So, you’re a Mac fanboy now?
It’s been a little over a week since my MacBook Pro arrived. I knew, more or less, what to expect. It’s not my first Mac, and the week has thrown up no surprises so far. It’s all good. The PC is being reformatted and donated to the Receiver of All Tech Handmedowns, my mum.
This machine is primarily a development machine. That’s the plan anyway. It gives me the chance to finally dive into the iPhone SDK (the other Mac in the house is a G5 iMac, a no-go for the Intel only SDK). I’m also interested in looking at the unofficial toolchain. Hopefully more posts will follow regarding my many coding adventures in both.It was great to see the latest Python installed along with setuptools, which really surprised me. I’ve lost all interest in following Java developments, so, it’s of no real concern to me that the version of the JDK installed is a little behind the times.
I’ve installed Linux in a VM to have a local mirror of my VPS. Other than that, it’s a still a pretty vanilla OSX install. That’s bound to change.
The big question now, of course, is should I buy a Time Capsule? The bug has bitten.
(BTW - the title comes from the first thing a friend said when he heard I’d bought the notebook. Why do people have reactions like that to Apple hardware? Would he have said “So, you’re a Dell fanboy now?”)