An Apple slam (now with more validation than ever!)

Back in early January I received my first Macbook Pro. It was for work, and they spent the money on a top of the line machine with a nice graphics card, processor, and memory. However, I work in 3D Cad design, for which all tools exist solely for linux or windows, so we installed boot camp and windows XP. "Don't worry," friends assured me. "Apple has the best hardware for windows" they stated with a grin.
I must say I am underwhelmed.
From power on to log in to being able to see the taskbar with no extraneous software installed, nearly 3 minutes. My 6 year old desktop with an excess of baggage from old installs and memory leaks requires 2 minutes to get to a useable desktop. This weekend I brought the macbook home to try and get some work done but forgot my charger. Booting twice, once to check email and once to do a 3 minute edit to a spreadsheet required 15 minutes and consumed a quarter of the battery. My wife's laptop, which is about a year old and runs vista requires less than a minute and 3% of the battery to boot, and Toshiba's are not known for having quality batteries. The macbook cost around $2.5K. The Toshiba? $800, plus I get one new battery free after two years.
The macbook has the new trackpad incorporating the capacitive technology used in the iPhone. All the non-readers will remember my tirade against that technology when it was first announced by Apple because it lacked any haptic response (not a term I used then, but one that has become popular since). Like the iPhone, it's a great idea until you use it. The entire touchpad depresses to serve as a button click. The only problem is that my finger tends to roll ever so slightly as I depress the button, causing the cursor to slide away from the link I am trying to click. On average it takes 5 tries to open a link. And right clicking? Forget about it! Ideally you use two fingers when you press down for it to register as a right click. Except that it only works half the time, and you're even more likely to miss the icon or link you're trying to get to.
Then there's heat. This thing gets hot. Painfully hot. Moreover, the trackpad has trouble detecting how many fingers are pressing down when it's normally running (I suspect due to heat) so many times a single click becomes a double click. Or a click occurs when my hands are nowhere near the trackpad.
Finally, this sucker is heavy, weighing in around 5-6 lbs, almost twice that of my wife's laptop. Sure, it''s machined out of a solid piece of aluminum, not that this helps with the heat situation. That, or I fear for anyone who used one of these before they got the thermals down to a mere 70C in the case.
The software I cannot speak for or against as I've not used it. I'm sure this is where Apple shines. I certainly hope so, as the hardware leaves something to be desired. Alas, there are no tools that I can use made to work for Apple. Thus, I'm going to try to get access to the floating license from home, and leave this boat anchor at my desk. I've got my redfly, which I'm using to write this. Instant-on, with an 8 hour battery, and weighing less than 2 lbs. What more does one really need?