The Mint
I’ve had my eye on a MacBook Air for quite a while now. I wanted to wait a few years to let them work out the kinks and get the specs up to par. Well my wait is over. I have parted with my MacBook Pro (mid 2010) for a new MacBook Air. I have to admit that I was worried about the loss of power and wondered if I would regret it. The truth is I haven’t given any thought to the performance of the machine. Mostly because it just works and I don’t notice any loss of performance in my day-to-day.
My first “smart” phone was a BlackJack II. It ran Windows Mobile 5. It was pretty awesome at the time. I could write software in Visual Studio and deploy to the BlackJack. I thought it was pretty advanced until I first saw the iPhone. Now that was a game changer.
I quickly turned in my BlackJack to eBay and purchased the original iPhone. I’ve had an iPhone ever since. I am very happy with my iPhone but I do miss the ability to deploy my own software onto the device. Obviously that can be done with iPhone using a Mac but I’m a Windows programmer and I’m not sure I have the time to learn another platform. Fortunately Microsoft has an answer to my problem in Windows Phone 7.
I’m a Windows guy. I’ve never used Linux. I’ve never used OS X. The only operating system I have ever used besides Windows was MS-DOS. So when I say I’m a Windows guy I mean it. I’ve been heavily invested in the world of Microsoft for basically my whole life. I never really considered this to be a bad thing; maybe I still don’t.
Today I picked up a new laptop from Best Buy. I spent over an hour roaming around looking at all the difference choices. I even considered an Apple but was greatly discouraged by the price. In the end I settled on a new Sony Vaio.
