Hello Mac

Aaron Feng — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:00:00 -0500

This is my new toy.

My Dell laptop recently died, so I was back in the market for another laptop. I had never owned a Mac before, but I had always wanted to. After doing some research, the MacBook seemed to fit my needs.

After using it for a few hours, I felt right at home. It has the best of both worlds, UNIX and Windows. I am a big fan of UNIX-like Operating Systems, but I have not had time to play around with one for quiet some time now. Mostly it is because I have been working in a pure Windows environment in my current project.

One of the first things on my Mac checklist is to get Rails running on my new Mac. I found a great tutorial on setting up a Rails development environment. It contained the following programs:

The directions are explicit and easy to follow. I would highly recommend it if you are trying to get Rails running on your Mac.

I downloaded Textmate once I got all the Rails components installed. It just felt right to develop Rails using Textmate :) In fact, I am currently blogging using Textmate right now.

In the past, I had a lot of problems with my Dell laptops (two to be exact). They usually turned into paper weights after about a year. I hope my luck will change with my new Mac. Only time will tell.

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Hello Mac