Yea, I know… I’ve converted to the dark side.
If you’d told me two years ago that I’d be owning a Mac sometime in the future, I’d have laughed. However, over the past two years, I’ve used various Apple products at the computer store and helped friends with their Apple computers. I have become quite a fan of the construction and design that goes into these products and I finally decided to add an Apple to my extensive stable of computers.
I purchased the new laptop yesterday afternoon and I’ve been extremely happy with it so far. It’s doing everything I want or need it to do and works flawlessly with my other Windows computers. And of course OSX has plenty of nifty eye candy.
If you’re wondering about the specs, it’s a 15.4″ widescreen with a 2.5GHz Core2Duo processor, 250GB hard drive, 2GB ram (which I’ll probably upgrade to 4GB in the near future), with the nVidia 8600 GT 512MB graphics card and all the other shiny Mac goodness.
By the way, this computer is a graduation present from my grandfather.
Thanks Granddad!!!
5 responses so far »
1 dave // Apr 4, 2008 at 10:36 am
check out PTH pasteboard and growl. two free apps that make my laptop life easier. Flip4Mac is a necessity. also free.
i’ve got this short terminal script that you should run on your new compy to make it work a little better… i’ll email it to you.
when you get another mac, check out dropcopy. it’s awesome.
take a photo with your built-in camera!
2 Eric // Apr 7, 2008 at 7:43 am
cool!!! once again i have nothing to contribute to the current topic, but i do have this. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece the matrix is alive muahahahaha. pretty interesting. check it out.
3 Matthew Smith // Apr 7, 2008 at 9:14 pm
@ Dave: Cool thanks for the links … what all do you use growl for? I have a few programs that use it for screen notifications. PTHpasteboard looked pretty cool too. Hit me with that script when you get a chance.
Any ideas on syncing music libraries between windows and mac????
@ Eric: That will be sweet. Obviously I need a direct link to my house!
4 David's Dad // Jun 16, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hooooo, boy, congratulations to you and your new Mac Book Pro.
5 Matthew Smith // Jun 16, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Thanks! I absolutely love it - it is an amazing combination of software and hardware that is a joy to use!
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