Well, the new Mac is here and happily chugging along. I haven't started coding on it yet, though I have installed a batch of software. A few initial thoughts:

  • It sure is purty, in an industrial design sort of way. But I suspect it could have been $50 cheaper if the case wasn't so overdesigned, and the keyboard and mouse frankly suck as far as I'm concerned (your ergonomic preferences may vary of course). I'm almost certainly going to pitch the Mighty Mouse in favor of a decent trackball. Unfortunately Unicomp doesn't make a Mac keyboard, so I don't know what I'm going to do in that department.

  • OS X is reasonably easy to transition to, but I was surprised at the lack of any obvious "start here" introduction for new users. People who say it's intuitive are full of poop (just like the people who say the same thing about Windows).

  • Some things, like getting hooked up to the Internet via my wireless access point, did indeed just work. But they just work in Windows these days too.

  • James Duncan Davidson's Guide for Installing Rails on Mac worked perfectly after I tracked down one broken link.


Much more to come, I'm sure.