At long last I have my new MacBook Pro computer. I bought it Tuesday at the Apple Store in Christiana, Delaware and unboxed when I got home.

Apple announced improved MacBooks and MacBook Pros on Tuesday. The newer versions of the MacBook Pro have increased disk space such that it made buying a new MacBook Pro at retail significantly cheaper than the cost of buying a Build-to-Order MacBook Pro with roughly comparable specifications from the previous generation.

I'm certainly going to talk about my experience with the new MacBook Pro in follow up articles on Operation Gadget.

This is the first time since the early 1990s that my primary computer will be a Mac. I was a Mac software developer back then, but I walked away from the platform when my clients on Wall Street abandoned the Mac for NeXT machines, Sun workstations, and PCs.

Now even the most dedicated PC user can get a Mac if they really want to. There's no reason that you can't run both MacOS X and some form of Windows on a 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo-based machine.

It's good to be back.