Happy New Year to all. I've just realised that I've not blogged in 2009 yet. So here's my first post for the new year using my new toy. Yes yes, whatever new year resolution of not buying any new toys for the year has totally gone down the drain.
After much contemplation and back and forth between Mid Valley and Low Yat Plaza, I've finally decided to give into temptation and gotten myself a Macbook. The aluminum casing Macbook. Yes, I've moved to the Mac side of things. A few years back I remember telling Hubbs that it would take a really silly person to spend so much money for a Mac just because it looks cool when one can get much higher specs on a PC at fraction of the cost. So now I'm eating my words. Why did I decide to get one? Well, like my good friend's husband said on why he got a Mac "Want to look cool cannot meh?" (by the way his mac is still collecting dust and he has switched back to PC :)). Nevertheless, I'm determined not to let my Macbook end up like his.
So the plan so far is to use my windows laptop for work and the Macbook for fun and for Sunday School, of course :) I got the 2.0MHz and 160GB hard disk version but upgraded to 4GB ram. The 2.4Mhz version with 250GB hard disk and lighted keypad was RM1000 more expensive and I figured that I should be able to live with the lower version. After 1 day of use, I won't go as far to say that I wish I switched earlier but I have to agree that doing things on the Mac, such as uploading photos, installing software and the startup and shutdown seems faster and much easier. I totally love the LED display though there's a possibility that the headache I'm experiencing now could be due to the brightness of the screen. As for the keyboard, it took awhile getting used to because the keys are spaced about 3mm apart from the usual keyboard keys on the normal pcs. But it is quite a joy to type on once you get used to it. What irks me a little is that the keyboard doesn't have a separate backspace and delete key. There's only one delete key which functions as a backspace key. The other thing is that it doesn't have an "end" key which I find can be quite a pain when blogging. On top of that the Mac can't fully sync with my Palm Treo Pro which runs on WM6.1 Apparently I've to purchase a separate software "Missing Sync" which cost RM200+ to overcome this. But for the time being I'm putting that on hold. Other than that, I have to say that so far I'm quite happy with the switch. Let's see how it goes after a week of playing around with it. Nevertheless there is certainly no doubting the "cool" factor.
Here are a few shots I took of the box and the machine.
Gotta really give it to the people at apple. Even the package looks sleek.
Even the power cord looks cool and compact.
How much sleeker can a laptop get?? I totally love the apple logo that lights up when in use.
The spaced out keyboard and super bright screen.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
New toy!!
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