I too, am a switcher. Like many of the other open source java programmers before me (Andy, James, JDD (he probably knew it before anyone , jon, heck, even James Gosling uses one.

I bought my 17 inch powerbook 3 weeks ago now, and I suppressed actually blogging about it until I had used it, so that I could actually say something educated about it, rather than ‘its sweet’, or ‘it rocks’

Having been using it for 3 weeks now, I have very few complaints. The biggest complaint is the speed, but even the fastest Windoze machines piss me off, so maybe I just can’t be impressed on that front.

The best thing about it: Unix baby! A very close second is the 17″ LCD screen, which just looks beautiful.

Overall, I am very pleased with it, although the few minor things I would like to see would be more battery life (I don’t mind the weight).

The best underpublicized feature of the Mac laptop line: The ability to add an external monitor as an EXTRA display. Yes, extra. Nothing new to Mac users here, but this could have helped convince me to switch back when Powerbooks looked just as bad as Dells

I am using (in order of use): iTunes (the music store rocks), Camino, Terminal, Mail, IntelliJ IDEA, Emacs, Virtual PC 6, fink and subversion.

The fact that you can just start up X11 apps is killer for those stuck with them.

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