Kieran Senior

• Published:July 7th, 2008
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Well, I had written this post but due to my incompetence in the use of Mac OSX I happened to hit a shortcut key which backed up.  For some reason WP hadn’t cached my page, unfortunately

Anyway, today I got my MacBook Pro 17" with a glossy screen.  Yes, it’s very nice.  The build quality is fantastic as many of you Mac owners are well aware of.  It’s really quite a massive laptop, though it’s replacing any desktop systems I previously owned, and I do quite literally all of my work on the computer all day, and all night so it’s quite a justifiable purchase (courtesy of my family as a graduation present… yes, I am spoilt rotten).  Unfortunately I don’t have a skin or a backpack for it, so I won’t be taking it outdoors for a while.

Already there have been some quirks I’ve found, but that’s not really quirks, it’s more like "I’m a ten year windows user trying to get used to Mac".  Installation was the strangest thing as I was able to run Skype without installing it, but then the installation process still used my user/pass combination afterwards.  I’m not familiar with the process of installing applications and what’s done with what.  My main applications are Eclipse, Firefox and Skype which wasn’t too difficult as you can imagine, once I had learnt how to install them that is

Other nifty features include the changing background, which I’ve actually got on at the moment, set to every thirty minutes.  Of course I only have it on because I’m a cool Mac user who wears thick black rimmed glasses.

The MBP seems to very shortcut-driven as I’ve quickly discovered in my brief use of the desktop.  A friend showed me a few quick shortcuts which I can see are extremely handy.  I must learn more when I get the time as I’m sure they’ll be a great help in speeding up everything I do.

For now there’s not much more I can say as I’m still getting to grips with the general usage of the desktop trying to figure out the context-sensitive menu-driven systems which whilst confusing are actually far more logical than Windows’ desktop.  Oh and for the record, I am so copying Steve with this new MBP craze