| Oct062009 | Switching back? |
I’ve been floating the idea of buying a new laptop. An expensive new laptop. Like two Gs expensive.
The reason being that I’m feeling very lonely over here in Mac land. My work is completely Windows-based as are all the cool games and some of the technologies I’d like to learn. So I embarked on the internet looking for laptops that are equivalent to the latest MacBook Pros.
The MBPs are about 4 months old but they are priced as if the technology inside were brand new. That is to say, the prices are extraordinarily high when compared to laptops of similar caliber. But rest assured that you aren’t being entirely ripped off. The MBPs also a far better design, size, weight, and materials and they are of course the only high-end laptops that can legally run Mac OS X.
I saw a lot of cool laptops that I’d like from Dell and Sager. But I think Apple have completely won me over with their hardware design because no matter where I look, it was always a compromise on the design of the MacBook Pro. I’m not saying it’s empirically better than the rest but it’s familiar and feature-packed without being obnoxious.
Thinking on this, I realized that all I really wanted to do was run Windows for a while. So I’ve decided to take my existing MacBook Pro, backup everything that I need and then wipe the whole thing and run Windows via Boot Camp. Whether or not this is successful mostly depends on the quality of the Boot Camp drivers as things like battery life, trackpad and the function buttons are all governed by the Apple-provided drivers.
It’s going to be pesky to backup things seeing as a bunch of them are Mac-only
- Photos from iPhoto
- iPhone snapshots
- Music
- Videos I’ve downloaded
- Videos I’ve recorded in iMovie
- Address book
- License keys (TextMate, VMWare Fusion, Microsoft Office)
- Documents
- Website files
The photos will probably take the most time but it’s something that’s long overdue. I have been backing up with Time Machine but I’d like to throw some stuff on DVD anyway.
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