Comments on: Goodbye PC, Hello Mac http://littlesquare.com/2007/08/goodbye-pc-hello-mac/ Just a little square in a sea of blogs Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:58:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Butler http://littlesquare.com/2007/08/goodbye-pc-hello-mac/#comment-94 Steve Butler Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:19:26 +0000 http://www.jordens.org/2007/08/30/goodbye-pc-hello-mac/#comment-94 Having got fed up with trying to get a decent *nix environment on a laptop working (without losing functionality or setting fire to my legs from power management woes...) I bit the bullet and bought a Macbook Pro. (we get a nice corporate discount easing the dent on the wallet) Equally the WAF score was pretty high - yes I'm being pressured to get another already. So far the OS/X experience has been pretty good. Really quick to setup (less than 7mins from out-of-box to surfing...). XCode is pretty impressive tool, Eclipse performance on it isn't too shabby either. Its quite "interesting" using VS05/08 by day and other IDE's by night. Since it's my home machine, I've skipped Parallels or boot-camp and tried to keep "pure" - not sure how long I'll last though. One thing immediately clear is how astonishing long the battery life is. It sips from power where my other laptops gulp - I'm regularly getting >3hrs out of a single charge even with "heavier" usage such as Eclipse with background compilation. On the negative side, it's taking a little while to get used to it's keyboard quirks, and the lack of right-button on the integrated pad is a bit of chore. More-so since of I'm using pure Windows environments by day. I'm intrigued what Leopard & XCode 3.0 will do for me later this month. Having got fed up with trying to get a decent *nix environment on a laptop working (without losing functionality or setting fire to my legs from power management woes…) I bit the bullet and bought a Macbook Pro. (we get a nice corporate discount easing the dent on the wallet) Equally the WAF score was pretty high – yes I’m being pressured to get another already.

So far the OS/X experience has been pretty good. Really quick to setup (less than 7mins from out-of-box to surfing…). XCode is pretty impressive tool, Eclipse performance on it isn’t too shabby either. Its quite “interesting” using VS05/08 by day and other IDE’s by night. Since it’s my home machine, I’ve skipped Parallels or boot-camp and tried to keep “pure” – not sure how long I’ll last though.

One thing immediately clear is how astonishing long the battery life is. It sips from power where my other laptops gulp – I’m regularly getting >3hrs out of a single charge even with “heavier” usage such as Eclipse with background compilation.

On the negative side, it’s taking a little while to get used to it’s keyboard quirks, and the lack of right-button on the integrated pad is a bit of chore. More-so since of I’m using pure Windows environments by day.

I’m intrigued what Leopard & XCode 3.0 will do for me later this month.

]]> By: Anonymous http://littlesquare.com/2007/08/goodbye-pc-hello-mac/#comment-93 Anonymous Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:27:02 +0000 http://www.jordens.org/2007/08/30/goodbye-pc-hello-mac/#comment-93 iTerm is one of the better terminal apps and gets better as you use Bookmarks and the keyboard shortcuts it provides. TextMate is a great editor for your coding needs. I prefer it over an IDE. Parallels is something to checkout out. I run it to get around some of the Apple "modifications" to its BSD core. iTerm is one of the better terminal apps and gets better as you use Bookmarks and the keyboard shortcuts it provides.

TextMate is a great editor for your coding needs. I prefer it over an IDE.

Parallels is something to checkout out. I run it to get around some of the Apple “modifications” to its BSD core.

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