luminescente

I’ve been using a Macbook for the last couple of days at work and I’m stunned.

This is a regular Macbook, with the Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz and 2Gb, and compared to my own 12″ Powerbook (1.5Ghz G4, 768Mb) this is a huge step forward. Applications open so quickly and Neooffice is actually useful this time. Firefox got a lot of mileage in these two days, as on my G4 I avoid it whenever I can (I use Camino when I have to use Gecko).

My two main worries about the Macbook were the keyboard and the screen. The glossy screen has not been as bad as I tought it would be, but I don’t have a lot of direct light where I’m working right now. When I move to a different place things may change however. The keyboard is quite nice in fact, and although strange at first feels quite smooth.

Performance-wise, this is a incredible machine. Lots of applications running (some Universal, some PPC-only) including the trial version of Parallels running XP and Ubuntu and the ‘book felt like it could handle a bit more.

As I’m writing this right now, the MenuMeters CPU graph shows two flat lines. Odd that it shows this as two 80486 CPUs at 2Ghz, though.

I guess I need to clean up my Powerbook. I am still using the original Panther installation that came with it two years ago, later upgraded to Tiger, and a lot of stuff in OSX and my apps has become stale and left to rot.