As I saw on Digg there is a sweet video floating around with 15 minutes of footage on the new MacBook Pro at Macworld. Just by comparing the application load times and overall application speed to my 1.33Ghz Powerbook G4 I can tell this thing is FAST. The rep is a bit clueless in the video, but pay him no mind.
You can go check it out at theory.isthereason.com
