Me and computers

As all me faithfull readers know, I mostly use Linux computers, but also have an Apple PowerMac at home. Although that computer have Linux (ubuntu dapper beta) installed, MacOSX tend to see more and more use on it. The reason is that some of the stuff I do at home simply work better on OSX, like playing music. So, instead of rebooting into linux all the time, I just get what ever I need to work on OSX - which is usually possible as I mostly rely on open source software.

Now, this has gone quite far, and in the company I work, Apple users seems to pop up here and there. Therefore, I and a colleague will visit the WWDC in San Francisco in august. And what is more natural than bringing an Apple laptop there. Alas, I have ordered an MacBook pro with 17" screen and 2GBs of memory today. That will be great fun! For the moment, I consider not installing linux on it at all, but we'll see how that goes.

While I have the FSC P1510, which is a quite small computer, Sony has announced their new Vaio UX recently - a real laptop computer in a very small housing. It has a 4.5" screen with great resolution; 1024x600, have wifi, bluetooth and even gsm/edge builtin. My plan is to get hold of one as soon as they hit the street, and then pass the big P1510 on to someone worthy of it - probably someone in the sysadmin group in the company which need something like it. It will, however, take some time, as Sony expect the UX to appear around 5. july, and considering the really bad decisions about Sony Vaio and Norway in the past, I can not expect to just by it in the store around the corner. Maybe I pick up one in SF...

At least for now, I will keep the PowerMac at home and the Amd64 in the office, since this complements the architectures I need to know about and build software on. Now we just need someone who wants to build our PyCC software on Windows, to ensure full cross platform compatibility.

I'll report when things starts to show up!

Take care!