Friday of last week I purchase a new MacBook Pro 2.6GHz 4Gig Ram 200Gig 7200RPM HD. I have to say I had my best shopping experience purchasing a computer yet. The sales person was kind and nice and did not rush me. He know what I wanted.

I purchased this as I wanted to get into using a UNIX oriented machine. I wanted the capabilities of running multiple OS's. I wanted to reuse my OS from my Tablet PC. I have an HP TC1100.

So far the out of box experience was very good. I was up and running in no time. It was so fast that I was wondering why it was. Then I thought about and I realized that I did not have to uninstall anything. Wow what a difference. Whenever I have gotten a PC I have always had to uninstall or rebuild the entire system. Nice change here.

I setup Time Machine to back up on my Linksys NAS Server. I have this small linux device that connects to two 500Gig HD's. The drives are setup to mirror. In order for Time Machine to see teh drive I have to enable a hidden option. It was easy search google, then copy the one line and paste into Terminal. No biggy.

I have had some issues with ejecting CD's. While I love the slot loading drive I wish there was away to force the CD out. I had to restart a couple of times as the MacBook Pro (MacBaby for short) said that a process had a hold on the cd.

I have installed VMWare Fusion. The install was a bit stupid as I had to download a full update and then install again. When I created a expanding VM for XP, after a couple of reboots I got an error on boot. The error said it could not read the disk. I deleted it and started with non-expanded one.

I have tried using teh VM Convert utility to convert my Tablet PC to a VM, but it got an error reading from disk too. If anyone knows of a solution for this please contact me.
- Posted by Alan, 11:46 AM