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August 24, 2009

Three in a row

On Friday my new MacBook Pro arrived, this time it is a 15.4" with 2.53 GHZ, 4 GB RAM and the 128 GB SSD HDD. It's the third one after I've switched to Apple in November 2004 with a 12" PowerBook G4 with 1.33 GHz and 2 GB RAM. Beside the underlying operating system - I'm an old UNIX geek - I liked the user friendliness and the seamless integration of all applications. On the hardware side it has been the aluminium case that impressed me. It always has been a good feeling holding the notebook in my hands.


In 2007 I switched to a new Intel based 13.3" MacBook with 2.16 GHz and once again 2 GB RAM. The case has been the white polycarbonate one. It also has done a great job, the performance of the Core 2 Duo is very good, the larger display helped a lot, and MagSafe showed more than once that it works. *smile* Compared to an almost similar HP notebook I've used in my job for a time the whole quality and performance have been better. The only thing I've really missed has been - even if its quality has been good - the alu case of the PowerBook.
So it has been a real pleasure to unpack the new MacBook Pro last friday. The completion of the installation has been done fast, here one really can feel the speed of the SSD. For the migration I didn't used the migration manager, because I like to jump at the chance to get rid of some old applications and data. Now I'm able to savour my new system, with a large bright screen, with keyboard illumination, a powerful trackpad, high performance, extreme silence, and high-speed I/O. The operating system boots in a few seconds, each application is available immediately after the klick, the start-up after the sleep mode almost doesn't exist. Great, fantastic, wonderful.

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November 11, 2008

Great toolchain

As you may know I'll have two sessions at the SOA India 2008 next week in Bangalore. So I've spent my time to prepare the slides during the last evenings. In my main job I'm using PowerPoint for for my presentations, but this time it's private. So I'm using my Apple with Keynote as the presentation program, OmniGraffle to create vector graphics, and Pixelmator for image editing. I really love those tools, they are a great toolchain for my work. Smooth, fast, seamless. It's just wonderful. Once again I know why I'm preferring Apple.

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July 10, 2007

New MacBook arrived

The last days I've had a lot on my plate. The school year is ending and we had to write the regulations for the election of the parent representatives in the steering committee. This is a new construct all schools in Lower Saxony establish with the next school year. I've also had several customer visitings, a training for my role as a team manager, and a refinancing of our house. Oh, and by the way, I've had my birthday last week. Now my age reached the answer for all questions of the universe. *smile* But now this stress reduces and we slowly move into our summer holidays (OK, the childs do, I've got to wait until august).

Last saturday my new MacBook arrived. I've got the 2.16 MHz with 2 GB RAM and the 120 GB HDD. After now about 32 month my PowerBook will be sold. It has done a good job but now it's time for the new one. And it's a great piece of hardware again. I compare it to the HP NC4400 I'm using in my job. The HP is slower, it has fewer memory and a smaller HDD, and - what really disappoints me - is very bad manufactured. Advantages where the docking station, the external button to switch of WLAN and Bluetooth before the OS is started, and the weight. It can also be upgraded to a larger RAM size than the MacBook.

Additional advantages of the MacBook are the very good manufacturing, the bright screen, the track pad, the included DVD writer, the camera and the microphone (I've allready used it for a video chat, really nice), the MagSafe power connector, FireWire, and Front Row with the remote control. But most of all it's the software I allready know from my PB. OS X and the Mac apps I use are easier to handle without loosing power or flexibility. So I can just repeat the reason expressed of many Apple fans: "It works.".

The next steps will be the testing of VMware Fusion with images we're using at work and with the simulated Linux environment I've installed on my server at my hoster. So I can better test changes before they go live.

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