Hello From Mac

After having used DOS/Windows for so many years, I am using Mac now. Just got today from buying from Amazon. This is my first Mac and I need to learn a lot of stuff, especially how to install programs and whatnot. I am going to use it for iPhone software development. Hopefully I can make it pay off for it self. This machine is not cheap.

I'm now a Mac switcher

It's been a while that I have mocking people who paid premium to buy their Mac machine. I am now one of them. The main reason is that I need it for iPhone application development. I recently moved to mobile banking department and I am charged to supervise device application development which includes iPhone. Studying its architecture and API, I really fall in love with it. I didn't know Objective-C before and now start learning it. It's a pretty cool language, nice combination of dynamism and speed of C language. Also I start understanding more of what Mac OS X is. It's a cool OS where you can get to use real UNIX os for real with pretty cool hardware and amazing graphics. I like Ubuntu but surely Mac is better.

I made an order for MacBook Pro 2.54GHz yesterday and look forward to getting it sometime next week. I will need to spend sometime learning how to use it because I have never used Mac before. Hopefully I will still have good impression with it when I use it for real. Regardless, I need to cash it in from selling iPhone app that I am planning to develop.

Finally Linux 64-bit on my laptop - thanks to Ubuntu

I have been dreaming of using Linux day to day on my HP laptop which is installed with Windows Vista. I really Vista for its useless UI improvement (I don't really see any advantage that I can take on a daily basis) and the frequency it crashes or stop responding mysteriously. I have been trying Ubuntu and other Linux flavors for a while but only successful at the virtual machine level because they always have issue with my laptop hardware. When Ubuntu release its 9.1 release, I tried it out and it seems working perfectly (except hibernate/suspend) on the laptop. More importantly, this is the 64-bit version I am talking about. I am very happy because my laptop cpu has been underused because Vista I have is 32 but. Now I am able to unlock its potentially by running 64-but Linux on it. I am doing a lot of programming in several languages ranging from very low level as C to very high level as Haskell and Groovy. The performance is impressive, and clearly much better than when it runs Vista.

I now use half of the HD to run Ubuntu and rarely boot into Vista. Hopefully I will be able to completely switch off from Windows some time soon.