New Mac in the Family
December 29th, 2006 -
Since purchasing my Mac Mini, I’ve been a huge Mac fan. I believe that if you have a family and want to protect your children, the Mac is awesome because of its built in parental controls. They are tightly integrated within the Operating System itself. Anyways, one could go on and on about why they feel the Mac is a better machine than the PC, but this post isn’t about that. Yesterday, I purchased a new Mac – MacBook Pro.
So far, I’m loving the machine. I purchased the 15” MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16mhz, 1gig RAM, 128mb video card, and 120gig hard drive. This machine smokes and not from the heat of the case. I’ve actually haven’t found the heat to be any worse than a Dell Laptop – which I previously owned. Here is what my desk looks like (after it has been cleaned off):
In that picture, I have the Mac Mini, an external case housing a 250gig hard drive with 3 firewire ports, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 19” LCD monitor, an ipod, the MacBook Pro (on which I am writing this post), and the new Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition).
In other news, my little girl, who is only 9 months, has decided to start learning Rails and Ruby. Don’t believe me? Check her out taking the Agile Web Dev. book off my bookshelf:
That’s my girl!
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Comments
Ryan Heneise
December 30th, 2006
Smart kid! That’s currently my favorite book (2nd Edition, of course, and after the Hobbit).
That is a very serious looking laptop. I’m looking forward to what good old Steve Jobs has to say at his Macworld Keynote. Free MacBooks for all!
Robert
December 31st, 2006
Yannick: Dude, you were so close!!! Hopefully that one day will come soon!
Ryan: Yeah, AWDWR is a good book. I still really like the Ruby Cookbook and am curious about Ajax with Rails and the Rails Cookbook.
I’ll be curious to see what Steve Jobs has to say at his keynote as well. Can’t wait!
Matt (mithrill)
January 3rd, 2007
Sweet looking set-up. Once you went Mac, you went all the way… I just started doing a bit of web codeing on a Mac and love the tools I found. In the past I always used a PC for programming and a Mac for design related activities because I never found any good programming tools. Boy have things changed in the last couple of years.
Your girl deserves some kind of an award. Not only can she read, she picks good books and programs. Amazing!
Robert
January 3rd, 2007
Matt: Yeah, I’m loving the Mac! I’m taking a new job (which I’ll post about sometime next week) and I needed a laptop to be more mobile.
The tools for the Mac are awesome and easily, IMHO, beat most if not all tools for the PC. Of course, that is personal preference.
My little girl goes to that bookshelf all the time to try and pull books off the shelf to open and look at. Apparently, she can read right side up and upside down. :p
Matt (mithrill)
January 4th, 2007
Congrats on the new job. Can’t wait to hear about. Glad to hear your loving the MacBook—that is one powerful machine especially since you got the new model with a Core 2 Duo.
Robert
January 4th, 2007
Thanks Matt!
The MacBook Pro, is extremely fast! I can’t wait to see how fast it is when I put 3 gigs of RAM in it – whenever that will be.
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Yannick
December 29th, 2006
Awesome Robert! I was literally two feet from an Apple store today, but really didn’t have the time to stop as I had to go somewhere with family. Ahh well…one day. Enjoy the new Macbook Pro dude!