Back home, and a new machine

Well we're home.

Maui was great! We're not really sure if we'll go back any time soon. It was fun, but not something we'd make a yearly habit out of.

We ended our stay, doing quite a bit. We hit up Haleakala crater. The intention was to do a little hiking but we got a litle nervous about the time. We didn't want to take any chances with bein late to the airport. We did hike a little ways in just to take some pictures. After that we headed over to the Tedeschi winery. The winery itself, not that impressive. They only offered four tastings, and were a popular top of the cruise ship crowd. HOWEVER, they make a totally kick ass Rasberry wine. We ordered two bottles, they'll be here next week. Last up on our whirlwind tour of the island, we hit up the Iao needle. It didn't look much like a needle and the park it was in was rather small and over run with feral kitties. Most of which actually had scowls on their cute little kitty faces, weird!

Now on to the new machine.... Before we left I ordered a new Mac Book Pro. Sweet! I know! I actually ordered it before leaving thinking it would take Apple a while to ship it. Heck, my refurbed (ie, already sitting in Cupertino) took two weeks to get to my house. Well the MBP made it in 3 days. I ordered it Friday night before we hit the sack, it was signed for by the maids on Wednesday morning. It came from Shanghai!!!! Wat to go Apple!!

As soon as we got home Saturday I set about getting it set up. At this point almost all of my Mac apps and settings are transfered. I went the old school way, fresh installs of all apps, vs the Migration tool path. Mostly because I didn't have a firewire cable.

I'm getting ready to get get started on setting p the PC, in the mac. Ordering a key for Parallels now, then off I go.

My impromptu review is as follows.
Hardware.

I went with a slightly modded configuration. I upped the Ram to 1gb, single stick. I'll get the second from NewEgg. I upped the HDD to the 100gb drive. i went 5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM since I don't do much high end stuff. I don't need a fast HDD to write code, write words, or download podcasts.

The heat issue... wel it's there for sure. This bad boy gets hot. Not unbearably so, but not comfy either.

The layout is ok. I know Apple doesn't put ports on the back, but two USB, one on each side, kinda weak. Not only because two is not enough with today's USB powered sushi, personal fans, and coffee warmers, but because one on each side makes you ahve to pick and choose what to plug in, and where. Ah well.

Software..
Well it's Apple OS X. Nothing new to me.