YAY! My new Mac arrived!
I checked the FedEx routing and it was in El Paso as of Saturday! It arrived this AM, Russ brought it with her to meet me for lunch so that I could get the initial config and updates done. Tonight I transferred my previous Mac, the poor old thing was all of three months old *sob!* and I just finished reformatting it and it is transferring Russet's old Mac to it, should be done in an hour or so.
The MacBook Pro is a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but still an acceptable size. I have to give up the Tumi slipcover that I used with the previous Mac, so I now have Russet's slip cover and she'll have the Tumi. I bought a FireWire transfer cable when we were at the Mac store in Albuquerque Satuday and it made the transfer wonderfully easy.
I do seem to have a problem with my wireless router, however. It looks like it doesn't like two people using Macs at the same time! So right now I'm cabled in (I moved the router across the room so that I could lie on the couch and plug in an ethernet cable), I'll have to contact Qwest and see if I can get some resolution. Come to think of it, I do have a second wireless router with me, a DLink 524. I could cascade them and turn off the wireless on the Qwest box.
I have only one piece of network equipment here; Qwest provided a DSL router/wireless unit from a vendor called 2Wire. Unfortunately I don't remember the admin password that I set, so I'll probably be doing a cold restart on it soon.
About the only thing remaining to do on the 15" is to copy my Parallels/Win XP Pro/SQL Server 2005 partition back over and to clean up the desktop a bit. I played a YouTube video of Toto's Africa that Grey Wierdo linked: the sound was GREAT! I can hardly wait to watch a movie on it!
Well, off to bed. And BTW, absolutely no regrets about going Mac, especially with all the new crap that Microsoft is doing with their operating systems. There's some new news that if you take Office 2007 for a "test" that it munges up your previous Office install, thus trying to force you into buying the upgrade. That just sucks. As a result, I'm using a five year old copy of Office via Parallels and will use NeoOffice for my Mac (NeoOffice is a nice office suite based on Open Office but the interface has been thoroughly integrated with the Mac OS).
The MacBook Pro is a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but still an acceptable size. I have to give up the Tumi slipcover that I used with the previous Mac, so I now have Russet's slip cover and she'll have the Tumi. I bought a FireWire transfer cable when we were at the Mac store in Albuquerque Satuday and it made the transfer wonderfully easy.
I do seem to have a problem with my wireless router, however. It looks like it doesn't like two people using Macs at the same time! So right now I'm cabled in (I moved the router across the room so that I could lie on the couch and plug in an ethernet cable), I'll have to contact Qwest and see if I can get some resolution. Come to think of it, I do have a second wireless router with me, a DLink 524. I could cascade them and turn off the wireless on the Qwest box.
I have only one piece of network equipment here; Qwest provided a DSL router/wireless unit from a vendor called 2Wire. Unfortunately I don't remember the admin password that I set, so I'll probably be doing a cold restart on it soon.
About the only thing remaining to do on the 15" is to copy my Parallels/Win XP Pro/SQL Server 2005 partition back over and to clean up the desktop a bit. I played a YouTube video of Toto's Africa that Grey Wierdo linked: the sound was GREAT! I can hardly wait to watch a movie on it!
Well, off to bed. And BTW, absolutely no regrets about going Mac, especially with all the new crap that Microsoft is doing with their operating systems. There's some new news that if you take Office 2007 for a "test" that it munges up your previous Office install, thus trying to force you into buying the upgrade. That just sucks. As a result, I'm using a five year old copy of Office via Parallels and will use NeoOffice for my Mac (NeoOffice is a nice office suite based on Open Office but the interface has been thoroughly integrated with the Mac OS).