My work machine is a Mac now!

Most of the reason why I so wanted the new Macs to come in for the student lab was that I wanted to get my paws on the G4 1GHz / 768MB that was in the lab before. And especially its 20" Cinema Display.

It's mine! I finally have a Mac on my main desk. I'm not sure I'm going to keep it yet; I have to ensure that I can do all my work well using it; since we are primarily a Linux shop (outside of Windows) I worry that there may be some things that are more of a pain to do from the Mac than from my Linux workstation. But so far, so good, and I LOVE the new monitor and the extra screen realestate I get.

One thing that continues to amaze me about Apple is how they manage to make each release of Mac OS X run faster and better than before. This machine is from 2002/2003, yet 10.4.9 (Tiger) screams on it! It came with 10.2 (Jaguar) installed on it. Imagine trying to install Vista on an Intel machine from 2002? Oh my god, the pain and suffering.

We'll see how it goes. Hopefully my boss won't think I'm a traitor for not having Linux on my main desktop anymore...