Setting up the Air

  My solar kit won't fully arrive for another week, so for now I'm setting it up with the development tools I plan to use.

 Blender: I've taught myself how to use Blender on my Windows machine already, at least to a moderate level.  Now I have to learn to use it on the Mac, only it lacks the 3 button mouse Blender is designed to work with.

 Unity3D: Yep I'm not going to waste time writing yet another engine.  Unity also lets me easily port any game I make to multiple platforms.  Big win that.

 GIMP: OK I've never used this before.  Always had a copy of Photoshop on my windows box, but I don't have PS for Mac. Yet.  So I'm going to give this free alternative a try and see if it will suffice.

 I do plan to install Windows on this machine, but I don't have a copy of Windows 7 yet.