Re: Mac's

I also picked up a Macbook Pro two Friday's ago. I'm extremely
satisfied with the purchase. I'm running XP in both dual-boot mode
for games and have loaded a copy in Parallels VM specifically so I
can be in OSX (as I am right now) and have a VM up with XP running
all the proper corporate apps. It is quite nice. In the office we
picked up a Macbook standard for application testing and I would say
that if you aren't a gamer, gadget monger or must have the large
screen the standard Macbook is probably the way to go since it is a
far more economical machine.

As for the overall OSX experience I'm completely digging it. It seems
to give me 90%+ of the functionality I want (more in some areas, less
in others) and an elegance and ease of use I was always looking for
in X11 WM's but never really found.

I can't say it has been perfect - I've had a couple of misbehaving
applications and the file structure on the disk are sometimes weird
compared to what I'm used to but so far it has been pretty easy to
adjust to. Unlike X11/standard Linux apps so far when there has been
a config error I have never (yet) had to dive to a bash prompt and
fix it myself, which I find very satisfying after years of playing
the "vi text files until you find the right setting to tweak" game.
There are several OS tweaks you have to do from a command line but so
far I've found that those are more advanced functions that many users
would never need to change.

And the real question:
Would I recommend it to my friends/coworkers/family? Unless they were
dead set on the Windows look/feel the answer would be yes. It seems
to do just about everything my family would need well.

-Alan
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Received on Sat Jul 1 18:57:02 2006