Another Brick in the Wall - Google Blogger

The Noodly Appendages were kind today, and I got the magical email
around 10am informing me my laptop was in and I could pick it up. One
rushed meeting later, and I was out into the frozen urban wasteland to
face the subzero windchill.

All for a good cause, even if my fingers were so cold when I got back to
the office it slowed me down in opening up the box.

First up, on booting up the Macbook, it was a HELL of a lot more
straightforward to configure for my own use than a fresh out of the box
Windows install. Not many updates to install either.

Next up in the land of knifty was the remote and how Mac OSX handles
media. Oh my god. If someone out there who wasted the money and
frustration on Windows Media Centre saw this, they would freaking weep
at how smooth and sexy it is.

It dealt with my laptop wheel mouse with nary a blink or whimper.

It dealt with my USB docking station with a quick prompt to determine
what my keyboard was.

World of Warcraft is a thing of beauty :)

I am currently rsync'ing about 80+GB of music across our network, have
apache up and running along with php (it's there by default!) and am
downloading Bootcamp so I can make this slick baby triple boot.

Not honestly sure how much I'll find myself spending in linux/Windows at
this point though. Most of the dev/testing stuff I want to do appears
to be possible in OSX Panther.

Also, the Macbook is so light it's not funny. I mean *really* light.

I am ridiculously happy with this purchase.

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