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Something happened somewhere, and my Mac mini became unbearably slow (I could see video updates tearing across the screen during a drag, which is completely unacceptable). I strongly suspect it was the patch to 10.4.2. The mini isn't exactly a powerhouse anyway, so I decided to revert back to its original 10.3 state.
The last time I paved my Mac, I'd made it dual boot Ubuntu. This was mostly a failure, because of lacking WiFi and good sound drivers (and BlueTooth support was spotty; can't live without my MS Bluetooth Mouse). For the repave, I moved back to a single partition for OS X. An hour of install and a quarter gig of downloaded patches later, and I was ready to go.
Ahhhhhh... so much better.
The only downside so far: monitor rotation was introduced in OS X 10.4, so I'm back to my landscape orientation... which I find a lot less appealing since my portrait addiction began about a month ago.
I've been using the Mac for all my Rails development. It's been a very happy experience, owing to:
Stellar PDF rendering by the OS as I read through the Rails book
Consolas looking fantastic on OS X
Unixy things (things like "tail -f" on log files, back-grounding the server process, etc.)
The "can't figure out why yet" addiction to the Mac keyboard (need the Bluetooth model!)
iTunes (can't code without music!)
TextMate has some killer snippet capabilities. It comes pre-populated with stuff for a ton of languages, including stuff for Ruby, Rails, HTML, and CSS. I've been tweaking things as I go. I hope that the snippet support in VS 2005 eventually gets to be as good as what's in TextMate: easy to read, write, and use.
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