Michael Fransen’s Blog

I have had a couple of macs in the past, but somehow, I keep getting forced back to windows because most of the development I do is with .net. I have been eyeing a Macbook Pro for the last year and finally got one the other day. I have had it just a little over 24 hours now and I LOVE it. It is probably the nicest piece of hardware I have ever owned. It has an all metal case, built in web cam. backlit keyboard and much more. Apple does think of it all. The power adapter is actually magnetic so if someone was to kick the cord it just comes undone. The best thing about it, and the reason this mac attempt will be successful, is because I am not forced to choose anymore. With boot camp, I have windows installed as well and it is native so it runs just as fast as it would on a PC. If i want to go into windows I just hold down the option key during startup and I can select windows or mac. I installed Windows XP, but you can also install Vista. I just choose XP because I am just using it for development and it isn’t nearly as bloated as Vista. I formated a partition using FAT32 so that way I could share files between windows and os x. I finished installing Visual Studio as well and it runs great. I got a kick out of the setup for Mac OS X. They have the usual setup where you create an account and choose your account image. Well one of the images I could select was a picture of me. For a split second, I was trying to figure out how my computer knew what i looked like, but then I remembered there was a camera built in that had taken my picture. I have spent the last day transferring stuff over, but am almost done, then I am going to look for some software. If you are a mac user, please let me know if there are any cool applications that are worth mentioning. I am posting this blog entry using ecto, which is basically like a Windows Live Writer. I also am planning on looking into some development tools for Java and Ruby.

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