Peter's Japan blog

It's been about one month that since I bought my new laptop: a 15" Apple MacBook Pro. And so far, I'm loving it.

Just before I went on my 3-week week to America, the screen of my old laptop started to act weird. The screen went black after a minute, and turning it off and on by going into standby and on again, helped to get the screen back on. But during the trip, it started to get worse and worse, it took longer and longer to keep the screen on for a long time. After the trip it become the worst, screen went black after a fraction of a second, while turning it on and off 20 times. So I hooked it up to an external monitor, but then it's not really a portable computer anymore, is it.

So it was time for a new laptop, I was going to buy a new one at the end of the year, but it become sooner than expected. Got the cheapest model, as I wasn't prepared for, but I didn't really need a 17" screen, and the difference of the two 15" models was not that important to me.
Almost got 90% of my software that I used on Windows for Mac now, and I still haven't installed Windows yet ;p. But I guess I'll have to it some time, as the development software we use at work is only available for Windows. Got Mono for C# programming, so that's covered. Eclipse for php programming.
There are just 2 programs I really miss: Total Commander and a decent music player like foobar2000.
I'm an avid (and fast) user of Total Commander, and I can't find a good alternative. (I'm that crazy that I'm writing my own alternative in Mono C# ^^ But it's a slow process...)
Same goes for a decent song player with multiple playlists. The only one that comes close is Cog, which only have 1 playlist but gives me about the same feel as foobar2000.