Yup, I’m getting a MacBook! It’s free!
Well, not really free. I see it more like a subsidized price paid in installments over 2 years and comes with a 10Mbps ADSL line. Here’s my list of things to-do and things-to-look-forward-to:
- A less buggy with far better performance of iTunes. iTunes for Windows is like Eclipse: it’s nice to use once it’s finished loading all those gazillion bits, but I will never set it as a default program to open a file with.
- Speaking of Eclipse, install Eclipse and make the MacBook my default machine for messing about with code.
- Get the iPhone SDK and Xcode IDE to poke around.
- Mess about with the iLife suite.
- As usual, get Firefox. Safari may have better javascript performance, but I want, no NEED, all those addons I’m super used to.
- Install all my games that have a Mac version. And bug developers/publishers for a free Mac version of the game I bought if there is one.
- Oversized multitouch trackpad FTW! No more squiggly little trackpads. I’ve always wondered why other manufacturers don’t atetempt to provide a better trackpad experience, since it’s as important as, if not more than, the keyboard. Especially more so since modern OSes have a very mouse-driven interface.
- No more shutdowns, but sleep and hibernate instead for faster-to-desktop times. One thing good about Apple is that since they control the hardware, the OS can be highly optimized to the hardware. If I’m not wrong, sleep and hibernate are two operation that are quite hardware sensitive. So Apple has a good advantage over Windows and probably Linux in this regard.
- Chiclet keyboard! w00t!!!
- Drool over the design. Seriously, don’t touch my MacBook. It’ll be sticky.
By the way, this list is by no means in order of merit. Just because I haven’t done no. 2, doesn’t mean no. 10 hasn’t happen. It’s your risk.
(Image taken from, where else, Apple Online Store.)
