June 2008

The magic smoke (mostly) came out of my 15" MBP on a Thursday night while I was in Seattle for a series of meetings.

Since I was headed to sea (by way of northern Europe in less than a week, I figured I didn't have much time to mess around so on Friday afternoon when I was finished with my meetings I swung by the Apple Store up by the U District and bought a high end 13" Macbook. I was enticed by the slightly smaller size as I have been trying to lighten up the bag I drag around all the time.

so far, I've been very happy it and in spite of (eventually) recovering nearly everything from backups and a couple of stabs at the failing disk in the old roach, I've still (2008-07-16) still got a fair amount of disk space.

Late April 2006 -> 15" MacBookPro

il 2006, I switchedMy (more or less) only regular computer is a Mac 15" G4 Powerbook (although I am currently 2006-04-16) thinking very hard about switching to a MacBook Pro (duo) so that I can run Parallel's virtualization code and have a WinXP native when I need it for specific apps such as system controllers and cross compliers.

Hardware until about late April 2006

1.2 GHz G4 with 1.25 GB of memory and a 100 MB 7200 rpm disk drive

Thinking hard about switching to a Mac dual core pro so that I can run Parallel's virtualization code and have a WinXP and Linux OSs running natively.

Software

From Apple: OS, plus development tools and X11, currently at 10.4.6

MatLab
Mathematica
MS Office 2006
Design Works 4.5
Vectorworks 12.0.1
Openoffice 2.0
EndNote 9.0
Contribute
Sketchup 5
Adobe CS2 (Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop....)
Subversion 1.3.0
scp plugin V269
macgpg 1.4.1
GPGMail 1.4
fink 0.8.0
netcdf 3.51-16
lesstiff 1:0.93.18-1
tkcvs 7.2.1
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1
ethereal 0.10.14
GNU Octave, version 2.1.71