Got back from Japan Thursday night. Utterly exhausted after almost 24 hours of traveling, ordered a pizza, ate it, and then sat there wondering what to do. Decided to go out to the Apple Store and pick up a Mac Book Pro.
It’s a pretty sweet machine. I’ve had a Mac Mini for a couple of years, use it for my music, movies, backup, etc., and for a while while my pc was in the shop, it was my main machine, but never totally dived in fully. I was a bit surprised how comfortable it was to start working with. Previous attempts at using Macs have felt pretty awkward. I guess part of it is because I’ve been dabbling with the Mini for so long, and part because the keyboard feels so much like my pc laptop.
One thing that put me off at first was the whole one button track pad, but actually after using it a bit, I think it really works well for a track pad. On a two button track pad, I’m constantly doing the mini thumb grope for the left mouse button. The first thing I did was enable track pad clicking – so when you tap the track pad, it registers a click.
Another thing is the lack for home, end, page up and down keys. I know there are shortcuts with the cursor keys, but I’d rather have separate keys for them.
Other than that, it feels pretty comfortable. Getting stuff moved into it. I’m using mail.app for now. Considering Thunderbird though. Trying to decide if I really need to do the whole Boot Camp / Parallels thing, or just keep two separate machines. There are a few things I do need Windows for, but as cool as running dual OSes is, now that I have the hardware, I’m feeling like I just want to keep it simple and get away with a single OS if I can.