Back to Mac
February 28, 2008 | Tags: Apple, Hardware, OSX
It's been 3 years, but I'm finally back. When I started my current job, I was handed a Dell D610 running Windows XP. What a piece of junk. It felt like a plastic toy (and so did the operating system :-) The Dell "business grade" laptop only supported 1024x768 resolution, and was as bulky as they come. After many months of using it, I managed to grab a T42 Thinkpad floating around. The construction of the Thinkpads has always been superior to other laptops I've used. They are true business-grade laptops. With the new X300 coming out, they are getting even more enticing. The only drawback I see is the operating system. If you like Windows or Linux on your laptop, you're set, buy an X series Thinkpad. If you like Mac, you only have one choice, buy a MacBook.
I've run a lot of different operating systems in my the past. I started with RedHat 4.2 back in the day, eventually was able to run Linux as my primary OS through college and for the first couple of years of my first job. Then work bought me a MacBook Pro and I fell in love. It was Linux for the desktop, done right. I still run a headless Fedora Core box as my development server, but Fedora or Ubuntu just didn't seem to have the kinks worked out. The next few days should be fun as I try to transition my business environment over to Mac. I need to run Parallels since my current work's software only runs on Windows. Should be a fun week, but I'm glad I'm back.
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