I got my new MacBook Pro Wednesday the 18 of June. Today I’ve been using it for a few days. Granted Midsummer holidays were here and in Finland we tend to do some serious partying during the midsummer holidays.
This year though the weather wasn’t really nice it was raining almost the whole Friday and that kind of sucked the fun out of the day. 
Anyway I had my new Mac with me to our cottage to get to know the new system a little better and to have somewhere to store images captured during the holiday.
After some initial searching and a lot of getting used I’m really starting to like OS X. It took some searching to find out how to install a program or how to delete a program. Since I’m used to Windows and Linux where it’s quite different. I couldn’t believe a computer could be this easy to use. Just drag and drop to install most software and drag them to the Trash can to uninstall. Could it be any simpler?
iPhoto is also a great program for some image editing. It also keeps all my photos in order. Simple editing like removing redeye and adjusting levels is also made easy in iPhoto. It also handles RAW photo format which is the format of choice for professionals and even hobbyists.
Still the one software on this machine I could praise is Time Machine. I’ve never seen a smarter backup for personal computers. Plug in a USB harddrive if you don’t have a Time Capsule, Time Machine will ask if you would like to use it for backup and run the first backup of your computer. That’s it. After that it will check for hourly changes and copy them to the external harddrive when connected.
Restoring is even easier and there are many ways to restore. To see an introduction on the new features of Leopard go to www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour and take a look at the introduction video.
I have no idea why but somehow me getting a Mac made me want to play with graphics and dig out my camera again. Anyway I took a few photos during thursday and friday that I use as wallpapers. Maybe someone else will to so they can be found here. The listing of that folder is still very very ugly but it was fast enough to get it to list the few files found there.
Anyway I need to get back to playing with my MacBook so I can start working normally with it soon. Bye for now.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Welcome to the cult.
Man, I miss my Mac-days. As soon as I get my new car and get settled with the downpayments, I think I’ll have to update my Mac. My iBook G3 is too old and tired…
Yes, midsummer came and went… Mostly indoors-activities this year, thanks to the fantastic finnish weather.
Those are some great pictures! I immediately stole the Spruce one, and it’s now my wallpaper.
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I’m happy that someone else likes it. I’m using it on my 24″ Samsung and the Rose on the MacBook screen.