I'm back in Seattle on business, but then in Montana for my 20th high school reunion. Yes, I'm that damn old.... Damn (shakes head in amazement).
Anyway, I bought a new MacBook and kitted it out with 2 gigs of RAM. I have lots of observations that I'll find time to share in the next few days, but I had to at least drop a short note. Until now, I've been using a 15" PowerBook that I religiously keep up to date. To configure the new MacBook, I simply connected the 2 notebooks with a FireWire cable and started the old one in FW drive mode. The new MacBook copied everything over, with the exception of two applications I don't use and probably misinstalled anyway.
My first reactions to both the odd new Chiclet-like keyboard and pimp-style glossy screen are positive. Yeah, I'm surprised but I like both. The keyboard's responsive and touch typing is a breeze. I've yet to have problems with glare.
What do I miss most? My backlit keyboard :( Really.... Oh, and with only 512 megs stock, this thing crawls! I installed 2 gigs myself and it took off like a rocket. ah, much better. And I think the whole controversy about the Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics is much ado about nothing. I bought the notebook for size, speed and general Unixy goodness. I don't play games on it.
For the record, here's a problem I encountered a problem when I installed Fink Here's the solution.
Posted by cbrown at July 26, 2006 5:38 PM