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MacBook Pro

July 4, 2008 on 2:07 pm | In Computers | No Comments

It’s upgrade time. After 2.5 years, my trusty Powerbook G4 running Tiger (10.4) can no longer keep up, because I need something, anything that can run Windows so I can test on IE6 and IE7, and that requires an Intel chip. Hence the MacBook Pro.

First I tried Tiger with Parallels, but it refused to work correctly, and X11 drew all cursors yellow — which is really hard to see on a white background!

Then I tried Leopard with VMWare. Much better

But why did Apple have to chop 60 pixels off the height of the screen? The Powerbook G4 had 1440×960, but the MacBook Pro only has 1440×900

And X11 on Leopard has regressed. It doesn’t work correctly with Exposé. When I try to select a window, it doesn’t switch focus to that window, so the click goes to the original window and pulls it back to the top of the stack. Thank goodness all my X11 programs have a Windows menu. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to select a window from a stack. Argh!

Update (2008-10-07): The X11 issue has been fixed.