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I am definitely a happy camper with my 13″ Macbook.

The story: I was round at the in-laws’ place for dinner on Thursday evening, and amongst getting an awesome hat from Howie, and having many, many laughs, Howie and I chatted about Macbook Pros and how exciting it was that I was close to getting one. When I told him that I was just going to go with the 2.4Ghz one, he pointed out that the 13″ Macbook is exactly the same spec, and design (cos the unibody is very, very nice), except 2″ smaller and cheaper.

Turned out to be basically $600 cheaper. Sweet deal. I had a look at one in JB Hifi near work on Friday morning; had a muck around with it for a good 15 mins trying to decide if I could move from 15″ to 13″. I headed back to the office and actually did that work thing that I’m supposed to be doing there, and thought about it. In the end, I decided to go with it. And JB Hifi man was good to me and I walked away with a 3 year warranty, leather case, and the Macbook for $2600. Quite pleased with myself!

The migration was easy – as you’d expect. But I was cranky that I seemingly had no other way to migrate things except via network. So after setting it up to migrate about 60GB of stuff from my Powerbook at about 6pm Friday evening, I let it be. The next morning at about 11:30am, it finally finished. Frustrating, but I was excited that all my info was across and in the right place with barely any effort on my part. I didn’t migrate any apps – going to a newer OS just made me scared of permissions issues, etc.

I had to move a few things around – my 15″ desktop and dock settings were still there, so stuff was stretching off the screen, but I’ve found myself very comfortable with the smaller screen now.

As I twittered, there was only a couple of issues – a Mail.app [seemingly] permissions issue, and a timezone issue, again fixed by some permissions fixing. But other than that, the migration has been flawless and easy :) Wouldn’t have expected anything else.

Oh, and I love Spaces. And just OS 10.5 in general. It’s awesome.

And my Powerbook… well this afternoon it got a fresh install of OS 10.4, got a clean, and is heading off to Canada land with Sam to keep him company. I’m sure it will do him well now that it has had a fresh install. Hope the battery holds on for him too.

Boot Camp has helped me set up a Windows partition, and on Tuesday I will hopefully get the image for work onto this, and register it with the Active Directory Server at work and then I’ll have the fastest computer in the office :)

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