Apple Fanboy

It seems that nearly overnight I’ve turned into a raging Apple fanboy.

I’ve had my iPhone for some time now, and I’ve used Mac equipment before, but never successfully. My co-workers will doubtless tell of my lamenting my first generation MacBook Pro, which I traded a Dell XPS M1210 for. The MacBook Pro generated so much heat that the finish on my desk was affected. It was so unstable that it made the Vista Latitude XT tablet I have seem like an old reliable DEC system.

All that has changed with my Santa Rosa MacBook Pro. 2.33ghz, 2GB of RAM, 160GB disk. And best of all, when it’s working hard it gets warm, but not skin blistering like my old one. In fact, when it’s unplugged, the thing gets barely warm at all. It’s only when it’s on line power and encoding a video in Handbrake that it gets anything close to hot.

Still, there’s the annoying jump from home/end working like it does in every other operating system known to man to Command-arrow left and Command-arrow right. I now have home and end working in the terminal, where it’s the most important. Cut and pasting text in gui apps is a bit dicey now too. No longer do I have shift-page down to select a bunch of text, now I have to drag my mouse across it. It’s a bit of a learning curve, but it’s so nice to have a really well polished GUI and then be able to drop to a bash prompt when I need to do more serious work.

To complete my transition to an Apple fanatic, I now have the Airport Extreme and an Apple TV - albeit hacked. More on that in another entry.