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During the first few days of using a Mac at home I had a few frustrating periods of confusion when discovering things work differently than what I expected.

For example, on a Mac the home key takes you to the beginning on the document you have open and the end key takes you to the end of the document. The Mac zealots who stuck with Apple through the bad years and never spent much time using Windows, KDE, Gnome, CDE, or any other windowing system might think this is normal, but to anyone who has used anything other than a Mac … Continue Reading

I finally made the plunge. About 10 months ago I posted about why I had not purchased a Mac. Well, now I finally bought one. It’s a 20” iMac with the Core 2 Duo processor. I actually got a fairly good deal using the corporate employee purchase program (EPP) at the local Apple store, and got a free all-in-one HP printer/scanner/fax machine after a rebate.

With about 3 weeks of using the Mac , so far I’m happy with my purchase. I have had a few problems, mostly resulted from my lack of knowledge of how to do various tasks … Continue Reading

I’ve been considering purchasing a Mac for a few years. I was never overly impressed with older version of Mac OS, but ever since OSX was released I’ve been excited about the possibility of having a high quality Unix based desktop OS. Now before anyone can say “but what about Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris x86/KDE/Gnome/whatever?” let me say that I have used every one of these in the past and actually liked most of them. I ran a Linux desktop as my primary PC for around 3 years and would still be running it if I didn’t have a need for a few … Continue Reading