MacBooks

So we’re supposed to get MacBook Pros when we have our laptop upgrades later this year. Right now I’m typing on a Dell Latitude D800 which hasn’t been to shabby of a laptop. If it wasn’t for the fact that it weighed a brick and a half (olde english measurement) and was as wide as my elementary school gym teacher’s rear, I would highly recommend it. I’m a big fan of the nub mouse and the size allows for a roomy keyboard, which is important when you are using complex IDEs like vi. The MacBook should allow me to finally join the cultural elite, if I can bear to wear the black turtle neck shirt. I am looking forward to running Parallels and having Linux and Windows running on the same box… oh yeah and OSX too. While I’ve done it currently with Fedora, I have upgraded my kernel as the new updates roll out and have never gone back in to get VMWare running again, it’s not powerful enough to run virtual servers very well anyway. I guess since I bought the Nano it should have another piece of Apple hardware around so it doesn’t get lonely, the aging G3 sitting aside for the kids to use does not count as it has been disowned by the Mac family and no longer gets invited to family reunions.