Well, as you may have seen from my Flickr page, I welcomed a new bundle of joy into my home this past week: a shiny new MacBook Pro (15″ 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 120GB [5400RPM] HD.) So then I had to pull some things over from the G5 and start setting it up. I put the G5 in Firewire mode, and started importing music first. Wow, was that ever cathartic! It was almost like cleaning out your closet from the house you grew up in… I started dumping music that I hadn’t listened to in years, and laughing at some of the junk I used to think was awesome. A lot of it went back to the Napster heyday.

Instead of dragging all my software over, I just downloaded (or reinstalled) the stuff that I needed. I didn’t want to bog the laptop down with apps that I would never use. It went in this order:
World of Warcraft
Quicksilver
Firefox
Adium 1.0
Growl
AppZapper
Twitterific
smcFanControl (Ryan told me about this… good for keeping the laptop cool when playing WoW)

What apps would you go and download immediately? What can’t you live without? I need some more suggestions!

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Pretty nicely!

Thanks, Andrew!

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Man, I wish I was back in SF right now! MacWorld, obviously, is one of my favorite holidays (I actually greet people on these days with “Happy MacWorld Day!”). I wasn’t let down, even though I was hundreds of miles away in Vegas at CES.
Crave liveblogging
Ryan liveblogging for Engadget
I’m pretty awestruck by the iPhone (yes! iPhone! Awesome!)… I’d love having Widgets right on my phone. Bummed that it’s Cingular, but that was to be expected. Hopefully I can try one out sometime soon! The Apple TV is also pretty groovy looking, except for the 720p, which is a little disappointing. The 40GB hard drive is a nice addition that we were all hoping for. You can be sure one of these will be in my house as soon as possible. A little delayed Christmas present to myself, perhaps.

Anyhow, CES is still going well. Last night we had a company party at the Playboy Villa at the Palms, and it was insane. I have never seen a hotel suite that awesome. There was a bed that rotated, a whirlpool tub that was so deep that you could drown in, and a pool outside with the Playboy bunny symbol that leaned out over the edge of the building and over the lights of Vegas. Unfortunately, I was so worried about being overtired that I left at 10:30. I know, I’m a giant lameo.

I also did some soundbites for G4 earlier today, so look for those in their preview of the Best of CES awards that we host.

I have pictures of a lot of stuff, but that media card reader is escaping me again. I’ll update with photo links later.
UPDATE: Here they are!

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