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A new Mac user.
Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:54 pmI'm using a program called "Synergy" to share my mouse and keyboard between my PC and Mac. I basically just move my mouse from screen to screen, just as if I were using multiple monitors on a single machine. The results are just awesome. I'm sitting there at my home computer, three monitors glowing at my face, and clacking away at my Model M keyboard that I absolutely adore. *Clackity clackity clack.* It fits some sort of awesome aesthetic of mine or something. I'm using a similar setup at work, with my work laptop hooked to two monitors, my mac acting like a third, and all three screens using an external mouse and keyboard hooked to my PC laptop.
So... I've only had the Mac for a few days, but already I absolutely adore it. It is simply an incredible computing device. All of the design decisions feel deliberate and clean. Like someone was actually considering the user experience when designing the OS. Things make sense and are clearly defined. I love it. I love all the little things on this, like the fact that the power cord uses a magnet to connect to the system, to make it trip-safe. Or the fact that it uses a single key for the functionality of backspace and delete. Then there's the million different ways you can use the multi-touch trackpad, which just make me giddy. This computer is the *easiest to use* computer I have ever had in my life. They've cut out a LOT of crap and have just left everything simple and straightforward.
I particularly love the dashboard. On windows, I have all these status widgets built into my Firefox browser. Weather, Twitter, email, etc. It drives me nuts when I'm not using the web and I have to load the browser to check the weather. I love being able to just hit F12 to open the dashboard and see my status on everything I'm working with.
There's still a lot of software I plan to buy for this thing, like MS Office, Adobe Flash and Photoshop, and much more. But for now, I'm so very happy with this machine. And I've already been getting a lot of use out of it. While at the Yule party on Saturday, I was able to spend a bunch of time working on my programming project. I also had my entire music collection with me and was able to play DJ for everyone.
So... I guess I drank the kool-aid. I'm just a few days into using this thing, and already I'm a convert. I'm even considering not dual-booting windows, as the only reason to do that is to play some of my games.
So... I've only had the Mac for a few days, but already I absolutely adore it. It is simply an incredible computing device. All of the design decisions feel deliberate and clean. Like someone was actually considering the user experience when designing the OS. Things make sense and are clearly defined. I love it. I love all the little things on this, like the fact that the power cord uses a magnet to connect to the system, to make it trip-safe. Or the fact that it uses a single key for the functionality of backspace and delete. Then there's the million different ways you can use the multi-touch trackpad, which just make me giddy. This computer is the *easiest to use* computer I have ever had in my life. They've cut out a LOT of crap and have just left everything simple and straightforward.
I particularly love the dashboard. On windows, I have all these status widgets built into my Firefox browser. Weather, Twitter, email, etc. It drives me nuts when I'm not using the web and I have to load the browser to check the weather. I love being able to just hit F12 to open the dashboard and see my status on everything I'm working with.
There's still a lot of software I plan to buy for this thing, like MS Office, Adobe Flash and Photoshop, and much more. But for now, I'm so very happy with this machine. And I've already been getting a lot of use out of it. While at the Yule party on Saturday, I was able to spend a bunch of time working on my programming project. I also had my entire music collection with me and was able to play DJ for everyone.
So... I guess I drank the kool-aid. I'm just a few days into using this thing, and already I'm a convert. I'm even considering not dual-booting windows, as the only reason to do that is to play some of my games.
