Fairly boring commentary from an oversensitive, emotionally demanding computer nerd (with a not-so brand-new 4-year-old, and two cats)
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September 27, 2003
First impressions
Of my new PowerBook -- very good. Getting it connected to my home wireless setup was trivial; just enter the WEP key and it was good to go. So was getting connected to Windows shares. Right after it came up it prompted me with an update to Java, and to the iPod software (I didn't do that because I don't have an iPod -- hey, one thing at a time here!) I'm trying out iMovie and iDVD right now, and they both seem exactly what I want for simple home video work. Importing video from my Sony camera was really easy; it isn't that hard on Linux with dvgrab, but this is nicer. The Windows software that came with the camera is really confusing, and I've basically not used it. I'm still a little confused by some things Mac. The Finder sometimes puzzles me (although I hear that's getting a big overhaul in the next OS X release). And I am a big right-mouse-button user on Linux and Windows, and also prefer eraserheads to trackpads, so an external mouse may be added soon (I might look at the Bluetooth ones, if they are not too expensive). More impressions as they come in...Posted by markj at September 27, 2003 06:09 PM
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