A little over a week ago now, I purchased my first Apple Mac laptop. Why I did this I am not really sure even to this day. Of course I was excited about getting a new laptop, sure I was tempted by its superior looking exterior, but why a Mac? Well quite frankly I cannot give a straight answer for that, maybe there isn’t one.

So moving on, I wanted a small form factor laptop and also wanted a useable ‘work horse’ if you will which would see me though for a while, and so that was the Macbook Air out of the question. Look, I understand many will sneer with fanboy disgust when they see that comment, however for me, personally it is not useable. I feel that I ‘need’ an optical drive and additionally an Ethernet port. Do not get me wrong, the ‘Air’ is really a work of beauty and design, however it is just not for me.
With that in mind I opted for the Macbook. Not the white option, but the beefier, stronger and quite frankly more attractive sibling of the two models, the black one.
After getting back from the Apple store, I lay the box on the ground. It was all very exciting and quite frankly I am not ashamed to admit that. I thought, ‘oh I really ought to take a picture or two for the blog’. And so I did. Below you can this remarkable creature in its box –
Macbook

Macbook

Macbook

I really have to say that its beauty lies in its simplicity and style. Its doesn’t do unnecessary add-ons and practically redundant ancillaries. But what it ‘does do’ it does perfectly and with sublime style.

The reason I wanted to leave it a while before posting anything about my new purchase was so that I could give my opinions and thoughts about getting to grips with a Mac rather than using a PC, which I have done for most of my life.

Well I have to say, yes, its very different but not impossible. Actually I knew it would be one of things I would revel in most. I am thoroughly enjoying the process of learning everything all over again. Its like a breath of fresh air.
So far, honestly all I have done is download a selection of ‘must have’ programs from which a friend [Uberspod] has recommended and have imported most of my CD collection. But to be fair, I haven’t really had the time or the energy to do much more yet.
Unfortunately, I had a spot of bother on Saturday with it, due to a faulty boot camp implementation. I think the weak link was the Windows installation [insert witty and obvious dig about Windows here]. The Windows install somehow managed to use up ALL of my drive and wiped all of my data. Luckily I had a backup at hand (not a clone however I might add) and so was able to eventually get back up and running.
This last little incident has not tainted my experience so far at all. Mainly because I know I was messing with things, which I did not really, know about. Additionally, the disk, which I tried to install from, was rather scratched to say the least and fear it may not have had SP2 included (as prerequisite apparently for Bootcamp installations when using XP)

As its early days, I will cut this post short here. But I will be updating my blog with my trials and tribulations regarding my Mac experience. But I will say now, that for some strange reason I think me and my Mac are going to get along quite well.