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

Mac OS

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

Timemachine backup to my home server

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