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Just got the new Book Book from TwelveSouth in the post today, its awesome (if a little pricey with P&P from the USA). TwelveSouth also make some excellent mac gear.

Last week I finally gave in and placed an order for a new 2Ghz MacBook Pro. Being a PC user all my life, this will be my first switch to working on a Mac environment. I chose the MacBook Pro for 3 main reasons;

• to test websites and work in a mac environment
• for portability (I currently don’t own a laptop)
• performance-wise it seems like it will have enough longevity to last me at least 3 years

Gearing up for this monumentous event, Ive been collecting bookmarks of Mac tips and tools I hope will be useful;

• Mac Icons, Screensavers
• Tada Lists Widget
• Bye Bye Dashboard
• GL Terminal
• TextPander
• Screenography, Record your screen
• Screenshots to the clipboard
• Spirit-Level Dashboard Widget
• Parallels Workstation
• SSH on Mac OS X for Worry-Free Wireless
• Spam Sieve
• Slim Server
• Pyro for Campfire
• Cocktail
• 10 essential Mac Apps
• Ruby on Rails Mac Development
• Xyle-Scope CSS Tool
• Multi-Alarm
• KisMac
• Cocoa Mysql

And for people switching from Windows to a Mac, or for those trying Bootcamp (Windows on an Intel Mac)

• Tips for BootCampers
• BootCamp Tutorial
• 2 Button Apple Mouse in WinXP
• Overclock GPU with ATI Tools
• Virtue Desktops
• Growl Notify
• Growl Tunes
• Trick your TextMate Snippets

Having never owned a laptop (or a Mac), I am looking forward to getting a MacBook Pro sometime in February. Glad I waited, almost bought a Powerbook a few months ago.