Sponsors

Bit the bullet and bought a MacBook 3

Posted by Darshan Patil Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:48:16 GMT

My sister stepped on her laptop a few months ago. So I gave her my old trusty laptop which I had not been using for a while. All 8 lbs of my trusty HP laptop from 2002. It was still a good machine and she is happy with it.

I have a linux box and a windows box setup with dual monitors. I normally use the windows box and use Exceed to connect to the linux box. This setup serves me well. I miss my laptop on days when I want to lie down on my couch, watch TV and do stuff on the computer. So I was in the market for a laptop.

I had been eyeing the macbooks for a while. I'm a man. Things that look good attract me :). I also knew that MacOSX has a UNIX core so, it would not be too hard to adapt. The fact that I could install linux/XP on the macbook made my decision a little easier. Anyway long story short, I got a MacBook.

I love the hardware. Looks nice, feels nice and just works. I'm getting used to MacOSX. There are some things which I don't like about it.

1. There is no concept of maximize in the mac. I hate having to resize windows manually to use the full screen.
2. No right click. Ctrl-Click gives you a context menu like the right click on Windows. I guess I would be a lot more productive on the mac if they had a right click button.

Anyway more to explore. But I like what I see. I can drop into the shell and build, install utilities I need, the UI is nice. Most of the apps I need on the go are available.

I don't think I could do away with my linux & windows boxes though. I would need them just to develop on those platforms. And there are apps there that I just cannot live without.

"Mac OS X Leopard for Starters: The Missing Manual" (David Pogue)

Comments

Leave a response

  1. bloomburger Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:02:40 GMT

    you should check out Quicksilver if you haven’t heard of it. Killer app.

  2. Darshan Wed, 02 May 2007 03:53:53 GMT

    It was one of the first things I installed. It rocks.

  3. Right Click McGee Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:26:59 GMT

    was reading your gdb stuff and saw your post about no right click on the macbook

    if you go into options and on the trackpad enable the multitouch on the sensor you can set it so that if 2 fingers are on the pad when you click, it acts as a right click.

    If you’re using a 2 button mouse, it just figures it out automatically.

    Likewise 2 fingers pulling a direction will scroll whatever window you’re in in that direction.

    Hope it helps ;)

Comments