Journal Greedo's Journal: Liking the switch 1
It's been around 3 months now since I've had my 12" iBook (G3/800 with 640M, 40G HD, Combo DVD/CD-RW, Airport), and I have to say I am liking it a lot.
My boxes at home and work are MS Windows 2000 Professional, but most of my development work was done ssh-ing into the Debian boxes at work.
I'm trying to do more work from home now and, while the Win2K box is perfectly adequate, I think the iBook is almost an all-in-one solution. I've got Mozilla as my browser and IMAP mail client (when they implement roaming profiles and remote bookmarks, I will be in heaven). I've installed jEdit, which is a pretty kick-ass "text editor", which gives me built-in secure access to my CVS repositories (Apple's ProjectBuilder is pretty good too, but the CVS is a bit slow and flakey). And I just finished replacing the Sendmail that came with OS X with Postfix
So, with my little wireless network at home, I can sit in the big comfy chair in my living room, or at my kitchen island, and surf/email/code in comfort.
I used to hate Macs, probably because I never used them (except for 2 weeks as tech support at an ISP which made me support Mac users
In fact, I'm liking it so much I've moved my finances off of MS Money into Quicken on the iBook. And most likely my next home computer will be a Mac. Time to save for a 23" Cinerama display!
Games...and work stuff (Score:2)
Laptops are nice in general, especially now that you don't have to make so many sacrifices - Min is a Toshiba 5100 - it's got a GeForce440GO (same as a GeForce4MX - they now have Ti equivalents too!), good sound, and a DVD/CD-R combo drive. Basically a few months after getting this laptop I sold my desktop
I also love the wireless stuff - once I'd gotten rid of my desktop I moved the WAP below the basement stairs (rec room is in basement) and now I can surf at full speed from the coffee table or wherever.
Having said that my new #1 app is Cinema 4D - I only play games on my laptop the odd time now, leaving the gaming for the PS2, so aside from work stuff (which can be covered by Citrix), next laptop could just be a powerbook.