The main thing I can suggest to anybody wanting to do the same is to buy an SSD, no matter what other choices you make with your Mac. The speed difference is ju

The main thing I can suggest to anybody wanting to do the same is to buy an SSD, no matter what other choices you make with your Mac. The speed difference is just unbelieveable; you'll never want to go back to anything with a spinning disk. Installing Homebrew [0] wouldn't go astray either, it's a package manager for OSX that's similar to aptitude on Linux. [0]: http://brew.sh/ http://brew.sh/