My 13" Macbook is old. Well not that old. Just somewhat over 3 years old. I bought it in the spring of 2006. it's now 2010 Spring.
I had been looking at the recent MacBook and MacBook pro offerings. What I want ideally is portable power.
A 15" almost fit the bill. It had the 7200rpm harddisk, higher CPU core. A bigger screen sounds good too. Though the pricepoint seems high, but I you average out over 24 months or more, it seems rather affordable.
But then again, think about it. 15" means that it is bigger. The added weight and bulkiness. Bigger screen is a plus, but if I had to buy a bigger laptop bag? Carry more around?
After furthur debate, I realized that I probably might not need the added power too. My initial thought had been to run windows vmware in unity mode. But I looked at when I last ran windows, and why. It was to run visual c# for a one time project for a month, as well as to test some website rendering in Internet Explorer browser.
To be fair, I'm a fairly power user. This MacBook is both my personal and work laptop. At its peak it probably have an IDE (netbeans), database (MySQL, i could not figure out how to run oracle on it) and an application server (glassfish). I might even run eclipse if I needed the integrated JAD decompiler.
Now, where do I use my MacBook? Well, everywhere! When I'm at home, when I'm in the office, at the client's site, overseas assignment, and even vacation!
it's clear that I need portability, with acceptable performance. Not performance, with acceptable portability. I don't need a 15" MacBook Pro.
Guess I'll see if I can put it off until a usb3 MacBook comes out in time :)
PS. A MacBook Air is definitely appealing, but the price, and what I heard about the performance, is definitely a deterrant.
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