Blown Away

[whochick]

OMFG!

I cannot believe how good this new MacBook is!
It's only taken me 20 minutes to do all the configurations I needed to do because the first thing the new Book did was ask me if I wanted to transfer any settings, keychains, files or applications.

Er ... yeah, that'd be nice.

I'm so impressed.
It's uber fast and black. Black is nice.

Comments

[alto2]

So you say there's no glare on this shiny screen? I find that tough to believe, but I'll have to take your word for it. I tried one of the keyboards in one of the stores and they do strike me as odd--I have to say, if there's one place I've found Apple deficient in design terms, it's the keyboard. I'm on my second iBook keyboard because I went and complained about the first one doubling letters all the damn time. The second one didn't seem to be much better, so I guess I've adapted to it, but it still bugs me. The keyboard on my iMac does the same thing, but not as badly as the iBook keyboard originally did. I actually thought about trying to find a third-party replacement iBook keyboard for a while. (The irony is, of course, that I find their keyboards an absolute delight to type on--far better than any PC keyboard I've ever used in terms of typin comfort!)

[whochick]

I think it's an acclimitisation thing ... I always type double keys or missed keys on an IBM style keyboard cos I'm so used to the light-touch mac ones.

I'm also 20 words-per-minute faster on a Mac keyboard versus IBM style.

As for the screen glare ... so far I've had my new Book in my study (light from behind), in the living room (light form overhead - artificial) and on the lawn (natural overhead light) and had no screen glare.

I'm a Mac girl at heart, so I'm probably a little biased ... but I started out on IBM-compatibles and swapped later in life, so it's not like I haven't used my fair share of DOS apps or windows versions.

I just think computing should be easy and friendly and bloody reliable - all of which I've got from Mac but not IBM ... hmmm.

[alto2]

I started out on the PC, too, and then learned Mac when I got to college. I spent a lot of time there disparaging them, and was stunned when I ended up being the "Mac expert" at my first real tech support job. By then, I'd been out of school for three years and needed to re-learn a lot of stuff, but eventually, when we started dealing with the "brilliance" of Windows NT and its unfathomably convoluted OS, I could not deny that doing a Mac OS clean install in about half an hour, vs. reformatting the entire drive and starting over from scratch on the PC, was ridiculous.

I switched officially about five and a half years ago when I bought the iMac. Aside from the occasional software compatibility issue, I've never looked back. In fact, I've often said that if Apple would just port OS X to the PC side, they'd take over the world.

[whochick]

Give them a year or two and they'll manage it ... I'm a believer ;)

[privateuniverse]

Macs are love, my sister is getting a MacBook Pro for Christmas.

I heart my iMac.

[whochick]

Oh I still love my old G3 iBook. So much so that I'm going to cut it some slack, reformat the hard drive and run it as a dedicated OS9/linux platform. For six years it's run the latest and greatest OSX as well as OS9 and put up with being asked to perform above and beyond the call of duty that I feel it's only fair to offer it a gentle retirement :)

The iBook is like a friend I've had since highschool - familiar, entertaining and quirky. The new MacBook is something I currently idolise ...