MacBook Pro ... and Con

Got an MBP for work, trying to move everyone to common platform and liking the idea of the Unix core. Nice enough piece of software, nice battery connector, and a fine screen with good battery life ... but some ergonomic failures that surprised me given Apple's rep:

* front edge is angular, not rounded, and the edge irritates my forearm

* have to move my hands more than on most laptops because the trackpad is unreachable (and the multi-touch feature requires, well,multiple fingers - so one-thumb operation is limited)

* very slight gap where the top plate sits in - and the gap catches arm hair when I move my hands ... need to fill in with rubber cement or something

* the screen won't tilt back far enough to work as a laptop when I have my legs up on (for example) my home coffee table

* the silver color reflects blindingly when I try to use the machine in daylight (like in the car, so I can't work on road rips with Donna)

* really bad keyboard design: I mistype on the keyboard a lot, and there are no keys for home, end, page up/down ... - so navigation in ext files is really awkward. The trackpad scrolling mechanisms are OK, but it's much slower and less accurate to position a cursor graphically.

* Multiscreen use is awkward because of the per-application menubar stays at the top of the primary screen rather than traveling with the app's main window. For example, Eclipse opens with the window on my primary screen and the menu bar at top of the Eclipse window - fine. Now I move Eclipse to the secondary screen - and the menu bar doesn't move, so it's far away from the content. Annoying!

So far, MBP is style triumphant ... I much prefer using the Lenovo T61 ... I wonder how well the T61 runs Linux ...