I got a new laptop this week to replace the machine that had been on loan during my time at ITA Software. I have to admit, the only reason I chose the MacBook Pro when asked on my hire form was simply to have something different than what I had been used to… what I hadn’t counted on was loving the machine. It quickly became my primary workstation, favored above my truly powerful dual-core Opteron, 16Gb RAM, 2.5TB disk desktop running Linux (both Ubuntu and Fedora).

For a while, during the process of my leaving, I wondered what I would do sans-MacBook Pro. Well, I don’t have to worry about that anymore. I’m a happy camper.

• OS X 10.5.2
• Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.33 Ghz
• 2GB SDRAM
• Ati Radeon X1600 - 256MB
• 160GB SATA disk

I haven’t gotten all my applications set up but I have the important ones thus far.

Update: I’ve gotten most of my applications setup after about two weeks of near constant use and I really like it. I have this annoying issue with the keyboard freezing at odd times which I think is a resource collision with the wireless device since I don’t seem to have the issue when connected to a wired network… this damn 802.11n crap…

I don’t have any of the iLife products on my laptop and I’m OK with that. I will likely get iPhoto since I will want to have some of the stuff I’m working on with my Canon available to me when on the go.

I’m also looking to get a iMac (one of the Intel Core 2 Duo ones) so I will likely get iLife with that. I think, finally, I will really be able to do all the creative things I want to do on my site. I’ve never felt the urge to write or create media content sitting at my PC, but sitting at my Mac Book Pro it just flows out of me…

I wish I had done this sooner.