I recently acquired a 15" 2013 rMBP for development purposes. This is an ongoing post detailing setup once the system arrives.

Unboxing and Initial Config

• Poweron, follow prompts for user/iCloud/keyboard config.
  • Opted not to migrate from existing system
• Enable firewall in system preferences
• Disable startup noise: sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80 in built in terminal This is no longer working... looking for solutions.
• Set hostname to famous physicist, or whatever in System Preferences > Sharing > Computer Name
• Download & install Chrome, login and sync extensions etc...
  • Install Google Hangouts
• Check for updates under Apple Icon > Software Updates ... restart.
• Remove nearly everything from Dock except Chrome, Trash.
• System Preferences > Dock Hide/Make smaller
• Download and install Dropbox.. need this to sync .dotfiles for Vim, emacs, etc.
• Download and install iterm2
• Download and install Crashplan (backups to cloud and Synology NAS)
• Download JDK7 from Oracle
• Install Retina Display Manager (from Reddit)
• Install OhMyZsh and Customize iterm2
• Install 1Password and point to keys
• Install gfxCardStatus (switch GPU's)
• Install XCode
• Install Skitch and Evernote (notes, screenshots)
• Install SizeUp (keyboard shortcuts to tile windows)
• Install VLC
• Install Adium and cp -rf ~/Library/Application support/Adium 2.0/ $YOURNEWSYSTEMATTHESAMEPATH
• Install Unarchiver
• Install Hyperdock (show previews of windows in the dock)
• Install Caffeine (keep your system from turning off the display)
• Install Flash system... cause some things still use it argh.
• Install Rdio
• Install Burn
• Install CyberDuck Transmit
• Install Bootchamp (helps with bootcamp booting)
• Disable sounds when changing volume System Preferences > Sound {}
• Install flux (nicer working at night)
• Install menumeters (Show system status in menubar)
• Install Thursby PKard for PKI's
• Add lock icon to menubar
• Install Balsamiq for mockups
• Install DaisyDisk for Disk management
• Install Colloquy for IRC
• Enable Full Disk Encryption
• Install HandyPrint to share local printers as AirPrint
• Install Silverlight (for Netflix...)
• Change Chrome/Safari to Download to /tmp

Many apps/files can be migrated by mounting the new systems root drive and copying over the old files

Code Related Things

• Install Github for Mac
• brew install git mercurial python
• Install TortoiseHg
• Install SublimeText2, enter license key and point to ~/Dropbox/dotfiles
• restore ssh keys cp .ssh/id_rsa* /Network/path/to/username/.ssh/
• restore dotfiles from ~/Dropbox/dotfiles `ln -sf ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/.[a-z]* .

• Install Vundle. Make sure ~/.vim/bundle is ignored by Dropbox git clone https://github.com/gmarik/vundle.git "$HOME/.vim/bundle/vundle"

  • `brew unlink python
  • brew install macvim --override-system-vim
  • vim ... :BundleInstall
  • brew install llvm --with-clang --with-asan
  • Run install.sh --clang-completer in ~/.vim/bundles/YouCompleteMe

• Export IntelliJ settings as a jar and import into new IntelliJ 13

• brew install tmux

• easy_install hg-git
  Had to do this to get hg to resolve extensions properly. Other extensions live in ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/hg_extensions

• Install Drakon for design. Will also need ActiveTCL.

• brew install findutils

• brew install leiningen for clojure development

• ~/dotfiles/.osx/ Get mine here

• Install Mathematica 9

• Install Win7 via Bootcamp and Ninite to install software, mount as VM via Parallels Desktop 9

• Install VirtualBox + Extensions

• Install Vagrant

• Install Node brew install node

• Install XQuartz (X11) and Wireshark

Additional Sources:

• http://brickftp.com/post/1970045-21-mac-apps-we-use-every-day?utm_source=hn
• http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/vi9yf/set_your_retina_macbook_pros_resolution_to/
• http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/
• Making a bootable Mavericks Drive
• Boxen
• Guide to Setting up OSX
• Problems with YCM, MVim, Python

Old Used Software List:

OSX

• homebrew
• adium
• colloquy
• evernote
• iterm2
• dropbox
• crashplan
• skitch
• Office365??
• tortoisehg
• mvim with custom spf13
• burn
• chrome/chrome canary
• synology cloud station
• rdio
• arq??
• IntelliJ 12/13
• SublimeText2
• SequelPro
• 1Password
• Wireshark
• Screenhero
• Mathematica
• Parallels wrapping Bootstrap Windows
• CyberDuck
• Thursby PKCard
• Zotero
• Scrivener?
• Webstorm
• Gideros
• Screenhero
• ZeroBraneStudio
• Omnigraffle
• Onyx
• Texturepacker
• stencyl
• kindle?
• ArgoUML
• pomodoro

brew list

astyle gradle maven rpl
autoconf growlnotify mercurial sbt
automake hg-flow minicom scala
boost htop mobile-shell sdl
clojure hub mongodb sip
cmake icu4c nasm socat
colordiff iftop nspr speex
couchdb ilmbase openexr spidermonkey
cscope iperf openvpn sqlite
emacs jpeg-turbo optipng task
erlang lame opus the_silver_searcher
faac leiningen pcre theora
faad2 libao pianobar tmux
fcrackzip libevent pkg-config valgrind
ffmpeg libogg protobuf vim
fuse4x libtool pv wget
fuse4x-kext libusb-freenect pyqt x264
gdbm libvorbis python xvid
gettext libvpx qscintilla2 xz
git lzo qt yasm
git-flow macvim readline zsh
giter8 mad rename

Windows:

• SQLYog
• Photoshop CS4 (or maybe upgrading to subscription)