Enter the MAC

When apple moved to intel based hardware I was really excited. For years I abhorred apple and macs, commonly referring to them as macintrash, macincrap, or the ubiquitous doorstop. With the move to the intel platform I decided to give them another try. Last week I turned in my IBM T41 and picked up a 15" macbook pro with a 2.4GHz core 2 duo, 2GB Ram (upgraded to 4GB using geil dimms), 160GB hard drive. Big deal right? Well as an incident response/forensics d00d I now have the best of all three worlds in which I commonly live.

My first move was to install Vmware fusion. Installation was simple. I gave myself 30GB, entered a username and password and the serial number, and off went my vista installation. I next went ahead and installed Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn.



Note if you will, that the windows start button is in the lower left hand corner. That's pretty sweet if I do say so myself.

The other pieces of the system that are nice are the built in firewire 400 and 800 for attaching those pesky write blockers.

I'll be adding XP soon, but so far I'm very hopeful about the new platform for investigations. I just hope the hardware holds up. Anyone else doing this?