A few weeks ago, I bought a 2011 hi-res 15” Macbook Pro. I was thinking about it for months and finally ordered it when the back to school special came around. Good thing Steph is taking a sewing class! My pants my still not be fixed, but her class has paid for itself in student discounts.
Of course, I couldn’t leave it stock and the first thing I did was pull it apart and put in a SATA III 6G SSD and 8GB of RAM and it’s so fast! It boots OSX in 8 seconds and Windows 7 via bootcamp takes about 15 seconds. Almost everything about it is designed so well and so much thought has been put into it. it’s easily the best computer I’ve ever used. I was a little reluctant to finally move off my home desktop, but the laptop can handle anything I do with the exception on Bluray burning.
I thought I’d use OSX for basic web stuff, Apperture and Final Cut and use Windows for everything else. However, I’m already finding that I want to do as little as possible in Windows 7 (which I like and think is very good). So now, I just use Windows to play games and occasionally do some of my work stuff, but that’s about it. The Mac software seems to be the best of both worlds since it’s built on UNIX but it also has the amazing applications and UIs that UNIX/Linux lack. It's made me even consider getting into Objective-C development even though I've made a living doing Oracle and Microsoft development.
I used Macs from elementary school to the early part of college, but I switched over to PCs when I went into MIS which was all PC and UNIX based. I then became anti-Apple because they made things so proprietary and were almost dead, but I still had to develop for and/or support them. And then they just came out with a color case for an iMac and that brought them back enough to eventually make the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. I’m sure I’ll pick up a new iPhone 5 in September since I still have the 3G and Steph wants and an iPad, so we’ll soon become an Apple household again. I would’ve never guessed I'd say that 10 years ago.
I also happened to watch, "Welcome to the Macintosh" on Netflix the other evening. It's pretty good and makes you wonder how much Steve Jobs changed the world and what Apple is going to do once he's gone.
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