Thoughts on the MacBook Pro

• The optical drive is very fussy about the cleanliness of CDs. This is only a problem if you have such arcane habits as buying second hand CDs or you don't treat each CD you touch as if it's unique, rather than one from a run of a thousand, or ten thousand, or more. The five-year-old PowerBook (with CD/DVDROM) that this particular MBP replaces is happy to read such CDs.
  
• The power supply connector's magnet is on the body of the machine, not the plug. So putting the PSU down on a pile of iron filings shouldn't be a problem, but don't do the same with the machine itself if the PSU isn't connected. And don't go using the machine's power socket to search for iron filings either.