this kool-aid is terrific
I have a nice baseball post like 75% typed up and ready to go, but we need to put it on hold so I can give you some breaking news from my personal life.
My Mac arrived today. (Deion, I know you don't give a shit and I don't blame you. So if you and anyone else want to tune out now, feel free.)
As soon as I looked at the box, I knew I was a sucker for this thing. Here are my initial thoughts.
It's wonderful, I can't honestly understand how a hunk of metal could make me so happy. But it does. I don't want to be away from it.
Observations:
-I don't have the "whine" that so many users have been complaining about. At least I don't have it yet. This thing is as quiet as a mouse. EDIT: I do have the whining sound, it's terrible, but it only comes on when I'm on battery power. DOUBLE EDIT: I unplugged a USB cable and it seems to be gone.
-Apple likes to say that their computers "just work," meaning you just pop 'em out of the box and you're up and running like a wild coyote. That was partly true but not totally. It took me two hours to connect to the internet, and as always happens when I set up a new computer, it suddenly worked and I have no idea what I did to make it work. If I had to set up another computer like this, I would fumble around again for two hours and then it would suddenly work.
-The thing is much faster than my old computer, especially in programs like iTunes. I imported all my music which I had saved to CD as MP3 files, and it took about 45 minutes for 2000 songs. I just dragged 'em into iTunes, and they all went right where they were supposed to go. Cool. I am fucking excited as hell to have more than 27 songs to listen to for a change.
-I reformatted the iPod for the Mac and it was no problem, and then I synched it with the computer and now I'm loaded up for the trip to work tomorrow.
-the keyboard is pretty good but it'll take some getting used to. Caps Lock in particular has been jumping into all my shit.
-one thing that may not be mac-specific but I am digging anyway is the two finger scroll on the trackpad. In other words, if I have one finger on the pad, the cursor moves wherever I want. If I put two on there, it's like holding down the mouse button, I can just scroll wherever I need to go. Even up your ass.
-the keyboard lights up when the lights in the room go dim, which is cool as hell.
-it's got a built-in camera which you can use for chatting with your buddies. I can only imagine the perverted shit that people are up to with that thing. I bet some suckas is gonna get burnt on that. Careful, fellas.
-the muthafucka is HOT. Not just underneaf, either. The places where your hands rest get hot. Not enough to burn, but enough to be annoying and to make me worry about damage to the internal parts.
-the Apple programs are really nice, all of 'em I bet. It'll take me a while to learn, but I am going to enjoy the process.
-the display is good, lthough not as good as my old Toshiba and you need to look at it directly to see it properly. This is problematic if you are standing up because the screen does not open very far. Kind of a screwup on Apple's part there.
-I was able to import video from my camera, which is a relief.
-got my email set up in about 19 seconds.
-will put in my photos and stuff tomorrow. Should be fun. Have to figure out a way to publish stuff to the internets from my computer. Anybody know? Is there an FTP program I should be using?
I still gotta figure out a ton of shit, so I will bore you with more later. My initial reaction is one of deep jizzmatic triumph. Dose me, Jobs!
Alright, we got a couple of disagreements about my assessment of "South Park" yesterday. I guess my relationship with that show is like Billy Packer's relationship with the Missouri Valley Conference: I don't like it, but I don't watch it, so I'm probably wrong. But I am not going to admit it.
For 2 GP's each, please name as many Muppet Show guest hosts as you can. Here's a new twist: for every wrong answer you will be docked a point.
My Mac arrived today. (Deion, I know you don't give a shit and I don't blame you. So if you and anyone else want to tune out now, feel free.)
As soon as I looked at the box, I knew I was a sucker for this thing. Here are my initial thoughts.
It's wonderful, I can't honestly understand how a hunk of metal could make me so happy. But it does. I don't want to be away from it.
Observations:
-I don't have the "whine" that so many users have been complaining about. At least I don't have it yet. This thing is as quiet as a mouse. EDIT: I do have the whining sound, it's terrible, but it only comes on when I'm on battery power. DOUBLE EDIT: I unplugged a USB cable and it seems to be gone.
-Apple likes to say that their computers "just work," meaning you just pop 'em out of the box and you're up and running like a wild coyote. That was partly true but not totally. It took me two hours to connect to the internet, and as always happens when I set up a new computer, it suddenly worked and I have no idea what I did to make it work. If I had to set up another computer like this, I would fumble around again for two hours and then it would suddenly work.
-The thing is much faster than my old computer, especially in programs like iTunes. I imported all my music which I had saved to CD as MP3 files, and it took about 45 minutes for 2000 songs. I just dragged 'em into iTunes, and they all went right where they were supposed to go. Cool. I am fucking excited as hell to have more than 27 songs to listen to for a change.
-I reformatted the iPod for the Mac and it was no problem, and then I synched it with the computer and now I'm loaded up for the trip to work tomorrow.
-the keyboard is pretty good but it'll take some getting used to. Caps Lock in particular has been jumping into all my shit.
-one thing that may not be mac-specific but I am digging anyway is the two finger scroll on the trackpad. In other words, if I have one finger on the pad, the cursor moves wherever I want. If I put two on there, it's like holding down the mouse button, I can just scroll wherever I need to go. Even up your ass.
-the keyboard lights up when the lights in the room go dim, which is cool as hell.
-it's got a built-in camera which you can use for chatting with your buddies. I can only imagine the perverted shit that people are up to with that thing. I bet some suckas is gonna get burnt on that. Careful, fellas.
-the muthafucka is HOT. Not just underneaf, either. The places where your hands rest get hot. Not enough to burn, but enough to be annoying and to make me worry about damage to the internal parts.
-the Apple programs are really nice, all of 'em I bet. It'll take me a while to learn, but I am going to enjoy the process.
-the display is good, lthough not as good as my old Toshiba and you need to look at it directly to see it properly. This is problematic if you are standing up because the screen does not open very far. Kind of a screwup on Apple's part there.
-I was able to import video from my camera, which is a relief.
-got my email set up in about 19 seconds.
-will put in my photos and stuff tomorrow. Should be fun. Have to figure out a way to publish stuff to the internets from my computer. Anybody know? Is there an FTP program I should be using?
I still gotta figure out a ton of shit, so I will bore you with more later. My initial reaction is one of deep jizzmatic triumph. Dose me, Jobs!
***
Alright, we got a couple of disagreements about my assessment of "South Park" yesterday. I guess my relationship with that show is like Billy Packer's relationship with the Missouri Valley Conference: I don't like it, but I don't watch it, so I'm probably wrong. But I am not going to admit it.
For 2 GP's each, please name as many Muppet Show guest hosts as you can. Here's a new twist: for every wrong answer you will be docked a point.
posted by hans q. bungle at 01:27
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