Week Two

Nothing really new to report. I didn't have much downtime this week to use for Mac training. Good news is I ws BUSY with clients all week...that's what pays the bills!

I'm currently trying to get all my Outlook info exported over into a Mac readable format using O2M (Outlook to Mac I guess) from Little Machines. I'll report back on how that worked out later. I also picked up Office for the Mac and downloaded the IDisc utility for the XP machine to try out the .Mac features before my demo runs out.

All in all this week the Mac has been a jukebox more than a computer. With the way the Mac runs/works with iTunes it's only natural to use the heck out of it.

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1st week with the Mac

Well...the first week is down....so far so good. I don't see what all the fuss is about though. I still find myself using my PCs for general day to day stuff. I haven't figured out the Mac/XP printer sharing yet...but I haven't really dug into it very much more. I do wish Msn Messenger would have enabled video sharing on the Mac release...but Billy Bob doesn't want to make it too easy for the "other" platform to share in all the cool toys in his toybox.



The Mac now has all my iTunes on it. the latest version of iTunes never did run very well on my desktop anyway. OSX is slick...I'll give 'em that. The MacBook is much easier to tote around the house than my Acer 9410 laptop...but the Acer sports a 17 inch widescreen so it's a decent trade-off. The sound quality on the MacBook is head and shoulders above the Acers I've got.



I have kept myself out of my XP install in Parallels..I'm trying to get the full Mac experience.



We picked up my wife a iPod Shuffle Sat at Wally World. She never really saw what the big deal was....now 40.00 later she's been downloading everything she could think of and jamming out around the house.

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I took the plunge

I decided that I needed to learn more on how that "other" computer company worked, so I picked up a Macbook (2 gig model) so I could learn Macs. I don't care what the commercials say, there's quite a bit of a learning curve. I did think it was funny that as soon as I got it connected to my network it downloaded a ton of security updates. I've been able to muddle through several of what I'm sure the Mac pros would think were simple things. I picked up on the two finger scrolling and the CRTL-Click for right click, things like that. I've accidentally uninstalled several downloaded program, tried to run EXE files, all that fun stuff. I can see WHY people like the Mac OS. It's a clean looking interface, boots fast, etc. Now...that said I did pickup a copy of Parallels to have a fallback to XP if needed. I'm a Microsoft Action Pack subscriber, so there's no way I'm shelling out the stupid amount of cash Microsoft wants for Office for the Mac, and I have a 500 meg PST file that holds my entire life that Entourage doesn't know what to do with so thats a BIG problem. I know theres a downloadable program to pull it over, but I fault MS for making it that much harder to move between platforms.
All and all I have to say it's going to be a fun adventure finding out what this thing is all about.