With the macbook out of commission I needed a new mac to work on.  While I love my linux machines, none of them can run photoshop, flash or dreamweaver.  I suppose I could buy windows versions of each and try running them through WINE, but I’d rather just work on a mac.  The only other mac I have is a legacy G4, 800mhz I think.  So I put in an order for a mac mini.  The cheapest mac mini has more than enough power to run Adobe CS3, and the nicer desktops start at $2700. 

I’m keeping track of all the steps I’m taking to set the machine up.  I haven’t paid attention to how much time I spend setting up a machine so it will be interesting to see how much time I really spend (waste?).

Round 1

First order of business is to get all of the main applications I use installed.

Adobe CS3 Web (photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, illustrator, fireworks, acrobat)

Lightroom

TextWrangler

Burn

Firefox

VLC

ffmpeg

Chicken of the VNC

Systematic Disorder is back from an early summer sabbatical.  What started as a work related hiatus turned into a real vacation when my MacBook decided to die for the second time in 6 months.  Mechanical failure somewhere inside the piece of shit hard drives apple uses and all my data gone.  When this happened 6 months ago I swore I was going to have an iron clad backup system . . .

We’ll see how much drivesavers wants to fix it all.