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.

3 Responses to “The MBP”

  1. Mike Says:
    March 21st, 2006 at 03:57 PM

    Stu, thought you’d like to read this in regards to your egg frying MBP – in case it happens to you m8:

    Mag Lead fire

    regs M

  2. Tyler Says:
    April 23rd, 2006 at 03:43 PM

    there is a new beta version of eclipes that is compiled to be universal. It works great over here on my MBP. I will take look at the thing you listed but dont feel you need to switch.

  3. Bitwalker Says:
    June 1st, 2006 at 09:48 PM

    Eclips 3.1.2 only works with a manual patch (not difficult – just google for it) and the new Eclipse 3.2 runs on Intel Macs without modification. Am developing on an 20” Intel iMac since 4 weeks now. Netbeans 5.5 is also ready for Intel but just as Eclipse 3.2 still beta.

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