I realized the other day that it’s been over a year since I added Macs to my life. And just under a year since I bought iPhone 1.x. I just plunked down cash two weeks ago for a 3G (two actually – the wife has one now too), and I have to say in general I like it.
My only qualms about the phone so far aren’t really hardware (though the 3G coverage in Austin seems to be scarce). Rather, the OS, especially under strain from apps, seems to silently hurl the way Safari used to on my gen 1 iPhone. Admittedly, it’s nice that the iPhone doesn’t show system modal dialogs announcing that things have gone boom – but then it just gets to pretend that nothing ever happened. At this point I think I’ve gotten more app faults on my iPhone than I’ve ever gotten on Windows, and almost as many as on my MacBook Pro with it’s temperamental install of Office 2008.
My iMac is happy – and after adding one more GB of RAM (taking it to the Intel-capped 3GB limit for that generation of white iMacs), and defragmenting it with iDefrag, it seems noticeably happier. The MacBook Pro happily churns along, though I consider torching it’s BootCamp partition. Though I use BootCamp on the iMac once in awhile, it’s just a PITA to use on the MBP, considering VMware Fusion with a Windows install on it will usually give me what I need. My only complaint on the MBP is the Office 2008 install. I remain convinced that it’s some strange app I’ve installed – as in the morning everything is fine at a fresh logon. But by the afternoon, only one Office 2008 application can be started at a time – the second one started crashes silently and fatally after just one sad little bounce in the Dock. I should probably just reinstall 10.5 (I’ve already completely removed and reinstalled 2008) – but don’t want to do that just yet.
I’ve had two specific goals in mind when writing my blog before. I’m going to try to fulfill them both this time:
- Discuss the pros and cons of Macs vs. Windows from my own relatively unique perspective
- Discuss my thoughts on working in the software world from what I’ve seen. It’s been a strange ride, and I’ve thought about sharing it via a book or a script. I think this should suffice.
So it begins.
