In the great debate between Apple hardware and Hackintosh’d systems, I would have to say yes.  I have been going round and round trying to get OSX 10.5.6 loaded on my Dell XPS M1330 lately and it is just not fun.  I got OSX 10.5.5 installed and working with my wireless network, but I could not properly shutdown, sleep, or reboot the machine.  I also didn’t seem to have sound.

Finally after trying to get it running again to start playing around with a new SDK for an upcoming mobile platform, I gave up.

So…

today, I picked up one of the new aluminum Macbooks.  I have had a couple of Mac systems in the past, but they never seemed to have the performance to keep up with everything I was doing, including gaming.  I have not tried gaming yet, but I do have to say the new Macbooks are a joy to use.  The multi-touch trackpad is simply awesome and I think we will see PC makers try to rip it off soon.  It is so nice to be able to change applications and more without taking your hand off of the trackpad.  This is the first laptop that I will probably use without an external mouse unless I am gaming.

For development, I think it is safer to go with the original instead of the fake.  I can now load up VMWare Fusion or just dual-boot into Windows using Bootcamp if I need any of my Windows tools.  It comes at a higher price, but it is nice to be able to have a dependable OSX system that can still run Windows and Linux programs like a champ.

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