I wish. 
But Microsoft have been doing the equivalent by giving key, influential bloggers a Acer Ferrari notebook pre-loaded with Vista. News.com reported a few days ago that people such as Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame had received the gift. Is it tax deductable?
Then again this sort of thing happens in many industries. Just look at how many cars Jeremy Clarkson must have been offered to drive (not given though) in order to say what he wants about them. Some times it backfires though. In Microsoft’s case I’d be surprised if anyone has any bad words to say about Vista and the Acer Ferrari notebook it runs on.
In similar circumstances I’ve been loaned a HP notebook running Vista (a monster 1.83Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM) by Microsoft. Have I raved about how great Vista is? No. It’s ‘average’ in my eyes. Why can’t Microsoft get it right when it comes to notebook computing. Shutting the lid on my ageing 12″ Powerbook causes the Mac to go to sleep instantly. Opening the lid causes it to start up instantly. There’s no such feature in Vista and I’m forced to wait a good few seconds while Vista looks around, brushes its self off and then thinks “right, I need to do something now”… “ah that’s it.. start working again”.
And to sum things up here’s a post that I was going to make a while back, I saved it for a special occasion like this:
“So I downloaded the first alpha release of Firefox 3 this weekend just to see what major stuff has changed. Gran Paradiso
And the information about how to uninstall the application points out why I love Apple Macs so much:
Windows
From the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, double click Add/Remove Programs. Find “Gran Paradiso (3.0a1)” in the list and click Remove to uninstall.Mac OS X
Drag the GranParadiso application to the Trash.
So the Macbook Pro is in the post then Apple?