[CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase

[Aaron D. Gerber]

Nick,

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:03 PM, NICK VERBECK <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't plan on removing OS X. Just move it a around on the disk a
> bit. It might be a little while before I install Ubuntu on it as I
> already have a decent Ubuntu/Windows laptop. That I will probably
> bring with me as well. I just want to experiment and at least have the
> option to pick a different OS when the time requires it.

If you think you're going to go the dual-booting route, I'd do that
sooner than later. I know it's less of an issue these days then it has
been in the past, but if you don't do the repartitioning right, it may
require you to start over from scratch (reformatting the entire drive
and reinstalling OS X). I believe they've resolved many of those kinds
of issues, but I know from experience, this is a royal pain the butt.
Intrepid fixed a lot of issues with hardware and the like, but Ubuntu
still doesn't run as well as I'd like it on the MacBook.  So if you're
just looking to play around, virtualization may be the way to go. If
you want to be able to use Ubuntu for the full experience, I'd still
recommend dual-booting, even if everything doesn't work perfectly...

>
> Aaron, I know its freaking weird and I feel bad for even buying the
> thing, but I wanted a toy to play and experment with as well as I
> wanted to play with the iPhone SDK and see what weird shit I could
> come up with. I'll still be lugging my HP around on the shear fact
> that its all setup for Ubuntu and Windows with my full development
> environments. Plus having a Mac allows me to find more problems with
> Mac to hate on.

No doubtedly, you'll find some frustrating things, but once you figure
out how to configure things the way that you want, I bet you'll be
pretty surprised.  For example, make sure you enable all elements to
be tab-able. Otherwise, you're going to be pissed that you can't tab
to the check-boxes in the dialogs....

Have fun!

Aaron-