Allan finally wore me down, and I got a Mac. Well, it was a combination of Allan and Windows Vista. I’d lost sooo much time to a busted network stack that it just didn’t make sense anymore.

So, it’s a MacBook Pro – the 2.4GHz Core2 Duo model. First impressions: the hardware is, of course, extremely sexy. Sleek, solid; the keyboard is awesome. There are some amazingly beautiful apps that come loaded, notably Front Row and Expose/Spaces. I had a slight difficulty getting my wifi (aka AirPort) to work with my D-Link DIR-625, but got that sorted out (I had to “downgrade” it away from WPA2 and force it to stay only on WPA).

Toughest thing so far: window management. I hadn’t realized how reliant I had become on the Windows Task Bar. Mac OS X has a very different conceptual model that I’m starting to get the swing of. For example, the little blue, almost imperceptible dot below applications on the dock means that the program is running – even though there’s no window to be found. Very helpful to know that; thanks Kevin.

Anyway, things are going well so far, though I’m not taking it to work until the end of our current iteration, as I think right now, it would be a productivity loss (just the windows mgmt thing). End of iteration is only a few days away though…

VendAsta seems to be slowly being overrun with Macs. Stay tuned to see how that all turns out.