New laptop: MacBook

27 February 2008

A new laptop

I am not used to having a Mac with me, but this time has changed.

For my work on VLC, someone helped the VideoLAN project and gave us some new laptops to improve the Mac OS version. I just got one of those, when I was at the FOSDEM.

Macbook

I have one of the white Macbook, 13.3" with a 2.2Ghz proc and 2Gb of Ram, running Leopard.

I upgraded to X.5.2 and Xcode 3.0. I installed VLC, Adium, FFX 3b3 and removed some Microsoft Office crap.

Impressions

I have very gladly impressed by the product, the finition and the OS X.

However, the keyboard is not that good and the keymap horrible. \ ~ | are more than difficult to produce, and the Terminal is very bad, especially if ou want to achieve pgUp, pgDown, End, Home in VIM, in the Terminal.

Else, it seems to be as good as a Linux DE, and has nice coverflow stuffs, and many tools like SVN installed by default. The background image is ugly but I like the 3D dock.

VLC

more later :D

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Apple
VideoLAN

Comments

  1. On 29 May 29290, 7:24 by Joel Lopes Da Silva

    I quite agree with what you said about the keymap, at least for the French mac keymap: I chose a US QWERTY keyboard for my brand new MacBook Unibody, which is very similar to the PC QWERTY keymap. In fact, this QWERTY keymap is great for developers and geeks. You can even type accents easily with US International keyboard layout (http://www.brockerhoff.net/usi/).

    Concerning the Terminal, some people choose to use iTerm, but I chose to tweak a little bit my Terminal.app configuration. We can have a pretty good result, similar to what we get with Gnome Terminal on Linux. Google will tell you easily how to do it… But if you need it, I can always try to find it again.

    See ya JB!

  2. On 9 May 9090, 10:14 by JBK

    Interesting review, but still too expensive ;)

  3. On 4 May 4040, 2:35 by laptop reviews

    thanks, you can check out the Apple macbook pro(2008 edition) review from here:
    http://laptopadvisor.blogspot.com/2…

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