I really do like this MacBook…

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Go ahead and ask me wh I enjoy my school. My answer will be as positive as it is biased. I went in a while ago, asking about my classes and the like.

“So, how is your laptop?” the disability assistant asked.
“Its falling apart” I answered.
“Want a new one?”

I would write my response, but decided to spend more time explaining that doing so would be an ironic waste of time, as the answer would be horribly obvious.

Okay, fine, I said yes. After much delaying, I did finally get my not-as-alluminum-as-thought MacBook. Aluminum looks better than plastic, but plastic looks better than nothing at all.

When I first accidentally (I had my Twitter account synced with my Facebook status at the time) told me FB friends that I was getting a MacBook, I was greeted with less than gratious greetings. But screw that.

I am a nerd, I am a geek and I am a loser, everyone knows this. I spend a lot of time on my computer, more than I spend not on my computer. I know what I want and I know how to do it. In my past few years on my HP Pavillion dv1000 with Windows XP SP2 on it, I came to realize that of the things I use my computer for, I have not seen any particular exclusivity on the PC. Namely; I don’t play PC games, and of the ones I am looking forward to (StarCraft II and Diablo III) they are all going to be on the Mac. That was when I chose to articulate and ponder the option of a Mac I was given on that fateful day after class.

Over the past while, I have become more interested in Micro-blogging services, and on one (Pownce) I met a friend, referred to as either !leahbasskitten, @leahbasskitten or just plain Leah. She is a Mac fanatic, and it was from her that I got a closer look at OSX.

So I have decided to compare the programs I use on Windows and their Mac countperparts, hopefully convincing my friends that this was not just a blind choice.

Skitch – this is a great little program, letting you take snapshots of a desktp or even the included webcam, caption it and upload to a Skitch server. This program intruiged me because for the initial same reason I was using the clunky imageshack.us progam on Windows. Imageshack let me upload either a desktop or a program window. Skitch lets me clip any portion of anything I want, and then caption it and then upload it.

Adrium – after giving up on the, although useful Digsby social-network-IM-service-micro-blogging program, I reverted back to Pidgin, something I also used when in Linux. Neither are as nice as Disbgy, but niehter take 500mb of RAM. Adrium is 90% Pidgin, or rather, Pidgin is 90% Adrim. They even have the same icon. Adrium just does what the plugins I installed wer supposed to, but didn’t do well. Ie: Facebook IM.

Quicksilver – when I showeod my friend the program I still adore, Colibri, she noted it was exactly like Quicksilver. Up until the day I installed it, Quicksilver was never anything more than the bastard child of Magneto and the bastard brother of the Scarlet Witch. It runs just like Colibri, but admittedly (which] is odd in the case of a MACOSX comparison) doesn’t look at good as the Windows one.

I am also at a bus stop right now and an old Chinaman just sat down, he is about 55+ and is wearing a toque with a skull and crossbones made out of glitter.

Finder – this would be the Mac version of Windows Explorer. It is actually less a Mac thing, and more just a standard UNIX thing. For thosoe using Vista, UNIX is whats different between Explorer in XP and Vista. I just like it, I got used to it with Linux, but still cant admit favour in either direction.

Widgets – Mac did em, then Google did em, then Yahoo and Vista did em. In noo particular order. Much as with the MP3 player, I am not sure if Mac invented the idea of Widgets (or its various names), but they did it best. Now, the iPod is a strange case, because the popularity of the system has squeezed out any sellability from any other companies variation thereof. But I digress, Widgets are just better done, and this is entirely due to the fact they are put straight into the OS, and not outside of it.

ecto - Be it well or not, I have been blogging for a while, and in doing so, have tried a few (dozen^pi). Windows Live Writer was seen by most tech-heads as the flat out best blogging software out there, as well by I. After a bit of research, I fell upon etco, a blogging program that has even more supported platforms, a nicer layout.

This is what I was trying to say on this posts intro; I really dont do much more than (not doing my) homework, blogging, Internetz, stealing music and stealing movies that aren’t even in theaters yet. There are many, but particularly emeek77 on YouTube, are convinced the apparent vast superiority of the Apple computers, even in gaming, apparently. I admit this, and I really don’t give a crap. The aforementioned are a list of programs I use every day, both in XP and on OSX, and that is generally all that I use it for. Its cleaner, its neater, the keyboard feels great. On of the smallest but favorite features is the MagSafe connector; it holds the power cord with a magnet (thus the Mag part of the name) so it will pop out if someone steps on it. But really, the main reason I love this thing is that, without spending much time on OSX prior, the GUI is layed out the way I would anyways. It is just damn pretty.

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