Switched: Go towards the light!
In the interest of fairness I should mention some things about the new laptop that I’ve gotten used to since I first got it. First off the not being able to shut it at night has gotten OK with me. Turns out the open lid is just fine once I shut my eyes. Secondly.
The shutting the lid to sleep thing… it wakes up so darned fast I don’t care. In fact, I shut it all the time just because it’s so fast to wake-up I like the added security of it locking down when I shut the lid. So that annoying quirk is not so much annoying now as useful.
Lest you think I’ve gone all fanboi on you I have found more annoying quirks with the software. iWork’s iPage is just plain annoying. I wanted to copy/paste the Little Steps: 100 Great Tips For Saving Money… from The Simple Dollar (great blog by the way, and a fellow Iowan I hope to meet one day!) into iPages, edit it up to something more visually appealing and print it out to carry around with me (yes, I’ve got a flight tomorrow and wanted reading material… no, printing the web isn’t frugal. I get it. Leave me alone! 100 is just too long a list for me to read online. I wanted paper!) and for the LIFE of me I couldn’t get it to past into iPages without being in a little 2 inch by 2 inch text box in the middle of an empty page.
I think I wound up finding a way to get it into ipages, but it involved pasting it into Openoffice.org, saving that as a .doc and then opening it into iPages. That’s too ham-handed a way to do things in the future so I need some time to figure it out. Primarily because Openoffice.org’s software runs funny on a mac. I think it’s in a terminal or someting… beats me what X11 is but it keeps being there.
(Editorial Note added later) I use NeoOffice now. It’s a port of Openoffice.org’s software written natively for mac and it has no X11 window issue. NeoOffice is perfect implementation for the Mac.)
If you’re on the fence about a Macbook Pro (I recommend it over the mac for the light up keyboard, the extra ram, the better screen size and lighting, and the better feeling keys) and it won’t hurt you financially save up and get one. You won’t regret it. I’ve enjoyed mine every moment I’ve had it. I also STRONGLY recommend going to an apple store and letting one of their people talk to you about it and the software. They’re so very patient and informative. I wish I were nearer an apple store than I am right now. I’d be attending their free classes.
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