBook Pro in action, as it certainly is a thing of beauty.