As part of my commitment to Ruby on Rails development, I’ve made the leap to a MBP. I feel like I’m pretty far behind the leading edge on this move, but at least I’m playing catchup now.

Even though I’m moving to the world of OS X Leopard, I have too much software and customization on my windows box to start over, so I’m extremely pleased at the performance of VMware Fusion. The virtualization technologies keep getting better and better, but Fusion is truly amazing for the simple reason that it works. Even more spectacular was my experience when I ran the VMware converter. This awesome utility made a VMware virtual disk based on the live instance of my windows laptop which I copied to an external hard drive. I then plugged the drive into my MBP, and voila, I could load my old PC in VMware Fusion and everything worked right away. I did encounter some networking trouble, but removing and readding the network virtual adapters solved those issues. Now I have two laptops in one. Very exciting stuff!