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
• 120GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD

For upgrades see Other World Computing

See also GIS on the Macintosh

History

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? Replace failed power supply 2010- 8GB RAM

• 2010 purchased at Mac store

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

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