This is a little late, but perhaps better late than never. I decided I need to try and get back to writing more and so in that vein I'm picking up where I left off in my quest of converting from the world of Windows to a Mac.
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Today I can at least speak with a bit more authority as the conversion was made some months ago (hmmm…. somewhere around June or July) and I've had the time since to wrestle with it in person.<\/p>\n
Today I think I'll focus on the physics of it. Of course the Dell laptop I replaced with a Macbook Pro was something like a 2001 vintage. No doubt modern day PC's are greatly improved but I will say that was a great machine and still to this day runs fine in spite of Windows.<\/p>\n
My Macbook Pro is much lighter and has a thinner profile for starters which I like a lot better. The CD\/DVD unit has no tray, just a slot where the discs pop in and out of; nice. We have a myriad of ports including USB, firewire, network, autio and video, and more. It has built-n wi-fi also. Of course you can see all the specs for yourself at apple.com.<\/p>\n
The screen dimensions are quite different. It's a 15" screen yet is something like comparing a 19" CRT TV to a modern LCD version where the 19" diagnal measurement is maintained but the height to width proportions are vastly different. I at once liked this but it's taken a little getting used to requiring more vertical scrolling. Today I don't notice it though. The screen is far superior in clarity and graphics are outstanding.<\/p>\n
The housing is aluminum which is just simply very cool. It is however susceptible to dings which a plastic housing doesn't get. The keyboard has a vastly different feel to it than the majority of other laptops on the market but after a short time it's easy to get used to and I prefer it now. <\/p>\n
One thing I have noticed that is somewhat my biggest complaint is Apple apparently decided to build in some sort of accidental keypress feature that after a slight amount of time, the first key, sometimes the first 2, that you press are ignored just in case it's an error. Some people claim it's not a feature and some claim it is. Apple supposedly 'fixed' this issue too but the fix doesn't seem to remove this 1 or 2 keypress ignore 'feature'. This does get annoying at times. I keep monitoring forums hoping one day they'll release a 'real' fix for it but it's not happened yet.<\/p>\n
All considered, in spite of costing considerably more than an IBM compatible laptop, I'm quite happy with this machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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