ryan kennedy’s blog

I snapped a pic of my MacBook Pro setup at home. I must say, I love having so much desktop real estate. I worked from home on Thursday and Friday using this setup. Browser and iTunes running on the top screen, terminal sessions and IM client running on the bottom screen. I was able to get the screens set up so the MacBook understands that the big monitor is on top and the little one is on bottom, so dragging applications from one to the next works as it should (drag off the top of the laptop screen to see it appear on the Dell LCD). It’s actually a pretty comfortable setup.

I’m using my ergonomic Microsoft keyboard and a 2 button mouse. The mouse has been good, although I’ve noticed it seems jittery on the Mac. Like fine-grained movements just aren’t smooth at all. I never noticed that problem with it hooked up to my PC. The keyboard has taken a little getting used to, mostly because I have to remember what the Ctrl/Windows/Alt key map to in the Mac-verse. There’s also some issues with page up/down and the home/end keys. But overall it’s not been terrible.

I think I’m going to try to switch to an identical setup at work. Unfortunately, since it’s not a company computer, I won’t be able to connect directly to the ethernet. I’ll have to use the company wireless and SSH tunnels, but that’s already what I’m doing from home (although it often seems like my wireless net at home is much better than our wireless net on the Sunnyvale campus).

Anyway, I’m still looking for application recommendations and any other tips/tricks with the Mac that people have found useful, especially developers. I’m hoping at the end of this week, after a full week of working on the Mac, to post a detailed review of it. There’s been good and bad with the good definitely outweighing the bad so far.

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