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June 02, 2006
Enter the MacBook
So, today my wife received her shiny new MacBook (the 1.83GHz model). She has been using my old 500 Mhz G3 iBook for quite a while and has had increasing trouble fitting everything (photos, films, music etc.) onto it. The performance is also not what she needs anymore and so it seemed logical to get her an upgrade. And of course she had the added bonus of actually being able to unpack a new shiny white iBook MacBook.
I must say I'm very jealous quite impressed with the new addition to our Mac household. The screen is gorgeous and the "glossy" factor doesn't make it too reflective. I also think the widescreen adds to the overall visual improvements. The keyboard is fine but together with the trackpad and button, takes a bit of getting used to. The integrated camera is fun to play around with (especially using photo booth), but we don't use iChat that much, so we'll see how necessary the camera becomes.
As reported, the MacBook is quite hot - especially the area towards the back left where the power cord (neat magnet fitting) is plugged in.
The only real quibbles up to now: The surface of the trackpad wasn't "stuck down" properly and looks as though it might come "unstuck" again, even after I pressed it down all over. Does anyone else know of this problem? Also, the migration assistant doesn't seem to have migrated the email contents from the Mail application over correctly. I need to check that.
First impressions.
Posted by Matthew at June 2, 2006 07:02 PM
Comments
Wouldn't the normal procedure have been to give her the Powerbook G4 and take the Macbook for yourself? That is quite a revealing post... ;)
Posted by: Frank Koehntopp at June 2, 2006 10:23 PM
You think? :-).
Matthew
Posted by: Matthew Langham at June 2, 2006 10:29 PM