I got myself a MacBook (got it three days ago), mainly to be able to work where ever I want next summer. As hardware I really like it. It has lots of nice small details like the MagSafe connector and battery charge indicator on the bottom of the battery. I also like it's size and all in all it's a good laptop. The only thing that didn't quite impress me was the fact that the iSight camera stopped working today. I had to remove the battery and reset something to get it working again. According to some googling I did, this doesn't seem to be a rare problem...

What about OS X then? Well, my first impression using it was quite nice. Power management and connecting to hardware wirelessly work like a charm and installing applications was easy. Otherwise I must say I didn't like it too much. I've been a Linux power user since 2002 and I'm used to having lots and lots of windows open. The fact that OS X makes a big separation between windows and applications was something I didn't like. Expose makes things a lot easier, but e.g. popping up a new terminal, when I already have some open is overly complicated to do via context-clicking.

Coding on OS X is something I haven't done much yet, but I'll say a few things about it anyway. Getting some *nix programs to compile on OS X can be hard.

Ardour was naturally the first one I tried. I started by installing Macports, which made installing some libraries easy. Still, since Ardour is not in Macports, I had to install every library separately, which took time... After a few hours of fiddling, I got the 2.0-branch to build, but I haven't had success with the 3.0-branch yet...

My next attempt was Crumbled Earth, which uses ClanLib. After a moment of trying I gave up. The main reason was lack of motivation, but again I would have had to do quite a lot of configuring and library installing to get ClanLib to compile. If somebody wants to play Crumbled Earth on OS X please tell me, and I'll give it a second shot. At the moment I just don't have the motivation.

As a conclusion I could say that if I had a large package repository for OS X, I would be very happy with it. I'll probably never have it on a desktop, but I might very well keep it on my MacBook. Some things will most likely start to feel more natural as I get more experience using OS X, but then again I'm quite sure some wont ;)