The real Mac experience

Finally my Mac arrived and I have been using it for almost 2 weeks now. Honestly, the feeling of owning a Mac is a bit of a bit, leaning toward the good side though having some reservation.

First, the machine hardware looks really nice. I have never seen any laptop/machine that's this quiet. I couldn't hear the fun running at all even though I run a lot of programs or computation-intenstive programs like compilers. The screen, keyboard, speaker, all form factors are pretty good-looking. I am pretty impressed with it.

Second, I start to learn more how the life is like with Mac OS X. It's a good feeling with Unix core as it makes the system so DARN stable. I didn't have to reboot the machine at all other than from applying the system updates. Mac Mail crashed on me a couple times (I think it tried to get me set up with an account and I kept rejecting it) but it never interfere other programs. Everything runs just as if it were the only program in the system. I tried going around the terminal windows to see how files are structured. It's that hard to understand where things are, though with limited Unix knowledge I have.

Third, the bad part that I currently don't like about the machine is the missing of home/end keys. Like one of the blogs I ran into, people (especially the designer at Mac Pro laptop) simply undervalue these keys. Seriously, it makes my life a bit harder than it should be. I know that people saying that you can use command-left/right arrow keys to make it up. But hey, it's really not the same. Not sure if it's only me, I found that not all program support that. That key combination work fine with Mac software but, say Firefox, it doesn't appear that way, at least when I was playing with it.

Anyhow, so far, I like this machine and I am sure I haven't scratched its surface as far as its power and usability is concerned.