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Mac Pro Progress

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Alright after a lovely few day in Barcelona with the missus and some mate finally got home and plugged it in.
First thoughts are:
-It looks amazing. The screens are huge and crystal clear.
-All the mac stuff was pretty easy to use the hardest things are the standard “what buttons do what” and “no right click” (althought there is a context menu, its just at the top of the left screen… wierd). The dumbest thing so far is the copy key stroke is actuall quite hard to do, it would be like ALT+C which is not that finger friendly.
-Bootcamp seems to be working OK…

I have installed Office and SQL 2005 with out any probs on Vista 64 ultimate on a bootcamp partion. unfortuantely my copy of VS2008 appaers to be damaged as some files can not be read off the disk. ARRRGGGHHHH!

so i have basically been downloading all my other requirements eg Castle, Nhibernate (i believe was the first 2.0 beta download! ohhhhh), SVN etc etc
so once i have my IDE ready to roll im good to go.

Next up is the stuff i need to pay for… gotta get my VM-Ware Fusion, TD.Net, NCover, NDepend etc…

The beast has arrived

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The Mac Pro arrived yesterday, I am excited, unfortunately i have zero time to play with it as my social calendar is full (What?!? A nerd with a life?!?!) .
So it looks like next Tuesday will be the earliest opportuinity for me to kick the tyres.
In saying that, it does look pretty sweet on the desk… right next to an identical one (my flat mate and i got matching machines and monitors… cute :-p )

Bring on next week!

New Development Machine Is Ordered

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With a large gulp I have ordered what will hopefully be my work machine for the next few years.
Arriving some time this week is a new Mac Pro 8 core (2.8Ghz), 10GB Ram, 1.5TB HDD, 2 x 23′ Screens with a bunch of lovely little extras such as Vista 64 pre-installed with boot camp access.

I must say i am looking fwd to ripping open those boxes, but somewhat nervous too.. i have never have a Mac (does an Apple II Gs from 91 count?) and i have never made full use of Virtual machines at home. My confidence is increased with the glowing reports of VM ware fusion product and the fact the Vista 64 issues on macs seemed to have settled.

I am also going to use this as an opportunity to venture out of the snug M$ world I have been sheltered in and play more with Java, Ruby, Python as well as the Nix operating systems that i have never really got my hands dirty with, particularly Ubuntu.

First thing I’ll be buying once it lands is VM-Ware Fusion and then start setting up my various virtual machines. I am thinking of keeping quite distinct environments such as a Vista and Server 2008 dev environment, OSx Dev Environment, Ubuntu dev environment and a music environment (for recording) on OSx. I may even push a virtual copy of my existing physical machine up. Why not? I think i’ll have the space!

Now all I need is a desk to put all this on… this is my first non latop in over 5 years!