MacBook Awesomness
I don’t know what took me so long, well, probably the price, but my company just forked out the cash and let me pick up a new MacBook. I decided against the Pro because it was probably a little overkill for my purposes. At any rate, the multi-touchpad is pure genius in its intuitiveness and customization. I don’t want to even think about using a standard touchpad ever again (or even mouse for that matter). I actually woke up this morning and felt a little giddy to go over and start playing with it again while brewing coffee.
I’m still a little unsure about the innerworking of the OS, but *nix is no stranger to me so I’ll get there. MacPorts is also a little odd, but once I get the hang of it I should be fine. It seems to fail on dependencies for GIMP and Wireshark during my first attempts to install stuff, but nmap worked fine right away (probably because it’s just console). I’ll have to dig into X11 stuff I’m guessing.
While I’m not considering converting workstations and servers over, I think I’m sold on my quest for a solid laptop.