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30 days later and I’ve come to the end of this journal a different computer user than I entered. At this point, I find it difficult to think about using anything that isn’t a Mac. Its not the applications, the look, the feel, that has swayed my mind, it is the simplicity. The MacBook Pro is a top of the line laptop, regardless of any operating system you use. My computing life is easier, I save more time performing tasks, and I’m able to do more with less. Continue Reading »
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The past 29 Days of my life with a new Mac has been an awesome and rewarding experience. I’m surprise how much my life has changed merely by switching to a Mac. It may sound corny that a computer has changed significant parts of your life, but in a world where we rely on computers more often it makes sense. The approach of Apple is very different from Microsoft of the general open-source community and it makes computing approachable, useable, and adaptable. Nothing is perfect and while I believe Apple has made major strides since my last experience with them, there’s are some things missing on Mac. Continue Reading »
Image Credit: "A Mac Playing the Piano" by jochenWolters on Flickr
I’m on my last three days of My Mac experiment. I wanted to use a program that comes with Mac that I haven’t. Something fun and interesting. My choices left me to either trying Front Row or Chess. I never understood the purpose of Front Row until I tried it. I had no clue what Front Row was, did, or provided to the Mac experience. I was delighted when I experimented with the program. Continue Reading »
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27 Days Later and I’ve become a Mac Zombie (get the reference win a cookie). Apple has infected me with the evil “I Love Mac” Virus through Avalon (my 17” Mac Book Pro) and I want to spread my evil Mac germs everywhere! So far my life with Mac has been amazing, I don’t have any major complaints and with Snow Leopard around the corner, I’m excited to see what Apple improves.
On Day 26, I talked about customizing your Mac, mainly though the physical appearance and icons, but I want to highlight some tweaks I found helpful. Continue Reading »
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I have been afraid to customize Avalon. With Windows, I always feel I may break something when customizing the system. In my new Mac Life, customization is simple and easy. While background and color options can be managed within the system preferences, there are some additional ways to customize the Mac to your preferences. Continue Reading »
If your a serious gamer, your not buying a Mac for its gaming possibilities. Historically, Mac gaming has been a joke, the selection of titles limited, horrible, and three years late. Ever since the migration to Intel processors, many speculated game developers would openly approach the platform. Developers still prefer Windows over Mac, as most of the popular games are made for PC. There are exceptions to this rule.
There’s three (well four) options for gaming on a Mac. I’ve tested three of these options but rather avoid the fourth. Continue Reading »
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Mac are cool! Get over it Microsoft! I haven’t heard of people not liking something cool. Even those who pretend not to like cool things are following a popular un-cool trend, which in some circles, is cool! There are some features in OS X that are, for lack of a better word, cool (how many more times can I use this word). They are also very helpful. Throughout the past 24 days I’ve been using these features extensively but haven’t mentioned them at all. Today is all about showing off some of those features I find, cool. Continue Reading »
Image Credit: "Once you go Mac, you don't go back." by Andrew Trinh
I’ve been spoiled by Mac and I will not go back to PC! I cant go back! Day 23 was filled with working on PC’s in school bas to finish work and fixing families laptops and desktops. I found myself making silly mistakes. I’ve grown accustomed to Mac and instantly missed my mouse-pad gestures and the placement of the command key, I expected everything to work as they did on my Mac. They did not. I was in a world I’ve known for many years that suddenly felt alien. Program installations displayed unnecessary pop-ups, the right mouse button seemed unnecessary (although I miss it the most on Mac), laptop cases felt flimsy, and the ALT key was in the wrong place! Clearly, Planet Windows was a world I left far behind 22 days ago. Continue Reading »
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I do plenty of audio work. I create music, podcasts, and edit tons of audio. To complete these tasks in Windows, I required several different tools, one for song creation, audio editing, mixing, and recording. This is not meant to be a negative, audio programs aren’t built to serve every audio purpose. I never liked the Windows specific audio creation and editing tools, some provided great features but lacked many others. Continue Reading »
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My Mac Life hasn’t been perfect (although damn near close!). Over the past three weeks there has been a small list of frustrations I’ve had with the new Mac. Nothing is perfect and these mounting frustrations are smaller than the long list of frustrations with Vista. With the Apple Wordwide Developers Conference a week away, I decided to list a few of these issues. Some of these frustrations may be fixed in the upcoming version of OS X – Snow Leopard. Continue Reading »