The Mac Pro is about six inches taller than my old G4. It looks sort of forlorn. It also means I can't push in my chair.
It's neat to open Activity Monitor and see the CPU tab have four little graphs next to it.
It's a lot neater to have like a dozen heavy things running and have none of those graphs get above 20%.
Edit: It seems that the list of things I can't live without on a Mac is:
And Eclipse isn't in that list, because I will likely never hack Java for fun again.
It's neat to open Activity Monitor and see the CPU tab have four little graphs next to it.
It's a lot neater to have like a dozen heavy things running and have none of those graphs get above 20%.
Edit: It seems that the list of things I can't live without on a Mac is:
- XJournal, which is not happy that it's running on Intel
- Textmate (but not Emacs, since the Touchstream made the keyboard shortcuts unusable)
- DrScheme
- X11, which can't be gotten from Apple's site any more, but comes on the install CD, but not actually installed, thanks Steve!
- Four gigs of Developer Tools, three of which can't be downloaded from their site but came on the CD, the last of which didn't come on the CD but can be gotten from their site and isn't named "Developer Tools", thanks Steve!
- Apple Remote Desktop, even though I have three monitors and two computers
- Rita, the greatest sketching program ever
- Adium for ICQ, except it won't import Fire's logs (53 megs of logs!), so Fire instead, even though it's not under development
- My bookmarks
- Inkscape, once I got X11 working
- Depth Charge Widget, which counts because I got it from my site, instead of from the other machine.
And Eclipse isn't in that list, because I will likely never hack Java for fun again.