The switch
After a first unsuccessful trial, I finally dumped my dell laptop and started working on a Macbook Pro 15”.
And I must say that I am still amazed at how things just work. Here is my setup :
Hardware :
Macbook Pro 15” 4Gb Ram, 320Gb HD 7200 rpm
Software installed :
- PathFinder as file browser
- IntelliJ as Java IDE
- Skitch
- Things (synced with iPhone)
- Adium (IM)
- Firefox
- Smultron (Text editor)
- SugarSync (sync files betweek multiple laptops)
- Parallels (to run windows, see more below)
- Text Expander (this is a must have ..)
- Witch (faster app switcher)
Specific challenges
I need to be able to run Oracle. After a quick search I decided that I would run it under parallels since the same customer I need Oracle for, also requires me to connect to their network using a specific Connectra client which does not work for Leopard (yet?).
I first installed a bootcamp partition, but quicky switched to a complete virtual disk since I can’t “pause” the bootcamp partition under parallels and I don’t see why I would need to boot natively in windows.
That was basically the only challenge. Everything else works like a charm.
Printers were detected automatically, windows shares are already there. VPN (PPTP) connection is the matter of entering host / username / password ..
Never got that to work as fast in windows ..
To do
Learn to use Quicksilver. It seems and feels productive but the learning curve looks a little steep to me.
Get all my iPhone synchronisation in place (contacts, calendar, iTunes, …)
Pierre
