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Ahh, the creative side of me seems to blossom with the new MacBook Pro. I find Mac’s pre-installed software very useful, and has made me life easier in some aspects; managing photos taken on my digital camera is a breeze with iPhoto, and managing my music collection through iTunes is very simple (which can be a problem). That’s not to say there aren’t some improvements that could be made, but in six days I am frustration free with my Mac life.
It’s also taken my 6 days to determine a name for the new Mac, I shall call it “Avalon”. The name holds a lot of sentimental value for me, it was one of my first online handles (yep, old school Internet talk) and has stuck with me ever since. My first Mac (a Macintosh LC) was also named Avalon, so I consider this MacBook Pro a part of its lineage. Changing the computer’s name was very easy, a task that’s never hard on any operating system. Continue Reading »
Credit: PC. Easy as 1 - 23 taken by bfishadow on Flickr
After an active first day with my new MacBook Pro, I was expecting day two to be a fury of activity. Actually it wasn’t (I spent much of the day playing catchup). I’m still in “OMG! THIS IS SO AWESOME!” mode, much to the annoyance of some followers (talking to you Sean!). Deep down, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop and become inundated with thousands of updates and programs I install as experienced on Windows. This touches on a subject touted as a fault in Apple recent advertisement, “PC. Easy as 1 – 23″. Windows and Mac update applications are very similar, each has their own update application which updates operating system, drivers, and programs specifically made by their respective company. The difference between Apple’s and Windows update is Windows updates are heftier. If you purchased a new computer without a service pack, you more than likely going to have to repeat the Windows update process more than once; Apple doesn’t have service packs though, they release new operating systems. That’s not to say that I didn’t have to run the Apple Software Update more than once, or restart my computer after an update, but on Windows this process is more annoying.
I found a quirk with iWork ‘09 I didn’t like. On my first day I installed the application with the intent of accessing old Microsoft Word documents. Usually when installing Word on PC, the application automatically assigns a file-type to the new application. I was hoping that iWork would do the same for Microsoft Word documents, but it did not, TextEdit remained as the default associated program. In order to change this, I had to manually assign .doc’s and .docx’s to Pages (not a difficult process, read how to do this here) but I wish there was an easier way to do this within Pages or during it’s installation. Continue Reading »
