You’ve got to get one of those iddy widdy teeny weeny mice about the size of a penny racer! They’re super cute, optical, and have a scrolly wheel! Perfect for work on the move coz they’re so small.
Cas 
Wooo hooo! A convert! 
I’m sure you are totally loving it.
I have the older generation 15" without the auto brightness adjustment. It’s about a year and a half old now - the DVD writer failed on me last month and I got it replaced. Makes me think the 3 year warranty plan is probably not a bad idea - though the cost of replacing the DVD (I did it myself) is slightly less than the extended warranty.
I’m also just over a 3rd through “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X” 2nd ed. so I’ll be an expert soon (Objective-C = weird yet cool).
I plan to take a crack at some LWJGL issues at some point. But don’t hold your breath Cas ;).
Will,
If you are keen on unix, make sure you grab “Fink” it is a system that has ported many unix things to OS X and made them very easy to install and upgrade.
If you need a second system to test some ODE stuff on just send me a note. I’m quite anxious to see full support of OS X for all these wonderful frameworks.
[quote]hehehe I commented on that to the guy - he doesn’t think they ever will. It’s a bit funny having such a huge button…
But, it is fully featured - “Ctrl+Click” = “Right-Click”, just an extra button press.
Dunno how to get the middle mouse button though…
Will.
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When using the trackpad, it really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be
I do find the Apple bluetooth mouse to be slightly annoying with only one button, but that will pass
I’d really, really love a Powerbook but I just couldn’t justify tripling my price tag for the same performance 
Hey William, now you can help with the LWJGL port
Cas
Bugger, I wrote a reply yesterday but closed the browser before hitting submit 
I couldn’t be more happy with my decision ;D
There are too many things that I like about OS X to list. I can do everything I did in linux, in the same old way but the laptop hardware is supported, and the non-programming stuff (for example email clients, system preferences etc) are a pleasure to use. At the end of the day, it definitally gives me more time to program as I have to spend less time fixing stuff up or using inefficient UI’s.
swpalmer, thanks for your offer of help. I did manage to get it working, thanks to the similarity of linux and osx and a readme someone had written on compiling ODE on osx (albiet an outdated readme of an older version, but still helpful). I’ll drop you a note if I do run into troubles though
I did grab fink, and downloaded a bunch of packages so now I feel right at home I was impressed with how many packages OS X came with to begin with. Do you use fink? I’ve got a problem where I can’t seem to get the updated svn packages - the website lists them as available but the ones I see are older.
I might be able to help with LWJGL cas at the very least from a testing perspective. I don’t activly code in C/C++ however.
It’s a pity mac’s do have a price premium. The hardware is top notch however, even the basic models are fairly high spec. Makes it a great target for selling games to! I’m sure they lose some potential sales though, I tried to convince my dad to get one (before I owned one) citing that he’d not have to worry about it breaking but he didn’t want to fork out the extra $$. Two days after getting his new computer, he had the sasser worm and had to take it back : For me, this computer actually was a grand less than the dell I ordered, partly because they were ripping me off, and partly caus I got the academic discount, and opted to wait a bit to upgrade my ram (ensuring I have a free slot of course).
Cheers,
Will.
Re: Fink
There are some packages that are considered unstable. There is a trick to enabling the unstable branch… I can’t think what it is now, but the Fink web site is sure to have it in the FAQ. I used Fink when I was running Jaguar, but I never re-installed it when I moved to Panther. I found I just wasn’t needing it.
Be sure to sign up on the apple developer site as a free ADC member. That will give you access to Developer Previews of the Java runtime. Be careful though, because Java DP releases can’t be uninstalled, since Java is an integrated component the only official way to uninstall is to re-install the OS. The recommended practice is to keep a partition that you can have an experimental version of the OS on for DP testing and such… I personally just take the risk and install the DP on my main OS install.
Also, being an ADC member you will get access to updates to the developer tools (Xcode) and you will be able to submit bug reports. Apple’s bug database is closed, so you can only see bugs that you have reported yourself, but Apple is reasonably good at working with it - they don’t mark (non-duplicate) bugs I’ve reported as closed until after they check with me that my problem is fixed.
I run Eclipse RC1 for Java development. Xcode is a different beast… not that hot for Java, quite slick for Objective-C once you get used to it, and believe me it takes some getting used to
Isn’t it great to have all the developer tools included with the OS - including a professional IDE?.
If you are like me it will take a few months to really appreciate all that OS X has to offer. There are quite a bit of things that aren’t really spelled out for you. Websites like http://www.macosxhints.com are your friend.