« 10 Days In - Life with Mac »

If it wasn’t for work, and life bits like showering and eating and sleeping, chances are i would have spent the last 240 odd hours glued to my new mac. I’ve bonded, so to speak.

I’ve migrated all my good media, (and even some bad) I’ve found all the apps that I want to use. I’ve added windows for those apps that just don’t come in an apple flavour. I’ve logged dozens of hours sitting at my cozy chair working, playing and editing.

• it took 4 days to figure out that there really is a right mouse button.
• i still don’t have a mouse, and I think I’m ok with that. The touch pad is lovely.
• windows is slow regardless of what system it’s running on ;-)

Things I still don’t really understand:

• the brightness of the display tends to change randomly, regardless of whether I’m plugged into power, or using battery power
• the mac gets damned hot - as hot as my Dell laptop
• i miss not having a backspace key (maybe there’s something similar I haven’t found yet?)
• i miss not having home and end keys
• my airport wireless card sometimes flakes out and loses my internet connection. Not often, but enough to notice

Still. I’m in love.
P.S. Flock rocks on the Mac.

Comments

[Sven Fechner]

Welcome to the Mac world.

The brightness of your display maybe triggered by the build-in light sensors (assuming you are using a MacBook Pro) - they sit left and right of the keyboard - so when typing and your palm gets over the areas left and right of the keyboard - your screen darkens out. You can turn this out in System Prefs, or get use to it - that what I did.

Backspace? Assuming again you are using a MacBook - use fn+delete.

Have fun!

[jules]

THANK YOU Sven! It is a macbook pro - and part o me was thinking it was a light sensor that was changing the screen display!!
I am SOO going to need to get a mac book for all the secrets i might never figure out on my own ;-)

[Ed Kohler]

CMD+arrow up and down may help you navigate in Dell style.

[jules]

Ed!!
You totally rock.

[Chris Schmitt]

Get Apple's wireless mouse - it's awesome. I've had my Macbook since Christmas. It takes a little getting use to but it's a joy to work with. Everytime I go on my windows machine it seems there's something that needs fixing before I can start using it.

PS - Want to see something Windows can't do? Try http://www.delicious-monster.com/