To Mac or not to Mac?
A Macbook Pro (which will hopefully soon be mine)
I have a new toy to drool over. I got to play with a Macbook Pro the other day and now I’m hooked. Of all the computers I’ve looked at over the last few years it is one of only 2 to truly impress me and the only one that I could conceivably use in my day to day work (the other machine was the Asus EeePC which is just too small for most things).
Currently I have 2 machines at home. A Gateway desktop I bought in January 2007 and the Dell Vostro laptop I do a lot of my work on. Both are running Vista with 3GB of ram. While neither is a bad machine, I’m just really getting fed up with Windows and the hardware design of most PCs in general. The laptop is heavy (8+ lbs with charger), it’s bulky, and the hard drive is slower than molasses. My desktop is in a spare bedroom/office in my house and frankly I’m just tired of sitting in one place for all my work (frankly, after owning this laptop I don’t think I’ll ever buy a desktop again).
As for software, I do pretty much all of my development on Dreamweaver and Photoshop with my email coming through Exchange, Firefox for web browsing and MS Office for most everything else. I’ve tried open source and other alternatives for all of it, but nothing really does the job as effectively as the commercial stuff. The main benefit of this setup is that it leaves me open to get away from Windows all together.
When it comes down to it, although the Mac costs a little more it has a far better hardware design and can do everything I need to do hopefully with fewer crashes and hangups than Vista. As of now I will probably wait until the new Mac laptops role out, but then I think it is really time for an upgrade.
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