It has been over a year now since I have migrated back to Mac with a Macbook Pro. I am still in love with it, I do have to admit. I only had one minor issue in an odd hard drive sound. Took it to the genius bar and they ended up plugging in a new hard drive with only a days worth of down time and no loss of data or apps. Got to love that!
In that, this is some of what I suggest through a years worth of trial and error. List is not in any particular order.
- Drive Genius 2. Get it, love it, will keep you running smooth.
- MS Office 2008 works great. Cheaper too!
- Adobe Creative Suite CS 3 works fine, not too many bugs.
- Check out Coda for the web programmers that prefer coding to WYSIWYG editing. (Thanks ChimChim237 for the recommend.)
- TextMate is cool.
- Time Capsule. Great for storage and WiFi too.
- Candy Bar is a fun tool.
- Art Directors Tool Kit is a great tool. Very helpful.
- 1 Password is an essential web tool.
- Safari good, FireFox best.
- TweetDeck or Twhirl, you decide. I am currently using Twhirl to tweet.
- Flip4Mac is needed.
- LOVE the Dashboard feature in Leopard.
- MacCleanse is very cool.
- Sirius Mac 2 is wonderful for listening to my Sirius Radio on the MBP. (It was a recomendation on the Apple site.)
- PocketSync Manager for syncing my Blackberry Curve.
- Mac Disk Utility. Know it, use it.
- eFax. Best bet for faxing.
- Visual Thesaurus. Great for getting through those content development projects.
- Got cheap 20" Cinena Display on ebay that works well as second screen. Keep Entourage, MSN and Twhirl over there and use the main screen for dev and design. Have to buy converter from apple store, but is still cheaper way than buying new screen of same size.
This is just a list I could think of off hand. No going back, as PC/Win is just too much of a mess and way too heavy of an operating system IMHO.
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