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Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Apple at 9:06 pm on Thursday, 27 July 2006
Not sure if I’m loving it yet.
I can’t quite put more finger on it. Maybe its like learning to ski after snowboarding for 18 years.
My Sony Vaio just seems a bit crisper. I put 2GB in the MacBook and it still seems sluggish. The screen and fonts are also blurrier. I feel a bit like I’m walking through mud. I’ve got the mouse set to fast but it just seems to take a bit more effort.
The negatives so far are:
- I prefer IE7 to Firefox.Â
- I prefer Outlook to Entourage.
- The menu being disconnected from the application windows is strange.
- Command C & V for copy and paste requires smaller fingers. The Command key is too close. I keep hitting ctrl.
- I’m not quite sure where to install or just drag a downloaded app into the Application Directory.
- Connecting to corporate non-mac environment is not straight forward.
What I love about the Mac
- Boot up and sleep. Fast.
- Magsafe
- Everything just plugs in and works
- Expose’ to find your Windows
- DVI
- Wifi (Airport)
- Download manager
I’ll give a few more days. But a clean build of XP with Office 2007 is not looking unappealing.
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