http://billmill.org/ Bill Mill blogs irregularly 2007-05-13T13:12:00Z Bill Mill bill.mill@gmail.com http://billmill.org/ http://billmill.org/macbook.html 2007-05-13T13:12:00Z

Summed up very succinctly:<br> <textarea rows=2 cols=65>09:38 AM ~/code/personal_code/python$ uptime 9:50 up 49 days, 22 hrs, 2 users, load averages: 2.28 2.33 2.28</textarea><p> This means that my Macbook Pro, which I received on December 26, 2006, has been up and running, without a reboot, for 36% of its active life.<p> This is despite the fact that it's been my alarm clock every morning during that span, so it's gone to sleep and woken up at least once every single day, and usually more than once. Furthermore, it's been used for development in C, Python, erlang, C#, IronPython, Pypy, and probably a few others. I've installed many programs during this time, viewed many PDFs, probably opened 10,000 tabs in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Camino, and run quite a few Windows sessions with Visual Studio in Parallels.<p> This laptop stability is a wholly new experience for me; Windows and Linux both have required fairly frequent reboots on the laptops I've had, and I've had several between 2000 and now. It's awesome to be able to trust the sleep and hibernate modes of the computer; certainly it's foreign to this Linux convert.<p> Now, that doesn't mean I've turned into a raving Mac fanboy. I think much of their software sucks, the dock still annoys me, and their computer is nigh on unusable without <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/">Quicksilver</a>. However, their laptop hardware and its integration into the OS has been all that I hoped for and more.<p> UPDATE: A few hours after posting this entry, a security update forced a reboot :)

Summed up very succinctly:<br> <textarea rows=2 cols=65>09:38 AM ~/code/personal_code/python$ uptime 9:50 up 49 days, 22 hrs, 2 users, load averages: 2.28 2.33 2.28</textarea><p> This means that my Macbook Pro, which I received on December 26, 2006, has been up and running, without a reboot, for 36% of its active life.<p> This is despite the fact that it's been my alarm clock every morning during that span, so it's gone to sleep and woken up at least once every single day, and usually more than once. Furthermore, it's been used for development in C, Python, erlang, C#, IronPython, Pypy, and probably a few others. I've installed many programs during this time, viewed many PDFs, probably opened 10,000 tabs in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Camino, and run quite a few Windows sessions with Visual Studio in Parallels.<p> This laptop stability is a wholly new experience for me; Windows and Linux both have required fairly frequent reboots on the laptops I've had, and I've had several between 2000 and now. It's awesome to be able to trust the sleep and hibernate modes of the computer; certainly it's foreign to this Linux convert.<p> Now, that doesn't mean I've turned into a raving Mac fanboy. I think much of their software sucks, the dock still annoys me, and their computer is nigh on unusable without <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/">Quicksilver</a>. However, their laptop hardware and its integration into the OS has been all that I hoped for and more.<p> UPDATE: A few hours after posting this entry, a security update forced a reboot :)