Walking the Wall

My husband completely and 100% surprised me with a MacBook for graduating with my Bachelor’s degree and I didn’t get to sleep until 3am and then popped awake at 9am and had to come grab it again. I’m so glad he gave it to me last night instead of today at my graduation party because I think I would have wanted to kick out all my guests so I could play! So, this is me writing from a Mac. For those who care:

• 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 2 GB SDRAM
• 13.3″ Widescreen display
• Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
• Superdrive that burns DVDs and CDs

I have to admit that the first couple hours I felt clumsy and like a grade schooler–I know Windows very, very well and shifting to Mac is going to involve a learning curve. I have used Macs in computer labs on campus but that mostly involved getting online or getting into Word. Which brings me to my first dilemma–get Office for Mac (way too expense) or hope that iWork is good enough (much cheaper)! I’m downloading the trial of it, so we’ll see how it goes.

I’m so excited and so aware that I am spoiled. I knew I was going to have to bite the bullet and get a new laptop in the next few months as my Dell hasn’t been portable for over a year and has been slowly dying on me. One thing I notice the most with the MacBook is that it is very very quiet. I admit to being a bit frustrated until I finally figured out how to get the trackback to double click and then was even more happy to find the two finger tap works as a Window’s “right click”–not to mention the two finger scrolling is very cool. The built in camera is great and so far the only slight negative would be that the edge where your hands end up resting is a bit sharp but I think I’ll just adjust where I rest them in time.

I definitely think I need a Mac for Dummies to get up to speed on everything! Regardless, she’s a lovely one and I am thoroughly enjoying being able to write on my laptop for as along as I want without it overheating!