Mac OS X reborn!

Did my first full clean up to my Macbook… Everything went smoothly, and I can only say, once again Apple has everything going in the right direction!

I am a big fan of GNU Linux, and other UX alike, and I recognize in the last couple of years, Linux as come a long long way, with every modern distro being able to recognize your hardware (at least most of them); I was positively surprised to install the latest Ubuntu on my girlfriend’s laptop, and just like in my Mac, I was able to connect right away to my WIFI connection with WPA TKIP security, with no hassle.

Now, in my humble opinion, I believe the industry is following Apple and their ideas. Things just work, stuff does not get in the way. You tend to feel, that everything, from instant messaging, to emailing, media organizing or just file browsing, have more productivity. Hell, even the hardware doen not get in the way! I might be wrong, but it’s a strong feeling.
I also believe Apple should follow the Open Source movement, because they have very good ideas, very good hardware, and they would win a lot more if they just shared with the rest of the world… I truly believe this, but I also know this is daydreaming (I am singing in my head, Lupe Fiasco’s “Daydreamin‘)

Getting back to the clean up! I did my backups to a external USB drive, rebooted with the Mac OS X inside the drive, and booted using the C key.
This took me inside a install “OS”, very similar to the real thing. Here, I had access to disk utility’s, log viewer. I did the full install, without answering to 100 questions! This felt very good, once again, does not get in the way. It’s simple, easy, and you don’t have to be a astronaut to get away without problems!

When everything was installed, it took me 5 minutes to put my login info, to configure my WIFI connection, and I was up and running!
When I bought this Macbook, I messed everything around, just to get to know the operating system. With time everything felt sluggish, and not snappy anymore, so now I have the full system back, and from now on, I will keep it this way, at least I’ll try! =)

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