[Ruby] Mac for a Linux guy (off-topic)

[Alex Vollmer]

I love my penguins, but when it comes to laptops I can't help but envy all
the Mac PowerBook users out there. Nobody seems to provide a better latop
experience than Apple. So I'm finally giving in and joining The Apple
Collective. The question is, how?

Given the disproportionate amount of dudes that showed up with Macs to the
last hacking night at Vivace, this seems like as good a place as any to get
some opinions on what Mac to purchase for a developer. Sorry if this is too
off-topic for this list. Please send your flames to /dev/null. ;-)

I'm looking at the 15" MacBook Pro with 2.16 GHz processor. I'm planning on
getting the stock 1GB memory and adding another 2GB later (I think I can do
that, right?) I'm curious what folks think about the necessity of Apple Care
and if the plain' ol vanilla Mac Books are good enough for a  "serious" dev
box. Plus, if you can think of any "must-have" apps for a developer, I'd
love to know what they are.

TIA,

Alex V.

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