I finally got a new laptop. This is the first computer that I have bought for myself in 7 or 8 years. The last computer I bought was full tower box that I built myself and is currently the server for this website. It is running Ubuntu after years of running Windows. It is much happier. I fell in love with Linux (Ubuntu specifically) late last year. I was thinking about a Linux laptop but I really wanted something that just worked and required no tinkering. I wanted all of my existing hardware, printer, scanner, etc… to work with little to no fuss. Unfortunately this rules out Linux. I also really, really did not want to go back to Windows. Thus I became a switecher and bought a Mac. Specifically a Macbook Pro. It is a beautiful piece of hardware and I am liking OS X the more that I use it. I really like that it has its underpinnings based off of UNIX (BSD specifically). The new Intel hardware platform that Apple has adopted should make it much easier for me to run the 2 Windows programs that I still rely on. All in all I am very pleased with the Macbook even if it was a bit pricey.
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