I officially kicked Microsoft out of my home office this week, using Windows XP for the last time to copy over our previous tax files. Now I have no need for XP and have fired up the MacMini running OS X 10.4 as my main machine. I do still have Winodws on a computer here but its my company laptop and I don’t have much choice there. My home laptop is running Ubuntu Edgy Eft at the moment and will soon be ugpraded to Feisty Fawn.

I am liking what I’ve seen so far of OS X. I spent some time today setting up automounts in NetInfo Manager. I was happy to see NetInfo Manager is an LDAP front-end, which as you know appeals to the LDAP geek in me. Now the Mac is smart enough to mount remote partitions only when I need them, without me doing anything but accessing their directories. Easy.

The second part of the equation was the sweet 22″ widescreen flat-panel LCD I picked up from Staples last week. It is capable of 1600×1050 resolution and looks absolutely beautiful at that size. It provides analog and DVI with HDCP inputs so I can use it with all my machines, old and new. My old CRT monitor wasn’t up for the larger resolutions and hurt my eyes with the ones it could show.

I’m greatly looking forward to learning more of the ins and outs of OS X: one that combines the ease of use of the Mac with the power of UNIX. Yeah, boy.