For those of you who don’t know, I recently purchased a MacBook with 2GB of RAM. That’s right, I bought a Mac! In just three short days I’ve already learned a lot about OS X and I am actually starting to feel at home. I’m kind of suprised with how comfortable I already feel considering the fact that prior to this laptop my only experience with a Mac was at the Apple store and through everything I’ve read about OS X.
Here’s what I’ve done thus far with my new MacBook:
- Installed several apps including: Office, AppZapper, Taco HTML, VLC, Software for my printer, Firefox and several other applications. Installing software on the Mac is great. No longer do I have to worry about the Windows registry
- Setup my email and several other applications including iChat so that I can communicate with the rest of the world. iChat is pretty sweet but I’m not sure how much I am actually going to use it.
- Connected my camera and a usb thumb drive just to see how well OS X handles other USB devices. Needless to say it worked like a champ.
- Played around with the entire iLife suite including GarageBand and iDVD. I think I might put together a DVD for Alex’s two year.
- Played around with most of the System preferences
- Got connected up to my network. This was the easiest wireless connection I’ve ever made. In fact, I was able to connect directly to the network during the initial setup once I remembered that I had to add my MacBook’s MAC address to my Linksys router (check out my video).
The only complaint I have thus far is in regards to the lack of a two button mouse. As you can imagine, trying to right click with a one button mouse is kind of difficult. Every once and a while I plug in a good old two button mouse just so I don’t have to screw around with the ctrl key. Anybody know why Apple insists on going with a one button mouse? It just seems like it is extremely inefficient to be using only one button. In any case, here’s a video that I took while I unboxed my MacBook. Stay tuned for more Mac/Apple info. I plan on updating this blog often with more informatio on how the switch is going.
January 26th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Neato! You know I’ve been thinking of switching over too, if not for me initially, at least for Amy. It’s good to know it’s working for you.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I def’n think you should get one. It takes a little while to get use to it but really isn’t that bad. If I were you, I’d recommend picking up a book and reading up on it before you go ahead with the purchase.
January 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Nice looking Mac Al!
What books do you recommend? You know me, I have always been a slave to Gates and would like to transition over, someday.
I am just afraid I will spend all that money and not know what the hell I am doing!
January 30th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Thanks! I haven’t read many books but I do recommend anything written by Pogue. Of course, I’ve also checked out a couple of O’Reilly books and they are good as well. I’ll give you a call later…
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February 18th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Instead of using ctrk for right click, you can set it so that when you have two fingers on the mouse pad it right clicks. It’s in the trackpad submenu in keyboard and mouse in system preferences.
February 18th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
you’ve probably already found this out, but if you have a mighty mouse you can just turn on the right click function within your system prefs and use it like you would any other mouse. As a long-time PC user that recently switched to a 20″ iMac, the inclusion of the second click in Tiger was one of the factors that really helped bring me over from Windows.
February 19th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Thanks for the tip. I’m using a wireless mouse as I type this :).
February 19th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Thanks! Somebody already pointed this out to me over on this post. The two finger right right click is great!
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September 26th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Under five minutes, and you were ready to go. That’s awesome. I can’t wait to get/set up my next Mac!