Goodbye Dell, hello Mac.

[cacruden]

As of this week, I received the first Mac that I have purchased (I had used on on loan from a client a decade ago). My 4yr old Dell laptop was getting a little weary in it's old age, so I bought a new laptop -- the Macbook Pro. The major deciding fact was that it has a Unix shell (which is closer to what I deploy my software on) -- yet better support than Linux on new laptops..... So I decided on the Mac. I figured most of the software I use, I could get on the Mac.
i.e. Oracle Enterprise Edition, Java based development, Ruby etc.

Recommendations for websites that deal with the Mac environment (for technical minded people) are always appreciated.

 

[Edward Skira]

Not technically oriented but some of the Apple sites I visit on a regular basis:

http://www.macdailynews.com/
http://www.appleinsider.com/
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/RDM.Tech.Q2.07.html
http://www.macrumors.com/
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/

 

[cacruden]

Thanks for the websites.

I have just "played" with it the last two days, but I am quite happy with the new Macbook Pro.

It will take a while for me to completely migrate off of my other "windows only" computer (I have a farm of computers - but only one is Windows) -- simply because I have to wait on a few new releases of software. Even then I may still have to use a virtual copy of windows for some programs (although I am trying to avoid it). Most of the software I use is open-source so I won't need windows for that