Wednesday, February 6, 2008

First Post From The Mac

So here it is. Postin' atcha from the new computer. So far:
  • it certainly feels like a more refined experience than a Windows laptop. Clearly the visual experience has been put together by people with exquisite taste. What's more, the thing is pleasing viscerally but also intellectually. I'm such a snob.
  • it feels like an appliance rather than a fragile concoction of technologies in the Windows world. That's a good thing. It feels no more likely to crash than my DVD player or toaster
  • it still says stupidly meaningless things like "Installation Configuration 15%" or "Writing Files 47%" or "Verifying Package 32%" even during the immediate out-of-box interaction
Trackpad is troublesome. Single-button pointing device moreso. Where's the delete (not backspace) key?

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