Well folks, after six long years of pulling out my credit card only to have that little something inside me pull away, I finally did it -- yes I got an Apple computer. And, what do I think about it? Well, I can't believe I didn't do it six years ago!
I decided on the 20" iMac. It took a whole 30 minutes and I was drowning in the abyss of elegant computing. The UI is absolutely fantastic, applications just work, bluetooth just works, and it's really so simple anyone can make their way around within a short amount of time. Now, one of the niftiest features is Ctrl-Cmd-D while hovering over a word in a Cocoa application -- instant dictionary. Or, how about Cmd-Shift-D, insant search for your files, applications or whatever else you need to find.
I installed VirtualBox and immediately put Linux Mint in a VM, and Cmd-F, voila, now I'm full screen in Linux Mint! Anyway, these are just a couple of the cool features I've tripped across. I opened up a terminal to pleasantly find the BSD userland around me. All the familiarity was there -- Perl, Python, Bash, and on and on.
I look forward to discovering all the little niceties Apple has put into OSX and continue using all the open source tools I have been using over the last 12 years. One thing of interest is PyCocoa application development. Apparently, XCode supports this right out of the box.
What else should I be looking for...
I decided on the 20" iMac. It took a whole 30 minutes and I was drowning in the abyss of elegant computing. The UI is absolutely fantastic, applications just work, bluetooth just works, and it's really so simple anyone can make their way around within a short amount of time. Now, one of the niftiest features is Ctrl-Cmd-D while hovering over a word in a Cocoa application -- instant dictionary. Or, how about Cmd-Shift-D, insant search for your files, applications or whatever else you need to find.
I installed VirtualBox and immediately put Linux Mint in a VM, and Cmd-F, voila, now I'm full screen in Linux Mint! Anyway, these are just a couple of the cool features I've tripped across. I opened up a terminal to pleasantly find the BSD userland around me. All the familiarity was there -- Perl, Python, Bash, and on and on.
I look forward to discovering all the little niceties Apple has put into OSX and continue using all the open source tools I have been using over the last 12 years. One thing of interest is PyCocoa application development. Apparently, XCode supports this right out of the box.
What else should I be looking for...
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