I’m a Mac now, Apparently
by admin on Aug.04, 2010, under Uncategorized
Originally posted 5/04/2009:
So I did it. I sold my old trusty IBM thinkpad and purchased a 6 month old black macbook. Here are my first thoughts:
THIS THING IS AWESOME.
Other thoughts? Besides the obvious, I’m REALLY happy with this laptop. I bought a program called Parallels which basically is a virtual machine where I can run windows (any version) on top of the Mac OSX.
This means that I can have my trusty Visual Studio and MS SQL Server running on my mac. Woo Hoo!! This mac runs pc stuff way better than, well, my pc does. Crazy isnt it? Besides the expensive price tag (which I think now is TOTALLY worth it), I can’t really find anything wrong with this badboy. I upgraded to 4GB of RAM for $40 from newegg. This thing is a hoss.
Visual studio had one thing where I had to figure out – When you step into while debugging, the f11 button was set on mac osx to show the desktop. I went into system preferences and unchecked that as a default key, and whallah! I’m stepping thru just fine now.
Also, the fine folks over at zagg make an invisibleshield for the macbook too; keeping it ever so pretty.
So anyways, if anyone is wondering whether or not to make the switch, I say DO IT!!! It’s totally worth it! I love it 
