Stellar

This the best laptop that I have ever used or owned.

• 2010 Macbook Pro 13" running Lion + VirtualBox for Ubuntu
• 8 GB of RAM
• 750 GB Samsung 840EVO SSD

For upgrades see Other World Computing

See also GIS on the Macintosh

History

• 2014-06 Upgrade SSD from 120 to 750
• 2012-12 Reinstall Lion
• 2012-11 Ubuntu 12.10
• 2012-11 OCZ 120GB (replacement for 240, what I had available)
• 2012-* OCZ 240GB SSD
• 2012? Snow Leopard -> Lion
• 2011- 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200
• 2011? Replaced failed power supply
• 2010- 8GB RAM
• 2010 purchased at Mac store

Upgrade hard drive

Install new SSD in external container and copy everything. Swap new drive into computer.

Mac OS

When the OCZ 240GB drive crashed I install Ubuntu to get work done out of town. When I got back I needed to re-install but had originally installed Snow Leopard from DVD and Lion via online upgrade. To re-install Lion without digging out the Snow Leopard DVD I was able to download an image of Lion from Apple, use Linux to load it onto a thumb drive, and install onto the SSD from the thumb drive.

I RMA'ed the 240 drive and have it as a spare- 120 is currently plenty of space on the Mac.

• ActiveState Komodo for Javascript, Python development
• CalibreLibrary
• Chrome
• Dropbox (storage for Calibre books)
• Fitbit (requires Silverlight)
• GPSBabel
• OpenOffice
• Subversion

Time Machine

I use Time Machine to do backups to my home server, Bellman See the setup notes in Swift's page, did it the same way there.

Linux

After the OCX 240 drive crashed I temporarily installed Ubuntu on the Mac to get it running quickly. Most everything worked with a few minor tweaks for things like the tablet. I went back to running Mac OS/X Lion when I had some quiet time to figure out how to reinstall it.

UbuntuGIS 12.10 distribution

• Android developer setup including Eclipse
• GIMP
• Quantum GIS