{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-30T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyanglea.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-04-30T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:41:16","slug":"hello-im-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Hello, I’m a Mac…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, i couldn\u2019t update my blog on my life without mentioning that i\u2019ve seen the light (or least drank the koolaid) and got a Mac.\u00a0 With the help of some left over graduation and Christmas money, i bought a 15? 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM, currently running OS X 10.5.2 Leopard.\u00a0 I ordered at the beginning of December, and it was awaiting me when i arrived home for Christmas break.\u00a0 So i\u2019ve used it all this semester and been quite pleased with it.<\/p>\n

There were several things I wasn\u2019t sure I was going to like about it, but either the aroma exuding from the package caused me to forget all of that or they weren\u2019t as bad as i thought they would be.\u00a0 For example, I was previously a ThinkPad user, and was in love with the little red eraser trackpoint and had never had much success with the trackpad. So I was afraid i would have difficulty adjusting to the MacBook Pro\u2019s trackpad.\u00a0 But i\u2019ve been using it without a hitch pretty much from day one.\u00a0 It\u2019s much more \u201cintelligent\u201d than trackpad\u2019s i\u2019ve used in the past with only moving or clicking when i want it to.\u00a0 I love the 2-finger scrolling, in fact it annoys me when it doesn\u2019t work on the Dells in the Media Center \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I obviously still use Windows at work, and I actually dual-boot Vista via BootCamp and VMWare Fusion (once Logos for Mac<\/a> gets completed that may change\u2026)\u00a0 I\u2019m still pretty much of an Apple n00b but i\u2019m planning on delving into AppleScript and Objective-C this summer as time allows (XCode is sweet!).\u00a0 I may also add a triple-boot option of Ubuntu Hardy Heron, we\u2019ll see how it goes\u2026<\/p>\n

If anyone else out this is thinking about switching and you have any questions, fire away in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, i couldn\u2019t update my blog on my life without mentioning that i\u2019ve seen the light (or least drank the koolaid) and got a Mac.\u00a0 With the help of some left over graduation and Christmas money, i bought a 15? 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM, currently running OS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[11,41,59,62,64,71],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-geek","tag-leopard","tag-mac","tag-mbp","tag-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}