Setting up the mac mini: Day 1

May 28th, 2008

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

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