In an attempt to expand my horizons, I've chosen OSX machines for both my desktop and laptop dev machines. I've noticed some interesting things since going down this path, but I'll keep them to myself for a few weeks until I've really had an experience doing real dev work on it.

On the positive side, wireless configuration is quite nice (far better than the standard XP/Vista nonsense), but maybe that's just the local networks.

Known ucks: keyboard key repeat frequency is far too low to be useful, and the behavior of home/end on the keyboard (keys that I use quite often as a developer) are useless. I'll probably try to pick up some key remapper software somewhere, anyone have any ideas? I also miss my IBM's trackpoint (I hate trackpads) and the scrolling by using two fingers on the trackpad in OSX is trash. I'm not saying that I could do any better, just that it's crap (slow if it works, commonly jumps around...).

Otherwise the Macbook Pro is pretty sweet. A claimed 4+ hour battery life when I'm doing normal stuff online, a gorgeous screen (though not quite as high of a range in viewing angle as the Toshiba that I just sent off to my older brother), and quite fast in most everything I've wanted to do.


Anyone know of any good GUI archive software for Macs? Anything that can handle .zip should be sufficient (I do know about the command-line 'zip' command, but it would be nice to not have to rely on command-line help all the time). Thanks.