MacOS impressing me
MacOS is great. It’s taken me a couple of days to adjust but I think I’m nearly Mac-ified.
I had to switch back to my XP box to share some drives to pull the files over to windows. It was strange – the PC seemed a lot faster than the Mac Mini, but then the Mac Mini is running so much more than the XP box and looks a lot fancier. One thing I still haven’t got used to is the smoothing of fonts on the mac and the reduced font sizes. I’m so used to everything being "sharp" and without much smoothing in Windows.
However everything looks much nicer, things are easy to find once you learn how to use the Finder (the far superior MacOS equivalent of Explorer).
I burned a test DVD yesterday with some video clips of my daughter… presented in a spinning "mobile" on the DVD menu using a cheesy default template. The thing is it’s cheesy but really reasy and JUST WORKS. And the software was free and is actually useful for simple usage.
The only bad things to happen so far:
- GarageBand will not start if my Cyberphone K USB phone is plugged in, and seems to crap out the whole USB bus
- I tried to write wont there but pressing apostrophe in mac firefox invokes the "Find:" feature!
- iTunes crashed once (but hey it successfully transferred gigs of MP3s and AVIs over the LAN from my windows shared drive)
- The DUALPhone USB phone I have is not Mac compatible so no cordless Skype calls for me until I get something else
It took me a while to work out how to access windows shares but its all easy now.
The built in mail app is a bit unusual, I’m used to Thunderbird. Not sure if I will switch to t-bird or not, will give it a bit longer.
The biggest trouble I’m having so far is finding out what these applications can do – they’re so "simple" that with my Windows mindset I can find it hard to find the features!
I’m in love though.
