macbook.png I did it. I switched. Developing on Mac OS X was hard at first. A lot of my familiar tools were an easy install and weren’t that different. I did however miss a lot of the faster navigation and general snappiness of Windows XP.

Two things that helped ease the pain the most were:

  1. Quicksilver (almost worth the switch by itself)
  2. OS X’s keyboard shortcuts. See: this list and Apple’s keyboard shortcuts article.

I don’t think I would have made it without these, especially with the lure of just continuing to run Windows XP via Bootcamp.