Minor Frustrations

In case I gave the impression in my last post that I'm just another Mac fan-boy who never finds fault with any of there products, I did encounter two problems when setting up my iMac. The World's Largest Console The first problem arose after I had transferred over all my applications, data ...

Size Matters

I just bought a new 24-inch iMac and it is gorgeous! Its like a work of art - something you'd expect to see at MoMA. Since I'd been using a 13-inch Macbook for the last 6 months as my first venture into the modern Mac age, I hadn't really had the experience of sitting ...

Jumping out of Windows

A couple of months ago I posted my initial impressions of the MacBook, or to be more accurate, my thoughts on moving to a Mac after many years as a Windows user. As I mentioned then, the support for Windows on the new Intel-based Macs created just the low-risk situation I needed to dip ...

Macbook Impressions

I recently bought a Macbook. This is the second time I've owned a Mac in my life, the first being a brief encounter with a PowerBook Duo in the early 90's, so for all practical purposes, it was a completely different machine. I had been using a Sony Vaio PCG-TR3P for the last ...