Converted, I am.
My old laptop finally kicked the bucket about a month ago. I’ve been getting by browsing the web on my iPhone until I finally got around to ordering my new machine.
I’d been on the fence for a while, but using a mac at work as my main machine after my laptop died convinced me that there was no other way to go. I can not proclaim loudly enough how much more impressed I am with OS X Leopard than I am with Vista. It’s like night and day. I could spout the many things that made the decision a no brainer for me, but it’s probably best to just go to Apple’s Leopard page to see how amazing it is.
So my new 17″ Macbook Pro arrived today and I’m loving it. It’s powerful - 2.4Ghz 64 bit dual core processor, 256 meg video card, 160 gig hard drive. The screen is sharp, bright, and beautiful. The overall quality of its physical construction is worlds better than my previous laptop.
Of course, because it’s an Intel based machine and Leopard comes with Bootcamp I can also install Vista. I wasn’t event going to bother since my current work only requires Eclipse and the Adobe suite, but then Microsoft had to go and announce their amazing plans for XNA self publishing on the 360.. now I have to get windows installed just for XNA Game Studio so I can begin work on my as of yet completely unplanned opus, but that’s another post all together.
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Welcome to the not-so-dark side! I’ve been on a Mac for a year now, and I’ll NEVER switch back. I bought my wife a Vista machine, and I have to say MS is consistently taking two steps back with every release (only exception being XP, which still has its problems). Everything “just works” with a Mac. No more need to tweak drivers and settings all the time! Plus - I haven’t reformatted in a year! I used to have to reformat bi-monthly on PC. I can turn you on to quite a few neat utilities and apps if you like. I HIGHLY recommend Parallels over BootCamp. I have dual monitors, and one shows XP and the other shows OSX all the time. Plus I also have 2 versions of Linux installed with it so I can play with that too. Gimme a shout if you want any Mac thingies…
April 1st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Yeah, I’m really loving it. I am using parallels and bootcamp. Parallels 3 allows you to use the bootcamp partition as a virtual machine. So I can run vista along side os x, but when I need full power or, more likely, full directx support, I can boot directly into windows. Best of both worlds!