“Macs are so cool” - a refrain I’ve found myself repeating several times over the last few days. I keep learning new and awesome things about my MacBook Pro. As I mentioned, I bought an iPhone this weekend. I brought it home and activated it. But all my phone numbers were still on my old cell phone. Oh noes!
Bluetooth to the rescue. My brother was over and he promptly loaded up my old phone, connected it to my Mac via Bluetooth and copied all my numbers over to my computer. That is so cool. Address Book was all loaded up with my phone numbers, I plugged in my phone and it synced right up. Yay, I love my Mac.
Then today I was IMing a friend using Adium and my brother asked why I hadn’t changed their names to the real names. I told him it’s because I don’t use this machine for chatting all that often. Then he lead me back to Address Book where, it turns out, if you put people’s IM info in their entries, it’ll immediately update the display names in Adium. Macs are so cool.
There are a million of these small simple convenience features on the Mac that surprise me all the time. I’m never surprised by my Windows machine - well, never pleasantly surprised, that is! There are things I’ll continue to use Windows for, of course. I use it at work, there are still more games for Windows, and I’m just more comfortable with all the ins and outs of the system. But Macs, oh Macs are so pretty. What a pretty pretty machine.
4 Responses to “Macs are so cool”
I feel the same way about Linux and KDE. The integration of my IM client and and email and calendar to the address book is pretty fantastic. And once KDE 4 is released this fall, the pretty and functionality factors are going to get even better!
Hi Tara,
When did you get your MBP? I’m hunting for a new laptop and am debating between the MBP, Lenovo Thinkpad T61, or the Dell XPS M1330. Every day I change my mind! I almost bought the dell but with all the madness going on there I held off. I’m leaning towards the thinkpad now since I’ve had one before. A MBP would be novel, though, and I have heard lots of good things about it.
Hope you’re doing well in Cali. I have friends who just moved to Mountain View.
Hey Natica! I’m doing well, good to hear from you. I’ve had my Mac since Feb and I love it. It’s my first Mac but I’ve had no major troubles. I really enjoy it - it’s a marvel of design. How’s life in Canada?
Hi there all :D.
I am a student and am vey computer oriantated with them. Now i am using my PowerPcG4 and mac OSX10.4
i would like to say how i love them, there a marvle of how enginering and simplicity have come about.
I would like to allso like to say Windows pc’s are great why fight to machines two diffrent jobs.
Mac’s are for life! and work, and pc’s for games and programs.
But i must say Windows have coppied mac OSX10.4 the widgets the mac made and windows have coppied. The search menu intergrated was made by the mac and then windows coppied it. The mac one was called the spotlight!
But again to my point they should not be crossed!
So if your new to computers you have to choices, learn a mac but then struggle on Windows.
So personaly i learned from experiance would be to start of with Windows then learn what kernals are then… try Linux which is a great OS (operating system) But free, Free in two ways free as in does not cost and also that anyone has acess to the code which makes the OS.
So overall you choose depending on what you think is wright.
And at the age of 16 i hope i have helped!
cheers