Damn these apples. Macbook 1,1 with its "lid flaw" had some pretty potent hardware for its size. Tiger wasn't really anything special, Ubuntu 8.10 seemed like a logical choice at the time. Pity about those freezes and standby issues. Mind you, standby wasn't really an issue since the battery broke after about 3 years and it was mostly used with the power supply. But those freezes I could never figure out. Eventually with the upgrade to Karmic Koala and Canonical idea of ditching Madwifi in favour of ath5k I managed to pinpoint the problem. Then ath5k introduced another bug. Every time that silly Network Manager was scanning for new networks, it would somehow temporarily suspend the current Wi-Fi connection. Bummer! On one hand we have a surprise lockup with Madwifi, on the other annoying 10sec. pauses in connectivity every 2min. Which is worse? I suppose using a cable wouldn't be such a bad idea, but what about public areas like airports, hotels, etc.?
I guess Snow Leopard for MacBook 5,1 looked like a good candidate, especially since someone reported fan control problems under Karmic Koala as well as some battery longevity issues. Hmmm... Leopard it is then.
Firstly, Sun's VirtualBox is compiled for MacOSX. Yay! I can run a bear on top of a cat... Secondly, most of the tools I need for my work seem to have a MacOSX equivalent. And who can resist the Time Machine? So off we go...
Netbeans, Eclipse with MTJ, Opera, Firefox, Skype, VirtualBox (my favourite), Neooffice/Openoffice, Google Earth, Picasa, Gimp (with a little help of X11), Handbrake, Thunderbird, Sun J2me SDK.
Ok, these are the main ones. Openoffice seem to have gone native so there's not much need for Neooffice anymore? Neooffice is based on the Openoffice anyways. Eclipse works well, but MTJ doesn't play nice with Sun J2me SDK 3.0. So switch to Netbeans where mobile development seems more solid. Install MacPorts so can get some open source on Darwin. Thought needed VPNC, but Snow Leopard seems to have Cisco IPSEC built into its network management. Even PPTP is there. Nice. All my VPN connections work. Even SonyEricsson phones connect well. Sort of... Only managed 3G over buetooth. USB says connection failed. Bummer...
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