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You're a few years off there "Shawn" but thanks just the same.

Posted by Dave Johnson on April 20, 2004 at 10:16 PM EDT #

I just took a random guess initially :) (numerical significance).. <br> <br> Well I decided to get you updated quickly on softwares you'd need on the new Mac to get productive.. I know you haven't got the Powerbook&nbsp; yet but you can always check this blog when you've received it.. These are the softwares I ve downloaded and pretty much feel very comfortable :)..<br> <ol> <li>Excellent article on&nbsp; things you can't live without on Power Book&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=5297">http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5297</a>. I would definitely recommend Fire (IM), X-Aqua-Chat (IRC) , NetNewsWireLite (RSS/News), WireTap</li> <li><a href="%5Bhttp://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar">LaunchBar</a> is a must have for persons who like VI or Emacs (which I presume is you, since you did not buy your macs for poor CommandLine interface all those years).</li> <li>Remember to download the text editor <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/asagoo/tofu/">Tofu</a>. Its makes reading web pages very convienient, because of the way it arranges texts in small columns as in News Papers. Very comfortable on eyes. I routinely read web articles from server side, java world , onjava,&nbsp; wired&nbsp; and IBM dev works&nbsp; using tofu.. It also lets you read word documents. Very highly recommended..<br> </li> <li><a href="http://iterm.sourceforge.net/">iTerm</a> is a really cool terminal shell.. I really like it and beats the default Mac terminal hands down</li> <li><a href="http://www.asktog.com/index.html">Mr Bruce Togazinni</a> has a cool link on apps you need :) . <a href="http://www.asktog.com/columns/060MonsterMac.html">http://www.asktog.com/columns/060MonsterMac.html</a>. I am not sure I agree with him entirely on WindowShades but the rest of them were great.. </li> <li>Since you seem to be the Wiki + Blog person I would recommend <a href="http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad.html">Vodoopad</a>. This is a wiki like editor, but much better than the windows version you stated in your previous blogs..</li> <li>Oh yeah since you seem to be the Unix Geek you definitely need <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/">Fink</a> <br> </li> <li>As a newcomer to Mac its high likely you'd need to talk to Windows to access your work machine.. Thankfully microsoft provides a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&amp;location=/mac/DOWNLOAD/MISC/RDC.xml&amp;secid=80&amp;ssid=9&amp;flgnosysreq=True">Remote Desktop Client</a> that would enable you to access windows machines from your mac..</li> <li>Since you seem to have kids I would recommend getting<a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/"> iLife and GarageBand!</a>. This is stuff made for Gods!.. I am amazed at the quality of apple's software by just this one app..<br> </li> <li>You may already know eclipse &amp; netbeans run on OS X..</li> <li>Make sure even if you don't use it that you download the apple development tools.. Its highly likely that you'd be doing manual builds and need gcc to compile :)..</li> <li>&nbsp;Ah finally remember to set the iTunes Importing to use MP3 instead of AAC -&gt; got burned on it for too long.<br> </li> </ol>

Posted by Unknown on April 20, 2004 at 11:41 PM EDT #

Got my 15" just before they upped the speed. I have a 1Ghz processor with 512MB of RAM. I love it. It's not fast like other PC laptops by any means, but the fact that the whole OS is SO MUCH more enjoyable to work with, I think makes up for the difference. That said, I would love to get my hands on the same laptop with 1.5Ghz, 1Gig of RAM, the 128MB of VRAM, and the faster 80 Gig drive. That ought to make for a very speedy machine. From what I've read, it should account for close, if not more, than double the speed of my current setup. Now THAT would be perfect. Welcome to the bright side. R

Posted by Robert Sfeir on May 25, 2004 at 07:46 AM EDT #