- ThinkPads are no longer IBM machines
- I've been punished by Microsoft for way too long already
- Most of the other people at work use MacBook Pros
- I was fairly clueless around Macs/OSX and felt kinda stupid as someone who's supposed to be relatively tech savvy
The goods:
- It is so freakin' fast to boot up, sleep, wake. I remember my X61 took about 5 minutes to hibernate or resume.
- Its sleep mode is so impressively battery efficient (as Paul had told me before)
- OSX (10.5.5) is really stable. I've had one or two programs freeze up, but haven't had the whole OS freeze up on me (*cough*, Vista, *cough*).
- Most of the functions are fairly intuitive and logical once you know how to do them, and work really well (i.e.--scrolling using two fingers on the touch pad).
- Seems to be a short-cut key for everything (just need to learn them all; http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/21/mac-os-x-leopard-200-productivity-booster-hotkeys is a great resource).
- Built-in iChat is so easy to use and performs pretty well.
- Beautiful bright screen, good speakers.
- No longer having to deal with Windows.
- I still don't know whether to use control, option, or command when i want to skip to the beginning/end of a line or skip from word to word. I don't think it's even consistent among programs.
- No right-mouse button. Yes i can hold control while clicking, but it's so much slower.
- As people have said, the machine does get quite hot.
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