MacBook Pro baby!
For anybody who might be reading this, this is probably pretty useless news, but I can’t just not mention this. I got a 17″ MacBook Pro!. Yes, it was like experiencing x-mas at 6 years old again (still is). This is also my first mac and oh man, only regret I have with this is that I didn’t get it earlier, really seeing where “it just works” comes from 
“Switch” = there’s no going back.
Anyway, since this is my first mac, I also feel like a total noob. Heh. Kind of weird since I’ve used various computers for several years. Well, things are just different, and usually I try to do everything the hard (windows) way, when there’s just a really simple solution. Just will take some time to get used to.
Haven’t played around with Adobe’s software under Rosetta yet, but pretty much everything else works faster on this laptop than on my 3000+ Athlon XP64 desktop computer running Windows XP 64, so I think I’ll be fine. Well, at least I hope so, because 90% of the time i work on my computer I use either CS2 or Studio 8 software 
Oh well, the new universal versions will come out pretty soon anyway.
Yeah, wish me luck getting some work done, deadline’s are approaching, but playing with my new toy is sooo much cooler than writing some actionscript for the client..
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2006-08-02, 22:27 by Niclas
Thats great mate, damn I wish I had gone for the 15″ MacBook PRO instead of my MacBook.. I want to give you a tip tho, don’t install CS2 on it – it’s been causing some breakdowns on the new intel-macs. I’d install CS1 if I were you – I use it, and it runs just fine
2006-08-03, 16:29 by Antti Author comment
Thanks for the tip Niclas. I’ve got CS2 here, and so far it’s been working fine. A couple crashes (weird ones!) here and there, but still i don’t think i’ll install CS1 just for them (= they’re rare).
Was a bit surprised that the speed, even under Rosetta, is pretty good (a lot better than flash 8, which is annoyingly slow!). I’ll see if it’ll get annoying, haven’t done that much image manipulation with my new baby yet..
2007-01-05, 0:16 by Revolt, actionscript 3 based spectrum analyzer source released | Blog / Antti Kupila
[...] I could also mention one thing I found after switching to mac: the public beta does not work on intel macs. It runs, but crashes when publishing (some java thing). That sucks. Luckily as this mac has a heart (or brain?) made by intel it will run Microsoft’s Windows without problems. As I mentioned I haven’t had time to play that much with actionscript 3 recently, but found out that using the beta under windows with Parallels Desktop is really handy, and almost as good as under OS X (if not even better, as it’s even faster than Flash 8 under OS X (this being since it’s not a universal binary to you who have lived under a rock the whole 2006)). When using Parallels in coherence mode I can use the Flash 9 alpha preview just like Flash 8. Sweet! [...]
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