Apple has started shipping its first laptop computer to be powered by intel processors. Quite a few pre-order customers have already recieved their laptops, and many shipping notices have been issued (including one to my roommate). Retail apple stores are starting to recieve inventory as well, so you can check them out in person at an apple store starting this weekend. Battery life from inital tests by users has been around 4 hours will full screen brightness and no power saving measures enabled. Results with such steps are expected to surface ina few days. Why does this concern anybody, you ask? Well the intel core duo processor is the same that is being used in the most recent slew of windows laptops as well, so many are expecting to be able to dual-boot mac OSX and windows vista on the macbook pro, essentially the best of both worlds. Here are pictures of a disassembly of the macbook (already! lol) ANd here is a first impressions article