Welcome to The Hoosier Illuminati. Macintosh bigot, clothes horse, motorsports fanatic (as long as they turn right), Anglophile.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. --Henry Ward Beecher

Finally, a MacBook!

So my MacBook comes in and I’ve installed new RAM and a new hard drive in it.  I run the migration assistant and a half hour later all of my files, apps, bookmarks, cookies and keychains are happily running on the new machine. 

I am happy because Apple makes my life simple.

Then I make my mistake.  I decide to install Parallels and use my product key for the copy of XP that came with Virtual PC on the old Mac to install XP on the new Mac.  Except that product key isn’t valid with a real XP install disk, only the VPC crap. 

So tomorrow my job will be to use the XP files on the VPC disk to create an XP ISO that can use the product key I’ve paid for.  I should have known Microsoft would figure out a way to screw this day up for me. 

But the MacBook is generally nice.  The keyboard takes a little getting used to, as does the size (it’s just enough larger than my old 12” PowerBook that I’m going to have to learn a new way of holding it).  I was a bit concerned about the glossy screen, but that’s not an issue at all.  The MagSafe power adapter is brilliant, as is the new trackpad.  I’ll be glad when Microsoft gets their act together and supplies universal binaries for Office, Word takes forever to open using Rosetta, but once open it seems to be fairly responsive. 

All in all, it’s typical Apple.  Well designed, well executed and a pleasure to use. 

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Just out of curiosity, what size and speed of hard drive did you install?

I keep thinking of upgrading the hard drive in my Thinkpad, but can’t decide how big to go.

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