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I’ve been playing around with my colleagues’ macbooks, and even owned two iPhones (I’m now a happy Android user btw), but it’s still something with the way Apple has packaged their gadgets that makes you feel like you’ve received some state-of-the-art space equipment. Needless to say – unpacking the macbook gave me that same “oooh, new gadget” feeling I like so much.

First thing I did after booting it up (and filling in all the boring details about me, myself, my work, hobbies and what I ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner) was to install Snow Leopard (fancy-talk for MacOS 10.6). The installation was pretty straight forward, and completed in under 1 hour.

Next big thing was installing TextMate – pretty much the whole reason that I got this Macbook in the first place tbh. I’ve envied all the happy ruby hackers with their Textmates up until now, so I can’t wait to try it out for myself. My primary use for this little shiny toy is development, so I needed to get all my ruby versions, gems and everything installed right away. Luckily for me, Mike Gunderloy wrote a complete guide to getting up and running with ruby development on Snow Leopard. After following his guide (skipping the backup & restore stuff since this is my first mac) I was up and running with all ruby versions, and enough gems to do a “rake gems:install” on my current projects.

To sum it all up; my first 6 hours as a macbook owner has been great. I’m having some difficulties getting used to the new way of navigating (loving the multi-touch pad btw), and installing applications. I’ve done a “sudo apt-get ” countless times the last couple of hours. Also, my original plan of switching some keys from this US version to norwegian letters failed brutally since the whole top of the chassis is different on the US version – so I’m learning a whole new keyboard layout as I go – no way I’m paying 4500 NOK (currently 760 USD) to get my æøå back!