The MBP
March 13th, 2006 Things are going well with my new MacBook Pro (the MBP). Its fast, its slick, its bloody hot. I mean really, there are parts you should not touch. On the top near the power plug, around the hinge. Damn could cook an egg on the thing. Also had a few problems with some builds. So the benefit of my experience. * Don't use "Darwin Ports":http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/. Build everything from source if you can. Some of the stuff i installed off darwin ports just didnt work on the intel macs. Better off compiling it from scratch * On that use "make -j2". No point having dual cores if you don't use them both for compiling. * "Eclipse":http://www.eclipse.org/ didnt work for me. So i've moved to "IntelliJ IDEA":http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/, which has a Universal version for Macs. Apart from that no real complaints. Got a nice "iCurve":http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/icurve/ for my desk after i saw it on "Robby Russell's blog":http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/04/the-art-of-the-start-low-costs.