New MacBook on the Way

Apple updated their MacBook line with the new Santa Rosa Intel chips last night. This was the update I was waiting for, and ordered my fancy new laptop right away this morning. I'm making the move to Intel macs! I'm excited, for more than one reason. One biggie is that I will have a portable Windows machine, as it is really annoying to work only from my desktop PC at home. Despite not enjoying Windows, development is rarely exclusive to Mac OS X. In fact, it will be a joy to run Office 2007 through Parallels. I may even get a Linux partition on there, as I may be doing some cross-platform development in the near future.



On a somber note, this will be replacing my 17" PowerBook G4, bought in April, 2003. That's right, over four years later. Apple makes a good product. In fact, my G5 and PC were purchased the summer of 2004. Only over the last year have I really noticed my PowerBook slowing down. However, this will be a significant upgrade in all aspects.