My first mac
As a long time PC/Windows user I finally got my first Apple computer: a shiny white Macbook.
Macbook is not a complicated machine. It doesn’t overwhelm you with bells and whistles. But everything is there to work. The hardware design is truly the best.
The Mac OS X is a great OS. I didn’t have much learning curve to get familiar with it except to learn all the keyboard shortcuts since I want to stick with the touchpad without a mouse. I found out that you can put two fingers on the touchpad and scroll down a page, which is an awesome feature. One great thing about Mac OS X is that it is based on the Free BSD so I can always use a terminal to do the work. It is essentially a Unix machine with a nice GUI.
Mac app did crash once. My iTunes crashed and a message box popped up so I can end the program. However it didn’t bring down the whole machine and everything else was business as usual. There is another time that iTunes appeared to be in a runaway mode and I had to kill it manually. Seems that Apple has some work to do on the iTunes. But overall it synced with my iPod without any problems. The mac sleep mode also works flawlessly, which I always have problems with my Windows machine.
So here is my short review. I remember some famous people once said “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, and a Mac reminds me a lot of that.