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Not only did I get my blog up and running today, my new MacBook Pro also arrived

I’ve never been especially “religous” in my choice of operating system, development tools, programming language et cetera. I rather like to think “the proper tool for the given assignment”. Sometimes frameworks like Ruby on Rails can seem very interesting, other times PHP/ASP.NET might be a better approach. In my opinion there is also no reason to devote oneself to neither the open source nor the Microsoft camp. I feel perfectly fine mixing environments like Windows Server 2003 with ASP.NET / C#.NET and using a RDBMS like MySQL - which by the way actually runs pretty smooth on the Windows port, which is more than I can say from my experiences with PostgreSQL (unfortunately).

But, before I get sidetracked I better return to the original topic of this post

As said my Macbook Pro arrived after having placed an order for one at the 26th of this month. Actually I am quite surprised to have received it already - they actually assemble to order and ship these things from Shanghai, China !

The first thing that strikes you with the Mac is the packaging. Apple actually decided to design and built every last detail into their concept. This means that instead of the ordinary brown carboard box you get a nicely designed black case with a carrying handle. Even the protective foam is specially designed featuring the mandatory Apple logo.

This being the first time I have ever owned a Mac I was at first a bit confused about the OS. But almost everything seems very logical and intuitive so the learning curve is nowhere near as steep as I might have feared. Although I must say that the whole “change filename on enter” instead of opening the file is pretty confusing. I mean, whats up with that? How often do you actually have the need to rename a file that you would assign it that key-combination?

Other than that I am very pleased with the Macbook. Everything about it is just first-class - I mean you don’t get this kind of quality in a Dell, Zepto, HP or even an IBM. I think that if Apple were to ship these with two mouse buttons and a Win-key instead of the Command-key they could make a fortune from people wanting to run Vista on these things.

So that was this evenings stray thoughts. I’ll round of this post by attaching some pictures of the Macbook. These are taken with my cellphone (Samsung D600E) so the quality is far from world class (but by the way, bluetooth worked perfectly between the mac and the cell). The Macbook is a 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM, 120GB HD and 15 inch widescreen.