iBook!

[go_team]

Okay, so Peter (pmb)'s dad got an iBook last fall, after his epic cross-country bicycle ride, to write about the experience in a highly portable way. Then he started a job that wasn't even remotely iBook-compatible, and the laptop started frustrating him more and more. He mentioned this last month when he was in town for the Crater Lake ski trip, and we mentioned that we'd been wanting to get me a laptop for some time. A deal was struck wherein he'd give us the iBook if we procured for him a laptop that he could use at work, and long story short, I have a new computer. It's very exciting.

I've already had my first "cat walks on laptop" attack, and I'm thinking I should suck it up and reinstall OS X and start from scratch before I get too much more comfortable playing around with all the already-existant settings and suchforth. Anybody who wants to give me Os X advice should post comments now. Whee! I've got a big stack of disks for v.10.1.4 and the v.10.2 upgrade. It's party time.

Comments

[dragonmudd.livejournal.com]

Having also inherited a laptop, I have to say... reformat totally clean. If you leave anything else on it... it just doesn't feel like your computer. Once you start with your own brand new settings and everything, you'll be so much happier.

[chocolatesmudge.livejournal.com]

It's party time.

You sure know how to par-tay. :-P


Excuse me, I think it's the chocolate talking.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Oh for sure. The more I reinstall everything, the more the computer feels like mine, and the more I like it. Yay!

Counting down 'till the OS 10.2 upgrade is complete...

[amoken.livejournal.com]

OS X advice? Well, it rocks, so as long as you don't treat it like I do, you should have a blissful experience. If you treat it like I do you may have to restart occasionally (it's a laptop so that's not much of an issue anyway) to fix most problems, and reinstall clean once or twice a year (partly because I'm anal). Awful, eh? :)

Oh, the pain! The suffering!

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Ummm... no. So far, I'm relearning all my old Mac instincts quick as anything (though the Linux geek in my brain is giving me all kinds of crap about using the mouse where clearly there should be keyboard shortcuts). I neglected the living bejezus out of my previous mac (Spazzy, a PowerMac 6500/250 running OS 7.6.1 of all things, later partitioned for Debian lovin') but I'm determined to be nicer to my new toy.

No pain! No suffering!

[flamingweasel.livejournal.com]

As another "switcher" (from gnome 1.4 to the mac), I've been comforted by the fact that there are keyboard shortcuts for almost everything, and most of the time they're -- get this -- consistent!* It's pretty gosh darn nice.

*: Except for "Preferences," the shortcut for which seems to be a random choice by the developer, and they all pick something different. I hear the Apple Human Interface Guidlines have finally decreed what the shortcut will be for all conforming mac os apps, but I'm sure it'll take a while to filter down.

[kweerious.livejournal.com]

not really advice i guess just fun things to try

http://fink.sourceforge.net so many ports, so little time
http://www.videolan.org/ it plays even the not so legit files
http://www.macstumbler.com/ ooh ibook wifi
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/osxvnc/
http://developer.apple.com

i like osx, it's an os, webserver, development platform, content creation playground and it's kinda cute.