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It all started with a joke to my mum that i wanted a mac because it was more like Linux/Unix and thus free of Windows. Rid of the pest so to speak. The aim was a MacBook.

Early 2007 We bought 2 MacBook Pro’s. the 2.16Ghz model. Stood next to my several PC’s
It swiftly replaced my Acer Notebook. I was so impressed with OS X Tiger that i kinda fell in love with it immediately. The ease of use, pretty UI. Well you know how it is if you’ve got a mac.

Mid 2007 i apply for a job at the company where we bought the macs. And got the job. First and second tier phone support on all Apple products and related for customers of that company.

Late 2007 I buy an iPod Touch 8GB and take a PowerMac G4 from work to be my server. My 3Com base station is replaced by an Apple Airport Extreme.

Early 2008 Replaced my MacBook Pro for the then newly released model, the multitouch one. A few months later my main PC was replaced by the new Aluminium iMac 20″. Around this time i dismiss my PowerMac G4 to be replaced by an Ethernet NAS due to problems with OS X Leopard Server. The PowerMac goes to my mum so she can play her games of Myst.

Mid 2008 I aqcuire an iPhone 2G from a colleague at work, i decided i hated jailbreaking that same day but had to get along with it. This device replaces the iPod Touch.

Late 2008 Due to conflicts at my current job i move to another, i will be a Repair Technician. Repairing all applicable Apple products of roughly the last 10 years. My mum replaces her MacBook Pro of almost 2 years for the new Unibody design.

Early 2009 2 Mac mini’s enter the picture. They’re both 2nd hand. One will be my server, a 1.5Ghz core solo replacing the Ethernet NAS.
The other Mini, a 1.42Ghz G4, goes to my mum to replace the PowerMac G4.

Early-Mid 2009 I am now a Certified Mac OS X 10.5 Expert scoring 90 out of 100 in the exam. For fun i have bought an iBook Clamshell G3.
I’m finally approved for an iPhone 3G by T-Mobile and get one the week after.

Mid 2009 Replaced my now one year old MacBook Pro with the newer Unibody 13″ model as my ‘main’ laptop.

Late 2009 Replaced the iMac 20″ with an iMac 27″. The 20″ moved to be my secondary computer and the last PC was thrown out the house.
The wireless network is expanded with another Airport Extreme base station.

So after almost 3 years. No PC remains active in this house. We’ve switched from All PC to All Mac in less than 3 years. All our MP3 players have been replaced by iPods and iPhones and even our home network is powered by Apple.

And we love it!

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MBP boxWell, i’ve had it for a few days now… But i finally got it all working.
Last week i bought the latest and greatest MacBook Pro, the 13″ 2.53Ghz model. If anyone wants my Early 2008 laptop… Be sure to check with me for details!

Anyway, i’d expected things to go smoothly by just moving the contents from my earlier laptop to this one and be on my way. Nothing was less true :( . Apparently there are some changes in the hardware that prevent the system from working with “older” installs even if they have all updates and latest patches.

After the first day i re-installed the system doing an Archive and Install. But that didn’t help much. It only resulted in a broken System Preferences and my user password being reset to something unknown. They keychain somehow remained intact… Odd.

Then i reinstalled it cleanly and used Migration Assistant. Do it the Apple way… But that broke most preference panes again and again things were not working properly. Sluggish, unresponsive trackpad, forced verbose mode by starting the computer. And so on…

I found that out after a day or 2… I was so fed up with things by then i just erased everything. Did a clean install and moved a few files, folders and preference files over from the other computer manually. So much for ease of use of copying data and using Migration assistant.

It’s all good now! Finally, and i love the new features.

The trackpad is amazing, it actually works is responsive and magically seems to know when and when not to do things. I can control the entire computer much more easily now. Yay!

The new Video card.. It works. Not much to say there. But the screen… The colors are brilliant. I was a bit sceptic about Apple claiming the colors would be more vivid and alive. But it’s true. There is a noticeable difference between the earlier laptops and the iMac. Were it seems the colors are more dull or i don’t really know how to describe it. Less vivid!

The keyboard takes a bit of getting used to… But after an hour of usage it’s all good. Good pushy keys. Not to soft like many other keyboard. You feel you have to actually press a key, which i like a lot.

And well overall, it’s a fine laptop. Now to save up for a Solid State Drive…

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I bought a Samsung 250GB 7200RPM harddisk last week to replace the existing 200GB 5400RPM disk in my macbook pro.

The laptop fell a couple of times and the disk was obviously affected by it. Slow performance. Sudden freezes. Replacing the disk solved all this. yay!

However a 7200RPM disk turned out a silly move as it’s noisy as hell. It’s like the fans are on at all times. Which is bearable. But, and this is the worst, the spinning of the disk resonates through my desk. Making a much louder hum throughout any room/space near that desk. Which is very annoying. Especially when you want to leave the computer on for a night.

Sooooo i’ll be purchasing a 5400RPM disk soon i guess :(

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So lately i’ve come to the realization that i have an iMac. Ofcourse. i bought the damn thing myself in May but i didn’t use it much. My Macbook Pro was my main computer for everything but games. Mainly due to the greater ease of use and preference in OS i moved away from my desktop computer, a PC at the time, to my laptop and it kinda stayed that way when i got my iMac.

Now over the past month or so… I’ve been moving things back to my desktop. My iPhone and thus my iTunes library is on my iMac now. Being the main thing and the Macbook syncs to that, earlier it was vice versa.
With my OSX server being dead i no longer have a central space for my calendars but that’s fixed with BusySync. This keeps both macs up-to-date automagically and contacts are on the iMac as well.

I do most of my coding on the laptop still. Or atleast run the localhost server on that. Write code on the iMac where i can… and test it on the Macbook. Because i just don’t feel like synchronizing the mysql stuff every time and still want to be mobile with my code and MAMP setup. It kinda needs to be on my laptop then.
Obviously mail is still on the laptop, but since that’s all IMAP it’s also set up on the iMac, i don’t use it often though, on the iMac. And MSN, chat and that sorta things are on the laptop and will remain there.

So i have spread the various things a bit more, as they were before i got my Macbook pro, 2 years ago. So far it works fine and i finally take the benefit of the 20″ screen and power of the iMac a bit more where i need it.