Jobs has claimed another victim
February 1st, 2008 | Filed under Personal, Technology.I am posting this from my brand new Macbook. It’s the 13″ Core2Duo 2Ghz version with 1 gig of ram and an 80 gig hard disk. It’s really quite nice, and has some curious little features that I’m sure will drive me totally nuts.
Like the missing mouse button, the missing # key, and the whole host of fun features they don’t tell you about, more leaving them to be discovered. One such thing being how to do a proper ‘delete’ in a text field rather than backspace. That’s Fn-Backspace btw.
I like the magnetic power connector, the slot-loading CD drive and the really high res display. It’s light and contains no ventilation holes on the bottom either; I can use it on my bed without it going into meltdown.
Installing apps is weird. In fact the Mac concept of an application is quite strange. Rather than splattering files all over the place each app is a self contained icon. It makes uninstalling the preinstalled junk quite easy.
Oh, that’s another thing - the bloody ‘i’ prefix. Windows users, you think the “My” thing is a bit irritating? Let me list things on this Mac:
iTunes, iCal, iChat, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iSync, iTerm, iWeb
What’s wrong with dropping the ‘i’ prefix and just calling them by what they are? Word is Word, it’s not mWord.
Now I need to fill it with lots of applications and stuff. Trying out VMWare and XP is also one of my next fun tasks.
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