I believe today I have owned my macbook pro 15″ for six months. Am I still just as unsatisfied as I was three months ago? Yes, I am.

My setup is the mentioned laptop, the magical keyboard and mouse/trackpad and three dell monitors.

Quite often I am experiencing that one of the monitors do not turn on. It says (and so does the mac) it sort of get some signals, but the signals aren’t strong enough or they are not of the type the monitor would like to be turned on…

Some of my solutions has been to take the cable in and out twist it a bit just to see if there is something wrong with the cable. I have also bought a new cable just in case.

Yesterday the solution was to change to another adapter. Now the screens are working for the time being.

Network is another issue. Since I am dualbooting I started in Windows yesterday, then moved over to the mac-side. Everything worked nicely on the window side – well except for the mentioned issue with the monitor. Network was present and all was good.

Then I turned on the mac side of things and suddenly I had no network. Solution in the end was to change from the LMP-adapter (with hdmi, sub and network) to a Satechi with the same inputs. Currently it works.

This is how ever really annoying. I don’t want to spend time fixing things that should work out of the box and that are unstable.

Another returning annoying thing is the keyboard-setting when logging in. Because I have a character in my password that is not positioned in the same place on non-Scandinavian keyboards, I have to set my keyboard to Norwegian every time I turn on the mac. This is seriously irritating.

Most of the annoyances I experience with the Mac are minor and really isn’t that big of a deal. Except that you have paid some really good amount of money for the hardware + software, and so you expect the quality and usability to be a bit better than on an older laptop running Linux.

To me Linux is in many ways better than the Mac OS. If Linux is Pro unix, then Mac OS is Basic (at best) unix.

I would like to see some of the bigger players on the Linux side to create just as good looking hardware as the Mac computers, and then let these big players also challenge Microsoft and Adobe to deliver what the pro users want and are willing to pay for.