Brave New World
After many years of devoted service, my main development machine (a Thinkpad A31p) has suddenly gone kaput. I have ordered my new machine which is an Apple MacBook Pro.
I’ve been saying to myself (and to anyone in earshot) that the next machine I buy would be a Mac. Last time I chickened out (and bought a Thinkpad X60s), but now I’ve finally taken the plunge. It’s in the post.
Not only am I moving from a PC-type laptop — with a three-button trackpoint — to a Mac — with a huge trackpad and only one button —, but I don’t intend to dual boot. My Thinkpads are Debian machines, but I’m telling myself that Mac OS X is Unix under the glitter and I shoudn’t need to dual boot with another Unix.
I’m telling myself all my old friends will be there: emacs, python, apache, latex. I’m telling myself that the absolute freedom of Debian involved me in a lot of sysadmin headaches I wasn’t at all interested in. I’m telling myself that lots of other Unix, Linux and BSD hackers have gone this way before me (and that by now I’m behind the times). I’m telling myself that I’ll enjoy submitting to the Mac OS X way.
It should arrive early next week.